Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's alleged to have smuggled three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain , concealed in a lorry load of pot plants . |
| 2 | A florist has been convicted of smuggling three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain . |
| 3 | Similarly , the advice and judgments of a proposed ECOWAS Court of Justice would be binding on all institutions and members . |
| 4 | Endorsing the concept of " open skies " and " open lands " , he indicated the Soviet Union 's willingness to participate in " the establishment of a United Nations register of sales and transfers of weapons " . |
| 5 | THE scandal of more than one-third of a billion pounds worth of intervention food being held in cold storage in the Republic while millions of people are dying in Africa has angered TDs . |
| 6 | They handled something something like a thousand pounds worth of cars that |
| 7 | After this freak show , we are led inexorably to what everyone has waited for ; the re-assemblage of The Birthday Party for a mini-greatest hits package of ‘ Dead Joe ’ , ‘ Wild World ’ , and ‘ Nick The Stripper ’ . |
| 8 | Torrance had battled against a blustery wind to shoot a one-over-par 73 for a 54 holes aggregate of 210 . |
| 9 | The first is worth mentioning only because it gave him his debut in a major studio , for a United Artists production of Studs Lonigan , one more Dean-like character taken from a successful trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell . |
| 10 | As a previous personnel director of ICI once said , treating people well makes good moral sense — and even better business sense . |
| 11 | CAIRD GROUP , the waste disposal company headed by former stockbroker Peter Linacre , is raising £34.5m through a two-for-one rights issue of convertible preference shares . |
| 12 | Close to the primer , the sequence starts with a 25 units track of the repeat T 2 AG 3 , followed by the Tetrahymena T 2 G 4 telomeric sequence . |
| 13 | Brian Degas and Harry Robertson who devised , wrote and produced SPECIALS will discuss their new series with a senior police officer of national standing , and with members of the cast . |
| 14 | Abergele boosted their Division Two title prospects with a maximum points mauling of bottom team Menai Bridge to move into second place . |
| 15 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 16 | It had been bought with a United Nations grant of 1980 on the understanding that all the profits would be channelled discreetly into a numbered Swiss bank account to be used exclusively by UNICEF . |
| 17 | A psychology that ignores it is more likely to turn into a dogmatic police force of a discourse . |
| 18 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 19 | Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas . |
| 20 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 21 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 22 | The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell . |
| 23 | The constant impact against the field 's rim , of everything from showers of meteors down to stray molecules of gas , resulted in a cosmic fireworks display of spectacular proportions : a long tail of deteriorating matter stretched out along the path which the ship had taken . |
| 24 | In a Financial Times poll of senior businessmen , 70% said the budget made little or no difference to their companies or their view of government policy . |
| 25 | The violence in Blackburn , in which riot police were attacked , has resulted in a million pounds worth of damage . |
| 26 | Heights do not usually exceed 12 metres but in a few instances heights of more than 20 metres have been involved . |
| 27 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 28 | The fact that the system cost around £300,000 as compared to a traditional suppliers offer of £2.5 million and only took three months to design , install , train and make fully operational reflects well on the technology — even though the paper itself failed . |
| 29 | Two South Africans and a Swazi were arrested after the discovery of the country 's largest arms haul , according to a Swazi police statement of March 9 , 1990 . |
| 30 | CYCLOSPORIN A , a cyclic undecapeptide , is a potent immunosuppressant that binds to a peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase of 165 amino acids , cyclophilin . |