Example sentences of "[adv] of a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And still of a winter 's night , they say , when the wind is in the trees , When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas , When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor , A highwayman comes riding — |
| 2 | And still of a winter 's night they say , when the wind is in the trees , when the moon is a ghostly galleon , tossed upon cloudy seas . |
| 3 | In medicine , we talk in general terms of a patient 's ‘ right to know ’ , but also of a doctor 's liberty , sometimes not to tell a particular patient for good reason . |
| 4 | The 90 recommendations of the inquiry included the phasing out of seclusion , better staff training and the setting up of a patients ' advocacy service . |
| 5 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 6 | Well , Mr Patten will do his best to make a silk purse out of a sow 's ear , and the audience will know it was not his idea . |
| 7 | It was all making a silk purse out of a sow 's ear . ’ |
| 8 | These farmers are obstinately trying , sometimes with help of subsidies , to make a living — a true case of trying to make an agricultural silk purse out of a sow 's ear . |
| 9 | Old Steenie , he 'd make money out of a kid 's conker match ; Nigel 'd close The Mousetrap within a week . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Like something out of a kid 's lesson book , is n't he ? ’ chuckled Iris . |
| 11 | Police said a lone gunman hiding in undergrowth fired through the security fencing and hit Mr Gallagher in the back several times as he got out of a builder 's van . |
| 12 | Comes out of a chicken 's arse do n't you mean ? |
| 13 | Subsection ( 7 ) deals with cases where a deposit has been made out of a clients ' account or the like . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 15 | The gorge walls , over 50 feet in places , came so close they nearly touched and , below , a river straight out of a canoeist 's toybox , not large by any standards but clean , powerful , unspoilt and appearing not to be reliant on heavy rainfall . |
| 16 | Tim Roberts , defending , said both men bitterly regretted their actions ‘ which were born out of a moment 's folly ’ . |
| 17 | She looked as if she could have stepped straight out of an urchin 's game on the street of a Northern Italian village or off the front cover of Vogue . |
| 18 | The case which is the subject of this note provides a useful insight into the analysis of an unfair dismissal claim which arises out of an employee 's refusal to accept new terms and either resignation followed by a constructive dismissal claim or dismissal consequent upon that refusal . |
| 19 | The question is not one of ‘ condemnation vs understanding ’ but simply of a society 's concern for the good education and training of its younger members . |
| 20 | Presumably the passing of over three thousand horsemen could not have gone entirely unnoticed , even of a winter 's night , but discretion in such situations was another and necessary Border virtue , and no alarm was raised in the hamlets and farm-touns which they could not avoid , however many dogs barked . |
| 21 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 22 | So instead of a hero 's welcome , he was put in charge as an enemy alien to spend his eighteenth year in an internment camp . |
| 23 | This means that instead of a Lions ' debut being guaranteed for the 10-times-capped Garryowen player against Canterbury in Christchurch on Wednesday week , he might miss the match . |
| 24 | Jim spoke as if he were telephoning from a golf club instead of a cuckold 's bed . |
| 25 | Her senses are , of course , less acute than mine : if she feels even the slightest admonitory prickle on her nape , she misinterprets it as a spattering of raindrops , instead of a stranger 's gaze . |
| 26 | There are two rules as to the admissibility or otherwise of a contractor 's claim the contractor must produce evidence that additional costs were actually incurred |