Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 2 | Been like that a couple of days . |
| 3 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |
| 4 | I speak with e some experience in the situation where two sites that will be within half a mile of that which was erm supported by the inspector , were dismissed basically on the basis that if I read the quotes for you . |
| 5 | And when he was found they 'd both be in such a heap of dung , they 'd be lucky if they did n't find themselves nicked as thieves . |
| 6 | We dedicate this cross to be to all a symbol of his suffering and his victory . |
| 7 | She went with the Reverend Baron and his wife and daughter and was consoled to be among such a party of cheerful worshippers . |
| 8 | Or will it be at most a change of tone , a more positive role in supporting industry but falling far short of what the free marketeers fear ? |
| 9 | Four-fifths of the flags were within half a mile of the Bab es Zuweyla , the Old Gate , near which was both the Blue Mosque of the Dervishes and the old church of the Copts , the Mar Girgis . |
| 10 | They were within half a cable of the rocks even now : the cliffs , dotted with perching gulls , towered above them , and the roar of breakers made conversation difficult . |
| 11 | Lots of writers have produced extraordinary work in conditions more immediately oppressive than mine — mine is after all a kind of open prison — and their example inspires me . |
| 12 | It is after all a suburb of Abingdon |
| 13 | It is submitted in response that the gradual movement of social history is towards such a position of recognition and facilitation , and that this position should indeed be adopted . |
| 14 | It is against such a background of fervent articulate piety in Europe , always presenting the Church with the challenge of potential heresy , and occasionally erupting into mass movements like the hysterically fervent white-robed flagellants who lashed themselves in hysterical penitential preparation for the Second Coming , that the English situation in the fourteenth century has to be seen . |
| 15 | The technical survey is above all a category of book in which the writer will have closely observed the material discussed . |
| 16 | The most famous of all the sections of Ulysses , Molly Bloom 's final soliloquy is above all a celebration of that freedom , and the freedom thus won . |
| 17 | It is above all a crisis of and for British capitalism , but it is one in which the working class and its organisations have been unable to mount an effective resistance , let alone develop an effective struggle for a socialist solution : Conservative ideas and values may not be pervasive amongst working-class people , but they were sufficiently popular in 1983 to deliver 32 per cent of trade unionists ' votes to the Conservative Party . |
| 18 | It is within such a framework of thought that it is contended that a priest must necessarily be male . |
| 19 | The molten rock is within half a mile of the gates of Zafferana Etnea , a town of 7,000 people . |
| 20 | The campus is within half a mile of the city centre . |
| 21 | The campus is within half a mile of the city centre . |
| 22 | Often the pilot is in such a state of panic that the flying becomes dangerously inaccurate . |
| 23 | IF a dwelling house is in such a state of disrepair as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance , the tenant may lay an information against his landlord alleging the existence of a statutory nuisance under the Public Health Act 1936 . |
| 24 | ( One might have expected heterosexual young men to be more influenced by what was after all a film of exclusively heterosexual practices . ) |
| 25 | This was after all a period of full employment and marked growth in people 's real earnings . |
| 26 | It was against such a background of innovation that the Plowden Committee began its enquiry into the state of primary schools in England and Wales . |
| 27 | Eden was above all a diplomat of the classical school , though one whose command of his emotions was not always what it should have been . |
| 28 | Intelligent , sensitive and artistic , with a certain diffidence which added to his charm , he was above all a man of absolute integrity . |
| 29 | Swift is normally the most phlegmatic of characters but he was in such a state of fluster on that occasion that he missed touch and found Smith instead . |
| 30 | By the time the meeting was over I was in such a state of excitement and fright that I forgot all about the clothing parcel I was supposed to collect . |