Example sentences of "of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had relegated the match to part of a bigger event as he thought people wanted more entertainment . |
| 32 | They were shadows that she could never have imagined when , as a young girl , she had run along the cold sands of Northumberland and watched the east wind flatten and fold the dunes as she dreamed of a bigger , more exciting world beyond — and away from her mother 's influence . |
| 33 | the legal costs of sale and purchase of property including solicitor 's fees and stamp duty , £3,750 ; estate agent 's commission , £750 ; bridging finance ( one month at 13% ) , £758 ; cost associated with mortgages , in particular the additional cost of a bigger mortgage to cover the greater cost of housing ( company loan over 3 years ) , £1,500 ; cost of removal and , if necessary , storage , including insurance , £500 ; hotel and travel expenses including visits by wife to area to see houses , ( 15 weeks away from home plus two visits by wife ) , £2,420 ; cost of alterations to carpets and curtains , re-installing appliances , connecting telephone etc , alterations to property , redecoration and refurbishment , school uniforms and other educational expenses , maintenance , etc. of vacant , unsold property and miscellaneous incidental costs including vet 's fees , kennels , etc. , £2,000 . |
| 34 | So sealing , if it were to be done , would have to be done in strength ( by the eager-to-help Russians ? ) , along two borders , in the knowledge that frontier-patrolling might be the start of a bigger involvement . |
| 35 | If we would give him half an hour to get over the shock of his resurrection he would quietly sit down with a piece of paper ( the back of a bigger envelope , I suppose ) and would work out the relevant design formulae . |
| 36 | ‘ It might be part of a bigger picture . ’ |
| 37 | The London embassy reported that , while the great majority supported the " Anglo-Saxon " " alliance " " ' , there was a real fear of a bigger — even of a global — war . |
| 38 | Is there any chance of a bigger airier room , or is it just |
| 39 | well th the , the people who have the actual lease of the offices have gone out o er gone out of business in a sense , they 're no longer operating and because , they were part of a bigger organization , that bigger organization guaranteed the rents . |
| 40 | After the first few devastating out-of-loves , she was warily certain that there would always be another goddess ; the old idol became a fond memory , like a photo of a dear friend long absent . |
| 41 | I saw once the head of a dear friend among the leaves and was less astonished at what first seemed an apparition than by his disentangling himself and in the flesh bidding his good morning , so accustomed was I to looking for my thoughts and news among the leaves . |
| 42 | The heat was overpowering , the sun glared out of a dear blue sky , the inside of the car was like an oven . |
| 43 | Two days later Greg was forced to attend the funeral of a dear aunt . |
| 44 | Stevie and Patsy Mulligan are the sons of a dear friend who has recently passed away . |
| 45 | A very strong leading ‘ rogue ’ character played with great guile by Clive Owen emerged out of a solid plot supported by the matchless acting skills of Leslie Phillips . |
| 46 | Heraklith Sound Insulation boards , for example , will improve the airbourne sound insulation index of a solid 250mm brick wall by 13dB ( 10dB means a reduction in sound level of 50% ) . |
| 47 | In the decade before the Great War this strategy had collapsed in the face of a solid anti-Conservative front , causing confusion in the Conservative ranks . |
| 48 | He speaks with feeling about the magic of a solid , round arch : ‘ You go into wonderful places like York Minster with its beautiful tracery , but , for me , the sheer strength and solidity of Romanesque architecture — its robustness and simplicity — are endlessly fascinating . |
| 49 | If a thought connected to fear bombards you , visualize the object of fear in front of a solid oak door and slam the door in its face . |
| 50 | There he was , at the end of a solid day of meetings with French officials , looking exactly the way he had when they set out . |
| 51 | This is filtered off after a few days , and the company is left with sheets of a solid , somewhat resembling uncooked pastry , which is then flavoured and textured . |
| 52 | A dolphin can emit up to 700 clicks a second with this apparatus and from them is able to detect not only the presence of a solid object in the water but to deduce what sort of object it is . |
| 53 | In the case of Bloomsbury , changes in the general order , and especially the establishment of a solid sector of professional and intellectual employment , made independent survival much more practicable . |
| 54 | Members of the congregation need the foundation of a solid personal spirituality of which public worship is but an ingredient . |
| 55 | to reproduce as a white image out of a solid background . |
| 56 | Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . |
| 57 | All training in kung fu begins with the laying down of a solid foundation . |
| 58 | Thus , if the Moon today has a small liquid iron core then either its small size or the lack of a solid inner core or the slow axial spin of the Moon ( sidereal period 27.32 days ) has prevented it generating an appreciable magnetic field . |
| 59 | This makes it possible to study samples isolated at high dilution in an inert matrix of a solid such as N 2 or Ar . |
| 60 | Speaking on behalf of the partners , BPXC 's Operations manager , Phil Mead , said that the CPF will allow Casanare to ‘ witness the growth of a solid enterprise which will bring innumerable opportunities to the nation , but which mainly will contribute to the growth of the region and to the development of its people . ’ |