Example sentences of "of a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SINCE 1970 America 's old folks have become richer and richer , mostly because of a steadily increasing flow of federal dollars . |
| 2 | Seb was working with Christian on top of a steadily rising haystack , the last of many . |
| 3 | It 's just one horrific aspect of a tremendously suspensful film underpinned by extraordinary performances from Rebecca De Mornay as the mad minder and Annabella Sciorra as the unsuspecting mum . |
| 4 | The opening paragraph of The Autocar 's November 1965 test of a privately owned car ( to much the same spec as our example ) read : ‘ Few readers indeed will get this far before turning to the data page which follows , for the name of AC Cobra is synonymous with performance . |
| 5 | Support for a fixed Channel link soon emerged as a prime candidate for assistance although the British and French governments remained committed to the idea of a privately financed tunnel . |
| 6 | The French are as committed as the British to the concept of a privately financed Channel Tunnel but are also concerned to maximise its benefits for the surrounding region , and the economy as a whole , by the judicious use of public investment . |
| 7 | Nkrumah also claimed to be against the existence of a privately owned press . |
| 8 | The study was based on structured interviews with some 370 former employees of a privately owned steel company in Sheffield who were made redundant in and shortly after the summer of 1979 . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the structural failure in flight of a privately owned light aircraft of a type that is extensively used , possibly all over the world , must justify an investigation in depth while a four engined airliner carrying 400 passengers damaging its wing-tip on a passenger terminal building while taxying need not rate so highly . |
| 10 | This monograph is based on a lengthy case study of a privately owned residential ‘ Sixth Form College ’ , Wentwood Education , which specializes in developing the personal and social competence of young ‘ severely mentally handicapped adult people ’ ( sic ) to tackle ‘ normal life situations ’ . |
| 11 | It leads to the stimulation of a privately run black economy as its crucial lubricant . |
| 12 | AFTER viewing the frequent unsuccessful lbw appeals during the Headingley Test , I think it is worth reminding umpires of a rarely considered yet obvious fact . |
| 13 | It is n't easy when you 're in a single room jammed up with a double bed , and the dump is decorated as carelessly as the inside of a rarely used cupboard . |
| 14 | It is rather that he realigns fantasy and fact by using a set of ready-made and entirely artificial rules governing talking animals to explore the workings of a no less unnatural , controlled and rigidly inhuman system . |
| 15 | The same could be said of Cortot 's Schumann , music-making of a no less legendary calibre and status . |
| 16 | Stones dropped from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship fell to the deck at the foot of the mast and not some distance from the mast , as Aristotle 's theory predicted . |
| 17 | Galileo took the argument further and claimed that the correctness of his law of inertia could be demonstrated by dropping a stone from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship and noting that it strikes the deck at the foot of the mast , although Galileo did not claim to have performed the experiment . |
| 18 | For others the harmony must be a perfect expression of their aesthetic aims , and must therefore be of a uniformly specific quality — delicate or strong , mellifluous or pungent , arid or sweet . |
| 19 | Moreover , all the circuit properties of a line are distributed along its length , uniformly so in the ideal situation of a uniformly constructed line . |
| 20 | I was the middle-class son of a comfortably well-off Glasgow bookie — I was even educated at George Heriot 's in Edinburgh . ’ |
| 21 | But from this he suggests ‘ that the sexuality of little girls is of a wholly masculine character . ’ |
| 22 | If no organic being excepting man had possessed any mental power , or if his powers had been of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed . |
| 23 | Occasionally situation Z may inspire the creation of a wholly new principle , which then serves as a possible precedent for the future . |
| 24 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 25 | Moreover those units will relentlessly force themselves into the human conscience as being of a wholly desirable nature , that is , good . |
| 26 | There are no breaks in it in the sense of special divine interventions ; and while every event is in its own way particular , individual and unique , none is qualitatively of a wholly different kind from all others . |
| 27 | The animal 's pupils widened into black marbles at this sudden intrusion of a wholly novel radiance , then narrowed to slits . |
| 28 | A key post at the Council in the Marches of Wales came into the hands of a wholly untrained man , Fulke Greville , through his friendship with Philip Sidney . |
| 29 | The coroner himself conceded that the intervention of a wholly unexpected and exceptional circumstance might make the death ‘ unnatural . ’ |
| 30 | There was still a role for central economic management , in Medvedev 's view , but it should be of a wholly strategic kind , leaving operational decisions to the enterprises themselves as ‘ socialist commodity producers ’ . |