Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adv] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artificiality of so many boys ' adventures is the result of miscalculation in this aspect of story-telling . |
| 2 | The group aims to provide customers with a path through the maze of vastly differing vendors ' licence agreements , and hopes to sell Advance on the back of this activity . |
| 3 | The outcome of perhaps three days ' work is often no more than ten points on a flip chart , and we would consider that a good rate of striking . |
| 4 | But in spite of nearly forty years ' experience , I can never resist temptation . |
| 5 | We have tramped miles over mountain and moorland in search of sport , and one of the joys of living and fishing in Scotland is that in spite of nearly forty years ' trout fishing , we have at least another forty years to go before we can honestly say we know but a fraction of all the fishing available . |
| 6 | On this particular issue , the evidence of over 30 years ' research is before them and there is no lack of evidence to hide behind . |
| 7 | SIR — As a master mariner of nearly 40 years ' standing , I am continually upset by the criticism of Captain Lord ( report , April 3 ) . |
| 8 | In Pomerania the general impoverishment and the already poor Pomeranian soil meant that very few peasants could gather together enough money to buy their own farm equipment — a necessary prerequisite for purchase of their land from the estate — nor could they ever manage to garner a purchase price that was often the equivalent of over 25 years ' rent . |
| 9 | The cash was the equivalent of about two years ' salary for the education director , Frank Pignatelli . |
| 10 | Blessed with a perfect 9st 5lb race riding physique , he is immune from the lettuce leaf diet and stamina-sapping sauna sessions which are the bane of so many jockeys ' lives . |
| 11 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 12 | With some types of account a depositor can withdraw a certain amount of money on demand , but will have to pay a penalty of so many days ' interest . |
| 13 | His retirement in 1990 as Chairman of the Surrey Young Cricketers ' Committee marked the end of over 15 years ' association with Surrey Youth Cricket . |
| 14 | I dismiss the popular theory that goldfish have a memory of only nine seconds ' duration . |
| 15 | At the time of Chamberlain 's appointment he had written to his mother : ‘ I am pretty certain that I shall be left where I am which is what I wanted , for the only promotion I should care about would be the Exchequer itself which would never be given to a minister of only two years ' experience . |
| 16 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally . |