Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've had a lot of positive feedback from the people of the Borough and even a letter of thanks — something which is almost unheard of in our business ! ’ |
| 2 | I exist with a primary school football team and th the two skills that they 're able to develop , the powers of concentration and hopefully a sense of fair play . |
| 3 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 4 | During the following week they had their first rifle lesson , bayonet practice and even a session of mapreading . |
| 5 | We are most fortunate to have as our guest teacher Irene Schwarz a former Director of Training at the Medau College and presently a member of the staff of the Physical Education Department of Freiburg University . |
| 6 | In 1828 George Hurst became a director of the House of Industry and subsequently a member of the Board of Guardians , a position which he held until he was in his nineties . |
| 7 | Oh yeah , it 's got a group of pleats and then a gap and then a group of pleats , mm . |
| 8 | As much as he is thoroughly yankified , known to all the world as Jimmy Lin , with his high-rise apartment on the Upper West Side and scarcely a trace of an accent , he none the less still feels a strong connection to his native island . |
| 9 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |
| 10 | A week 's good work and then a week of drought , wrote Harsnet . |
| 11 | Er , oh , right , on toni , tonight we 're gon na have sun and maybe a bit of snow and tomorrow morning we 're gon na have a full moon |
| 12 | Only people over 70 were eligible , and initially there was an income test and also a test of good character . |
| 13 | When I asked him what for he gave a sad sigh and then a sort of bitter grin and looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Sexual harassment . ’ |
| 14 | His ‘ Hamlet ’ , except in the vigorous and exciting duel scene at the end , lacks elegance , poetry and even a point of view . |
| 15 | And the line included such blood-bathed flicks as Tough Guys , Slaughter 's Big Pay-Off , Across 110th Street , Sheba Baby and Cool Breeze , the latter boasting ‘ music of every kind , from rock to soul to blues , gospel and even a bit of the ‘ William Tell Overture ’ performed by Solomon Burke and eight of his children . |
| 16 | Mark Ogilvie-Grant , another Athenian pen-friend and later a friend of hers , echoed my thoughts when he said : ‘ … a good book , but she did n't write it ’ . |
| 17 | A visit to a stately home and certainly a game of Monopoly could not be pure fun , divorced from politics . |
| 18 | At a certain point in the ceremony the rhythm of the weeping began to change and the tears were replaced by laughter and sometimes a kind of ecstatic , even erotic frenzy . |
| 19 | ‘ A return to the old-fashioned roller set of the 60's would be a step in the wrong direction — with ‘ painful pins ’ , heavy back-combing and practically a can of hairspray ’ say the experts at L'Oréal . |
| 20 | Though all three sides of the new diplomatic ‘ triangle ’ are interconnected , all too often , states find less connectivity and more a sense of contradictory pulls among the imperatives of choices that can not be avoided , as figure 2.1 illustrates . |
| 21 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
| 22 | The it must be part and only a part of an integrated transport system , not only for the South East but the Country as a whole . |
| 23 | Tony Lewis , the Glamorgan chairman and certainly a person of some sensitivity himself , has gone into print : to soften the arguments and smooth the flow of the ageless Taff . |
| 24 | There were thus several attempts to avoid the conclusion that there must have been a big bang singularity and hence a beginning of time . |
| 25 | London felt hot and dusty and the air smelt different from Chelmsford air , a compound of diesel and petrol fumes , exotic tobacco , oriental cooking and occasionally a whiff of urine . |
| 26 | Teaching and particularly a scheme of one-to-one tutoring and counselling has to encourage a response from each student which testifies to that student 's commitment to thorough enquiry , hard thinking , self-scrutiny and honesty of purpose , all set within a context of the daily practicalities of management . |
| 27 | Much of what he wrote was , essentially , a defence and even a celebration of ‘ war communism ’ . |
| 28 | With just one board and maybe a couple of different size sails anyone from eight to eighty can get out there and have a go . |
| 29 | " There are three hundred Chinese on board and only a handful of us . |
| 30 | However , the country as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the liberal period of the late nineteenth century belonged to the German orbit and consequently a body of commercial law ( separate from general civil law ) was implanted in the form of a Commercial Code ( Statute 37 of 1875 ) following the principles of German commercial law . |