Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never have neighbours gloated with such a sense of bitter revenge . |
| 2 | The British have never been caught in such a web of debt with no hope of escape . |
| 3 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 4 | The phrases ‘ deluge trickled down his neck , ’ and ‘ met by such a blast of wind and water that he could scarcely see the track ’ make Turnours ' journey seem physically unpleasant . |
| 5 | It is also clear from a recent evaluation that , despite the fact that the course was originally concerned with recruiting activists and not concerned with qualifications , the activists are now in the minority and that the course has become for many a means of access into higher education . |
| 6 | Most managers disapproved of such a state of affairs and suggested that they would not permit it , but where unions were weak and the competitive pressures upon employers intense , its evidence is understandable . |
| 7 | For the first dose , the bottle should be succussed 8–12 times , and one tablespoonful of it should be diluted with half a glass of water . |
| 8 | Clearly it is impossible to give each of these the attention they merit and I do find EMI makes life extremely complicated with such a plethora of titles ; although each clearly has its place in the EMI scheme of things . |
| 9 | The touch of his hands on her back that afternoon … she 'd been gripped by such a war of reaction inside her . |
| 10 | When you have thought about all these things , when you have fully absorbed into the darkest parts of your mind the sub-human horror of them , you will realize , must realize , with the blinding force of a revelation that I could not by the very nature of my soul be so implicated in such a maze of lust and filth . |
| 11 | From one of these , situated within half a mile of the proposed Chirbury Station , it is stated that 10,000 tons are annually raised for local requirements , and that easy and cheap means of transit , such has the railway would supply , are only required to bring it into extensive use . |
| 12 | In a matter as fundamental as that of the constitution of the church , God could not have allowed that error should have persisted over such a period of time . |
| 13 | Although I had respect for Harry Thubron and Frank Lisle , the message of Basic Design was in , many ways much less important to schools of general education than the work which had been developed to such a pitch of excellence by Basil . |
| 14 | Such a split in the Tory ranks had no precedent , and would only become imaginable when public outrage at Government policy was aroused to such a pitch of fury that large numbers of Conservative backbenchers felt obliged to break ranks . |
| 15 | Julius could n't remember when he had last been hit by such a wave of anger . |
| 16 | One alcoholic drink is to be taken as half a pint of beer , one glass of wine , one small glass of sherry or one small measure of spirit . |
| 17 | There is great emphasis on the Church in this Gospel and time must be allowed for such a development of the Church to have taken place ( especially Matt. |
| 18 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 19 | Never before had he been subjected to such a plethora of opinions — often form people with whom he had no real relationship , many of whom , bore him and his family substantial grudges . |
| 20 | I kept one hand on my sword hilt and the other on my wallet as I mentally phrased the letter I intended to send to Cardinal Wolsey demanding the graveyard be cleared of such a collection of villains . |
| 21 | Faced with such a dearth of modern authority , Hale had plenty of scope to steer the law in a different direction and this , to some extent , he did . |
| 22 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |
| 23 | If the whole garden was covered in such a layer of rubbish , she would be mad to dig it . |
| 24 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 25 | We can just as readily conclude that there is just one type of latent inhibition ; that the change induced by exposure to the stimulus always tends to dissipate during the exposure — test interval ; and that the size of the interval required for such a loss of latent inhibition to become apparent grows longer as the strength of the effect induced by the initial exposure phase is increased . |
| 26 | Detectives believe Rachel 's drink was spiked with half a tablet of the designer drug at a private party . |
| 27 | Thus , being confronted with such a wealth of cinematic work by , for , and about women of all stripes , the viewer is likely to feel more , not less deprived of such material , more , not less constrained by the dominance of banal mainstream cinema and TV images . |
| 28 | as if conscious of the damaging effect this group must have on the imagined relationship between the Poet and the Friend , damaging to the Poet and damaging to the reader 's view of both the Friend and the Poet ( ‘ why does he persevere ? ’ readers may ask in some irritation when confronted with such a catalogue of the Friend 's faults ) , Shakespeare sets matters even by writing what seems to be a related group where the Poet describes his own faults ( 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 ; 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 ) . |
| 29 | When he was roused to such a peak of experience , confronting the issues of life and death for thousands besides himself , all things became simple to him . |