Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organic layer was washed with H 2 O , dried over anhydrous Na 2 SO 4 , mixed with a few drops of concentratd NH 4 OH , and evaporated in vacuo . |
| 2 | All the beauty that ought to be but rarely is , all the promises of perfection are caught in a few moments of that iridescent light . |
| 3 | They are entitled to do that in a free European democracy , but we are entitled to hold our ground and to argue that we as a nation were never committed to a united states of Europe in 1973 , that we are not committed to it now and that we do not intend to pre-empt that decision . |
| 4 | Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite . |
| 5 | Midnight and a silvered road of dreams , a black field shot with a million bursts of white — the name is glow-worm , the sight is magic . |
| 6 | There she stood , in a dove-grey suede dress , looped and hung with a dozen necklaces of amethyst and rock crystal and pearl , her thick black-grey hair piled heavily , pinned with silver , attending a party in the very house where as patient she once in many hour-long sessions had disclosed to Liz on the ground floor the very secrets of her murderous mother 's heart . |
| 7 | Positioned within a few inches of the speaker 's lips , they produce a strong speech signal which stands out clearly against noisy backgrounds . |
| 8 | The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings . |
| 9 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
| 10 | The timber lid is in two parts and could be easily made from a few lengths of timber stained or painted to match the surroundings . |
| 11 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
| 12 | In many ways An Area of Darkness pre-empts Naipaul 's later work , India : A Wounded Civilization — about the devastation wrought by a thousand years of foreign rule . |
| 13 | Armed with a dozen rolls of film , I put six cameras to the test in the rain-lashed hills of Snowdonia . |
| 14 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 15 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 16 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 17 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 18 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 19 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
| 20 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 21 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
| 22 | Moreover , movement into the village was predominantly of people born within a few miles of its borders . |
| 23 | There , bordered by a few glimpses of tentacle , was a huge , whorled , calloused , potion-stained and unfocused thumb . |
| 24 | During the dispute in 1984 , striking miners travelling in convoy on the motorway in Nottinghamshire were stopped within a few miles of four collieries . |
| 25 | A personalised pay-in book will also be posted within a few days of opening the account . |
| 26 | The possibility of a title going ‘ out of print ’ if selection decisions are delayed must also be considered — though this is unlikely if orders are placed within a few months of publication . |
| 27 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 28 | This same attitude has underlain much of the industrial conflict during this century , and was to Tawney , and others , a ‘ disgrace even it was explicable in terms of the evils sown and ripened in a 150 years of capitalist morality , ( see Norman Dennis and A. H. Halsey , English Ethical Socialism , Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1988 , p. 163 ) . |
| 29 | For the isolated detached property , situated in a few acres of land , is a cemetery lodge . |
| 30 | First impressions , and they are formed within a few seconds of listening to these headphones , are of an unveiled immediacy , very extended high-frequency response and seamless midrange . |