Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the doctor and his wife and Giles Carnaby they were all people from the village who had not had an opportunity for a good look at the inside of Greystones for quite a while and were busy taking note . |
| 2 | And of course for quite a while we were from . |
| 3 | As a result , it was out of action for over a year . |
| 4 | Almost before he got used to wearing the famous blue and white , Agnew suffered an injury which put him on crutches and out of action for virtually a season . |
| 5 | ‘ In some cases managers are stuck in the middle of supporters with only a couple of inches of space between them , ’ said chief executive John Camkin . |
| 6 | Others pack up a tent , put the dinghy in the back of the car and disappear up to the west coast of Scotland with only a collection of Arthur Ransome books for company . |
| 7 | Experimental phonetics has been an important part of phonetics for almost a century , and experimental work in phonetics laboratories has produced many important discoveries about how speech is produced and perceived . |
| 8 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 9 | Almost any substantial group of buildings with perhaps a shop , or village hall is today called a village and this leads to great confusion , both for researchers looking at earlier arrangements , and for the inhabitants for whom finer definitions are not needed . |
| 10 | The Nordic states were reluctant to enter into any kind of commitment , but would perhaps have been willing to follow a British lead , while in France and the Low Countries British participation was regarded as an indispensable guarantee of security against both a resurgence of German militarism and the shadowy threat of the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | To avoid this , start your new method of contraception at least a week before the IUD is removed . |
| 12 | But these really hard scrappers have come on short lines when float fishing , and a short line makes a lot of difference to how a fish fights when the elasticity is negligible . |
| 13 | Only then , as they swung in a half-circle with a hiss of blades between them , changing places on the slope like a pair of dancers with only a foot of air separating their faces , did Isambard know his mason again . |
| 14 | Mr Ramsay said sorting out Mr Bond 's finances would take a team of accountants at least a year , with the investigation stretching around the world . |
| 15 | Now a polymer represents a different state of affairs from either a crystal or a gas . |
| 16 | There is no evidence that I 've finished , I 've finished eating and I 've finished my meal involve different senses of finish , so we must say that complete is a cognitive synonym of finish in only a sub-set of the grammatical occurrences of the latter . |
| 17 | Most booking conditions are hedged with all sorts of exclusions about why a tour operator ca n't be held liable when things go wrong . |
| 18 | In 1922 the percentage of households without even a plough was 32.7 in the Central Industrial Region , 33.6 in the Siberian guberniia of Omsk , and 55.8 in the guberniia of Tsaritsyn to the south of Saratov . |
| 19 | Belgium had been a part of France till just a year before , and many folk in this part of the province resented being made a part of the Netherlands . |
| 20 | But of course the very same argument could have been used in favour of broadcasting in any of over a and of childhood for only a minority of Tanzanians . |
| 21 | My and colleagues ' data has shown that for uncomplicated acute pyelonephritis five days of treatment with either an aminoglycoside , a β lactam , or a quinolone is highly effective . |
| 22 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 23 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 24 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 25 | But from the British point of view at least a breathing space had been secured . |