Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] and [adv] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It offered opportunities for the reception and use of the precepts of economic liberalism and thus a break from intellectually old-fashioned mercantilist conceptions of public policy . |
| 2 | He was running what was mostly a sixties disco with a sprinkling of classic rock and only a few recent standards . |
| 3 | Er and I think we would all er acknowledge er the the precise difficulties of that wording and perhaps a , an amendment may need to be considered on the second line following the list of districts . |
| 4 | MAUREEN ( trying the B set which emits a series of siren-like whoops and then a muffled jazz band ) : It does n't seem particularly easy to get ANY station on the B. |
| 5 | Soon after 9 p.m. rally drivers came upon an unexpected road hazard as they steered into the narrow twisting lane — a barricade of wooden benches and almost a dozen seated householders ! |
| 6 | Mr Terry Davis , Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill , told the Guardian last night : ‘ As a former employee of British Leyland and now a member of the Commons public accounts committee , I pressed for an inquiry into the sale . |
| 7 | The German blitz was resumed in the early months of this year and then a fresh terror , the " flying bombs " , was directed against London in the summer . |
| 8 | English was the most far-flung language in 1880 ; not only in new nations , but in British colonies where it was the language of official life and therefore a language of record and social advancement for the native . |
| 9 | A few hundred years of Imperial rule and already a coterie surrounded the throne which , by its very nature , endangered the survival of the Imperium . |
| 10 | messageRoutines — Two procedures each allowing the output of a message of fixed length and also a procedure delivering a warning message . |
| 11 | So there were going to be four months of hard training and probably a lot of violence . |
| 12 | Here we have , albeit speculatively ( and more baldly than most specialists would dare ) , the distributions and dispersals of archaic populations and so a geographical history of human populations throughout the world . |
| 13 | Not all information will be regarded as of equal weight and therefore a truly total assessment is unattainable . |
| 14 | The Blue Elephant , 4 Fulham Broadway , SW6 ( 01 385 6595 ) has brought the jungle to London in an imaginative series of bamboo-roofed spaces broken by walls of trellised greenery and even a lacquered bridge with a real stream trickling under it . |
| 15 | The yew contains a mixture of poisonous compounds and only a chemist can extract anything good from it so people should n't eat or drink anything connected with the Yew tree . |
| 16 | Chronology is broached also by Peter le Huray , who examines Morley 's prescriptions for good composition ( published in 1597 ) , considers the undoubtedly early ‘ Libera me , domine , published in 1575 , and argues for recognition of mature procedures and thus a relatively late dating for the monorhythmic cantus firmus piece ‘ Christus resurgens a mortuis ’ . |
| 17 | The plan showed a small wood , plenty of mature trees and even a stream running along the edge of the property . |
| 18 | The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 . |
| 19 | He was good enough to be in six Walker Cup teams , sufficiently well heeled to be of independent means and later a Captain of the Royal and Ancient . |
| 20 | We found that only about one in five of all establishments used either form of temporary worker and only a third of those used them in numbers equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour forces . |
| 21 | You should provide them with a list of topics of general interest and also a list of any specific cases in which the firm is involved . |
| 22 | Rapid growth ( high productivity ) means ready absorption of red light and so a greater difference between red and NIR bidirectional reflectance than one with slower growth . |
| 23 | The area is as yet largely untouched by the ugliness of mass afforestation and still a paradise for lovers of the outdoors . |
| 24 | It was a salutary experience for many pupils to hear , during a collaborative writing session , a whole series of vivid images and even a suggestion about what is required in order to create poetry , forcefully expressed by a Sutton pupil . |
| 25 | The hamlet I live in consists of thirty houses and perhaps a hundred souls and sits immediately astride the River Itchen . |
| 26 | The lake was fringed with a shore of sandy pebbles and then a great curve of grass swept up to the terrace of thr house . |
| 27 | Like marrying a soldier , as Marjorie had , seventeen moves in twenty-four years of active service and never a bellyache out of her . |