Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rail travel was still new and Cook was the first person to organize a group round fare — excursion rate for ‘ the enormous distance of eleven miles and back a shilling , children half price ’ . |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Two real doctors , hundreds of real stories and not a colostomy pun in sight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The plan showed a small wood , plenty of mature trees and even a stream running along the edge of the property . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The hamlet I live in consists of thirty houses and perhaps a hundred souls and sits immediately astride the River Itchen . |
| 12 | 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 . |