Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Israeli troops instantly drove into Beirut , a move to be followed by the massacre of hundreds of people , with the knowledge or participation of Israeli troops a horrendous question . |
| 2 | There are twenty possible kinds of amino acid , so the number of different proteins a hundred amino acids long is twenty raised to the power of a hundred . |
| 3 | However it is certain that by extending our set of laws and rules , and by the use of inductive methods , we can develop systems that will require the use of infinitary rules a good deal less often . |
| 4 | Halifax Building Society , the nation 's biggest mortgage lender , and Bradford & Bingley are offering new buyers of repossessed homes a rock-bottom mortgage rate of 4.99% . |
| 5 | She gave one group of male volunteers a new colour vocabulary to learn in which the terms were centred on the four basic colours . |
| 6 | Camo finds the lack of basic communications a real handicap . |
| 7 | Whereas visual art and epic poetry invite a purely contemplative response and an uninterrupted delight in the phenomena as portrayed , the spectator of tragedy{ experiences a satisfying sense of illumination , even of omniscience , |
| 8 | And Rosalba roused her heavy , hollow limbs and submitted to the tasks , finding in the repetitiousness of domestic labours a lulling routine that could still for a time the kind of sickness she had contracted . |
| 9 | To restore his sanity , Green disappeared to a small village in South Wales , giving only a handful of trusted friends a forwarding address . |
| 10 | They 've got a fine album and a string of great singles a long way behind them , but the Demonz have yet to have the mass market fawning at their feet , unless you count their brief appearance in the video for ‘ The Bouncer ’ . |
| 11 | However , he also points out that in a number of important companies a single family of entrepreneurial capitalists retain a majority of the shares . |
| 12 | Through the late Seventies , black America was noted for cultural solidarity of impressive dimensions a shared drive for rights and representation which powered art and music no less than it did the Civil Rights movement . |
| 13 | When the early , possibly wooden , convent of St Peter in Chichester was replaced in 1075 by a college of secular priests a new church became essential , if only to reinforce the image of episcopal authority . |
| 14 | Nor was it well enough coordinated to give the Ministry of Internal Affairs a clear run . |
| 15 | Legislation making the making of racialist sentiments a criminal offence was first introduced in Britain in 1965 by the Race Relations Act . |
| 16 | Under the old farming of pre-machine days a good test of a man 's farming skill was to observe whether his land was clean or foul with weeds . |
| 17 | To further the development of new weapons a special school has been established in Altdorf known as the Imperial School of Engineers . |
| 18 | ‘ There was a meeting of local conservatives a short time before Prime Minister John Major visited the province in April with Sir Patrick Feldon . |
| 19 | The study should help to understand why indigenous growth has been limited and prove useful to agencies such as Scottish Enterprise and the TECs and LECs , which have made the development of local enterprises a high priority . |
| 20 | Since a variety of different routes into the city had to be accommodated and since the planners envisaged a station of massive proportions a central city site proved impossible . |