Example sentences of "of a [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giles 's straw-yellow hair was fierce above his veined brick-red face , his grey eyes glittered with truculent frustrated aggression , the rage of a thousand ideologically committed drinking sessions in dirty pubs surged in his weeping Camden-Lock-shirted chest . |
| 2 | In July 1297 Winchelsey had news of a still more recent document , issued in February , conceding the whole principle of taxation of the clergy by the French king . |
| 3 | Somehow he had the picture of a private yet public killing : murder for pleasure . |
| 4 | But clearly all these discs are indispensable ; a living reflection of a richer more vital culture than our own . |
| 5 | Finally , having secured the agreement of a certain extremely illustrious Frenchman — I will merely call him ‘ M. Dupont ’ — to attend the gathering on a very strict ‘ off the record ’ basis , the date for the conference was set . |
| 6 | Training centres are hard-pressed and insufficient in numbers and , with job prospects gloomy for all young people , the now older parents may find it hard to cope with the constant supervision of a young mentally handicapped person who may still exhibit child-like exuberance . |
| 7 | The results presented here describe the identification from tenascin coding cDNA of a new alternatively spliced exon sequence encoding a single 92 amino acid type III repeat between the previously identified tenth and eleventh type III repeats . |
| 8 | It says it is cutting its workforce ‘ in anticipation of a continuing intensely competitive market environment . ’ |
| 9 | Produced by the winemaker acclaimed for " 1989 Wine Magazine/Good Wine Guide , White Wine of the Year " , this is a superb example of a product vinified to retain all the characteristics of a fruity well balanced wine . |
| 10 | It goes on to state that the cell had no electricity and no floor covering , the prisoners were allowed few clothes and they received only two meals a day , one consisting of a single very small momo ( steamed bun ) and the other of a small cup of wormy vegetables . |
| 11 | the gathering up of all this scattered craft knowledge , systematising it and concentrating it in the hands of the employer and then doling it out again only in the form of minute instructions , giving to each worker only the knowledge needed for the performance of a particular relatively minute task . |
| 12 | Whilst standard published lists of terms provide useful models and certainly aid the searcher of a large publicly available database , any information worker needing to establish an in-house database , catalogue or index will need to consider devising a local list of indexing terms . |
| 13 | Physical contact of a different yet similar nature is also entailed in the sporting activity at the Victoria Centre known as ‘ murderball ’ . |
| 14 | Such units , consisting of a few closely related families , contain between a dozen and sixty individuals who live together and cultivate under the direction of their elder , whose chief responsibility is the allocation and control of arable land . |
| 15 | Evolution may not be prompted solely by the reproductive excesses of a few strikingly superior individuals . |
| 16 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 17 | Some have taken the official statistics at their face value and suggested that such violence is the infrequent action of a few psychologically disturbed men . |
| 18 | This eventually results in ‘ monopoly capitalism ’ , where economic power is concentrated in the hands of a few very large enterprises . |
| 19 | I 'd be retained purely as a servant , subject to the whims of an above averagely capricious employer with a short memory . |
| 20 | In the case of an only moderately cruel man , the intensification of the pain beyond a certain point will suddenly switch him to the equalization of viewpoints , and his pleasure will lapse . |
| 21 | The distorted modes of communication which the individual has set up within himself , and between self and the outside world , as a result of fearing to express in public form certain wishes and impulses of an infantile polymorphously perverse character , can be unravelled with the analyst 's help . |
| 22 | Ministers also agreed on the creation of an eighth exclusively German corps based in eastern Germany until the withdrawal of all Soviet forces in 1994 . |
| 23 | As these family dramas were played out around Low Birk Hatt farm and the Hauxwell family battled against the twin effects of an overpriced heavily mortgaged farm , and an agricultural depression which presaged the deep national depression of the thirties the other people in Baldersdale coped with their lives . |