Example sentences of "of a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each one of them exterminated in Sobibor , the photograph fluttering into a pile of a thousand personal papers and documents with tens of thousands of spectacles and hundreds of thousands of shoes and boots — to be salvaged or burnt and either way lost for ever . |
| 2 | It should normally be an integral part of a wide ranging personnel and employment policy consisting of other key strategies such as a no redundancy policy , fair promotion rules , pay for performance , common terms and conditions of employment , appeals procedure and so on . |
| 3 | That was still the thought in her mind as she struck the ground , not knowing how she came to be there , as one never knows , having suffered a blow aimed from behind which came at her like a thunderbolt , felled her in the presence of a hundred indifferent spectators and left her prostrate , struggling as in those terrible lodging-house dreams , to get up , to breathe , while the weasel-pack fell on top of her , shrieking with laughter . |
| 4 | It might be that the intensity of competition at present is partly an attempt by individual exchanges to improve their bargaining positions prior to the creation of a quasi-unified European futures and options market . |
| 5 | This might consist of a few simple rules and procedure to control decision-making and conflict , for example . |
| 6 | A new generation of middle level developing countries is facing the difficult transition from being exporters of a few traditional commodities and receiving most external finance in the form of official aid to a varied pattern of trade and production , combined with use of more commerical loans or investment . |
| 7 | The real power lay outside the House of Commons , in the hands of a few rich magnates and aristocratic landowners . |
| 8 | These changes have , of course , encouraged non-Marxists to argue that Marxist theory is now invalid because power is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few economic owners and their friends . |
| 9 | They protested vigorously when in the mid nineties the revolutionaries abandoned the thorough education of a few hand-picked pupils and turned to mass agitation and manipulation . |
| 10 | Another map showed contour lines , the positions of a few prominent objects and the heights of one or two locations . |
| 11 | Remember the fighting qualities of the Maccabeans ; think of the Warsaw ghetto and the amazing resistance therein of a few ordinary men and women who fought a whole battalion of Nazi storm-troopers , while Polish people stood by and wondered at such bravery . |
| 12 | He was able to assure her that in spite of a few twisted ankles and bruised limbs , those same Jocks were skiing not half badly by the time that strange wartime holiday was over . |
| 13 | The work of a few farsighted publishers and booksellers was responsible for the formulation of an agreement to protect book prices . |
| 14 | A succession of delightful surprises comes into view as the journey proceeds , the gem being Badcall Bay and its seascape of a dozen off-shore islands and , beyond , the vast expanse of Eddrachillis Bay . |
| 15 | The hotel here is a well-known resort of anglers who have a choice of a dozen nearby lochs and lochans for their sport . |