Example sentences of "with [det] a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 2 | He went downstairs to the rumpus room and rummaged behind the tiny bar , and , after digging through a seemingly endless collection of empty pop bottles , came up with half a bottle of rye and some ginger ale . |
| 3 | Margaret , a 58-year-old housewife , was admitted deeply unconscious to a general hospital after having taken a very large overdose of a mixture of tranquillizers , antidepressants , and paracetamol , together with half a bottle of vodka . |
| 4 | Zouher Kabbara and his cousin Nadim Kabbara had been arrested at Rome airport with half a kilo of heroin about a month before Coleman arrived on Cyprus . |
| 5 | For the first dose , the bottle should be succussed 8–12 times , and one tablespoonful of it should be diluted with half a glass of water . |
| 6 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 7 | With half a tank of fuel on board , the Renault weighs 1580kg , making it comfortably heavier than any of its chosen rivals and ensuring that the Safrane 's power-to-weight ratio of 108bhp per tonne is the meanest of its class , too . |
| 8 | The food is ‘ maigre ’ ; cold coffee in the morning , with half a piece of bread , lunch a thin soup of rotten vegetables , the evening meal boiled pasta and the same stinking soup . |
| 9 | The wound was clean and dressed ; there was no point in keeping him inside with such a shortage of hospital beds . |
| 10 | He was the supreme arbiter of protocol and courtly behaviour , and it was likely that he would be put out , to say the least , by the notion of a Kha-Khan who behaved with such a lack of reserve . |
| 11 | The absence of individual marriages led Morgan to the view that in such a society a person must belong to the gens of the mother , not the gens of the father , because with such a system of marriage you could never be sure who your father was . |
| 12 | He convolutes and wreathes his melodies with such a forcing of rhyme and such a thicket of peculiar and ill-founded analogies , that his meaning is hard to discern . |
| 13 | In many ways it was an advantage to work broadly with such a mass of detail — cranes , windows , cars and a myraid of tower blocks . |
| 14 | She was beginning to have second thoughts about bothering the Police with such a mass of suspicion based on such little tangible fact . |
| 15 | The frogmen had been briefed — and with such a degree of certitude ! — as to the exact point on the hump-backed bridge whence the Tongue had been thrown . |
| 16 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |
| 17 | Swift J in Donovan [ 1934 ] 2 KB 498 ( CCA ) said that with some exceptions : " It is an unlawful act to beat another person with such a degree of force that the infliction of bodily harm is a probable consequence and when such an act is proved , consent is immaterial . " |
| 18 | With such a framework of authority , which is clearly a top-down one , objectives and targets can be set for managers , and indeed all in the enterprise . |
| 19 | The shock , after so many years of never knowing who the man was , woke her , but with such a sense of loss at this interrupted coitus she could n't sleep again for mourning it . |
| 20 | So why does a company with such a history of agility and skill remain tied to pots and pans even though they act as such a drag on its performance ? |
| 21 | The young Aberdeen side were relegated from the first division of the indoor league , but they are better disciplined outdoors and with such a wealth of talent at their disposal they will take some shifting . |
| 22 | From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards . |
| 23 | Now consider three contrasting experiments with such a piece of apparatus . |
| 24 | Or : Can you think of any other reason why he should kill with such a frenzy of violence ? |
| 25 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |
| 26 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 27 | It is perhaps ironic that , with such a volume of water just a few yards from the doors , it had to use steam . |
| 28 | Well she comes out with such a load of claptrap , she do n't know what she 's talking about most of the time ah , are you and dad gon na buy a box each ? |
| 29 | With such a concentration of union representation it is not unreasonable to conclude that ‘ Labour unions are so structured and their membership distributed in such a way as to defend the privileges of the elite ’ ( McGown 1980 p.111 ) . |
| 30 | There can be few places with such a concentration of communication routes going back over 2,000 years . |