Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was sand everywhere between the knee-high crags , so I climbed on one of them for a better view . |
| 2 | However , it remains possible that people do see the support which they give to elderly relatives as part of a two-way pattern which stretches over time and across generations , and where they themselves will benefit ultimately from the support of someone in a younger generation . |
| 3 | The move up to verse can be made for the exit of a person from a lower but also for the entrance of one from a higher rank . |
| 4 | ‘ Surely the photographs of him as a younger man — ’ |
| 5 | A realistic budget will do three things for you : it will sort out the urgent essentials from the details which can wait ; make you feel good if you manage any or all of it at a lower price than your original estimate ; and inspire you to improvise , to consider if you could achieve an equally good effect and still fit in with what you can comfortably afford . |
| 6 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 7 | The harshness of the alcohol took his breath away and made him choke again , and Paul collapsed in a fit of laughter as he expelled half of it in a further bout of coughing . |
| 8 | Althusser portrays Marx as extremely sensitive to this possibility , and appeals to his awareness of it in a further argument about the position of economic practice in the complex whole . |