Example sentences of "[adv] of a [no cls] " in BNC.
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1 | THE body of a French charity worker killed in the shooting down of a Medicins sans Frontieres ( MSF ) plane in southern Sudan nine days ago exploded at Khartoum airport in what is thought to have been a booby-trap . |
2 | Before the eighteenth century , there was n't perhaps a National Anthem , there was n't such much of a er , national feeling , and so there was very little need to have a National Anthem . |
3 | Well , bloody hell only nineteen pence cheaper out of a bo basketful |
4 | The USA was to contribute US$25,000,000 ; funding both for the new science centre , and for help in moving and storing nuclear warheads safely , would come out of a US$400,000,000 fund approved by Congress in 1991 to help dismantle and remove Soviet nuclear weapons . |
5 | And there is no trace left of the gaunt figure who stepped out of a VC10 and on to the tarmac at RAF Lyneham . |
6 | The Führer was no longer present among his people ; he played the part increasingly of a deus ex machina , turning up every now and then in Berlin or Munich , but mostly a distant war-lord conducting military affairs in faraway parts but scarcely having any real further contact with the German people themselves . |
7 | As sporadic violations of the Jan. 3 ceasefire continued in Croatia , preparations for the dispatch there of a 14,000-strong UN peacekeeping force , one of the largest in the history of the UN , went ahead in late February in accordance with a UN peace plan agreed in January [ see p. 38704 ] . |
8 | Control of the dosage is very similar to the centesimal ‘ plussing ’ technique but using the LM granule , instead of a 30c , dissolved in liquid . |
9 | Technically , the cetacean side of things is n't at all well handled : the beast is evidently as much of a pawn as Jonah ; its providential appearance just as the sailors are tossing Jonah overboard smacks far too heavily of a deus ex machina ; and the great fish is casually dismissed from the story the moment its narrative function has been fulfilled . |
10 | The nice investigation recently of a erm pair of species of gesophola , these are Hawaiian gesophola , in which one species , the males , have sort of eyes like crabs stuck out almost on stalks . |