Example sentences of "[indef pn] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She brought as a present a portrait of Mother Mary as she appeared to the children at Fatima , executed by someone of sentimental disposition , and a statue of the Virgin Mary , the mould fashioned by someone of a melancholy and austere frame of mind . |
| 2 | She longed for a shower and a rest , to say nothing of a change of clothes . |
| 3 | Tom Emmett 's story is laced with thick Yorkshire dialect ; Ted Barratt , another left-arm bowler , prolific but unlucky , is rescued from the deepest obscurity of them all ; the colourful George Ulyett is seen as ‘ a sort of Victorian Ian Botham ’ , and was involved in the scandal over match-rigging on the 1881–82 tour of Australia ( to say nothing of a gatecrashing at 10 Downing Street ) ; the weird William Scotton lurks here too ; and the elegant but equally tragic Willie Bates ; and the outrageous Bobby Peel , the longest-lived of them all , by a long way , and the fourth Yorkie in the collection . |
| 4 | The biographer says nothing of a king 's other chief relaxation , the evening carouse . |
| 5 | Our survey programmes have been extensive and we have found nothing of a type similar to that which has been found in Derbyshire . |
| 6 | ‘ He wants nothing of a God but eternity and a Heaven to throne in , ’ he shouted at Gail Russell , frightening the girl off the street . |
| 7 | The New Testament knows nothing of a separation of the individual from the Church ; to be a Christian is to belong to the body ; to be baptized into Christ is to be incorporated into his people . |
| 8 | Fanny ate a whole fowl for breakfast , to say nothing of a tower of hot cakes . |
| 9 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 10 | because it 's nothing of a job . |
| 11 | There is nothing much to be proud of , to be sure , in all this ; and the self-sufficient hero , who knows it , is nothing of a boaster . |
| 12 | Given , let let's say y'know somebody of a status goes to see somebody of equivalent status wait so it 's it 's about the distance , yeah . |
| 13 | To try somebody of a trainer er . |
| 14 | A play with plenty of a body and a cast who are too cool to corpse , Murder By Misadventure fizzes with pace and precision . |
| 15 | Although I think it 's with us having the None Of A Family ourselves that I 've adjusted so well . |
| 16 | Not that None of a Family 's not what we both want what with our lifestyles . |
| 17 | ‘ Whether a patient 's life is valuable or not is none of a doctor 's business , ’ James Munby QC for the Official Solicitor told them . |
| 18 | with a high curved roof supported by girders forged in a Liverpool ironworks , and marble pillars and floors , ornately carved canopies , shafts of sunlight emphasising its height , and indeed , everything of a cathedral but altars and pews … . it was a relief to me , after such a long trip , to arrive at this station … |
| 19 | If you believe that the Eighties are something of a tribute to the independent trustee system , then it 's a pity that this centralisation is developing . |
| 20 | Moreover the recording itself stands as something of a tribute to his long relationship with another French institution , the Opéra de Lyon , which he has conducted frequently since his début there in the same opera in 1981 . |
| 21 | But seriously , there is something of a revival just like everywhere else at the moment , although blues has always had a strong following in Australia — that 's why I 've been able to make a living all these years . |
| 22 | Tylor 's work which , especially in the field of religion , is currently enjoying something of a revival , displays further and more explicitly recognized examples of this functionalist way of understanding society . |
| 23 | The formation of a company of clothworkers in 1601 suggests not only something of a revival but equally a closing of ranks in the face of adversity . |
| 24 | In the immediate pre-war years , as working-class protest resumed , the parties created by the revolutionary intelligentsia enjoyed something of a revival . |
| 25 | We may now be seeing something of a revival of the reformative approach . |
| 26 | They can not match our record of ten defeats in a row , having staged something of a revival with three straight victories . |
| 27 | Mr Sisulu , now 77 , was six years older than Mr Mandela and became something of a mentor to him on his arrival in Johannesburg in 1941 . |
| 28 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
| 29 | Hereford are suffering something of a flu epedemic at the moment . |
| 30 | By the late nineteenth century there were two main groups of Welsh cattle : the short-legged , heavy , compact Anglesey mountain cattle of the north and the taller , longer-bodied , larger and rangier Pembroke types of the south ( including the Castlemartin and Dewsland breeds ) which had something of a tendency towards the dairy type but which fattened well enough in due course . |