Example sentences of "[adv] of a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seventh degree being flat will give you more of a blues feel , as opposed to the normal seventh as found in a major seventh chord ( 1st , 3rd , 5th and 7th ) which I discussed in my July ‘ 92 column . |
| 2 | The police are called upon to perform many public services ( for example , see Punch 1979b ; Punch and Naylor 1973 ) , which is true even of a police force in a divided society like Northern Ireland , as the last chapter showed . |
| 3 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 4 | This means that instead of a Lions ' debut being guaranteed for the 10-times-capped Garryowen player against Canterbury in Christchurch on Wednesday week , he might miss the match . |
| 5 | Instead of a windfall-profits tax , which cost them £375m in 1981 , the banks merely have to suffer the pin-prick of a delay in claiming tax-relief on those same provisions which hit their profits . |