Example sentences of "[det] of [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mower alters its fatal course not one half of half a degree . |
| 2 | Mr Reeves thinks little of such an idea and would rather see conventional pools built . |
| 3 | ‘ You see dears , ’ said the old lady , ‘ no one , least of all a great detective , believes what they read in the newspapers . ’ |
| 4 | Kelly knew Bill well enough to be certain that no one , least of all a new owner , would dictate to him which jockey to put up . |
| 5 | Nobody , least of all a Party boss , could be expected to watch , still more record , domestic television output ! |
| 6 | It is , however , difficult indeed to understand the two Bucks players adopting questionable tactics , least of all a childish device to enlarge the wicket . |
| 7 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 8 | In the mid-eighteenth century , Germany was not — and never had been — a notable centre of classical studies , and least of all a centre of Greek studies . |
| 9 | Least of all a woman . |
| 10 | In each of these a sense of awareness is essential . |
| 11 | It was their view , and that of many an old-fashioned Mum , that the good Lord required a regular daily bowel movement . |
| 12 | If the universe is destined to go on expanding forever , the temperature of the microwave radiation will eventually decrease to less than that of such a black hole , which will then begin to lose mass . |
| 13 | Perhaps Butler 's position is essentially that of such an intuitionist . |
| 14 | The second chute lasted all of half a minute , and when the third opened , Rostov began to think about landing . |
| 15 | fancy the paella he said no problem I make paella so , I mean all of half an hour went by , but we went in and we had paella and then all these people started dancing , they moved the chairs back and they started clapping and singing and dancing and I said is this |
| 16 | How many of these a day would you have ? |
| 17 | It is a dwarf among the fellow heights of Assynt and Coigach , having an altitude of 2009 feet only , but its ascent presents difficulties far greater than those of many a Munro . |
| 18 | Maybe only to those of such a mind will religion or its truth be perceivable . |
| 19 | Tess was not surprised at Mrs d'Urberville 's cold manner , and did not expect any more of such a great lady . |
| 20 | But I will go into more of that a little later . |
| 21 | I shall say more of this a little later on , but for now I want to concentrate on aspects of privatisation . |
| 22 | Identical chain again let's have a methile group there and one there let's do one more of those a methile group there and a methile group there . |
| 23 | also i think players like Palmer , Pallister and Adams will see some big trouble with slick hollenders tomorrow — if they prove me wrong i will be happy : i hope for an english victory — but most of all a norw. point against Poland . |
| 24 | Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo … |
| 25 | The above description hides a significant division among the ex-British Caribbean territories , for while in most of these a Creolised variety of English is spoken , there are several — Dominica and St Lucia being the best known — where a Creolised variety of French , a language known as Kwéyòl , is the vernacular . |