Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Beside the school stood the little school house , and beside that a row of small cottages .
2 Also at the table were the Most Reverend the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs Robert Runcie ; Viscount Churchill , a former Lord Mayor of London Sir Robin Gillett , and Lady Gillett ; the Earl and Countess of Strathmore , and the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps the High Commissioner for Cyprus and Mrs Tasos Panayides .
3 Much of the fall , however , is due to the Gulf crisis , rather that the misfortunes of Vestel 's parent .
4 There is some merit in the Royal Commission 's reasoning , but it does not seem to warrant so total a separation of the two branches of the profession as exists currently .
5 If this is the case , the argument for so narrow a definition of sexual intercourse would seem hard to sustain .
6 The fact that Paris was so rich a source of books — from de luxe manuscripts to ‘ soiled tracts and battered codices ’ — in part stemmed from its position and reputation as the greatest northern European centre of learning .
7 The word pirate was perhaps not so strong a term of condemnation as in later centuries : European rulers were only just beginning to acquire for themselves , on behalf of their states , a monopoly of the use of force .
8 She would even be glad — thought Linnet — for her husband 's sake and for his children , a woman 's love containing , after all , so strong an element of self-sacrifice .
9 ‘ You know , you ca n't believe she 's the same child that was so polite a couple of years ago .
10 But one can go on almost endlessly tinker-tailoring the sources of greenness : Nordic nature-loving fascist , Quaker , Zen Buddhist , Taoist , Social Creditist , Marxist , socialist , pacifist , quietist , 1930s Green Shirt .
11 How dared this man , a virtual stranger , stir up these doubts in so private an area of her life ?
12 This is why fiction , including children 's fiction , is so irreplaceable a form of human knowledge .
13 After all Dr Kugelmann recommended Karlsbad to so untypical a member of the middle class as Karl Marx , who carefully registered himself as a ‘ man of private means ’ to avoid identification , until he discovered that as Dr Marx he could save some of the rather steep Kurtaxe .
14 I remember at the time that all the crews felt a great deal happier being so much nearer the rest of the Lancs and Halifaxes , and no longer were in great danger of our oppoes dropping bombs and incendiaries on us .
15 She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society .
16 I also had odd ends of three cones of that random yarn that was so popular a number of years ago .
17 His voice was n't its usual fulsome boom , and probably only carried down half a mile of corridor .
18 It does n't give you a hangover if you remember to get down half a pint of water before you go to sleep .
19 For example , the effect of holding in memory a visual pattern made up by randomly filling in half the cells of a matrix ( with either 3 , 4 or 5 cells per side ) did not produce " general activation " in the same way as words were found to do .
20 Only half a spoon of sugar per cup .
21 For instance , 100 kilos of lavender yields almost 3 litres of essential oil , whereas 100 kilos of rose petals can yield only half a litre of oil .
22 These were given to only half the proportion of patients treated with them in France , Germany , Italy and Spain .
23 Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 .
24 If the Scottish NFU had only half the fight of the Ayrshire farmers we would really see some action . ’
25 The neighbouring householder , however , earns only £15,000 — he lives in exactly the same sortof house , but has only half the income of his neighbour and , again , only one other person lives in the house , his non-working wife who brings in nothing .
26 Deloitte has an impressive list of audit clients although its management consultancy practice is only half the size of Coopers .
27 Today the dominant question is whether a country that can draw on the manpower and technology of two advanced industrial countries could become too powerful to be accommodated inside the European Community where the leading nations , Britain , France and Italy , would have populations only half the size of a new Germany .
28 Because they were only half the size of a mature Thoroughbred , they were not tall enough to see over their stable doors or internal walls so that when someone opened the stable doors , the weanlings would attempt to climb the walls in sheer terror !
29 Clover Light is a deliciously healthy spread with only half the fat of butter or margarine .
30 Holligan , Liverpool 's British and Commonwealth light-welter champion , has won all his 18 contests , but has only half the experience of Rojas , who has lost 10 of his 39 bouts .
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