Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [art] [noun sg] 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 | His voice was n't its usual fulsome boom , and probably only carried down half a mile of corridor . |
| 3 | It does n't give you a hangover if you remember to get down half a pint of water before you go to sleep . |
| 4 | Only half a spoon of sugar per cup . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These were given to only half the proportion of patients treated with them in France , Germany , Italy and Spain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If the Scottish NFU had only half the fight of the Ayrshire farmers we would really see some action . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Deloitte has an impressive list of audit clients although its management consultancy practice is only half the size of Coopers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | Clover Light is a deliciously healthy spread with only half the fat of butter or margarine . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A precedent was set last year , when Electrolux won an " ozone-friendly " fridge competition which required no chlorofluorocarbons and used only half the energy of conventional designs . |
| 16 | The tucuxi is , however only half the length of the boto , and is thus less able to break out of gill-nets when captured . |
| 17 | An imposing entrance for this was built at the end of Kirby Road , and the inspection pits were only half the length of the depot to facilitate displays . |
| 18 | OT , only half the length of these novels , is more sombre in tone , and elaborately , though not completely successfully , plotted . |
| 19 | The early , smaller jennies were used at home , and although the rate paid in the West of England in 1798 was , at 6½d ( 2½p ) a score , only half the rate of the 1770s , the extra output usually more than compensated . |
| 20 | But there was another woman , at the second table : a woman only half the age of her executively suited escort ; a woman who was having a fairly difficult time by the look of things , earnestly rehearsing a whole chapter of body language with her ringless hands . |
| 21 | She was particularly fond , especially when asked her opinion on some current controversy , of quoting the words of Muhammad to Abu Said al-Khudri : ‘ Is n't the testimony of a woman worth only half the testimony of a man ? |
| 22 | By this time Stirling had disappeared and they needed to find him as there was only half an hour of darkness left . |
| 23 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 24 | Perhaps such a range of activities seemed to endanger his chances of getting a degree but those who thought so had underestimated the strength of his neurotic energy . |
| 25 | with alcohol I mean alcohol is so much a part of the establishment of Oxford . |
| 26 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 27 | I do n't think it 's so much the difficulty of the matter , as the inadequacy of the manner , but erm it the main structure behind erm what I have to say at any rate revolves round these three successive ideas of time , intellect , memory . |
| 28 | Cos the important thing is is not so much the number of hours as the , the , the affecting on , the effect on the cost . |
| 29 | Good friends from the start , as well as matchless needlers of each other and trigger-happy competitors , they put together such a record of collisions and accidents and general ‘ brouhaha that by the time I reached the FI scene , both were considered as ‘ wild men ’ who needed some settling down . |
| 30 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |