Example sentences of "[adv] [det] a [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 | 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 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | with alcohol I mean alcohol is so much a part of the establishment of Oxford . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |
| 12 | This brought on such a bout of weeping and incoherence that the old man shuffled forward to lend his support . |
| 13 | It is that very distance that has allowed the memory of Vietnam to take on such a glow of nostalgia . |
| 14 | This produced a laugh which unfortunately brought on such a fit of coughing that Wilson was obliged to put Pilade down and attend to the invalid as though she were still her maid . |
| 15 | Is not that a confusion of conceptual analysis and normative argument ? |
| 16 | Is not that a consequence of the increasing sophistication of terrorist ant-interrogation techniques , such as the ability to destroy forensic evidence ? |
| 17 | Is not that a consequence of the need to provide up to £15 million to cure the concrete cancer problem at Craigavon ? |
| 18 | It provides you with just half a gram of fibre . |
| 19 | It is lamentable that few butchers have the storage or the cash to put away half a hundredweight of potential turnover , watch it shrink by ten to fifteen per cent and charge the prices needed to make it all worthwhile . |
| 20 | Add approximately half a teaspoon of white granulated sugar to each bottle before capping it . |
| 21 | An elderly person should try to eat approximately half a pound of protein in some form in her diet every day . |
| 22 | And it is in terms of just such a co-existence of opposites that tragic myth arises . |
| 23 | Perhaps Webern was aiming at just such a lack of definition , and certainly many composers have been attracted by this very quality , as well as by his intellectualism , over the last thirty years . |
| 24 | Can , for example , consciousness avoid being somehow enriched by a pervasive quality , which could not possibly have occurred except as a quality of just such a state of consciousness , when it becomes consciousness of a beautiful object , instead of consciousness of something else , or ‘ mere consciousness ’ ? |
| 25 | If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge . |
| 26 | The phenomena of overload and pressure constitute , for many teachers , just such a breach of some basic injunctions so that the situation of working under heavy demands itself leads , via the activation of these injunctions , to an assault on self-esteem . |
| 27 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
| 28 | It was just such a pattern of alternating brightness and darkness in a two-slit experiment with light that convinced Thomas Young in 1803 that light was a wave-like disturbance . |
| 29 | The Mamores are just such a group of mountains , containing 11 Munros placed magnificently between Loch Leven and Glen Nevis , and since there is easy access from both north and south you have all manner of decisions to take about where to start and finish , how many to do and in what order . |
| 30 | I teach just such a group of boys , only they come under the title ‘ Emotionally and Behaviourally Disturbed ’ . |