Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still had three hours outstanding of a community service order for another offence . |
| 2 | The College of Arms set and maintained a rigid scale of funerary etiquette : the obsequies of a royal duke would have been more complicated — and costly — than that of an earl , whilst a viscount 's cortège would have exceeded in complexity that of a baron . |
| 3 | The relative risk of a child being overweight is five times that of a child with normal weight parents ( Poskitt 1980 ) . |
| 4 | And the damage inflicted by one lorry axle weighing 10 tonnes is 160 000 times that of a car axle . |
| 5 | This is Part 2 of a list of documents deposited at the County Records Office , Shirehall , Shrewsbury . |
| 6 | A ‘ stringer ’ is n't just a freelance — it 's a correspondent based away from head office whose local contacts give him an on-the-spot usefulness which far surpasses that of a reporter sent out from head office . ’ |
| 7 | In the cold light of day Celtic 's win will have been seen to do nothing other than reduce the gap between them and Rangers in the Premier Division from 12 to ten points , which is hardly the signal for predicting immediate transformation within the club bereft of a trophy since 1989 . |
| 8 | The story recalled in Chapter 2 of a stranger named Chipimbi who came to live amongst the Lamba of Zambia , and brought them seeds of maize , sorghum and groundnuts , was one such hero . |
| 9 | In the future much of a computer 's Supervisor may be in microcode : see for example the microprogrammed operating system functions on the experimental VENUS System ( Liskov 1972 ) . |
| 10 | With judging under way for the Scottish Marketing Awards , KAY BLAIR picks out some entries worthy of a mention in dispatches |
| 11 | They also suggest that there is a critical literacy threshold of 40 per cent : in other words two-fifths of a country 's people need to be literate if it is to ‘ modernize ’ and make an ‘ economic miracle ’ possible . |
| 12 | Why is the car all of a sudden making that noise ? |
| 13 | Though , come to think of it , anyone who goes rushing around with a child or , worse , a straw bale on their shoulders must be a few bricks short of a stable . |
| 14 | I knew lots of males who were two bricks short of a wall who enjoyed making spectacles of themselves , and I 'd certainly never trust them to mind kids . |
| 15 | Definitely two bricks short of a wall . ’ |
| 16 | The trouble is that in England a tomato good enough to be eaten raw and unadorned is becoming a good deal more of a rarity than a ripe avocado , and nearly as elusive as a perfect fresh peach or purple fig . |
| 17 | But she smiled to herself , as she thought again of the handsome Spaniard with those black eyes full of a sense of fun and adventure , that mane of glossy hair falling over one eye — and his dark brown velvet voice , which had melted her heart a lot more than she admitted to Rosie . |
| 18 | Reference was made in the course of the argument to a number of Commonwealth and American decisions , but I have not found in them any reasoning persuasive of a view contrary to that which I have formed in the light of the English and Scottish authorities . |
| 19 | In vetoing repeated efforts by the state legislature to adopt the death penalty ( it is still one vote short of a veto override ) , Mr Cuomo has taken the moral high ground — and does not seem to have lost votes by doing so . |
| 20 | Having read that , the rest of you probably now think that the author is a sandwich short of a picnic . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ The Government , as they say in Glasgow , is one sandwich short of a picnic . |
| 22 | It is essential to note that there are no words constitutive of a trust , as the text explicitly states : instead they must be construed . |
| 23 | PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan told journalists in March 1991 of a challenge to his leadership from a PKK faction willing to accept regional autonomy rather than secession . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's a fine healthy girl and all she is a bit queasy of a morning . |
| 25 | That depressing truth is , alas , one that Mikhail Gorbachev still refuses to accept , as he stumbles around in a trap set by Lenin two-thirds of a century ago . |
| 26 | He kicked his feet free of a vine and rolled into the water , the drag of the rope almost strangling him . |
| 27 | She clung to him , arms round his neck , her face hidden in his shoulder , like a child afraid of a storm . |
| 28 | More promising was the inauguration in January 1991 of a Commission of Enquiry into new cases of ‘ disappearance ’ . |
| 29 | Ambitious as ever for more recognition than was either possible or reasonable , she was no longer satisfied with receiving honours worthy of a spouse , or even a ‘ world-ranking scientist ’ in her own right . |
| 30 | Horne died 14 February 1969 of a heart attack during the awards presentations of the Guild of British Film and Television Producers at the Dorchester Hotel , London . |