Example sentences of "[noun] of a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also under examination is the feasibility of a 35 to 40 knot inshore lifeboat , launching from a slipway , davit or off a beach . |
| 2 | In speed terms the RapidCad is pretty close to the theoretical speed of a 486 without burst I/O and cache controller . |
| 3 | So if you calculate the sine of a hundred of forty degrees now and leave it in the calculator . |
| 4 | In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " . |
| 5 | Foley made the action of a hypodermic with his fingers . |
| 6 | On 1 February of the following year , therefore , the Great Council granted the king an aid of a fifteenth of all moveables , and in return the Charter of the Forest was re-issued . |
| 7 | In 1356 , after a succession of fruitless campaigns ( though just before some spectacular successes ) , the king sought in vain from the clergy a grant of a tenth for each of the next six years ; the clergy refused to offer more than a solitary tenth because not only had some of their conditions attached to earlier grants been ignored but also they themselves were too impoverished by war levies of all kinds to afford greater liberality . |
| 8 | In 1290 , however , having just expelled the Jews , Edward elicited a ready grant of a tenth from both provinces . |
| 9 | To that of justification by faith he added the corollary that good works were a necessary expression of thanksgiving on the part of a Christian for unmerited justification by a merciful God . |
| 10 | In the 64th minute the Lions ' control was threatened when flanker Apollo Perelini was part of a two-on-one against Ieuan Evans , who had no chance to stop the try that Carter converted . |
| 11 | The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion . |
| 12 | However , it must be stressed at the outset that we can do no more here than to indicate the basic principles involved , and give illustrations of a few of the almost innumerable variants of basic methods that exist . |
| 13 | It was alright to come to your marriage , having been a bit of a one for the girls , but it was n't at all good to come to your marriage having been a bit of a one with the lads . |
| 14 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |
| 15 | The highest hill in Denmark is about 12 feet tall , which is a bit of a downer for budding climbers . |
| 16 | How what kind of a Prior to living on the flats , erm what kind of accommodation have you lived in ? |
| 17 | The day was marred only slightly by the presence of a few of that fraternity who find out about all such events , spend the whole day taking photographs and video and contribute very little or nothing back into the hobby . |
| 18 | In February 1895 , the Trustees of the Radcliffe Estate agreed to give an acre of land and a donation of a seventh of the cost ( not to exceed £400 ) , the Railway Company paying any costs of conveyance . |
| 19 | In Johnson and Bloy ( Holdings ) Ltd v Wolstenholme Rink Plc [ 1989 ] IRLR 499 the Court of Appeal granted an injunction to the plaintiffs to prevent the defendant from disclosing or using the information that two specified ingredients might be used in combination in the manufacture of a drier for a printing ink and from manufacturing or arranging for the manufacture of printing inks containing therein a drier containing the two ingredients . |
| 20 | The examples given of settlements in Canada , Australia and New Zealand demonstrate the influence of a few of the colonisers who went out from Ayrshire and give an indication of the varied circumstances and locations in which the emigrants started their new lives . |
| 21 | Instead they saw the effects of a broken down sewage works , destroyed in the Gulf War . |
| 22 | on the basis of a hundred per hundred thousand square feet to which you 'd have to add obviously a sort of surrounding area from the square footage used for a distribution warehouse , it looks as though it 's around about the thirteen |
| 23 | The spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyala have once , were once described as a sort of a spiritual from which people of past men , put together again . |
| 24 | They must be on some sort of a one of the meters or somebody 's meter or somewhere . |
| 25 | I was talking to someone in the Federation the other day , the Police Federation , trying to tease out this idea a and they said the sort of a permanent Under Secretary . |
| 26 | Indeed , it depended on its buying-power for sustenance , for by 1949 the life of a ‘ hit ’ record was about three months , with a market profile of a third under 21-years-old and a further 45 per cent between 21 and 35 ; leaving only one-fifth of purchasers over 35 ( many of whom bought for the younger generation in any case ) . |
| 27 | Sacchi was sufficiently unnerved by the 2–2 near miss at home to Switzerland to coax veteran sweeper Franco Baresi out of international retirement , and to examine the contributions of a few of his others players . |
| 28 | It obviously took the photographer , Arthur Richardson , some time to set up his equipment as he has attracted the attention of a few of the locals . |
| 29 | Six weeks after the crash , Warner had called a meeting of a dozen of his friends . |
| 30 | To add to these burdens , the 1340 tax of a ninth of corn , sheep and wool , from which the clergy had obtained exemption by their grant of a normal tenth , was nevertheless applied to them by many local officials at first acting on their own initiative , but after January 1341 on the king 's orders . |