Example sentences of "[verb] [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | er we had a lovely one but frost got that a couple of years ago . |
| 2 | Backup — the old backup/restore routine will be gone forever ( we hope ) given that a version of the Norton Backup will take its place in DOS 6 |
| 3 | In fact I am finding it difficult to establish the exact terms of reference for this study , given that a number of related studies are already underway . |
| 4 | We 're just about to leave Sian by air for Nanking , and we 've just heard that a bevy of Brit . |
| 5 | Now , if everyone had an average-sized lawn which they cut weekly for eight months using half a litre of petrol at each session , they would still burn less than 4 gallons a year . |
| 6 | He shall make half a seam of malt for one work and the lord shall provide firewood . |
| 7 | To wire an ivy leaf , push half a length of wire through the back of the central vein , one third down from the point of the leaf . |
| 8 | I made half a pint of white sauce in the measuring jug I |
| 9 | I hereby declare this a Court of Law with myself as judge and those present as jury . |
| 10 | The wave basin represents half a mile of coastline and shows which areas are likely to be washed away . |
| 11 | ( The following week the goal is again to lose half a pound of fat ( 0.25 kg ) , so she would hope on Week 2 to be below her starting weight by at least 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) on most days ) . |
| 12 | It is very easy to lose half a letter of the headline , or a key element of the illustration , unless both typographer and art director are very careful ; and it is very easy , too , to find you have produced two separate , incomplete pages of advertising with no real link between them . |
| 13 | Followed by one grated fresh apple topped with a quarter of a pint of vanilla-flavoured custard ( make half a pint of custard , adding a little extra sugar and a few drops of vanilla essence , and save half of it in the refrigerator for Friday ) . |
| 14 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 15 | Do you want half a cup of hot chocolate ? |
| 16 | A repetition of the same sin under similarly testing circumstances does not make this a duplicate of 12:10–20 . |
| 17 | It will be up to the exporter to make sure that lambs have the correct certification and presumably they will make this a condition of purchase , ’ a ministry specialist said . |
| 18 | I drunk half a pint of rum , half a pint of vodka and three or four cans of |
| 19 | On the contrary , for all the general flow of tranquillity and prosperity , a number of specific themes consistently emerged which made this a time of anxiety , even torment . |
| 20 | Dorcas had given this a lot of thought as teams of nomes sweated to pry the lids off the paint-streaked tins . |
| 21 | The way this raid was organised , the commando landing , and street battles make this a classic of fighting raids . |
| 22 | Following NN we allow for the possibility that the higher the wage the more competition there will be for the job ( ceteris paribus ) and make this a function of w . |
| 23 | Erm would you like to take that resolution first and make this a sort of a , an extra resolution |
| 24 | Staphenandra tanakae has lovely long arching sprays of mid-green leaves , which change to yellow in autumn , after panicles of white flowers in early summer make this a plant of considerable value . |
| 25 | The roof-rack alone carried half a ton of water , fuel and spares , and the Land Rover was fully loaded inside to the extent that the leaf springs were flattened . |
| 26 | The official citation , more dramatic , states that under his command the remnants of II Company retook half a mile of what were once trenches , ‘ lined up as for a tattoo , singing and laughing , and saved the 151st Regiment ’ |
| 27 | Representing half a mile of coastline , its 72 paddles can produce waves and set up currents and tides for scientists to study . |
| 28 | And — even assuming he could persuade her to drink it — was n't it , well , out of the ordinary to find half a litre of bleach in someone 's stomach ? |
| 29 | In another cupboard they found half a bottle of whisky and a dribble of brandy in the bottom of a Courvoisier bottle . |
| 30 | I pulled on my shorts , sank half a pint of yoghurt , and grabbed my crippled Excalibur . |