Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around eight o'clock the sound of distant brass bands can again be heard wafting in through the bedroom windows . |
| 2 | At eleven o'clock a group of children came over the hill . |
| 3 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
| 4 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 5 | After that only a matter of confidence . |
| 6 | Each side claims to want mutual disarmament most of all , and claims , furthermore , that only the aggressiveness of the other side prevents this . |
| 7 | It is claimed , however , that only the female of the species is fertilized . |
| 8 | It was argued earlier that only the use of higher level knowledge will enable any additional success . |
| 9 | Rapid changes in the field cause induced currents to f ow in power distribution networks , and if the induced currents are strong enough the supply of power can be disrupted . |
| 10 | Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ? |
| 11 | Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear . |
| 12 | Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline . |
| 13 | Or is this perhaps a product of the over-excited brain of a middle-aged and somewhat disparaged poet , when he finds that his ignored , his arcane , his deviously perspicuous meanings , which he thought not meanings , since no one appeared able to understand them , had after all one clear-eyed and amused reader and judge ? |
| 14 | And we do some marine not a lot of marine erm For some strange reason , our design of engine does not lend itself too well to marine applications . |
| 15 | Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ? |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the print echo is only active whilst the CLI indicator is present , so this not a lot of use to us ! |
| 17 | Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ? |
| 18 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 19 | Is this just a case of too much sun ? ’ |
| 20 | Is this just a way of expressing friendliness ? |
| 21 | And sometimes it landed in a gay sorry mess and it really would n't there just a couple of feet a couple of stones high just the height of the jetty . |
| 22 | ‘ Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner , ’ says Richards . |
| 23 | Their Neolithic context is confirmed by occurrences in the cairn of Cairnholy , south-west Scotland , in the causewayed enclosure at High Peak , Devonshire , and above all on the course of the Sweet timber trackway in the Somerset Levels dated in radiocarbon years to c. 3200 B.C. The absence of any trace of haft or binding under conditions exceptionally favourable for the survival of organic materials and the lack of the slightest sign of wear suggest that the jadeite celt was deposited as an unhafted and unused blade to fulfil a symbolic role . |
| 24 | In 487 BC the archonship ceased to be an elected position , chosen by the aristocracy , and was henceforth filled by lot , while in 461 BC the council of the Areopagus , composed of the ex-archons , was deprived of its powers . |
| 25 | He followed this up a couple of years later with Sophie 's Choice opposite Meryl Streep . |
| 26 | The interest of this text is that it makes clear both the availability of a remedy against a third party , and the fact that that party has notice of the existence of the trust ; and it apparently limits the availability of the missio to cases where the buyer does have notice : cases , therefore , in which bad faith is involved . |
| 27 | The penetrance of the dominant gene in adults was estimated at 0.26 hence the risk of disease in an adult offspring of a patient with ulcerative colitis induced by this gene may be 13% . |
| 28 | Perhaps he thought that a man , or more than one man , was trying to hurt or kill his mother , and perhaps he thought this nearly every night of his life . |
| 29 | The June 1987 general election resulted in the return of Paias Wingti 's coalition government which had first come to office in November 1985 following a vote of no confidence in the government of Michael Somare . |
| 30 | There was a commitment to the maintenance of full employment , with the Keynesian doctrine that budgetary management could achieve this now a matter of economic orthodoxy . |