Example sentences of "[adj] of a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as with Rembrandt we can watch his face and figure change , in countless paintings , prints and drawings , from that of a young to that of an old man . |
| 2 | It appears to be that of a forty to fifty year old prince or aristocrat . |
| 3 | An insidious and intrusive pressure may be laid on pupils which , under the guise of a friendly and honest account of a pupil 's interests and activities , may prove just as much of a turn-off for the imaginative or deviant as the examination system itself , and may come quite soon to be regarded with cynicism by both pupils and employers alike . |
| 4 | I did n't get much of a lay in this morning either . |
| 5 | ‘ I never did hold much of a brief for your father , but it seems as if your mother was n't much better ! ’ he said , his voice making clear how lacking in sympathy he found her family . |
| 6 | With the raffle short of a grand by just a few quid , the cry for the remainder went up . |
| 7 | That will be , it is thousand so that 's er that 's three thousand four hundred short of a four by sixty . |
| 8 | Even in the clothing district , wage earners reached almost 53 per cent in the villages of Cosford hundred , but since they fell short of a third in the rising manufacturing town of Hadleigh , it seems that vigorous industrial growth pushed up the level of earnings . |
| 9 | Is n't five years a normal , more of a normal for er , er , business purposes . |
| 10 | You have up here you 've got neither win lose but it 's like it 's a respectable thing you know you respect each other you do n't trust them completely and you do n't co-operate completely but they just respect just not you 're just not willing to go that further little bit and it becomes more of a more of a rather than a win lose or a win win it 's more of a people half and half okay I 'll give this much if you give that much . |
| 11 | There 's Robin Smith , who 's moved a little straighter in fact , you ca n't call him silly point now , he 's more of a silly mid-off , on that 's sort of line , and he 's about three yards on bat , two men out , deep on the leg side , there 's tough on the who 's hoisted that one away on the leg side , I think that could well be safe for , who 's chasing wicket , two bounce it 's over the rope , and four more runs to , he 's kept up his one hundred per cent boundary rate , moves on to twenty , five fours , and it , again , his eye very much on that short leg side boundary and Tufnell and Gooch they 're having further consultations and that leg side field being adjusted again . |
| 12 | However , the sight of two women making love was less of a turn-off for women viewers than the sight of two men making love was for male viewers . |
| 13 | If your monitor is capable of a 1024 by 768 pixel resolution then you will only get 256 colours . |
| 14 | In all there are thought to be some three-quarters of a million of them surviving . |
| 15 | The population of Greater London alone fell by almost three-quarters of a million between 1971 and 1981 , a drop of almost 1 in 10 ( OPCS , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | Pompeii is the most popular archaeological site in Europe , currently attracting two and a half million people a year , and the present exhibition has already drawn an audience of nearly three-quarters of a million in the USA and Sweden . |
| 17 | Evidence based upon population censuses and analysed by Holmans ( 1981 ) indicates that the number of married couples in shared accommodation fell from three-quarters of a million in 1951 to slightly under a quarter of a million in 1971 . |