Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What sort of machine can run the largest and most demanding of spreadsheets without a hiccup and yet still be a reasonable price ? |
| 2 | Even a normal 2000 calories-worth of meals in a day would need to be supplemented by fourteen cakes at 500 calories each , or around twenty bars of chocolate , to add 2 lb ( 1 kg ) of fat in one day . |
| 3 | Those things are important enough in themselves , but they are also expressive of inequalities at a deeper level . |
| 4 | I am always struck by Pollini 's extraordinary ability to integrate even the most fearless of contrasts into a convincing whole . |
| 5 | President Guillermo Endara ended on March 13 a 13-day hunger strike which he had reportedly undertaken in solidarity with the most needy of Panamanians at a time of severe economic crisis . |
| 6 | Like many readers , we were concerned that the paper-thin parade of models normally featured in magazines and newspapers are n't representative of women as a whole . |
| 7 | The first example uses a simulation model of a simple pattern , that of rivers in a drainage basin . |
| 8 | It is being sold as a war in the U.S. and it has reached an emotional level to equal that of contests of a more combative nature like boxing or American football . |
| 9 | At the same time the appetite of those few readers for books in their category will not necessarily be any smaller than that of readers in a large interest category . |
| 10 | During the early twentieth century and increasingly during the inter-war years the ideology of motherhood was reinforced legislatively by the marriage bar , which was applied chiefly to professional women and which served firmly to delineate the world of married women from that of men at a time when it was becoming widely acceptable for single middle class girls and women to go out to work . |
| 11 | Indeed , such communities may not be typical of communities as a whole : Romaine ( 1982 ) regards it as certain that linguistic and social factors do not often interact straightforwardly in the way Labov suggests . |
| 12 | Her upright posture is typical of women in a formal situation . ’ |
| 13 | If you 're rich/daft enough you can pay hundreds of pounds for a 1 metre pair of pure silver , hand-woven , dew-picked interconnects to join your three grand CD player to your ten grand amp ! |
| 14 | Cleveland Police are hunting two youths who grabbed a cash bag containing hundreds of pounds from a woman on her way to a Middlesbrough bank . |
| 15 | He said his Labour counterparts had earlier ignored similar advice from officers when they approved a development consisting of hundreds of houses on a green field site . |
| 16 | The National Trust runs its hundreds of properties as a charity … and apart from protecting its charges from the ravages of winter , covering up saves them five months dusting . |
| 17 | To be one of only a handful of boys among hundreds of girls at a feis ( a competition ) was the surest way of pulling girls I ever saw . |
| 18 | 2.1 also includes JumpStart , a way to automatically install and configure hundreds of systems across a network ; Online : Backup , the industry 's first product for restoring and backing up 2. x data across a network with the machines still active ; and Shield , C2 security . |
| 19 | Goldfish , for instance , lay hundreds of eggs at a time , but give them no parental care at all . |
| 20 | Sybil Hurcombe has sold hundreds of copies of a book of poems which she wrote in memory of her daughter , Lorraine . |
| 21 | The Matisse Server Engine will support up to hundreds of users in a client-server environment . |
| 22 | The Matisse Server Engine will support up to hundreds of users in a client/server environment . |
| 23 | They will be accompanied by the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra and hundreds of dancers in a spectacle which will set the scene for the greatest soccer occasion in the history of the United States . |
| 24 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
| 25 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 26 | Sceptics doubt , however , whether this scenic region hundreds of miles from a major city can sustain a sprawling 13.5-acre showcase for Minimal , Pop , and Conceptual art . |
| 27 | Shadowlands stars Sir Anthony Hopkins , who was joined by hundreds of extras for a scene recreating university life in the 1950's . |
| 28 | Unshielded , an astronaut could be exposed to hundreds of rads during a solar flare . |
| 29 | THE 13-year-old airliner — the newest in El Al 's jumbo fleet — carried hundreds of passengers until a few months ago . |
| 30 | And at one point hundreds of pigs in a nearby building were in danger of being roasted alive . |