Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The College of Arms set and maintained a rigid scale of funerary etiquette : the obsequies of a royal duke would have been more complicated — and costly — than that of an earl , whilst a viscount 's cortège would have exceeded in complexity that of a baron . |
| 2 | This is Part 2 of a list of documents deposited at the County Records Office , Shirehall , Shrewsbury . |
| 3 | In the cold light of day Celtic 's win will have been seen to do nothing other than reduce the gap between them and Rangers in the Premier Division from 12 to ten points , which is hardly the signal for predicting immediate transformation within the club bereft of a trophy since 1989 . |
| 4 | The story recalled in Chapter 2 of a stranger named Chipimbi who came to live amongst the Lamba of Zambia , and brought them seeds of maize , sorghum and groundnuts , was one such hero . |
| 5 | In the future much of a computer 's Supervisor may be in microcode : see for example the microprogrammed operating system functions on the experimental VENUS System ( Liskov 1972 ) . |
| 6 | Even in the case of the itself , for example , the earlier , lengthy section on the medreses of the city contains no mention either of a Dar al- " ilm medrese or of Cemaleddin Aksarayi , though a number of medreses and muderrises are named . |
| 7 | Why is the car all of a sudden making that noise ? |
| 8 | The trouble is that in England a tomato good enough to be eaten raw and unadorned is becoming a good deal more of a rarity than a ripe avocado , and nearly as elusive as a perfect fresh peach or purple fig . |
| 9 | Reference was made in the course of the argument to a number of Commonwealth and American decisions , but I have not found in them any reasoning persuasive of a view contrary to that which I have formed in the light of the English and Scottish authorities . |
| 10 | In vetoing repeated efforts by the state legislature to adopt the death penalty ( it is still one vote short of a veto override ) , Mr Cuomo has taken the moral high ground — and does not seem to have lost votes by doing so . |
| 11 | Having read that , the rest of you probably now think that the author is a sandwich short of a picnic . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The Government , as they say in Glasgow , is one sandwich short of a picnic . |
| 13 | Under the archway one of a pair of glass doors led to a room , estimated ( wrongly ? ) by MRCVS as being about 10 feet long and six feet wide ; this was the combined consulting room for the Professor and the College library . |
| 14 | The shooting dead of a US marine and the wounding of another at a Panamanian roadblock on Saturday forced the US to take the situation more seriously . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's a fine healthy girl and all she is a bit queasy of a morning . |
| 16 | She clung to him , arms round his neck , her face hidden in his shoulder , like a child afraid of a storm . |
| 17 | ‘ The very existence of the Queen 's Birthday Parade as a proper spectacle worthy of a monarch is now in doubt . ’ |
| 18 | FeedBack Letters To The Editor All of a flutter ? |
| 19 | " What I want to know is why there 's all this talk of marriage all of a sudden ? " |
| 20 | But I had never really formed any ambition to become a Member of Parliament , I just talked about things which I love to talk about till all of a sudden one of the guests said : ‘ You want to be a Member of Parliament do n't you ? ’ and I said , ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 21 | But this second mutation of Christianity was the work more of a change in the nature of the Roman world itself , its social and its political structure as well as its intellectual assumptions and its culture , than of anything we might call ‘ the impact of the barbarians ’ on it . |
| 22 | I often want to lookup a value in a form and then on the result run one of a selection of procedures . |
| 23 | He has since been proved right by the discovery first of a statuette , then of an unfinished statue , which combine head and body . |
| 24 | Part three of a preview of leading titles for the coming season . |
| 25 | He slipped on a rigid gold bracelet once he was back in the dressing room and Dominic pulled a curtain clear of a radiator to get more heat into the place . |
| 26 | By comparison with last year , you will be ov overall this year by comparison with last year , er you 'll be about point six of a member of staff down . |
| 27 | The hundred shares index closed down point six of a point at thirty ninety nine point one |
| 28 | Against the dollar , sterling rose point three of a cent to one point eight eight three , against the deutschmark a gate , a gain of seven point five pfennigs was seen . |
| 29 | From being the centre of his attention one moment all of a sudden she ceased to exist . |
| 30 | In fact , in interviews , a quick reference to the home town frequently serves them as well as a rhetorical trick : by declaring their provinciality , they can remind you just how surprised they are to be attracting so much attention all of a sudden . |