Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems fair to say , in fact , that the first thirty years of Proust 's life laid much of the intellectual basis for his later literary erm achievements , and it was incidentally also during the eighteen nineties , that , among other things , he obtained a , a Licence des lettres , that he attended Bergson 's lectures , that he discovered Ruskin , and that he wrote the bulk of nearly a thousand manuscript sheets discovered in an old hatbox after the last World War , and published as Jean Santeuil in nineteen fifty-two . |
| 2 | Now he was criticising the discipline of the men of Tulagai 's personal guard : a force of about a hundred men which was maintained by every one of the Kha-Khan 's grandsons . |
| 3 | It describes , too , the extraordinary effect of the collapse of quite a small sewer . |
| 4 | In July 1977 , Revco Drug Stores , one of America 's largest discount drug chains , was found guilty of computer-generated double-billing schemes that resulted in the loss of over a half-million dollars in Medicaid funds to the Ohio Department of Public Welfare ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 5 | Many small birds have escaped with the loss of only a few feathers because of a smartly delivered peck with a sharp beak . |
| 6 | Miraculously , however , the books hold together , with the loss of only a few pages , until the end of the year . |
| 7 | The imminent loss of perhaps a third of the cream of Russian science , he says , demonstrates the importance of taking rapid action , by whatever means available , to help those still willing and able to do science . |
| 8 | The code , which was published last May , also resulted in the loss of about a dozen personal accounts and the same number of small corporate customers which opposed the bank 's position . |
| 9 | The changes are expected to provoke the loss of about a third of France 's 8,300 dock jobs and an end to the power of the CGT union . |
| 10 | In just one week a hundred and ninety four crimes were committed , causing a loss of almost a hundred and one thousand pounds . |
| 11 | FRANK SIDEBOTTOM , the man whose papier-mache head must be responsible for the loss of quite a fair amount of small coniferous growths , now has his own show . |
| 12 | There was an abandoned city on the coast to the south of the G'bai , and the G'bai itself was almost certainly the result of either a nuclear war or an accident of such proportions that it had produced large-scale volcanic activity . |
| 13 | In very urgent cases the result of either a full land charges search or bankruptcy search can , for a fee of £2 a name be telephoned . |
| 14 | Now , partly I think as a result of the numbers being fewer , but partly as a result of simply a greater awareness of need , I think , the schools are more caring places , they do try erm not to treat erm minority groups as just annoying variants on the majority group , they try to erm think through their problems and to help to meet them . |
| 15 | The court might be in a foreign country , there to try a citizen of yet a third nation , but it was her element and she was relieved to be back in it , even though she could take no active part in the trial . |
| 16 | An attempt was made , at least by de Gaulle , to link riots in Syria in May 1945 with what happened in Algeria on VE Day ; but the scale of the French reaction in Algeria to the murder of over a hundred European settlers and associated atrocities left at least a thousand and perhaps as many as six thousand Algerian dead . |
| 17 | Furthermore , a three-phase study of over a thousand school leavers in the Lothian region of Scotland found that , in marked contrast to alcohol and tobacco use , ‘ levels of illicit drug use were much higher amongst both males and females who were unemployed than amongst their peers who were working or were full-time students ’ ( Plant et al . |
| 18 | The study of even a single society is considered to be extraordinarily difficult because of the complexity of social relations and the obvious problems of trying to generalize about people , their groupings and the structures within which they act . |
| 19 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 20 | Cowslips are a delicacy among rabbits , and as a rule there are very few left by late May in the neighbourhood of even a small warren . |
| 21 | People employed in industry which as you know today is er , a , an indication of how a rich a country is . |
| 22 | C can not challenge the conclusion of the agreement between A and B , unless that agreement constitutes a violation of either a prior agreement between A and itself , or of a multilateral agreement to which both are parties . |
| 23 | The second door was the most badly warped of the three , and around.the lock a gap of about a sixteenth of an inch appeared when he put his weight against it . |
| 24 | Yet to arrive at this version , Ohmann has nullified the effect of only a few transformations : those transformations used to form coordinated sentences ( cf[5] ) , relative clauses ( cf [ 6 ] ) , and comparative clauses , together with certain deletion rules . |
| 25 | The requirements of the sectors which are expanding today bear little resemblance to the requirements of the industries of the last century , or indeed to the industry of only a few decades ago . |
| 26 | The immense width of the two main roads , one with a minimum width of practically a hundred feet and the other of sixty-six feet , reflects the state of even the main roads before the days of the turnpikes and above all of the scientific roadmaking initiated by Metcalf and Macadam in the late eighteenth century . |
| 27 | The universal weapon was the compound bow , which had a pull of around a hundred and sixty pounds . |
| 28 | ‘ I speak on behalf of the Labour Party when I say that it is not , and never has been , the duty or responsibility of either a local or education authority to promote homosexuality ... |
| 29 | Under these circumstances , attempting even an interim assessment of just a few facets of change may appear premature ( not to mention hubristic ) . |
| 30 | He took advantage of both a feudal and a monarchical position , treating Frederick as a vassal of the papacy as well as emphasizing his papal rights of protecting a minor . |