Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , then , a new variety can be formed if this conservative action of crossing is circumvented by reproductive isolation of a few individuals in new conditions , whether that isolation arises with or without geographical segregation . |
| 2 | These organisations are rare , although an example might be a partnership of a few individuals who do all the work of the organisation themselves ( with perhaps a little administrative assistance ) . |
| 3 | Peter Mackenzie proved unusually bullish and his deep voice would reverberate throughout the dealing floor with the force of a thousand rapids : " Hallo , sir . |
| 4 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 5 | speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier |
| 6 | The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want . |
| 7 | The brutality and unprovoked nature of the attacks , together with the fact that the victims were white and middle class — the jogger was a vice president of a leading securities firm — whilst the assailants were black or Hispanic , meant that the case received a massive degree of publicity and became symbolic of US racial tension and urban violence . |
| 8 | Although a veteran of a dozen movies , to many outside of Spain Banderas is still that dark-browed guy who sent Madonna scurrying to the ladies ' room in last year 's docu-melodrama In Bed With Madonna . |
| 9 | She knew of a woman in Dublin who , for the theft of a few pounds , had gone to prison for five years . |
| 10 | Many readers will have noticed the absence of any mention of a forthcoming Careers Forum . |
| 11 | In 1831 the Rothesay Castle , a passenger-steamship bound from Liverpool to Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey foundered with the loss of a hundred men , women and children . |
| 12 | First , Steffi admitted ‘ The women 's event does n't really start before the second week ’ after most of the top seeds had advanced for no more than the loss of a few games . |
| 13 | In this context the loss of a few passengers to the Channel Tunnel is a relatively minor issue . |
| 14 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 15 | As a result of a recent Monopolies and Mergers Commission decision , we are now allowed to sell proprietary contact lens solutions . |
| 16 | Elevations , a response to dance by Glasgow-based Richard Learoyd , the result of a Scottish Arts Council commission in 1990 ( until 16 Feb ) . |
| 17 | Can the Minister allay my suspicions about this by assuring me that as a result of a few industrialists having contributed to the programme we shall not find the names of certain chairmen and managing directors appearing in the new year honours list ? |
| 18 | His spoken English was perfect , as was his comprehension , the result of a few years at Oxford studying languages — four in all . |
| 19 | The next election will be lost or won not as the result of a few weeks ' electioneering , of media events , of soundbites , but as a result of four years of radical but sensible campaigning in our towns and villages . |
| 20 | Philip had opened the proceedings by again suggesting an exchange of conquests , but Richard opposed this , arguing that this would mean that he gave up lands , including the Quercy , which brought him an annual revenue of a thousand marks or more , in return for estates in Berry which , though they were fiefs belonging to Aquitaine , were in fact held by other lords and so were of very little direct financial benefit to him . |
| 21 | In November 1990 the government removed the power of arrest from the military police following the August murder of a senior police chief who was investigating army officers thought to be involved in criminal activities . |
| 22 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 23 | In the ethogenic approach we follow the example of chemists and anatomists and adopt the intensive design , that is , we undertake a detailed study of a few cases selected as typical . |
| 24 | The PSI report is the most detailed study of a British police force yet produced , and Section Four of the report , entitled ‘ The police and people in London ’ , examines the relationship between the police and the public in some depth . |
| 25 | It also examines a recent case study of a British police operation which exemplifies current trends . |
| 26 | To the sleeping rhythm of a hundred hours , |
| 27 | There may then be a break of a few days while participants work to devise a training session . |
| 28 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 29 | Poet and visionary climber Edwin Drummond is about to achieve his ambition of a United Nations Climb for the World , now sponsored by the Sheffield firm Fretwell-Downing Datasystems . |
| 30 | There was thus a community of interest in the war between party and government in 1917–18 as there had not been before , and the party was hardly shaken by the secession of a few diehards to form Henry Page Croft 's National party . |