Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , if everyone had an average-sized lawn which they cut weekly for eight months using half a litre of petrol at each session , they would still burn less than 4 gallons a year . |
| 2 | Representing half a mile of coastline , its 72 paddles can produce waves and set up currents and tides for scientists to study . |
| 3 | Twenty-five years ago , that team of scientists and electronics engineers charged with the awesome task of producing such a piece of equipment , included a thirty-seven year old Texan electronics engineer , whose star was rapidly rising in another quarter . |
| 4 | It had been reported to the Committee by schools operating such a series of tests that the motivation of their pupils was increased because tests at different levels provide both an incentive and evidence of progress over several terms . |
| 5 | It was by developing such a line of reasoning that Bukharin reached the conclusion that it was necessary to conceptualise the naturalisation of economic relations . |
| 6 | I can imagine the rise in colour and temperature of the ‘ faithful swain' when meeting such a display of cool indifference . |
| 7 | I am not advocating such a theory of parsing English into formal representations — I happen not to believe strongly in such ‘ top — down ’ theories , though there are several relatively successful ones in the literature . |
| 8 | In this case , time needs to be given to establishing such a way of thinking , so that we can see that our very purpose as Christians is. to grow to be more like Christ . |
| 9 | I nearly fell through the floor because I did n't know what owning such a lot of money was like before . |
| 10 | That 's like getting half a bag of sugar a day to live on . |
| 11 | If they wish , it can be split between them , giving each a limit of £1,625 . |
| 12 | I lingered , on the pretext of finishing half a glass of champagne . |
| 13 | They slept in the same bedroom as me because we were er limited to bedroom space but we had girls because we were doing such a lot of entertaining , there was a lot of work . |
| 14 | Recording such a collection of behaviours , while possible , would prove extremely difficult . |
| 15 | In my view , when the intervention notice was served on 31 October 1990 , Lautro 's Rules were defective in not giving such a right of appeal to a person or body in the position of Winchester , and in not giving such a person the right to seek to have the decision to serve the notice rescinded . |
| 16 | ‘ The police will have you believe that on the night of 12 September , after consuming half a tin of pilchards , she decided life was not worth living and hacked off her left leg with a non-existent sharp instrument . |
| 17 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 18 | And ho drinking half a bottle of wine . |
| 19 | They are designed to make students aware of the personal and social development which is an intrinsic part of undertaking such a programme of activities . |
| 20 | ‘ I had no idea that I was entering such a Hall of Fame , ’ he went on , and was about to enjoy a ride on an air bubble of loquacity when Mrs Robinson addressed a cat and the cat said ‘ No ! ’ |
| 21 | On an average day Mark and his entourage would cover 18 to 20 miles with Tara carrying half a ton of equipment on her back . |
| 22 | Came the day , and the film unit — a ponderous line of vehicles , carrying half a ton of exceedingly expensive equipment and all the people required to make it work efficiently — rumbled out of the centre of Leeds . |
| 23 | After all , ’ he continued , deftly manipulating half a loaf of garlic bread to sop up the tomato juice on his last platter , ‘ you never saw anybody fat come out of Auschwitz . ’ |
| 24 | I can still recall the amazement of finding such a wealth of talent on show . |
| 25 | It is worrying if people are being deterred from obtaining such a certificate of qualification by prohibitive costs . |
| 26 | One reason for its presence in the USA might be that the American higher education system is so heterogeneous , fulfilling such different functions and admitting such a diversity of students , that questions about the character of the learning experience arise naturally . |
| 27 | The difficulty for mid-nineteenth-century science lay not so much in admitting such a historisation of the universe — nothing was easier to conceive in an era of such overwhelmingly obvious and massive historic changes — as to combine it with uniform , continuous and non-revolutionary operations of unchanging natural laws . |
| 28 | It was awful making such a fool of himself in front of Nutty . |
| 29 | ‘ Is it anything to do with father making such a fool of himself this afternoon ? ’ asked Tess , frowning . |
| 30 | ‘ Tell me , do you enjoy making such a fool of yourself ? ’ |