Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I CAN IMAGINE THE INDIGNANT HOWLS OF protest as collectors all over the country now run to their shelves to gather together a clutch of beloved performances . |
| 2 | Use your pistol to dispense with individual guards or your machine gun to mow down a line of enemies . |
| 3 | Most users would then have to wait only a couple of hours for a new telephone . |
| 4 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 5 | Some , through failing health or eyesight , were obliged to go down a couple of rungs on the ladder however , and there are an increasing number of cases in the 1940s of former compositors working as copy-holders for lower pay . |
| 6 | Democracy is not always taken to signify only a form of government , or of choosing a government : it may be a term applied to a whole society . |
| 7 | On this occasion the most difficult decision was to pass on a share of the savings target to the English and Welsh Regions . |
| 8 | Whether you 're looking for bowls of bulbs to brighten the home or the best miniatures for a rock garden , now 's the time to start work and Daphne Ledward and Anne Swithinbank are here to pass on a host of colourful ideas . |
| 9 | We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles . |
| 10 | Other voices , too , are now being raised in support of a national body to pull together a multitude of organisations , currently pursuing , often blindly , their selfish individual goals . |
| 11 | 88open is trying to pull together a meeting of consortia chiefs this month to mull over the kinds of business , customer and anti-trust issues they all share . |
| 12 | Where a possession order is made in respect of a " regulated tenancy " of residential property in a mandatory case ( Cases 11 – 20 ) , the court is empowered to grant only a maximum of fourteen days and has no other discretion : Rent Act 1977 , Sched 15 , Pt II and s 89 of the Housing Act 1980 . |
| 13 | In such conditions , with clays deep and clinging enough to bog down a regiment of horses , the real issue was not one of scraping versus watering but of radical improvement in methods of building and repair . |
| 14 | They kept slipping away , as her father had already slipped away , with no more than a mumbled excuse , to jot down a line of verse that had presented itself while he stood in some abstraction . |
| 15 | But in 1934 , the District managed to obtain only a promise of a mere £70 in grant-aid from the LEA for those courses provided by Whiteley — a wholly inadequate offer . |
| 16 | Erm , but you wo n't remember all the things to test , as you forget very quickly , so as you 're building the spreadsheet , you ought to write down a list of things you 're going to go back and test . |
| 17 | Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained . |
| 18 | The final stage before the body leaves the body shop for the paint shop is normally for the completed welded body to pass down a line of welders and grinders . |
| 19 | Then he stepped towards her to stand just a couple of feet away . |
| 20 | Jacques Devraux and his son were waiting beside a baggage truck that was already loaded with the rest of their hunting equipment , and leaving their sons to stand watch , the two men disappeared into the shadowy interior of the market to haggle over a purchase of several hundred pounds of salt and arsenical soap that would be used for drying and preserving the hides of animals they hoped to shoot . |
| 21 | Normally , it can take forever — well , even months at times — to extract just a nugget of information from the Pentagon , but this time minutes only . |
| 22 | Other companies quickly moved to siphon off a share of the new business . |
| 23 | IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves . |
| 24 | Down in division 3 , Hereford United are trying to shake off a run of 3 league defeats in a row . |
| 25 | It is permanently divisive , as well as educationally mean and unadventurous , to establish deliberately a kind of school within which the curriculum is so inward-looking that those who followed it could not , for example , hope to proceed to higher education or ultimately into one of the professions . |
| 26 | Their duty is to tell blacks that although group political activism can stop discrimination , growing rich , wise and safe is then up to the individual — to hammer home a message of homework , punctuality , saving and self-discipline , the things that helped America 's immigrants get off the floor . |
| 27 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 28 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 29 | In the UK , with only around 100 TBs on the register , the phrase ‘ that fast French aeroplane ’ is much more likely to conjure up a picture of the faithful Robin DR400 , a lovely aircraft but one which is in an altogether different class . |
| 30 | It was more difficult — and more intriguing — to conjure up a picture of her future husband , Dom João . |