Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The following week the goal is again to lose half a pound of fat ( 0.25 kg ) , so she would hope on Week 2 to be below her starting weight by at least 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) on most days ) . |
| 2 | It is very easy to lose half a letter of the headline , or a key element of the illustration , unless both typographer and art director are very careful ; and it is very easy , too , to find you have produced two separate , incomplete pages of advertising with no real link between them . |
| 3 | And — even assuming he could persuade her to drink it — was n't it , well , out of the ordinary to find half a litre of bleach in someone 's stomach ? |
| 4 | The experience of history may have helped to consolidate such a sense of trust . |
| 5 | General SVQs offer the chance to provide such a range of programmes in Scotland : a good case in point is the new general SVQ in arts and social sciences , which is entirely consistent with the proposals for SCOTCERT . |
| 6 | The market was too bad , some said , to absorb such a quantity of high quality work at one gulp . |
| 7 | This lengthy period of building explains why it is possible to find such a diversity of architectural styles , brilliant work from the Tuscan Renaissance period being mixed with the Baroque pieces and sections in later styles . |
| 8 | They said local people would not like to see such a waste of money ( even though it would not come from local diocesan funds , whereas the cost of demolition would ) . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Where a lessor is proceeding , by action or otherwise , to enforce such a right of re-entry or forfeiture , the lessee may , in the lessor 's action , if any , or in any action brought by himself , apply to the court for relief , and the court may grant or refuse relief , as the court , having regard to the proceedings and conduct of the parties under the foregoing provisions of this section , and to all the other circumstances , thinks fit ; and in case of relief may grant it on such terms , if any , as to costs , expenses , damages , compensation , penalty , or otherwise , including the granting of an injunction to restrain any like breach in the future , as the court , in the circumstances of each case , thinks fit . |
| 10 | Soviet leaders were willing to support such a conception of non-alignment when it hindered the Western states . |
| 11 | Walkers have to drink half a pint of ale or lemonade at four pubs on the six mile route . |
| 12 | Tom sat with his shirt-sleeves rolled up , the beads of sweat trickling down the sides of his ruddy face while Willie continued to shiver , managing only to drink half a cup of tea and eat a small piece of bread . |
| 13 | ‘ I managed to tip half a pint of crème brûlée over the manager one evening when he came in to see how I was getting on . |
| 14 | I 'm so sorry to cause such a lot of trouble but I did n't know what else to do . ’ |
| 15 | He had left as soon as he could , leaving Joe to consume half a bottle of whisky whole he raced through the backstreets , slowing to a walk only when he spotted someone approaching . |
| 16 | There is a strong tradition in the sociological literature which would lead us to expect such a change of direction . |
| 17 | Indeed it is difficult to imagine such a state of affairs , but in fact Marx , especially in Formen makes it quite clear that this is not what he meant at all ; it is only under the influence of Morgan in The Origin that Engels might possible by construed to have implied something so unlikely . |
| 18 | It may seem strange to suspect such a man of inflation — the psychoanalyst 's term for a tendency to grandeur , the obverse of a patient 's self-denigration and depression . |
| 19 | On most occasions when mass demonstrations took place there were clashes with the police and it was primarily for this reason that the Labour Party and the TUC tried to discourage such a form of protest . |
| 20 | One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one . |
| 21 | so we had to put some a bit of heat in . |
| 22 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 23 | It might seem strange that one should need to justify such a choice of topic . |
| 24 | Events were to justify such a view of things , and God was duly thanked , by the royal order that masses should be said to commemorate the defeat of the English at Formigny in April 1450 , for the way he had turned his gaze towards the French cause which , for so long , had appeared to be lacking his support . |
| 25 | To manage such a spread of ability is one of the most delicate tasks a curriculum planner has to undertake , yet there arc means , too seldom explored , of providing extra support for weaker teachers and extra ideas for innovative ones . |
| 26 | But an experience of praise or reward is so striking and sweet that they work doubly hard to encounter such a state of affairs again . |
| 27 | Capsaicin is often used as a pharmacological tool to study such a type of reflex . |
| 28 | The pope remained torn between disbelief that Offa would ever have attempted to persuade Charlemagne to adopt such a course of action and lingering suspicion of the Mercian king , but he finally received Offa 's representatives and seems to have accepted their assurances . |
| 29 | Not to mention half a ton of bloat , several wagonloads of smuts , and a sackful of matted hair . |
| 30 | Rather than expand the PSW to hold such a set of miscellaneous registers , we can replace them by an array of control registers , just as we introduced an array of accumulators . |