Example sentences of "of [adj] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as we 're talking about sort of half a mile away ma maximum or with other sort of proper travelling arrangements . |
| 2 | The same kind of escape ( or enlargement , if you look at the process in a favourable light ) is allowed for in a discussion of half a century ago in which the thesis that all novels contributed to a sense of escape from the artificial complexities of civilisation was turned to a commercial purpose . |
| 3 | The young trendies of the soft right , like their Fascist counterparts of half a century earlier , bragged about not giving a damn . |
| 4 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 5 | Three quarters of men now argue with their partners , against six out of 10 a year ago . |
| 6 | Trainees are given the opportunity to work towards a recognised vocational qualification ( 15% of those leaving ET in 1989–90 had acquired one ) , and are paid an allowance of 10 a week more than their benefit entitlement ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 6.6 ) . |
| 7 | I will emphasize the graphical nature of the Chart data structure , and the usefulness of such a structure both for representing linguistic data , and for analyzing the results of linguistic processing . |
| 8 | Should we assume that the meaningfulness of such a hypothesis necessarily depends on the possibility ( in principle , at least ) of turning the relevant propositional schema into a meaningful singular proposition , viz. by replacing the " bound " variable ( the variable governed by the " existential quantifier " ) with an appropriate name , or a naming phrase ? |
| 9 | I suspect that a number of Conservative Members support the establishment of such a committee most likely the right Hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Buchanan-Smith ) and the Hon. Members for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) and for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale ( Mr. Lang ) . |
| 10 | The essential features of such a system already exist in nature . |
| 11 | Once doubts about the feasibility of such a system finally caused it to be shelved indefinitely , the government sought other ways of extending parental choice , once it had introduced reforms to school government to increase opportunities for parental involvement at school level ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 12 | The organizational complexity of such a state necessarily complicates the implementation process . |
| 13 | The trading consequences of such a development possibly means that the supplier risks becoming a " captive " , subject to a potentially catastrophic threat of the withdrawal of the buyers patronage . |
| 14 | The jury rejected the newspaper 's defence that the ordinary reasonable reader of the " News of the World " would not take the allegations of such a person seriously . |
| 15 | Will the world ever see the likes of such a man again ? |
| 16 | She says it 's great that children from special schools have the chance of such a day out . |
| 17 | Correspondingly , the break-up of such a relationship frequently causes such severe emotional pain that the old addictive substance or behaviour is sought in desperation for its mood-altering effect . |
| 18 | Foucault is critical of such a theory not just because it is based on a science/non-science distinction which for him is simply the product of a particular discursive formation which claims access to the real , rather than involving any epistemological questions of truth or objectivity , but also because it produces the notion of ideology as a secondary mediation ( as in Althusser 's interpellation ) in an inside/outside structure between the determinants of power and the individual subject . |
| 19 | She had dreamed of such a moment so often . |
| 20 | Chaucer , I assume , would form part of such a programme anyway . |
| 21 | Notice , however , that , while the attenuation of an m-derived section based on a purely reactive prototype would be infinite at resonance , any practical version of such a section actually exhibits strong but finite attenuation at resonance . |
| 22 | The sheer monstrousness of such a reversal simply defied belief . |
| 23 | Not only can we point to the success of such a tax abroad , but at no stage in recent negotiations or since have we been told that a local income tax would not work . |
| 24 | An excellent example of such a community today would be the Amish groups of Pennsylvania . |
| 25 | Given present wage levels , investment and productivity levels , the current demand by some of the left for the implementation of such a target over three years would result in a substantial increase in unemployment ( see Frank Field , The Minimum Wage : Its Prospects and Dangers , Heinemann , London , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | May I make it plain , as my Department has done consistently over the past three years of consideration of the Bill in the House , that this is indeed a mammoth project , that the appraisals of such a project inevitably change over time as the project changes in costs and revenue . |
| 27 | But the Lithuanian party is nonetheless likely to vote in favour of such a declaration today . |
| 28 | Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them . |
| 29 | A tol tolerably well behaved one would say peasant association , I 've lived here for decades tilling my land , I 've never heard of such a thing before and I have managed to live alright , I advise you to give it up . |
| 30 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |