Example sentences of "of [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days — we 're talking 1890 to about 1915 — there were hundreds of different brands and varieties of guitars being made in the United States , but it 's hard to say for sure that any of them were actually distributed in Hawaii — it was kind of off the beaten track . |
| 2 | Well , I did n't mind it was quite interesting , for one thing erm we were sort of off the beaten track here and although we 're in the town you might say , we 're out of it , we 're in the country are n't we ? |
| 3 | Altogether 33 countries approved a draft treaty , drawn up at Basel last March , which called for the toxic waste trade to be regulated instead of for a total ban . |
| 4 | ‘ But she was very late — which is almost unheard of for a second birth , ’ he recalls . |
| 5 | " It 's unheard of for a religious Order to dwell in a tent or wagon . |
| 6 | On Dec. 29 Cuba and the Soviet Union — with which Cuba conducted more than 70 per cent of its total trade — concluded a trade agreement for 1991 only , instead of for a five-year period as in the past . |
| 7 | She would be considered a slut if she did , and since it is almost unheard of for a Ugandan man to do without sex for a year , her husband would usually seek another woman . |
| 8 | These are the limestone arres , and as unwelcoming a site as you could think of for a new resort . |
| 9 | Definition of for a new settlement around York . |
| 10 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 11 | of for a long time ) and this was a puzzle still to be solved , but at least there seemed to be some evidence that fusion was happening , proving their original hypothesis . |
| 12 | This landlocked location is n't the first place you 'd think of for a diving school but the Diver Training College is proving to be very popular . |
| 13 | No one in the CRA delegation understood that it was unheard of for a non-Unionist procession to enter that area . |
| 14 | McCrum had his eye on a century when he cruelly slipped at the crease and was run out , but his stand of for the second wicket with John Gilliland , who made 32 , put his side firmly in the driving seat . |
| 15 | De La Rue chairman Peter Orchard comments : ‘ This does not have a major effect on the results of the company for the half year of for the previous year , but it does have the consequence of increasing marginally our earnings per share in both periods as the result of including within ordinary activities certain items previously classified as extraordinary . ’ |
| 16 | The Division increased profits by 34 per cent from £28.7m to £38.6m , thanks to the inclusion of for the half year from June to December . |
| 17 | Even though he said all these things , he is not to be heard of during the final battle . |
| 18 | We approach it in a hit-and-miss sort of way instead of through a systematic communication programme . |
| 19 | The bis(azide) was isolated and then reduced by passage of through a boiling ethanol solution . |
| 20 | A more ambitious change sought to require complainants to present their cases orally to the magistrate , instead of through a written statement composed by an intermediary . |
| 21 | Possibly the reference is to German flutes , those of the now universal variety blown through a hole at the side instead of through the upper end . |
| 22 | Was that my husband I caught a glimpse of through the open casement taking his ease on a sun lounger with a little pile of twigs by his side ? |
| 23 | By 1701 he was serving as chairman of the influential elections committee , and was even talked of as a possible Speaker . |
| 24 | More generally , the fact that literary studies is sometimes thought of as a general training in thinking and writing means that you are expected to be able to control how you write — in particular , that you are able consistently to use a particular appropriate register . |
| 25 | The observed price of the object can then be decomposed and thought of as a weighted sum of the prices of each characteristic ; since one does not observe all the attributes , a part of the price of each drawing will remain unexplained , and contain the influence of time ( the trend , if any ) , as well as random elements ; this is the ‘ characteristic free ’ ( i.e. corrected for quality ) price of a drawing ; these prices can now be added and by taking annual averages , one obtains the ‘ average price of the year ’ . |
| 26 | Notice that the CDR can be thought of as a weighted mean of the age-specific rates , using age class population numbers as weights , i.e. CDR = |
| 27 | The former reference can be thought of as a private sector illustration of financial accountability . |
| 28 | Party membership is often thought of as a static phenomenon . |
| 29 | They argued that scientific progress and understanding could not be conceived of as a static process ; with the advance of research into passive smoking , different conclusions might one day become apparent . |
| 30 | Diana Dors was never really thought of as a great actress … indeed she once described her film career as ’ a lot of make believe held up by 37 inch bra cups ’ . |