Example sentences of "of [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These combinations , as they are called , involve simple one-step punching and blocking techniques , but even of beginners a greater variety of kicks is expected , nor surprisingly in view of the emphasis that taekwondo places upon them .
2 Whenever possible buy the yarn by length rather than weight as different fibres and treatments can vary the weight of yarns a great deal .
3 Whenever possible buy the yarn by length rather than by weight as different fibres and treatments can vary the weight of yarns a great deal .
4 Such neutrons need not themselves be particularly energetic , but in a matter of minutes a free neutron will decay into an energetic proton and electron , though not so energetic as to readily escape from the magnetosphere .
5 That night I walked part of my way home with one of the other pupils , who lived in a group of houses a short distance from the school .
6 A small button underneath the mouse can be pressed to reveal which channel it is set to by counting the number of times a neighbouring LED blinks .
7 ‘ Humility and humour ’ were essential requirements , and Stirling declared that ‘ the S.A.S. brooks no sense of class … the idea of a crack regiment is one officered by aristocracy … in the S.A.S. we share with the Brigade of Guards a deep respect for quality , but we have an entirely different outlook .
8 Can you see the kinds of books a particular publisher tends to market ?
9 Furthermore the overall effect of this circulation is to link together into a widely ramifying network of relationships a great number of individuals of quite different status and quite different cultural background .
10 I thought the tide must have turned , so I was probably proceeding in a series of zigzags a little way upstream , and it was no use looking ahead for Joanna , for she 'd be lying off our quarter .
11 In a number of countries a distinct shift took place during the course of the boom .
12 For the first time , a major interpretative musician has equipped himself with the necessary skills to mastermind his own visualization of the music he conducts , which allows him , in the process , to offer a new generation of music-lovers a sophisticated set of options for the study and appreciation of music in performance .
13 Thus , when in G. Cantor 's ( 1955 ) experiment the subjects had to learn over a series of trials a simultaneous discrimination between faces of the sort shown in fig. 5.2 , the task required them to carry over information from one trial to the next .
14 As the result of excavations a certain amount has been discovered about life in the pre-historic era , and much has been published .
15 As the result of excavations a certain amount has been discovered about life in the pre-historic era , and much has been published .
16 If companies had to say how many died and were injured in their service each year , it might give the life and death of workers a higher priority .
17 Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life .
18 Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time .
19 ‘ As far as the position of Top 40 radio in America and radio in Europe , I do n't think they give a lot of bands a fair shake .
20 First , we may call the abstract unit of form which is realised in actual sentences as the appropriate member of a set of word forms differing only in respect of inflections a lexical form ; and we can extend the notion of lexical form to cover an abstraction from the variously inflected manifestations of an idiom or dead metaphor .
21 The general form of the argument is always that ‘ real ’ elites find the political formulas and consecrated myths of decentralization or a fragmentation of powers a convenient cover for their monopoly control of the key decisions of state .
22 This will give the faculties and Directors of Studies a better opportunity to assess each individual applicant 's situation and offer appropriate support and advice .
23 However , in the majority of studies a high prevalence rate of hypercholesterolaemia has been found ( New et al , 1963 ; Wilson et al , 1970b ; Chase & Glasgow , 1976 ; Mancini et al , 1980 ; Sosenko et al , 1980 ; Yano et al , 1982 ; Pacy et al , 1985 ) .
24 But the wheel base continued to increase and , to negotiate curves , it was necessary to allow the centre pair of wheels a certain amount of side play .
25 A fondue set , a set of glasses a cuddly toy .
26 In contrast with the opposition 's plans for a 15 per cent " consumption tax " , there would also be personal tax cuts , giving three-quarters of taxpayers a top tax rate of 30 per cent , totalling A$3,400 million in 1994-95 and A$5,200 million in 1995-96 .
27 The project , which aims to cover three-quarters of the service work by the end of the century , is intended to give chief executives of agencies a higher degree of autonomy from central control .
28 During the 01.00 and the 00.00 Rex gave a whole lot of things a whole lot of thought .
29 Doubtful if he ever dented a heart ; more than likely he gave quite a number of hearts a new lift after they 'd imagined the ball was over for them .
30 I find the randomness of prostitutes a real turn-on .
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