Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That and other systems sales accounted for a whacking 50% of SunExpress revenues last year when it was getting off the ground , with end user sales pegged at just 35% . |
| 2 | It is a single-storey building of brick . |
| 3 | But when curiosity got the better of us we found ourselves almost immediately drawn to a highland community where , like a long-awaiting gift , we were invited to build a house for about a thousand pounds on a verdant piece of property . |
| 4 | On the Vistula delta the Mennonites bred black and white Friesian cattle just as their ancestors in Holland had done , and grew sugar-beet , tomatoes , rye , and a resilient variety of wheat on the rich alluvial soil . |
| 5 | Jim was a moody sort of individual , was n't he , he had n't liked being asked ; in Philip 's opinion there was more to Jim than met the eye . |
| 6 | Out next spring is David Ryley Marshall 's study of Viviano e Nicolo Codazzi , a father-and-son team of landscape painters active in Rome and Naples in the seventeenth century . |
| 7 | In the former , Lord Macmillan hesitated ‘ to hold that in these days and in an industrial community it was a non-natural use of land to build a factory on it and conduct there the manufacture of explosives . ’ |
| 8 | The House declined to consider itself bound by the Rainham Chemicals case where it seems to have been taken for granted that such an activity constituted a non-natural use of land . |
| 9 | But the storing of water as in Rylands v. Fletcher , or industrial water under pressure , or gas and electricity in bulk in mains is a non-natural use of land . |
| 10 | It has been held that keeping a motor-car in a garage with petrol in the tank , and a motor-coach in a parking ground after the tank has been emptied is a non-natural use of land , but the decisions have been criticised . |
| 11 | Such an interpretation allows the courts to hold that a common activity such as the collection and storage of gas or water does not constitute a non-natural use of land , even though the injury potential of the activity is high . |
| 12 | Lawton J. refused to regard this as a non-natural use of land . |
| 13 | It would seem therefore that normal industrial activities properly carried out may no longer involve a non-natural use of land and many of the older authorities on this point will need reconsidering . |
| 14 | Introduced so hastily after the original abolition of flogging , and remaining on the statute book until judicial corporal punishment was ended as recently as 1948 , the Garotter 's Act was thus a historic landmark of reaction ; and it was quickly followed by measures to toughen prison discipline and to introduce a minimum penalty of five years of penal servitude for second offenders . |
| 15 | Old wives ' tales ( BBC 1 , 2 March ) … was a delight and a pleasant bout of instruction . |
| 16 | In a purely crofting community this arrangement must have worked well as it was a pleasant blend of work and social intercourse . |
| 17 | The earthen floors were swept and the tables scrubbed ; the pots and pans gleamed over the hob , and there was a pleasant smell of baking coming from the wood oven . |
| 18 | It provides a pleasant standard of accommodation all rooms are with shared B/S/WC . |
| 19 | Jenny sat down , laughing even louder and eventually Antony , a pleasant glow of satisfaction in his mind , sat down laughing also . |
| 20 | And then he has a study that has a similar wall of reference set of shelves and then I guess that maybe his bedroom has of this , but it 's erm and such a nice guy , a pleasant kind of man . |
| 21 | Be polite and use a pleasant tone of voice . |
| 22 | He had a dryness of manner which concealed a pleasant sense of humour , and he would be , I thought , exceptionally shrewd . |
| 23 | It therefore contains nothing really new , but creates a pleasant feeling of freshness and change . |
| 24 | They both laughed and it was a pleasant feeling of togetherness . |
| 25 | Unpretentious , with a pleasant touch of wit , should travel quite well . |
| 26 | The flowers would be out tomorrow and were a pleasant foretaste of spring . |
| 27 | Invite one person — perhaps to a meal ( you have prepared first ) — and you have an opportunity of a pleasant evening of conversation in your own home . |
| 28 | Skiing in the Rockies is a pleasant mix of downhill and cross-country and there is far less snobbery towards that ancient form of skiing . |
| 29 | Mrs McDougall was in her kitchen , not baking this time , though a pleasant after-smell of cooking pervaded the room . |
| 30 | Moreover , and perhaps even more significantly , among the men there is a rich spectrum of life represented : they are farmers , builders , merchants , kings , judges , stewards , doctors , bridegrooms , servants , sons , fathers , priests , publicans , rich men , poor men , thieves , fools , scoundrels . |