Example sentences of "in a [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We set off early from Gemiler Island , the anchorage closest to their northern end , where we had anchored in perfect shelter , hunting lizards and mosaics in a labyrinth of Byzantine ruins . |
| 2 | This is generally taken up in a chorus of masculine approval : Yes , a fly on his shirt ! |
| 3 | in a jungle of pinguid rubberplants . |
| 4 | One of the most popular motifs at the time the shop opened was of swans and lions , which came from an old , heraldic design ; another was a Persian print showing a fantastical dog in a jungle of giant thistles . |
| 5 | Unchanged , however , are the environs of the great waterfall at the head of the valley , a scene of awesome natural grandeur where , in a surround of towering limestone cliffs , Hardraw Beck plunges over the lip of a crag in a graceful unbroken leap of a hundred feet . |
| 6 | The next inhabited place is Kilchoan , the principal village on the peninsula , and six miles beyond , across a featureless moor , the lighthouse on Ardnamurchan Point is reached in a surround of naked rock and low cliffs . |
| 7 | It is possible from the village , without too much effort , to survey the great wilderness of Fisherfield Forest from the east by taking the private road to the little huddle of buildings known as the Heights of Kinlochewe and thence following a rising track to the left until the vast amphitheatre is revealed in a surround of formidable mountains of which Slioch and Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair are now the most prominent . |
| 8 | Keld is the last outpost of civilisation in Swaledale , secluded in a hollow of the hills ; it is an oasis of cultivated fields enclosed by stone walls , each with its barn , in a surround of barren and inhospitable moorlands . |
| 9 | Strong walkers will proceed beyond the Lochan Dubha and climb the easy ridge of Druim Hain directly facing until reaching a well-built obelisk commanding a sensational view of Loch Coruisk in a surround of wild mountains . |
| 10 | Curtis was a very large man whose tiny facial features seemed lost in a desert of moist , granular skin . |
| 11 | You may , to put it crudely , want to have your heroine trip over that briar root but have set your story in a desert of soft shifting sand . |
| 12 | The last minute had left him naked in a desert of infinite horror . |
| 13 | If you walk into a room full of strangers and there is only one person in that room whom you know , you will immediately see and recognise that person , however many people are in the room , because here is something which interests you — your human oasis in a desert of unfamiliar faces . |
| 14 | I walked in a desert of barren obsession . |
| 15 | And on the second day after he had departed , Gil Diaz placed the body upon a right noble saddle , and this saddle with the body upon it he put upon a frame ; and he dressed the body in a gambax of fine sendal , next the skin . |
| 16 | Until a standard enquiry form is ready for use , local authorities should be asked if the land is to be included in a Register of Contaminated Land . |
| 17 | Anthony Andrews , so often seen as the archetypal urbane Englishman , turns in a performance of immense depth and sympathy as Miller , who is accused of spying and cast into a barbarous prison camp . |
| 18 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 19 | Framed : 200 years of history comes to life in a story of theatrical fantasy |
| 20 | To the thirteen-year-old schoolgirl and her father the house was their own private world and enclosed them in a relationship of unexpected depth . |
| 21 | Her hair streamed down her back in a fury of red waves , claiming his avid eyes . |
| 22 | Her occasional protestations of being moved by Dame Freya 's works or touched by her personality read like sops — a pretence of even-handedness — in a narrative of quiet , relentless aggression . |
| 23 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 24 | Adrift in a sea of virtual reality ? |
| 25 | Speculation on their colourful lives and enormous bank balances have provided much needed excitement in a sea of bland , beige tailoring . |
| 26 | Apart from the shining neon power switch and the Slave function already discussed , the Behringer will sit quietly in your rack , floating in a sea of general blackness , and probably wo n't be the first thing a visitor to your studio comments upon . |
| 27 | Sinking in a sea of druggy paranoia and coked-up psychosis , Montana infects the highlife that 's become his own with his dyspeptic , withering worldview . |
| 28 | The Benedictine monasteries regarded themselves as islands of true Christianity in a sea of pagan barbarism and it was not until the eleventh century that the monks of the abbey of Cluny and its affiliated houses began a campaign that was able to educate the laity and local clergy . |
| 29 | Everything she hated was white : that slice of custard just now ; these little stones hard as sugared almonds at a christening ; the cones of rice , curly as white hyacinths , floating in a sea of whipped egg white , that they had as a supper treat ; the damask of the tablecloth that her sweaty palms would soil ; the chilly marble of the fireplace in the white salon ; the glistening pearls of tapioca that lurked at the bottom of soup . |
| 30 | THOUSANDS of communist opponents of Russia 's president , Boris Yeltsin , marched through central Moscow yesterday in a sea of red flags and nostalgia for the lost Soviet Union . |