Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun pl] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I actually believe that one of the areas where the Catholic Church did a lot of damage , is that because of a celibate clergy this obsession with sex has exaggerated it too much . |
| 2 | Now I just do n't think that 's rea realistic , that 's different from saying you may have a bail system , cos that 's what I thought you were suggesting and for people to b come into the ring as pension fund managers , they would have to perhaps to put up securities of a million pounds each to o operate in this area and that if they behave badly , if funds went missing , if it was proved they were negligent , they would lose their million pounds bail , just as people lose bail when they do n't turn up to court . |
| 3 | One arrived at the bedside of a total stranger , and inside of a few hours that stranger became not merely the most important person in the world , but one 's entire world . |
| 4 | I decided to put pen to paper and let you know of a few problems some of us have in trying to become machine knitters . |
| 5 | Cystoids ( class Cystoidea ) are even odder animals : often rather irregular bags of calcite plates , or if composed of a few plates these may carry powerful ribbing . |
| 6 | In fact , with the exception of a few critics such as Lytton Strachey who noticed ‘ the melancholy of regretful recollection , of bitter speculation , of immortal longings unsatisfied ’ , the poems of 1912–13 attracted little attention . |
| 7 | The Supreme Soviet usually met for two sessions of a few days each year . |
| 8 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |