Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 2 | About this time a shaft had been started from the end of a 42 yds. long tunnel , Bouncy Level , driven into the vein from a point much higher up the boulder strewn fell-side quite close to the Crag . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 6 | In Somalia the combination of war and famine claimed a quarter of a million children dead last year . |
| 7 | That 's three quarters of a million years old . |
| 8 | However , the richness as a cultural object of a deteriorated Windows 1.0 disc pack is cold comfort to an archivist or historian preoccupied with preserving or regenerating the operational environment of the product . |
| 9 | I never saw anything like it ; nobody ever saw anything to equal the infinite age which was graven on that fearful countenance , no bigger now than that of a two months old child , though the skull retained its same size ; and let all men pray they never shall , if they wish to keep their reason . |
| 10 | The ideal aim of a theory of turbulent motion would be the development of a statistical mechanics analogous to those developed in the kinetic theory of gases . |
| 11 | Two hundred and fifty British troops are preparing to fly to war-torn Croatia as part of a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 12 | A few governments say that they own weapons to provide a part of a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 13 | I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . |
| 14 | 1987 ; Reiner 1985 ; for an earlier and related argument see van Maanen 1973 , 1975 ) , and thus to the existence of a generalized police occupational culture . |
| 15 | The metaphor used in ‘ the heavy page/of death , printed by gravestones in the cemetery ’ , works with the ‘ black statement ’ of a few lines previous suggesting that death is like a book which can survive through generations and is read , that is experienced , by all . |
| 16 | How can a beam of electrons that is made to wiggle in a plane with a spatial period of a few centimetres possible produce electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of a few microns ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Supreme Soviet usually met for two sessions of a few days each year . |
| 22 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At the heart of this is the introduction of an Integrated Services Digital Network ( ISDN ) system which not only allows fast , cheap transfer of data along lines that are free of interference but also voice and data transmission at the same time rather than using two separate lines . |
| 25 | Almost two years of acrimonious disputes between the Indian Government and the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Industrie came to an end on Jan. 11 , when a court of inquiry in New Delhi ruled that the crash of an Indian Airlines A-320 Airbus in February 1990 , in which 92 people had died , had been due to pilot error , and not to technical failure , as the Indian authorities had maintained [ see p. 37268 ] . |
| 26 | The scandal also increased calls for the creation of an independent securities regulatory body similar to the Securities Exchange Commission in the USA . |