Example sentences of "of a [noun] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why is it in the hallowed halls of a gallery of twentieth century design ? |
| 2 | This was despite the inclusion above the line of the £15.9 million profit on the sale of a stake in First Leisure Corporation and a £13.3 million write-down of the investment in BSkyB . |
| 3 | Saintbridge School in Gloucester is cutting jobs because of a shortfall in next year 's budget . |
| 4 | He was in high spirits in spite of a hangover after last night . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a bit of a shock at first , ’ Jackie said . |
| 6 | Shirley Booth played this role , and although her squeaky voice is a bit of a shock at first , she still dominates the recording , with only Johnny Johnston 's warm baritone making any real impact alongside her . |
| 7 | ‘ The strenuous training came as a bit of a shock at first . |
| 8 | He says that it was a bit of a shock at first , now he 's got used to it . |
| 9 | He says that it was a bit of a shock at first , now he 's got used to it . |
| 10 | But that is not because its orders have greater status per se than the orders of a court of first instance or any intermediate court of appeal . |
| 11 | Bamert , of course , is known as something of a champion of 20th century music in any case , arguing that if we choose to play only the great works of an increasingly distant past , then we ‘ turn the concert hall into a museum , and ignore the fact that music is a living tradition ’ . |
| 12 | The only significant difference between Lucy and a statue was that Lucy had pubic hair ; this caused them a bit of a surprise at first . |
| 13 | the Racing Post did not mention him at all in its main preview of the race ; and the official Cheltenham racecard form guide nominated him ‘ more of a candidate for last place than first ’ . |
| 14 | More of a candidate for last place than first . |
| 15 | New version of a vehicle with Second World War origins |
| 16 | The last line illustrates that in the covariant derivative of a tensor of second order or higher there is one term for each index . |
| 17 | Previous experience in advertising or marketing is obviously an advantage but it is possible to become a junior account executive without it — although you would have to expect to be something of a dogsbody at first . |
| 18 | Further transfers from Rainey ( Un ) and Agnew ( UPNI ) in Stages VIII and IX ensured the election of two candidates from VUPP , a party which had only .7 of a quota of first preference votes at Stage I. |
| 19 | DUP thus secured a seat after having only .7 of a quota of first preference votes . |
| 20 | Nowadays , every provision imposing a charge on public funds ( and most Bills do ) is printed in the Bill in italics and is the subject of a resolution after second reading , in committee . |
| 21 | Why does blood seep from her son ? ’ runs the grisly ballad that tells the true story of a woman in 18th century Ireland , sentenced to death for the murder of a young gentleman who turns out to be the long-lost product of her liaison with the English gentry . |
| 22 | From the shadows of a doorway on 79th Street , Pie'oh'pah watched John Furie Zacharias emerge from the apartment building , pull the collar of his jacket up around his bare nape , and scan the street north and south , looking for a cab . |
| 23 | This is very much a '50s rock'n'roll-type intro which consists of a combination of 4th double stops , two note bends ( 6-♭7 , over static b3s ) and full chords ( B7b9 and E7 ) . |
| 24 | The USSR Congress of People 's Deputies had adopted on Dec. 24 , 1989 , a resolution whereby the secret protocols of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact , diving Eastern Europe into spheres of influence and providing the pretext for Soviet annexation of the Baltic republics , had been condemned as having been " in conflict with the sovereignty and independence of a number of third countries " and in violation of the Soviet Union 's treaty obligations towards independent Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . |
| 25 | This has been done in the case of a number of last ( Ipswichian ) interglacial deposits in Britain to give a clearer idea of sea level at that period and the amount of East Anglian downwarping since ( Sparks and West , 1971 ) . |
| 26 | Silently , watching the proceedings from the walls were portraits of a host of 19th century presidents of the ICE . |
| 27 | The theory suggests that it is impossible to gain a significant understanding of an individual without first understanding the functioning of the systems within which the individual operates . |
| 28 | It was normally polite , and expedient , to pay respects to the military commander of an area on first arriving , but this was the only time when we were actually frog-marched off to meet him before we had time to draw breath . |