Example sentences of "in a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Floridian sandwiches , on the other hand , filled up an entire tray and if there was any bread it lurked deep in a jungle of cress and lettuce . |
| 2 | The heavily wooded area was criss-crossed with tracks , some leading to farm buildings , others leading to a barn in a clearing of corn , the whole scene , particularly at night , required vigilance as the enemy had mined the well-worn tracks . |
| 3 | She 'd been so immersed in the music , letting it wash over her , uplifting her , that she had n't even realised that the car had turned into a short driveway to stop outside a luxurious chalet-type building set in a clearing of beech trees . |
| 4 | Leaves may be submerged under a dropping of dung , soused in a downpour of urine , trodden on , pulled into the ground by earthworms ( further shades of Darwin ) or damaged by frost . |
| 5 | Tuesday looks like an oasis in a desert of work and effort so make sure you plunge headlong into its refreshing and revitalising waters . |
| 6 | William paid his five guineas to the Abney Park Cemetery Company , Ltd. , in exchange for ‘ exclusive right in perpetuity ’ of burial in a plot of ground 6′ 6″ by 2′ 6″ — no. 62,076 , square L9 . |
| 7 | I observed a small yellow patch in the centre of one fish in a shoal of Neon Tetras some weeks after they had passed through quarantine . |
| 8 | He secreted it in a crate of thread destined for weaving sheds in Liverpool . |
| 9 | The box-fish , in the highly populated and potentially dangerous world of the reef , sails over the coral packaged in a crate of bone , its pectorals whirling , its tail fin flickering . |
| 10 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |
| 11 | Ralph Fiennes takes the hunky Heathcliff role in a story of love , passion and vengeance set in the wilds of Yorkshire . |
| 12 | Yet despite this he is created in a relationship of accountability to God and the sphere of his accountability includes the economic . |
| 13 | Here is an example of such inversion which I myself observed in operation among the peasantry of North Central Ceylon ; brothers were always rated as elder-brother /younger-brother and in a relationship of inequality and restraint , whereas brothers-in-law always treated one another as equals and were in a relationship of joking familiarity . |
| 14 | These agencies may be seen alternatively as implementers that affect the character of policy or as independent creators of policy forever in a relationship of tension with the ‘ centre ’ . |
| 15 | A dark-haired girl with firelight on her face , the smell of turf burning on a winter night , the sound of the sea raging at the shore in a fury of storm . |
| 16 | At one point he grew so angry he failed to blow any kind of a note on his horn ; he dashed it to the ground in a fury of petulance . |
| 17 | In a fury of revaluation he turned Sien into a ‘ pure ’ person . |
| 18 | She sat in a fury of indecision and worry , wondering if he and Ace had met . |
| 19 | Juron shook his communicator in a fury of frustration . |
| 20 | Nona bit his hand in a fury of frustration and fear . |
| 21 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |
| 22 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 23 | Bands and their managers tend to have periods of relative quiet , maybe for six months , after which they are in a fever of activity . |
| 24 | But underneath all the tough-talking , cryptic statements and pipe-lighting that allows him time to carefully think out his replies , there is another Bill Morrison , a schoolboy at heart , who is happiest sitting in the stands at Lord 's or Twickenham swapping cricketing and rugby stories , who idolises sporting heroes like cricketers Denis Compton and Gary Sobers , four-minute miler Roger Bannister , and former rugby international Gerald Davies , and who is in a fever of excitement over the arrival of his new MG RV8 , a ‘ reincarnation of the old MGB ’ , only ‘ more powerful , more comfortable ( I hope ) and certainly more costly ’ . |
| 25 | Terry was in a fever of excitement . |
| 26 | In a fever of excitement , Sylvie had flown to Milan . |
| 27 | The two men parted , each in a fever of excitement . |
| 28 | She took her time choosing the paints , the pad , the brushes , and then returned to the house in a fever of excitement . |
| 29 | I was mystified , and in a fever of expectation . |
| 30 | At the time when he was posted missing , she was in a fever of anxiety about her own family who were in the concentration camp at Treblinka , and even then being sent to the gas chambers . |