Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You may come across it when you tap Ctrl+Pg Dn to move to the bottom of a document or if you tap Ctrl+Enter by accident . |
| 32 | One of Spiegelman 's boldest frames shows their bodies dangling among trees at one side of a wood that also holds , on the far side , the Spiegelman family car in which Vladek , 40 years on , recounts the girls ' story to his son . |
| 33 | The effect was partly to set the poet amongst the roots of a wood or forest , until , as Mortimer Cropper had pointed out , one realised that the background was one of those compartmentalised Wardian cases , in which the Victorians grew plants in controlled environments , or created self-sustaining ponds , in order to study the physiology of plants and fishes . |
| 34 | Unless you locate it either in the middle of a wood or at the bottom of a quarry . |
| 35 | The occasion that brought the Know Nothings back to life in June was a 60in x 40in Cibachrome print of a wood and plastic crucifixion aswim in the artist 's , Andre Serrano 's , urine . |
| 36 | To the right of these doors is the stone commemorating the start of work , close to a superb copy — the original is in the Museum of the Duomo in Palazzo Reale ; indeed , several of the statues and works of art in and on the Duomo are exact copies , with the originals being kept in the museum — of a wood and copper eleventh-century crucifix marking the grave of an early Archbishop . |
| 37 | Rabbits have been known to live on the edge of a wood and regularly swim a brook to feed in the fields beyond . |
| 38 | It 's an illness we do n't know much about , but sometimes it affects the muscles of a leg or an arm . |
| 39 | As a member of a Faith and Justice group in Burnley I knew Father Corcoran before he returned to Kenya in 1986 . |
| 40 | Delivery of a certificated transfer is treated by a buyer and by the company as equivalent to delivery of a transfer and the relevant certificate . |
| 41 | This can also be seen in Bentley Drummle who has the upbringing and background of a gentleman but is far from one . |
| 42 | Similarly , he celebrates the great house at Allington , which is early Stuart and built next to the road , with the comment : ‘ To be near the village , so as in some way to afford comfort , protection , and patronage , and perhaps also with a view to the pleasantness of neighbourhood for its own inmates , seemed to be the object of a gentleman when building his house in the old days . ’ |
| 43 | He is a role model of a gentleman and of how contentment can be found in being a gentleman . |
| 44 | They were as likely to have followed the lead of a gentleman as of an artisan . ’ |
| 45 | The scarcity of employment suitable for the sons of a gentleman provided the man who could meet that need with very real influence in his region , and a favour of considerable value to a freeholder need not involve any major place in government service . |
| 46 | Pip may have the wealth and social standing of a gentleman though he is a false one whereas Joe lacks both of these though it is he , along with Herbert that I would call the true gentleman of this book . |
| 47 | Note the family crest of a crown and an eight-pointed star , symbolizing their alleged descent from one of the three kings . |
| 48 | Not to be outdone by the Rossinians and the Mozartians , or the Vienna and New York Philharmonics , Houston this year celebrates the twentieth anniversary not of a birth or death or a founding , but of a hiring , that of David Gockley as General Director of the Houston Grand Opera . |
| 49 | Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country . |
| 50 | Yeah , if you think you might come to the end of a conversation before you reach the end of the tape , they 've rather you put a new tape in . |
| 51 | Phil complained , mourning the ending of a conversation that had begun to interest him . |
| 52 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 53 | She did this when she had no grasp of a conversation or no understanding of a situation and felt herself de trop . |
| 54 | Communicative function within the context of a conversation or discussion . |
| 55 | But 100 yards is the standard length of a long-net and as a general rule this length suffices . |
| 56 | You need a trench the width of a spade and about 1½in deep . |
| 57 | Dig the soil to the depth of a spade or fork , and clear out the rubbish as you go large stones , glass , china , bottle tops , sticks , wire , plastic and so on — at the same time mixing in a thin layer of rotted garden compost , especially if the soil is shallow and only a few cm ( in ) deep on top of chalk subsoil . |
| 58 | Probably we have in our mind 's eye something in the nature of a raffle as being a form of random sampling , and we are right in thinking of this as one method . |
| 59 | The more of a villain or a lout Tommaso Talvi appeared to others , the sweeter she found her task of siding with him , of divining the exceptional qualities in him , of standing by his side . |
| 60 | No more of a realist than Anna ? |