Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After the first few devastating out-of-loves , she was warily certain that there would always be another goddess ; the old idol became a fond memory , like a photo of a dear friend long absent . |
| 32 | I saw once the head of a dear friend among the leaves and was less astonished at what first seemed an apparition than by his disentangling himself and in the flesh bidding his good morning , so accustomed was I to looking for my thoughts and news among the leaves . |
| 33 | Stevie and Patsy Mulligan are the sons of a dear friend who has recently passed away . |
| 34 | Two days later Greg was forced to attend the funeral of a dear aunt . |
| 35 | More of a solid success story , perhaps , than a bloody miracle . |
| 36 | Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . |
| 37 | All you need do is have a lift-up lid instead of a solid base or shelves added under the actual seat part and you have immediately doubled the usefulness of the piece as well as gained some footage . |
| 38 | In the case of Bloomsbury , changes in the general order , and especially the establishment of a solid sector of professional and intellectual employment , made independent survival much more practicable . |
| 39 | Speaking on behalf of the partners , BPXC 's Operations manager , Phil Mead , said that the CPF will allow Casanare to ‘ witness the growth of a solid enterprise which will bring innumerable opportunities to the nation , but which mainly will contribute to the growth of the region and to the development of its people . ’ |
| 40 | If a thought connected to fear bombards you , visualize the object of fear in front of a solid oak door and slam the door in its face . |
| 41 | A very strong leading ‘ rogue ’ character played with great guile by Clive Owen emerged out of a solid plot supported by the matchless acting skills of Leslie Phillips . |
| 42 | All training in kung fu begins with the laying down of a solid foundation . |
| 43 | Sarella herself was buoyed up by the thought that soon this nightmare would be over and she would be able to pull herself together under cover of a solid stint of hard work . |
| 44 | There he was , at the end of a solid day of meetings with French officials , looking exactly the way he had when they set out . |
| 45 | We shall see in Section 21.5 that some qualification of this concept is needed for the motion in the vicinity of a solid boundary . |
| 46 | A dolphin can emit up to 700 clicks a second with this apparatus and from them is able to detect not only the presence of a solid object in the water but to deduce what sort of object it is . |
| 47 | The median percentage of a solid meal retained at 60 minutes was less in the patients with idiopathic DU ( 54 ( 9–83 ) ) than in either H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( 87 ( 49–95 ) p<0.01 ) or H pylori positive patients with DU ( 79 ( 51–100 ) p<0.01 ) . |
| 48 | In this study , we found that in obese patients psyllium moderately but significantly delays gastric emptying of a solid meal . |
| 49 | Batty used to do it a bit , but is more of a solid player and these days tends to calm things down . |
| 50 | to reproduce as a white image out of a solid background . |
| 51 | I have had a long history of muscular trouble , of a weak back . |
| 52 | Although they appear to have stabilised , we do not expect those markets to settle down until Spring next year particularly with the impact of a weak dollar . |
| 53 | The majority say it is the fault of a Weak Government which could not run a Whelk Stall . |
| 54 | It is often thought that drug addiction is a failure of will-power and is evidence of a weak will or inadequate personality . |
| 55 | The strength of the electromagnetic interaction is much larger than that of a weak interaction , and the range of the electromagnetic force is much greater than that of the weak force . |
| 56 | This is due to the likelihood of the technical loss of material in proceeding through the protocol , the possibility of a weak hybridization signal from small weakly labelled sequences and the need to be able to score a statistically significant sample of silver grain counts . |
| 57 | The argument we are now to consider tries to show that this assumption ( characteristic of a weak scepticism ) is false . |
| 58 | The second new constraint arises from the fact that Mr Clinton was always fated to be something of a weak president . |
| 59 | The same pH may be given by a very small quantity of a strong acid or by a much larger quantity of a weak acid or a mixture of such an acid with its salts . |
| 60 | This is a classic example of a weak party ( the customer ) contracting with a strong one ( the finance company ) . |