Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Christie was away smoothly out of his blocks and never looked like being caught , though the bustling Rosswess pulled clear of the remainder of the field , including the two Scottish Commonwealth Games representatives , Jamie Henderson , who was third , and Elliot Bunney . |
| 32 | Strett soon afterwards worked a scissors with Hunter who raced clear of the cover for a try . |
| 33 | ‘ Well , by Wednesday I 'm clear of the Committee , and I could take him to a Regional Office . |
| 34 | Hongkong Bank steered clear of the mania to lend to third-world countries that peaked in the early 1980s . |
| 35 | The allegations of corruption , too , have not so far touched the other three services , which have kept quietly clear of the row between the army and the government . |
| 36 | Indians tell the poll-takers that their country should stay clear of the whole business . |
| 37 | Instead of using a jack to take the weight , Jos turned his back on the front bumper , bent his knees and lifted the two leading tyres clear of the ground . |
| 38 | Individual pots can be sealed in a plastic bag held clear of the foliage by wire hoops . |
| 39 | Pitman yanked him back on to a true line and managed to steer him clear of the rails , but the two hundred yards he had left to run seemed like two hundred miles , and Red Rum was now only five lengths back . |
| 40 | For the rest of the first circuit Run And Skip and Dawn Run , both regular frontrunners , vied for the lead on the fast ground , and their duel took them well clear of the rest of the field . |
| 41 | His speeches were , of course , dominated by the great foreign political issues of the year , but there can be no doubt that Hitler was deliberately steering clear of the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and that there was a continued conscious attempt to dissociate his public image from the seamier side of anti-Semitism visible in the renewed growing violence of Party activists . |
| 42 | The path was narrow — only the width of a boot — but it was clear of the marram that grew everywhere around . |
| 43 | The procedure would have been for the pilot to pull a handle , situated between his legs , which jettisoned the canopy while activating a rocket that fired his seat and that of his navigator clear of the plane . |
| 44 | Canizares , 45 , second and fourth on his last two tour outings in the Catalan and Portuguese Opens , is the only player under par on 212 , four under , and is five strokes clear of the field as he attempts to emulate the millionaire feats of Severiano Ballesteros , Jose-Maria Olazabal and Jose Rivero . |
| 45 | So Mr Chris Patten , if he hangs on at Bath , and Mr William Waldegrave , who has a safe seat , had better stay clear of the bar . |
| 46 | Durand , only the third Frenchman to win the event , came home alone after he and three others had broken clear of the field with 134 miles to go . |
| 47 | The undeniable need to establish a personality clear of the shadow of Mrs Thatcher was confounded with the mistaken urge to repudiate what she stood for . |
| 48 | Ridden by Peter Scudamore , Nigel Twiston-Davies 's seven-year-old took over from the ill-fated Combermere at the 13th of the 27 fences and , staying on strongly approaching the last , drew clear of the top-weight Dalkey Sound to record an impressive eight-length victory . |
| 49 | The improved colt quickened well to take it up over two furlongs out and went to the line clear of the dead-heaters Steinbeck and Wilde Rufo , with the latter subsequently disqualified when jockey Richard Quinn weighed in 6lb light . |
| 50 | ESTEFANIA KNUTH , a former winner of the World Junior Championship , finished six shots clear of the other 31 qualifiers for the match-play stages of the French Women Juniors ' Championship , here yesterday . |
| 51 | Start the machine with the abrasive belt clear of the floor … |
| 52 | Always remember to keep clear of the soft calcite shell with these tools . |
| 53 | The other valve sits in the thick one like a lid , and the whole animal is curved so that the margins of the valves were kept clear of the sediment . |
| 54 | He thought that if he shot the barracuda behind the head , it would leap clear of the water with its jaws snapping . |
| 55 | Thrusting the helm hard over , he shot clear of the motor yacht 's wind-shadow . |
| 56 | Broadside to the wind , Golden Girl was already drifting clear of the heavier motor yacht . |
| 57 | ‘ Slowly , ’ he warned and backed the tiny storm jib , making the sheet fast so that the breeze would hold them clear of the Baglietto 's stern . |
| 58 | He grabbed him , flipping him over on to his back so that the gunman 's mouth and nostrils were clear of the sea . |
| 59 | The thunder of it drowned his voice as he yelled at the rodman up in the bows to hold the jib clear of the stays . |
| 60 | Belly flat in the water , he inched his bound hands forward and drew his face clear of the undergrowth so that he could look upriver while remaining camouflaged by the overhang of a wild coffee bush . |