Example sentences of "adding a [adj] [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the concept devised — and now enshrined in the local plan — for adding a major wing to the castle just across the moat , effectively doubling the size of the castle . |
| 2 | The storm was abating rapidly , the evening sky clearing in the west with the golden rays of the setting sun adding a dying colour to the sullen slate blue water . |
| 3 | Certainly the Lycra and neoprene-clad Spider People sporting Udo 's creations are adding a new twist to the tired Lycra-top genre . |
| 4 | By choosing one of the colours and holding down the shift key , you can then create your own colour , but rather than adding a new colour to the palette this replaces the original . |
| 5 | Adding a new outpost to the empire |
| 6 | Nearly out of fuel , it landed on a previously uncharted islet , inadvertently adding a new outpost to the Philippine republic . |
| 7 | We found that cytokinins , a class of plant hormones , could induce the formation of numerous haustoria on ‘ free ’ dodder vines in the absence of a host , adding a new dimension to the problem of haustoria development . |
| 8 | If the ISAM method is in use , the effect of adding a new record to a block of records is to cause the block to be re-built , incorporating the new record and pushing the last record of the last block on the track off into overflow . |
| 9 | If tomorrow someone discovered that Atlantis actually existed , he would not be adding a new property to the island state talked about in Plato 's Timaeus , but dispelling the suspicion that Plato , or someone else before him , invented the legend . |
| 10 | Adding a new studio to the network costs about $1 million . |
| 11 | Adding a decorative touch to the plain brick wall , they also give the room quite a Continental feel . |
| 12 | A little after the end of the war when people were beginning to relax and reminisce about blackouts and air-raids , yesterday 's terror and agony only adding a little zest to the stones . |
| 13 | This acute retention of urine constitutes one of medicine 's most uncomfortable emergencies , with its habit of coming on at the end of and evening 's drinking ( usually beer ) adding a bloated urgency to the situation . |
| 14 | The vocals sway between Nick Cave , Marc Almond and the drunken psycho outside the chip shop on a Friday night , adding a human edge to the pock-marked texture of the songs . |
| 15 | If he wanted to , he could be a real show-off : ‘ My Own Private Catastrophe ’ is pure restraint , feedback and harmonics adding a peculiar tension to the track , whereas the apocalyptic ‘ Sever ’ has him seeming to invent a new ‘ Semtex ’ effects pedal . |
| 16 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 17 | The weaker version of left idealism — that working-class crime is an irrelevance , dramatised by the capitalist media for diversionary purposes — has had an important resurgence in the 1980s with reference to black urban crime , thus adding a racial component to the original class issue ( see Tierney , 1988 , for both an analysis and an evocation of the sense of déjà vu ) . |