Example sentences of "a folk " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was sixteen , seventeen , a folk singer . |
| 2 | Or does it re-create a folk tale such as the Fokine-Stravinsky The Firebird or a national epic such as Bintley 's The Swan of Tuoneia ? |
| 3 | words like preluciand , which have a folk tradition and are , in feeling , germane to all Europe : Leuchand , luisant , lucente : these words are absent in Miltonism , and purely pedantic words , like irriguous , have succeeded them . |
| 4 | Ferguson is flawless , a folk hero in two countries . |
| 5 | The classic working-class ‘ mum ’ , living at home to look after her numerous children with the man as the bread-winner , while a folk myth sustained by the Inland Revenue and the population census amongst others in the 1970s , conformed less and less to the reality . |
| 6 | Around then I also got hold of a folk album by Pete Seeger and I remember being really struck by a track called ‘ Goofing Off Suite ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Rockman became a folk hero in Cape Town 's mixed-race suburbs after he flouted police discipline on September 6 to tell reporters about the alleged violence of white riot squad officers . |
| 8 | After meeting the Soviet culture minister , and the musical director of the Bolshoi opera , Mr Palmer set off for a cellar club-cum-recording studio and gallery to hear a folk singer break the musical mould and , hopefully , erase the memory of the song ( ‘ I Belong To … ’ ) |
| 9 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 10 | It was becoming something more than just a folk club . |
| 11 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 12 | The response was tremendous ; the reaction incredibly enthusiastic , and so from that point , it became a little more than a folk club . |
| 13 | As a schoolboy in the 1940s I learnt a folk song with the verse : |
| 14 | One of the Norwegian girls , Riborg , was the daughter of a ship owner , but had attended a folk high school , along with children whose parents were cobblers and other manual labourers . |
| 15 | Coloured photographs in the magazine show yachts and surfers in the pale blue waters beside the exclusive Saint-Georges Hotel in Beirut , a folk dance festival on the playing fields of the American University ( founded by American Protestant missionaries , 1866 ) , the ancient cedars at Bsharre ( ‘ the glory of Lebanon ’ , Isaiah 35:2 ) , the Phoenician port of Byblos ( ‘ root of our word ‘ Bible ’ ) and an aerial view of the Bekaa Valley ( ‘ an enormous oriental rug unrolled beneath the Anti-Lebanon Range ’ ) . |
| 16 | There has grown up a folk belief that recurrent thrush is completely untreatable . |
| 17 | A folk tale told of a Tahitian chief , Moikeha , who sailed to Hawaii and , largely thanks to his prowess on a surfboard , married two princesses and became king of the island of Kauai . |
| 18 | I heard him pumping up the pressure and singing a folk song which began , ‘ We do n't smoke pot in Norwich City ’ . |
| 19 | But how many know ‘ the reason why ’ Bishop Jonathon Trelawney became a folk hero , although looked upon by many clerics as a worldly , indolent and drunken spendthrift ? |
| 20 | Though pharmacologists now know how the present antimalarials work , quinine was initially based on a folk remedy and the rest were developed by producing chemicals and testing their effects . |
| 21 | He is a folk hero in microcomputing circles for his development of LOGO ( a high-level computer language popular with teachers ) and his book Mindstorm . |
| 22 | But this easiness on the eye , and Michael Hordem 's predictably effective narration , will not deter criticism From those who demur at the implicit assumption that man 's continuing affection for gardens arises out of a folk memory of being cast out of the Garden of Eden and a consequent urge to recreate this paradise . |
| 23 | And this from a man whose more serious moments have spawned a folk opera about the island of Lewis and tuneful contributions to charity cassettes . |
| 24 | There 's something for everyone in this out-of-the ordinary attraction — a folk collection of Victorian memorabilia , farm animals , poultry , waterfowl , Shetland ponies and a very friendly donkey , adventure playground and picnic area . |
| 25 | Lunch and the afternoon was spent in the picturesque surroundings of the calm Marigot and Soufrière Bays , followed by a folk band and limbo show in the evening . |
| 26 | And Bob Dylan was n't just a folk singer . |
| 27 | They either automatically assume we 're just backing singers or we 're a folk outfit just because we use harmonies and acoustic guitars . ’ |
| 28 | There are pictures that catch Shaw in a sports car , in his celebrated shed , in a folk dance with a Fabian , and in the nude . |
| 29 | James , who played Lieutenant Castillo , became a folk hero during the LA riots by appealing for calm and helping to clean up . |
| 30 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |