Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss of a clear or a bloodstained , watery fluid from the nose or ear . |
| 2 | Erm , there is in fact a , which a number of members have referred to , there is in fact a hundred and fifty thousand being spent this year on day care capital as a result of the two and a half million package which members agreed in October and that has obviously gone to voluntary organizations for them to spend . |
| 3 | Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger . |
| 4 | I consider in the light of the foregoing that a reference to the objectives of the Community system of quotas can not be used to justify national rules on the registration of fishing vessels , even if those rules were applicable only to vessels intended to fish for species subject to quotas . |
| 5 | However , the potential political pitfalls involved in any attempt to confront the contradictions of a socialist and a Catholic Nicaragua were clearly demonstrated by the events of the pope 's 1982 visit . |
| 6 | In the darkness we passed through the defile of Gebel Silsila where the river narrows dramatically to a width of no more than a few yards . |
| 7 | On 1st August 1705 the system was changed , so that the interest on these sums should be received by the overseers of the poor and a fixed amount of £7 10 0d be paid annually to the Master . |
| 8 | Such combinations of a religious and a scientific approach to biology are particularly obvious in impressionistic work of this kind . |
| 9 | There 's a conscious rejection of the sonic values of the '80s but a bright-eyed optimism about the 1990s . |
| 10 | The study day will include lectures and remembrances of the line , which finally closed in 1959 , a walk along part of the trackbed and a viewing of some of the recently restored buildings of the lead mine which the Railway opened to serve in 1877 . |
| 11 | The first part of the one and a half day course deals with all the key elements of TNT on a formal lecture/discussion basis . |
| 12 | Whether the boxing and wrestling matches shown on the carved rhyton from Agia Triadha , a miniature fresco from Tylissos and certain sealings were part of the same or a different festival is not known : the way they are depicted suggests that they too had the quality of ritual struggle . |
| 13 | The figure is , precisely , that of the existence of a secret or an absent essence , and he traces it in various forms through a number of different tales . |
| 14 | In every State the mass of the uneducated and a large fraction of the educated were deeply hostile to change , quite untouched by the intellectual currents of the Enlightenment and intensely suspicious of any government-inspired innovation . |
| 15 | They were designed nationally , were implemented on a national basis , and have benefited interest groups of a national and an international nature . |
| 16 | In England , the proposal advanced by a majority of the Criminal Law Revision Committee in its Working Paper would similarly have abolished the exemption but distinguished marital from non-marital rape by requiring the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions in the case of the former before a prosecution could be brought . |
| 17 | A hierarchical court structure is essential to give to a particular case a level of authority ; this will determine whether or not the case can be overruled by a decision of the same or a higher court , and which courts , if any , are bound by its decision . |
| 18 | And , for as long as the robots of science fact were limited to the assembly lines of the automotive and a few other manufacturing industries , our general perception of the robot was unlikely to change . |
| 19 | There is a real risk of mice , especially young animals , drowning or dying from the effects of a soaking if a bottle or nozzle of an automatic system leaks . |
| 20 | Food-sharing , or trophallaxis , allied with the power of pheromones to trigger patterns of action , is the regulatory bond which gives the colony its aura of the miraculous and an account in these terms is wholly sufficient . |
| 21 | By any description , the National Socialist League sounds more like the germ of a situation-comedy than a serious political movement . |
| 22 | It was the tail-end of the Seventies when a frighteningly young Noel McKoy and some schoolmates formed the Albians and recorded the all-time classic lovers ' rock tune ‘ Princess ’ . |
| 23 | Is it a stylishly cute picture of a rhinocerous or a clever way of pushing young people into smoking . |
| 24 | On 22 March 1665 Coxe was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , in which he played an active role for the rest of the 1660s and a slightly less active one in the 1670s . |
| 25 | By May 1341 all he had got out of parliament was a resolution to collect the rest of the ninth and an offer of an extra 10,000 sacks of wool ; no new money was granted . |
| 26 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |
| 27 | Why is there a need , sir , to repay the five hundred and one thousand pounds of the three and a half percent cumulative pref shares it 's quite a low interest involved . |
| 28 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 29 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 30 | Here is a selection of the book 's recipes which would grace any festive table : Frances Bissell 's oysters and turkey , Claudia Roden 's turkey stuffing , butter and a cake with a hint of the exotic and an American whiskey fruitcake , courtesy of Paul himself . |