Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church . |
| 2 | For the modest garden perhaps a Japanese maple would suit . |
| 3 | The officially published diaries of Ceauşescu 's engagements reveal that Yasser Arafat was his most frequent guest : on average they met six times a year and saw each other for the last time only a month before the revolution . |
| 4 | During the first century AD a number of homesteads on islands and in coastal regions were fortified , possibly against Roman slave traders . |
| 5 | In McMurdo Sound , Antarctica , Tedrow and Ugolini ( 1966 ) and Tedrow ( 1977 ) estimated that shifts of 30–40°C occurred several times daily in the surface of rocks under summer sunshine , and Nichols and Ball ( 1964 ) found bare ahumic soils passing through the freeze-thaw cycle over a hundred times in the course of a summer . |
| 6 | By the middle of the first century AD a less restrained taste prevailed in idealised art as in portraiture . |
| 7 | Here Trogus introduces a note of realism which is echoed by Livy when he describes how at the beginning of the second century B.c. a third of the Greeks of Ampurias — a secondary settlement of the same Phocaeans — manned their walls every night in fear of the neighbouring Jberians ( 34.9 ) . |
| 8 | They both soon scattered when a mortar bomb burst at the entrance to the orchard , sending shrapnel whistling through the trees and thudding into the walls of the little cottage just a few yards away . |
| 9 | With its younger sibling , the Edinburgh International Television Festival , the EIFF supplies a focus for the world of the moving image once a year . |
| 10 | The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was therefore very important , since they give us a Hebrew text of much of the Old Testament about a thousand years older than anything we had before . |
| 11 | Take the moment in the ‘ Pantomime ’ from part three where Pan/Daphnis declares his love for Syrinx/Chloé ( fig. 173 : Rattle , track 12 , 0′53″ ) : Abbado 's LSO strings slide around in an appallingly sticky manner here , whereas Rattle 's declaration is whispered , tender and somehow delightfully aware that this is ‘ play ’ within a play ; as is his treatment of the same passage forte a few bars on ( at 1′44″ ) , you can sense Pan 's mock desperation as Syrinx disappears among the reeds — it is a deliberately exaggerated gesture ( back of hand against forehead ? ) and very amusing . |
| 12 | From the middle of the eighteenth century onwards a growing chorus of voices had championed the creation of a professional police . |
| 13 | By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film . |
| 14 | As I crouched down in the trench I thought of the French family just a short distance away from us . |
| 15 | But when scientific method is employed to keep the work of sociology along the lines of a growing discipline then a close relationship between theory , hypothesis and facts must be maintained . |
| 16 | Mr. Langley submitted that , under the plain terms of the statute , it was the Bank and the Bank alone who were empowered to make the necessary judgment , with no interposition ( as in some other statutes ) of a judicial officer e.g. a commissioner in relation to certain statutory powers of the revenue . |
| 17 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 18 | The ticket office , which has been branded an eyesore , was opened as a temporary measure over a year ago in preparation for the station 's £1m refurbishment . |
| 19 | Meat should not be eaten more than once a day ; and fish is increasingly thought of as healthier — oily fish is useful in the prevention of heart disease and arthritis — and you may feel it is worth substituting fish for meat as a main meal twice a week . |
| 20 | Then we would n't have this nonsense of having to get our meat through a Christian butcher twice a week . |
| 21 | But the late Elizabethans and Jacobeans cultivated with the utmost fertility both a free form of ricercar , the fantasia or ‘ fancy ’ , and the peculiarly English ‘ In nomine ’ ( see p. 240 ) , as well as dance music and song-arrangements , both for consort ( usually for viols , though also ‘ broken ’ , i.e. for mixed instruments ) and for keyboard ( usually the small table-harpsichord known as virginals , or organ ) . |
| 22 | Under section 22(3) of the Children Act 1989 the local authority has the duty ‘ to safeguard and promote the welfare ’ of children in care and , in my judgment , responsibility for the care of the child is firmly with the local authority once a care order is made . |
| 23 | So Barnes , a 25-year-old who was in park football two years ago , could be pitched into the big time barely a year after revolutionary surgery in the States saved his career . |
| 24 | Then he sprang , bearing her down into the trampled snow only a few paces from Yet 's body . |
| 25 | We could clinch a play-off place with a good run yet a lot of fans appear to have written off our season . |
| 26 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 27 | If all context-tables are combined into a single library then a change in the properties of a context can be effected just by changing its context-specification within the library . |
| 28 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 29 | Liz started as an assistant cook just a few months after CCG had won the Grampian contract , but later moved into the office and now bring her experience to bear on a range of tasks . |
| 30 | Cattle stealing provided certain groups in rural areas with an opportunity to benefit from the economic changes along the coast and in the central highlands , but it did not long survive as an organized business once a district was penetrated deeply by plantations . |