Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its characteristics are personal acquisitiveness , set free by generous tax cuts for the rich and a licensed pursuit of the fast buck ; markets , including foreign exchange , left unfettered to bestow their dynamism on the economy ; a state rolled as far back as is electorally tenable ; and a participatory capitalism , based on profit rather than ownership , where almost anything is a commodity to be traded . |
| 2 | The time taken by the cyclist for the six and a half mile journey from Currie to the City Chambers was thirty minutes , making an average speed of 13 mph . |
| 3 | Yet , while the traditional working class had little prospect of improving their economic and social opportunities , this was not so for the two and a half million or so families whose income varied between £2 and £4 per week . |
| 4 | Sir John had been a Conservative councillor and had presided over the National Industrial Relations Court for the two and a half years of its existence during the Heath administration . |
| 5 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 6 | It can be no bigger than A4 , and it must n't project more than 3 inches , but at the moment they are pouring into Rosie Headers house , and we 've had stuff from Japan and America already , and also from artists in the community , but anybody can enter for Mail Art , so if anybody 's interested in a Mail Art sheet , I can get one for you , but those exhibitions are going up in Freud 's , which is our sort of Festival Centre for the two and a half weeks during the Festival . |
| 7 | As well as the youth club the church boasts a mother and toddler group , a club for the elderly and a popular meeting point for young people who have regular gatherings at the church 's brand new hall . |
| 8 | There has , for example , been a marked reduction in direct council provision of homes for the elderly and a concomitant increase in privately run homes . |
| 9 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
| 10 | Harvey produced a key for the third and a red light came on over each lock . |
| 11 | During the seven and a half months I was on C1 I went to Crown Court twice , and each time I got remanded back into Holloway . |
| 12 | The World Council Churches on this occasion reviewed the work accomplished during the seven and a half years since the last assembly in Vancouver in Canada . |
| 13 | Redford is much more richly represented in Mulliner 's book than anyone else , with Thomas Tallis ( c. 1505–1585 ) as the next and a younger man , William Blitheman ( c. 1525–1591 ) , third . |
| 14 | ‘ An alliance between the MDC and a private company would be an excellent example of partnership to create jobs and prosperity . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ An alliance between the MDC and a private company would be an excellent example of partnership to create jobs and prosperity . |
| 16 | The whole setup weighs about the same as a small combo , but is easier to carry because there 's less bulk . |
| 17 | Calls should cost about the same as a first-class stamp . |
| 18 | Your call should cost about the same as a first-class stamp . |
| 19 | Calls should cost about the same as a first-class stamp . |
| 20 | Adult hadrosaurs were up to 13 metres in length and weighed from 4 to 6 tons , about the same as a large elephant . |
| 21 | The final creations weighed a mere ten kilograms , about the same as a top-class racing bike and about half the weight of most ATBs . |
| 22 | The other displays painterly ‘ high art ’ tendencies such as a desire for sensual enjoyment through the visual and a positive weighting of compositional ‘ idea ’ over the notion of documentation . |
| 23 | What is going to happen after the nine and a half years ? |
| 24 | Freer : a Legacy of Art by Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill ( £40 , $49.50 ) tells Freer 's story as a collector and celebrates the reopening of the Smithsonian 's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC on Sunday , 9 May , its seventieth anniversary , after a four and a half year renovation project . |
| 25 | I have returned this year after a two and a half year break ) to a 100% improvement within your magazine — correction my magazine . |
| 26 | The Centre for Human Ecology , with its origins in the late C.H. Waddington 's ‘ School of the Man-Made Future ’ of the 1960s and a long history of promoting environmental awareness within the University , today finds itself at the hub of current ideology . |
| 27 | The park authority itself has few powers over agricultural change — control of the largest and a few other farm buildings but little else — and must operate by giving counter advice and offering compensation to the Farmer who proposes an action that is seen to be damaging . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 30 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |