Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] of [art] " in BNC.

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1 After a hundred lines of the coarsest prose the final juxtaposition shows a gap of ethos as wide as that between Troilus and Pandarus , but more threatening : Her intended customer is the nobleman Lysimachus , and to begin with Marina speaks a docile prose with the bawds ( IV.vi.51ff. ) , continuing with aggressive word-play in order to shame Lysimachus into naming the vice he is engaged upon ( 66–91 ) .
2 After a few glasses of the local ‘ dark and stormy ’ cocktail — a mixture of rum and ginger beer — the new Governor might agree with the poet Andrew Marvell who wrote of eternal spring in ‘ an isle so long unknown and yet far kinder than our own ’ .
3 After a few days of the Novotel , I was able to move to the Trianon , a magnificent Edwardian building , well placed right on the edge of the park .
4 After a few laps of the track we could kick a ball about or even have a go at throwing a javelin .
5 A DOCUMENTARY programme from NBC-TV in January 1973 , had such an impact that in the following 48 hours more than a quarter of a million copies of the associated book were sold .
6 Pathos is created only by the sacrifice of a few members of the virtuous side , mostly old ones like Théoden or Dáin , or peripheral ones like Háma and Halbarad and the list of mere names in the Rohan dirge after the Pelennor Fields .
7 Here , for example , is Bassano 's version of a few bars of the soprano part of Palestrina 's ‘ Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas ’ :
8 We were looking about four thousand pounds for for s for a thousand copies of the
9 Let us think for a few moments of the wonderful achievements of the human race — the towns that have been built , the works of art that have been produced — the books , plays , films , pictures , music … the progress that has been made in science and technology .
10 To complete the sequence , try for a few close-ups of the coloured light reflecting in the children 's faces , after which a fade to black would bring the sequence to an appropriate close .
11 He twisted his mouth through a half-dozen versions of a smile .
12 Carwyn desperately wanted to come through a few heats of the Pipeline Masters .
13 Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway .
14 This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road .
15 It was hours before the first students managed to permeate through the streets and come to within a hundred yards of the Mar Girgis .
16 Others who made it to within a hundred yards of the bridge … count themselves lucky to have survived …
17 Its guidlines state that the bypass would have to be within a hundred yards of the road or the conditions intolerable before the property would be bought , though the Judge Mr Justice Latham said that in his view those guidelines were a shambles .
18 Closely similar creatures called sea pens grow in the sea within a hundred miles of the Flinders Ranges .
19 Within a hundred years of the missionaries ' arrival many English men and women had enthusiastically adopted the monasticism which was considered the purest form of the Christian life and the surest way to salvation , and which had spread throughout western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries .
20 The second man ducked back around the corner and Maxim backed off crouching and aiming until he was within a few metres of the cross-street .
21 That is , they fluctuate about a mean with a wavelength small compared with the dimensions of the sample , and the effects of these fluctuations become insignificant within a few wavelengths of the surface .
22 The first organisms , which appear within a few hours of the pool forming , are bacteria , as well as tiny single celled plants and animals called algae and protozoa respectively .
23 The process of counting is a proficient one and a sufficient number of results are usually announced within a few hours of the close of the polls to know which party has won the election .
24 Positioned within a few inches of the speaker 's lips , they produce a strong speech signal which stands out clearly against noisy backgrounds .
25 Both modern and ancient zones show intense reaction within a few centimetres of the soil surface , perhaps the area with least preservation potential , but very little alteration of the original sediment below that depth .
26 It hissed and moved its head to within a few centimetres of the android .
27 Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings .
28 All savour the wonderful position and the advantage of living within a few minutes of the A55 Expressway , with fast journey times in both directions .
29 Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge .
30 She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were .
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