Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of a planned 2,266 a total of 1,581 Cuban troops had been withdrawn during January , bringing to 31,138 the number withdrawn since January 1989 . |
| 2 | The dieter in our example therefore wants to think in terms of an average loss of a mere half a pound ( a quarter of a kilogram ) each week . |
| 3 | In the middle of a yellow common the engine died , and the car rolled jerkily to a halt . |
| 4 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
| 5 | He waited for a full half an hour by his watch before he opened it . |
| 6 | It started as a funnelling current the size of a sea horse , then lengthened , sucking in a core of air . |
| 7 | Once he was stripped and put into a clean dry the featherbed . |
| 8 | Business failures , which have rocketed to a staggering 76 a day , should also decline . |
| 9 | [ F ] rom the early 1960s the bulldozers began to bite into the inner cities : slum clearance in Britain rose from less than 35,000 houses a year in 1955 to a steady 70,000 a year from 1960 . |
| 10 | Prost lost the championship by an even smaller margin the following year when Niki Lauda , his new team-mate at McLaren , pipped him by a mere half a point despite the Frenchman winning seven rounds . |