Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essence of showmanship had become the capacity to build up from one 's regular audience , to bring in whole families , to attract women and children , to win over religious families who were normally against organized entertainment , to convince trade unionists and the politically active that a moment 's respite was harmless enough , and to convince the respectable and well-to-do that a visit to the movies was not a disgraceful act . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been in the 190s for more than a year , so I will be glad to get there , ’ said Dixon . |
| 3 | Galileo did have the insight to perceive that the effect was probably the same as that when a drop of water would remain on a cabbage leaf . |
| 4 | That is not a retrospective or prescriptive but a descriptive process and will allow the citizens of this country to measure the standards of service that they receive from their local authorities . |
| 5 | To experiment with weaving , choose a backing yarn which is no thicker than 4-ply and a thicker weaving yarn . |
| 6 | In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually . |
| 7 | Impressive as it is , however , Dame Edna 's show is no more or less than a star vehicle . |
| 8 | However , whereas GEC/Siemens had originally proposed that their joint bid would result in a series of joint ventures between them , it became increasingly clear subsequently that the bid was , according to Sir John Clark , Plessey 's Chairman , ‘ no more or less than a simple old-fashioned attempt to carve up one of the leading British electronics companies ’ between GEC and Siemens ' . |
| 9 | That is no more or less than a sovereign Parliament within a constitutional monarchy should be able to expect . |
| 10 | Although no standard gauge locomotives are based here , there is a five and seven and a half inch narrow gauge railway which runs some distance up the Wye Valley . |
| 11 | Mr for the plaintiff argues for a figure of a hundred and thirty thousand pounds whereas Mr for the defendant submits that the claim is worth between a hundred and fifteen and a hundred and twenty thousand . |
| 12 | having this whole thing out , right , she 'd pay right , I bring home wage , right believe it or not I 'll tell you it 's about between a hundred and eleven and a hundred and fourteen pounds a week , that 's forty and ten , that 's a hundred and fifty pounds a week , right , now if she got to pay poll tax out of that , right , what she 's getting which is twenty odd pounds a month |
| 13 | Er between a hundred and thirty and a hundred forty . |
| 14 | Yes , how do you decide on a hundred and three or a hundred or four for allocation ? |
| 15 | My Lords , in rising to move Amendment Number Five , I should like to speak also to Amendment six , seven and eight , ten to twenty-two inclusive , twenty-seven , a hundred and twenty-four and a hundred and twenty-five . |
| 16 | ‘ It should be between a hundred and twenty and a hundred and forty . |
| 17 | We have n't got a hundred and twenty and a hundred thirty and last year one of the sets which we 've had since we got married we could n't them to go no matter what we tried . |