Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after North 's sentencing , the blundering charmer now a felon , both Time and Newsweek called him ‘ Ollie ’ on their covers . |
| 2 | What bugged me was the way they sampled that line ‘ Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ’ from the film Withnail and I. It was a shame , since what I liked was the way the album had its own space and logic . |
| 3 | There are several reasons for this extension but the most important in the case of the declaration is that , being a non-coercive remedy ( which means that failure to comply with a declaration does not amount to a contempt of court ) , it is available against the Crown ; and it is very useful in other situations where the seeking of a coercive remedy might be thought unnecessarily aggressive , and where the plaintiff is confident that the defendant will do the right thing once a court says what it is . |
| 4 | The failure is said to have its origins in the second half of the nineteenth century when a number of changes were taking place in the structure of British domestic banking , and in the nature of corporate ownership . |
| 5 | Booth 's survey also had an influence on a similar movement in the United States , though its roots go back to the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of small surveys on the " dangerous classes " were undertaken . |
| 6 | S. Gimignano , near Siena , is the outstanding instance where a number of towers still survive and these date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 7 | It took the Croatian archaeologists almost a year to obtain permission to get into the Barbariga military base . |
| 8 | It would be almost certain to give the strongest party not a majority of seats , but only a plurality , thus rendering it incapable of governing without the support or at least the consent of one other party . |
| 9 | Together they contribute the cultural means whereby a society organizes and acts upon its environment by the establishment of communal categories of context . |
| 10 | David , 29 , said he had lost control when he swerved to miss a car going the wrong way round a roundabout . |
| 11 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 12 | A SOLDIER was critically injured yesterday after driving the wrong way down a fogbound motorway . |
| 13 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 14 | This will disgorge the stored information twice a day , at alternate intervals of 10 and 14 hours , as IRAS passes over the operational control centre at Chilton in Oxfordshire . |
| 15 | In th i in the old days when a firm would come along and pack everything , then they said that , and that was quite true , that they would pack everything and then they would be responsible if damage was done . |
| 16 | While this does not appear to be such an earth shattering decision , it is one of the few occasions when a coroner 's action has been criticised . |
| 17 | They fled the civil war there a year ago . |
| 18 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 19 | State and local authorities struggle on with a handful of experts , usually on loan from the west , and an army of communist-trained bureaucrats lacking the faintest idea how a market economy works . |
| 20 | IAN WRIGHT grabbed a superb 73rd-minute winner against his old club Crystal Palace as Arsenal moved menacingly up to third place in the Premier League just a point behind leaders Blackburn . |
| 21 | This attractive picture relates the strange BL Lac objects to quasars in a straightforward way , and offers the exciting possibility of looking , in a BL Lac object , deep into the heart of a quasar — possibly down to the central powerhouse where a quasar produces as much power as hundreds of galaxies in a space no larger than the Solar system ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 364 ) . |
| 22 | the independent film movement aims to understand the cinema not as a profit-making machine confined to the realm of ‘ mass entertainment , but as one of the central means whereby a society consciously speaks to and thus understands itself … |
| 23 | Survivals include the Cambrian Coast , radio signalled in 1988 , where Barmouth viaduct was after all repaired , the Central Wales where a decision was taken to rebuild the bridge which collapsed while a train was crossing it in high flood , and the Settle & Carlisle where the government perhaps surprisingly refused closure . |
| 24 | This charge will not be limited to the straightforward case where a shareholder elects to take scrip in place of a particular cash dividend , but will also cover other arrangements which achieve a similar result , for instance by the issue of a separate class of shares carrying the right to a stock dividend . |
| 25 | She adds : ‘ Even if you feel at times that you ca n't face the extra work in the kitchen that Christmas seems to involve , it 's worth making the extra effort once a year . |
| 26 | But is the 23-minute chat really a lovey-dovey phone call between Princess Di and an admirer ? |
| 27 | She said an assault at the St Chad 's Drive pub on the Friday night was followed by a confrontation with the bouncers the following night when a gun was produced . |
| 28 | She said an assault at the St Chad 's Drive pub on the Friday night was followed by a confrontation with the bouncers the following night when a gun was produced . |
| 29 | They were released the following day when a crowd of 4000 people gathered outside the police station . |
| 30 | The building of the aircraft — this was the real thing not a toy — and the fabrication of many working parts to fine tolerances brought the students face to face with many new situations . |