Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , today the standard colour is black-and-white pied and indeed many have Friesian blood but are much smaller , shorter and more compact than the Friesian and a great deal hardier . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For nearly 3 years they 've made the 2 and a half mile trip from their temporary classrooms back to their homes . |
| 5 | She sighed ecstatically as they reached the cliff-top and a warm breeze caught her hair and whirled it high above her head . |
| 6 | Events in the race itself summon up less pious images , for this running of the world 's greatest Classic saw a brawling match up the straight and a sensational disqualification which to many smelled of more than one personal vendetta . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In only its third year of operating the three and a half mile branch between Bodmin General and Bodmin Parkway , the B & W has established itself as a major leisure attraction and is building a reputation as one of the more progressive preserved railways in the country . |
| 9 | The three and a half mile line running between Hammersmith and Riddings Junction with intermediate stations at Butterley and Swanwick Junction was originally opened in 1875 and acquired by the Midland at a later date . |
| 10 | However , the three and a half inch works out more expensive . |
| 11 | The three and a half inch is as I said it 's approximately |
| 12 | The Casas Viejas incident of January 1933 , involving a massacre of Andalusian villagers by government forces during an anarchist rising , provoked disgust on the left and a cynical outcry on the right , and began an eight-month process of governmental demoralization and disintegration . |
| 13 | A high wall bars any chance of escape to the left and a frosty beech hedge borders the alley to the right . |
| 14 | The TV producer led them to one of the last suites on the left and a young man in pullover and jeans swung round on his chair . |
| 15 | What was important was a shared antagonism towards democracy and the left and a common commitment to some sort of authoritarian , corporate state . |
| 16 | Mansell received the fine and a one-race ban , which FISA applied to the Spanish Grand Prix , after he illegally reversed his Ferrari in the pits and failed to stop at a black disqualification flag , waved three times during the race in Estoril on 24 September . |
| 17 | ‘ An alliance between the MDC and a private company would be an excellent example of partnership to create jobs and prosperity . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ An alliance between the MDC and a private company would be an excellent example of partnership to create jobs and prosperity . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Hyundai claims 0–60mph in 10secs for the Cdi and a top speed of nearly 118mph — improvements of 1.1secs and 6mph over the 1.6-litre Lantra . |
| 25 | After some bartering they acquired both the nude and a splendid portrait of a servant girl for five hundred francs . |
| 26 | Many imperial measurements such as the furlong and the acre were originally calculated by the 5 and a half acre rod that 's used to guide the oxen . |
| 27 | If the East Europeans could have offered a bit more in the loose and a great deal more behind the scrum , they would have reaped some reward for their excellent work in the line-out . |
| 28 | The five and a half hectare site contains an astonishing jumble of over fifty separate buildings , ranging from the solid stonework of the 1819 prison to Victorian brickwork and a bewildering variety of modern additions , including the kitchens . |
| 29 | You can spot the weirdy inclinations from several kilometres , like the one and a half minute wig-outs of ‘ How Much Longer Must We Tolerate Mass Culture ’ and ‘ Missing Parts Of Famous People ’ , or the eight-minute wibbling challenge that is ‘ Music ’ . |
| 30 | The first part of the one and a half day course deals with all the key elements of TNT on a formal lecture/discussion basis . |