Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rumoured he had earned the nickname by biting the navel clean out of a whore who had displeased him , and I found the rumour all too believable for he was not a pleasant man . |
| 2 | This low-impact , high energy workout promises the aerobic equivalent of a seven mph run with the impact to the legs equivalent only of a three mph walk . |
| 3 | There was a gap in the lower part of the wall big enough for a boy , hardly big enough for a man to squeeze through . |
| 4 | On the third attempt James Dougal brought the lifeboat close enough for a heaving line to be thrown to the divers . |
| 5 | Workers in a place like Spiralynx can only be organised if there is an explosion of anger and discontent inside the factory strong enough for a large number of workers to take a stand , at the risk of losing their own jobs . |
| 6 | It was written and painted with outstanding expertise about the year 800 AD in a monastery scriptorium , but it is impossible to identify where this monastery was located . |
| 7 | Goebbels 's rousing ‘ total war ’ speech on 18 February 1943 stirred the Party faithful again for a short time . |
| 8 | Are the doorways wide enough for a wheelchair , can you go easily from one room to another , is the floor level throughout the flat , or are there steps up and down to various rooms ? |
| 9 | Two completely trivial points must be mentioned as they may bring readers up with a start : in the first movement of the Sibelius symphony at 3′17″ ( bar 40 ) , the third trombone plays E sharp instead of E natural , and in the first movement of the Shostakovich ( track 7 , 7′19″ , six bars after fig. 16 ) the bassoon plays a G natural instead of a flat . |
| 10 | We got a house with three bedrooms , a bathroom , a separate sitting room and dining room , a kitchen big enough for a table and chairs ( saving mothers from solitary domestic confinement ) , front and back garden , a coal house , inside lavatory and outside lavatory and wash house where people stored dolly tubs and mangles , bikes and prams . |
| 11 | We got a bit excited there for a minute . ’ |
| 12 | And I went oh God , that 's probably cos it did n't happen like this and he goes oh right and he goes yeah got a bit excited there for a minute did n't you son like and went er yeah well Andy I like , quite like him , he 's quite sweet but |
| 13 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 14 | Thus an exclusion clause in a contract is a defence available only to a contracted party and only against the other contracted party , Scruttons v. Midland Silicones ( 1962 H.L. ) . |
| 15 | ( d ) " Existing liability " in s.2(1) ( a ) and ( b ) includes a liability enforceable only by a court order : Modupe [ 1991 ] Crim LR 539 ( CA ) . |
| 16 | At the end of the flat portion there was a gap big enough for a man 's body to drop through , and then a single rung like a short parallel bar in a gym . |
| 17 | Sam pulled the door open and we looked into the scene that was all too familiar to my eyes ; an expanse of muddy water , the hole in the ceiling overhead and the curtain of iron mesh across the exit to the river ; a dock big enough for a moderate-sized cabin cruiser or three or four smaller boats . |
| 18 | The chimps ' individuality has always delighted and fascinated her , and Jomeo and Gigi , two full-blown eccentrics , are given a chapter each in Through a Window . |
| 19 | In extreme cases , unjustified delay can render a dismissal unfair even in a case where a similar penalty would have been legitimate had management not dragged its feet . |
| 20 | they found a room large enough in a dark part of Nightside and after clearing out the bugs , milkcrates , music stands and rusty oil drums , used it as a workshop . |
| 21 | If you can pull them out you can make a hole big enough for a man to get inside . |
| 22 | The temperature dependence of η can normally be expressed in the form where A is a constant and ΔE D represents the activation energy required to create a hole big enough for a molecule to translate or ‘ jump ’ into during flow . |
| 23 | With an album due out in a couple of weeks , the mixture of old and new material was just right . |
| 24 | Underneath you 'll find an oven big enough for a family-sized turkey . |