Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adj] [adv] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 A curtain of dripping water spat at the bonnet as the darkness of the tunnel engulfed us , the sound of the engine louder now and a sense of finality as the rock walls closed about us .
2 It is traditionally accepted that it was in about the year 753 B.C. that a tribe of people settled near the Tiber on the Palatine Hill .
3 For colouring large areas or items of icing or marzipan , however , it is still better to shade the icing first so that a more even tone is obtained — painting over a large area in a single colour can be patchy and uneven .
4 The Swedes at one time , they designed er a stabilizer which was er a type hydraulic rather than a mechanical hydraulic er er stabilizer , and subsequently all the materials that I was talking about , the levers and you know , all the rest of it , were not required , and it shrunk the size of the thing er so low you know , that er the British manufacturers had to look , because the Swedes were then in the market er in a competitive way to take on Brothers or anybody else who were prepared to er produce them under licence .
5 A court martial rather than a discussion .
6 It has sometimes been remarked that the courts test for transfer of an enterprise is an employment one rather than a commercial one .
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