Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to MacWeek magazine , Apple has a project under way under the code name Star Trek which involves a rewrite of System 7.1 to provide users of machines built around the 80486 and above an alternative to Microsoft Corp 's Windows . |
| 2 | According to MacWeek magazine , Apple has a project under way under the code name Star Trek which involves a rewrite of System 7.1 to provide users of machines built around the 80486 and above an alternative to Microsoft Corp 's Windows . |
| 3 | The flowing blood was the symbol and proof that life had been taken in payment for the sins of the guilty and as a substitute for his own guilt-stained life . |
| 4 | Barrow grew from a single house into a fishing village of some 300 people by the 1840s and into a town of 40,000 people a generation later . |
| 5 | Tiles can be laid on the diagonal or in a basket weave design to produce handsome effects . |
| 6 | Interchanges are being arranged with the Chinese and with a group in Paris also pursuing microsimulation . |
| 7 | The Act occasioned a considerable debate about the needs of the disabled and as a result much publicity was given to their cause and many of their problems received greater critical attention . |
| 8 | His father , who sat in nine Parliaments for Dorset or Weymouth , was prominent as an opponent of the court in the 1620s and as a Royalist in the civil war . |
| 9 | Cos these are exactly the same except with a well and two erm those four holes missing . |
| 10 | My consideration of difference originated in a turn to history in order to repudiate one such theory — specifically , that which construed homosexuality as an embrace of the same because of a fear of the different . |
| 11 | If the pipe has frozen , the ice ‘ plug ’ is almost certainly outside , and the solution is the same as for a supply pipe — that is , the application of heat . |
| 12 | Obviously , the type of leadership qualities required for a fast food establishment are not the same as for an insurance company . |
| 13 | As far as " goods " are concerned , the situation is the same as with a sale of goods contract because the definition of goods excludes things in action of which copyright is an example . |
| 14 | Much the same as In a family . " |
| 15 | The level of detail may seem much the same as in a catalogue raisonné , but the stress falls in a different way . |
| 16 | Woosnam only had an eight iron to the green but with a target just 49 feet wide , the difficulty lay in keeping the ball on the green . |
| 17 | The big financial sections in the dailies owed more to the growth of appropriate advertising in the 1960s than to a surge of reader interest . |
| 18 | Using the behavioural OR as an index of the value of α should not be taken to imply a belief that α is the sole determinant of this OR . |
| 19 | Diffusion is much slower through a liquid than through a gas . |
| 20 | The synthesiser can be used either as a melodic or as a chorus instrument . |
| 21 | In spite of the visual evidence , Lam is presented less as a modernist than as a rebel against modernism , as the outsider who challenges Europe on its own terms and wins . |
| 22 | Mrs Hill was a small , plump , middle-aged woman , with fine frizzy hair which she encased in a fine frizzy hair net ; she always wore a purple and blue flowered pinny , a garment more in keeping with an aunt or a cleaner than with a lover of science . |
| 23 | The Halifax reckons there is more money to be made from acting as a principal than as an agent . |
| 24 | The master disk can be read from a floppy or from an image file held on hard disk . |
| 25 | Glycollic acid could be a precursor for the petrochemical feedstock , ethylene glycol but it is also a useful chemical in its own right , serving as a descalent and as a mordant in the dyeing industry . |
| 26 | When the Newcastle goalkeeper rose to his feet after treatment , Mr Jones chose to re-start play not with a free-kick but with a drop-ball inside the penalty area . |
| 27 | But if talk of a right were insisted upon it would be seen as no more than as a flourish of personification to emphasise that the trustee had legal obligations towards the grave . |
| 28 | MARK DIGNAM was one of England 's foremost actors , both as a juvenile and as a character actor , ready to tackle anything going , from cameo to leading roles , an expert in the classics , above all Shakespeare , and a keen student of modern drama . |
| 29 | DDT was followed by other organo-chlorides , including aldrin , isodrin , entrin , and dieldrin , which was widely used in Britain as a sheep-dip and as a seed dressing . |
| 30 | That happy and wholly characteristic confusion of fact and supposition makes his criticism as readable , at times , as an eccentric novel by a country gentleman more at ease at a hunt-ball than in a classroom , at a levée than in a seminar . |