Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study day will include lectures and remembrances of the line , which finally closed in 1959 , a walk along part of the trackbed and a viewing of some of the recently restored buildings of the lead mine which the Railway opened to serve in 1877 . |
| 2 | Our first step in illustrating interval harmony using the whole chromatic octave will be to write a succession of consonances in two parts : This succession of six two-part chords uses the total-chromatic and a variety of consonances , though not the 4th and major 6th . |
| 3 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 4 | The accused and a couple of friends staged a false robbery to get the money from the victim . |
| 5 | The Buddhist revival gained momentum in the 1870s after a series of public debates between Buddhist and Protestant preachers increased Buddhist self-confidence . |
| 6 | He reformed the Pacemakers in the seventies after a resurgence of interest in his music … he 's been on the road ever since . |
| 7 | I do n't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here . |
| 8 | They can be very useful , especially for those with chronic conditions , and for the elderly where a mix of medicines may result in undesirable side-effects . |
| 9 | His eagles came from a 15-yard bunker shot at the eighth and a putt of similar distance at the eleventh . |
| 10 | Two fine 18th century dolls are at the centre of the notable doll collection , and there are also dolls ' houses from the 19th century and the 1920s and a model of a German kitchen . |
| 11 | It follows from the foregoing that a condition of the type at issue in the main proceedings , which stipulates that where a vessel is owned or chartered by natural persons they must be of a particular nationality , and where it is owned or chartered by a company the shareholders and directors must be of that nationality , is contrary to article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 12 | The essential difference , the author claims , is that ‘ caring work involves a degree of intimacy , of closeness socially ( emotionally and/or physically ) between the carer and the cared-for and a recognition of the individuality of the person receiving the service ’ . |
| 13 | In the early years of the nineteenth century , the classical had sustained its peaceful co-existence with the Gothic and a variety of other styles , largely because each house remained at heart Palladian , assuming alternatives merely as decoration . |
| 14 | Information is just the same as a state of consciousness , be it ordinary , everyday perception , heightened perception using drugs or , as in your case , using sexuality . |
| 15 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 16 | It is not quite the same as a promise of indemnity , since it suggests that the primary content is prevention rather than payment . |
| 17 | But Redmire , apart from its almost unique ability to grow exceptionally big carp ( it produced the current record of 51lb 8oz ) , is much the same as a lot of carp waters . |
| 18 | This will allow more room in the main section of the fair where a number of innovations will be in evidence next year : a separate section for galleries exhibiting for the first time ; a section for photography and publishers and a more spacious layout of stands and aisles . |
| 19 | It was not until the 1880s that a number of new factors operating together began to change the prospect for the better . |
| 20 | We remember the 1930s for a set of very general measures , rather than for any inter-professional work on traffic and roads as part of a comprehensive view of urban development and planning . |
| 21 | In the introduction to a book on Man and Environmental Processes ( Gregory and Walling , 1979 ) the pointers available were resolved into a century of milestones ( to 1960 ) , a decade of papers in the 1960s and a decade of readings in the 1970s . |
| 22 | I thought , ‘ It 's the Nineties and a lot of people just do n't know what 's going on . ’ |
| 23 | Historians are certain to acknowledge that she dominated the political landscape of the 1980s and a number of her policies will leave a mark in post-Thatcher Britain . |
| 24 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 25 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 26 | 1357 , was not a Franciscan but a Carmelite of the Whitefriary , and his connection with Stamford is purely related to the university legend . |
| 27 | The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens . |
| 28 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 29 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 30 | Equally , a feminist who left a meeting , went home and jumped into bed with hubbie or boyfriend , was no better than a member of the fifth column . |