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

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1 Forty three patients had partially treated iron deficiency with a typical blood film and microcytosis ( mean cell volume <76 fl ) or iron , iron binding capacity or ferritin , or all four at the extremes of the normal range and a response to iron treatment .
2 The show is a mix of puppets and a human Alice when she 's the normal size and a puppet Alice when she 's shrunk by the potion .
3 The law compiles doctrines such as fraud , mistake , duress , undue influence and incapacity , which share the task of specifying the occasions when the normal presumption that a person acts voluntarily may be rebutted .
4 Other events there will be A Night Out with Goldsmith , Johnson and Burney at the Georgian Theatre and a performance by Fritz Spiegel and the Spiegelers .
5 Soon it was moving at the speed of a trotting horse between a high hedge on the right-hand side and a stone wall on the left .
6 ‘ The first term I was there I remember doing a large choral concert , an opera with the junior school and a carol service . ’
7 the divine lotus or a man with a lotus blossom on his head .
8 A CSCE mission was nevertheless permitted to visit Nagorny Karabakh on Feb. 12 , and on Feb. 17 Hassan Hasanov , the Azerbaijani Prime Minister , arrived in Brussels to attend a session of the European Parliament and a meeting of NATO 's Political Council , where he spoke about the background to the conflict .
9 To that end it has recently amended the European Commission 's proposals for the introduction of a licence system for art exports outside the European Community and a directive concerning the regulation of the return of works of art illegally removed from one member state to another .
10 Finally , there is the strong possibility that a contagion effect will operate in this setting .
11 Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance .
12 Verbal abuse was traditionally a crime among the Sinhalese , but the courts stopped trying this offence in the 1820s in the Low Country and a decade later in Kandyan districts .
13 The odd chicken or a carrot cake would be much appreciated .
14 True , a haircut , a smattering of designer stubble , the odd earring and a spot of UVA can make a difference , but basically it 's the inner man who 's on display .
15 If the duty were held to be unexcludable , this would have the odd effect that a trespasser to premises not in business use could be better off than a visitor .
16 Occasionally , they kill soldiers , and blow up the odd bridge or a railway line , but essentially they are an impotent and marginal force currently engaged in peace talks with the military .
17 He then went on to consider whether the further proceedings would be against the children 's interests under four heads : ( 1 ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation ; ( 2 ) the fact that , under section 91(1) , if in respect of any child a residence order were made in favour of the foster mother , the existing care order to the local authority would be discharged ; ( 3 ) the shared parental responsibility between the foster mother and the mother which would result from section 12(2) conferring parental responsibility upon the foster mother if a residence order were to be made in her favour ; ( 4 ) the time that would be likely to elapse before any substantive order could be made .
18 The hostility of the army to the republic increased with the Catalan autonomy statute which represented to them the breaking up of the Spanish nation and a threat to national pride .
19 Maine was writing in the wake of the Chartist movement and a decade after the formation of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers , the first professional union in Britain with a membership exclusively of apprenticed craftsmen .
20 The machine has seven programmes , quick-wash , reversible upper spray arm in the lower basket and a decor frame , so a sheet of laminate can be fitted to the door to match kitchen units .
21 The circular stapling gun was then introduced through an anterior gastrostomy and opened in the lower oesophagus when a nylon or silk ligature was tied round just at the gastrooesophageal junction .
22 Other types of terrace also exist , such as the ridge terrace where a ridge of earth on the lower side and a channel on the upper side provide the mechanism for increased water retention and infiltration , and reduction and deceleration of surface run off .
23 First , there is the libertarian premiss that a person 's position should not be irremediably worsened by another 's conduct .
24 This was made up of a £621,800 increase in the specific provision and a reduction of £98,000 in the general provision against residential property , and a £4,740 increase in the specific provision against unsecured loans .
25 It is advisable that the social worker should have at least a knowledge of the laws of various churches on sexual and marital affairs which enables him or her to seek advice from the right source if a client might be affected .
26 Someday , if ever I found the right producer and a label were interested , I 'd like to give that a shot . ’
27 Implicit in it is a belief in the nobility of the suffering victim and a judgement that sees the working class as inevitably corrupted by material things .
28 Thus Bond Men Made Free by Rodney Hilton ( London 1973 ) , which deals with the peasants ' revolt of 1381 , would be classified in the column of the fourteenth century , and the row of , say , ‘ Social Structure ’ ; and The Hungry Mills by Norman Longmate ( London 1978 ) which describes the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861–65 , would appear in the column for the nineteenth century and a row possibly designated ‘ Trade and Industry ‘ .
29 ‘ Participating firms have the services of a consultant for between one and four hours , they receive a summary of his findings , a copy of the complete study and a return visit when he advises on ways of acting on the results of his findings . ’
30 One of the hallmarks of Conservative British governments in the 1980s was the readiness to spend large sums of money promoting the private market and a set of values which have come to be known as the ‘ enterprise culture ’ — witness the £1,200 million spent on the privatisation of Shorts and the shipyard .
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