Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor dear Hugh 's face was somehow much less vivid than the tall hennins a married lady could wear , that gave her extra height . |
| 2 | In the botanical gardens a huge tree had fallen and crushed a bus . |
| 3 | To be forbidden to speak and write one 's own native tongue is one of the greatest punishments a cruel dictator can inflict upon a proudly independent people : it was one of the Franco regime 's most despicable crimes against humanity . |
| 4 | In the very early days of the Baptist churches a typical service consisted of prayer , the reading of one or two chapters from the Bible , a series of expositions on the readings and a collection for the poor . |
| 5 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 6 | Gauci had remembered the sale so vividly that , almost ten months later , he had given the Scottish police a probable date for it , 23 November 1988 , and provided a FBI videofit artist with a detailed description of his customer — he believed , a Libyan . |
| 7 | The Labour Party should be advocating in the strongest terms a substantial increase in Child Benefit , even if this means increasing income tax on people earning as ‘ little ’ as £14,000 , together possibly with increases in excise duties . |
| 8 | As yet the list of lords who were individually summoned to attend had not hardened , so that lay peers ( as they came later to be called ) fluctuated from around fifty to a hundred , and alongside the twenty-one bishops a varying number of abbots and priors — sometimes as many as seventy , occasionally more , often fewer — were invited to attend . |
| 9 | The very circumstance , however , which made the public schools a perfect vehicle for propaganda — their isolation , through the boarding system , from the outside world and the idiosyncratic influence of families — ensured that Dr Arnold , in his crusade for the personal salvation of his charges , could enjoy no more than a limited success . |
| 10 | CGI Corp , US subsidiary of the Faris company , will present a resolution at Computer Horizons ' May 5 annual shareholders ' meeting to ‘ modify or terminate ’ Computer Horizons ' shareholder rights plan and the golden parachutes in place to give the top officers a handsome pay-off should the company be acquired . |
| 11 | In the British Isles a fine example of a tombolo is provided by Chesil Beach , a 30 km long ( 18 miles ) ridge connecting the Isle of Portland to the mainland ( Fig. 8.28 ) . |
| 12 | The challenge to make the 88000-based systems a binary-compatible standard across a wide range of high-volume , multi-vendor platforms has largely failed , despite the 88open binary compatibility standard , to which DG heavily contributed , serving as a model for how it should be done . |
| 13 | Throughout the forty interviews a clear perception of housework as work emerges . |
| 14 | And the balance of early modern attitudes to the old looks a good deal less favourable when we realize that the terms of chronological age used then were quite different from those in use today . |
| 15 | Lapointe shot the old ladies a savage glance , placed a hand over that of the fräulein , and murmured something in her ear . |
| 16 | argue that for the social sciences a key research priority should also be an improved understanding of the deep-rooted social and instinctive relationships and processes to which the conscious aspects of the mind are subjected . |
| 17 | He 's in all the typical things a young man who 's too quick does , that 's fly off the road all the time , but that 's part of the normal learning curve , and I think that he 'll be trouble for every team that does n't have him in their actual car at the time . |
| 18 | We positioned it so that it faced away from the doorway , to avoid draughts and to give the future inhabitants a little privacy . |
| 19 | Well we like erm obviously to keep the ball alive erm I guess that Oxford may , I do n't know whether Ray would agree with me , may play the set pieces a little bit . |
| 20 | Then it was Christmas Eve 1914 , and from ‘ Wypers ’ to the Masurian Lakes a strange event occurred . |
| 21 | The structure of ownership allows the individual consultants a high level of personal profit ; they can receive almost half of the billings . |
| 22 | In the early stages a higher proportion of errors will occur , but these should be shown to have value in the process of reaching a solution . |
| 23 | During the early dynasties a two-horned genus extended into the northern heartland of Chinese civilization . |
| 24 | In the preceding chapters a simple presentation has been made of the properties of curved space–time . |
| 25 | Tindle had in fact recognised in the flattened-out planks a standard trick whereby the decorative nature of the composition is reinforced . |
| 26 | On the opposite bank , Greenwich Palace shone in majesty ; the sun was setting , turning the white walls a glowing pink . |
| 27 | And no doubt she thinks me strange beyond belief I am too tall , not handsome by this world 's standards , and I do n't know how to pay the pretty compliments a young woman expects . |
| 28 | On one of the three pages a nude Amaranth had been photographed playing croquet . |
| 29 | Amongst the most popular are The Three Lakes a circular tour of three of Europe 's most beautiful lakes . |
| 30 | This was so important that for each of the national developments a full time National Development Officer ( NDO ) was seconded for a year from a college . |