Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [coord] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Since we are considering a binary computer , multiplication and division of the contents of the accumulator by a power of two can be accomplished by shifting the contents to the left or right an appropriate number of positions . |
2 | It should be noted that , properly speaking , wrappers are quite different from jackets or dust wrappers , which are not part of the binding but simply an extraneous protection . |
3 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
4 | Those who marched were a coalition of wildly different elements : pacifists and Christians , Trade Unionists and Little Englanders , anarchists and rationalists , Beats and ravers , the barefoot and the long-haired and also a great many quiet and concerned young parents pushing prams or carrying infants on their shoulders . |
5 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
6 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
7 | This is partly a technical and partly a practical question , and on the practical side it is rather too soon to give any judgement . |
8 | Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants . |
9 | Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes . |
10 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
11 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
12 | I do not intend to have a restrictive but rather an expansive definition . |
13 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
14 | He then asks " how should one recognise authority ? " and answers that " degrees only prove knowledge ; look among those who really love art and literature " , and he goes on to conclude : " The artist , if he really is an artist , possesses absolute value which he can not lose : the man of science , once refuted or superseded , retains no absolute but only an historical importance . " |
15 | Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control . |
16 | The test is not what the defendants contemplated as a likely or even an inevitable consequence of their conduct ; it is ‘ what is in truth the object in the minds of the combiners when they acted as they did ? ’ |
17 | Ashton makes brilliant use of this in his version of the solo , phrasing the steps so that a jump upwards can last three beats followed by two short steps or two beats followed by a long and then a short step . |
18 | From 1869 he published several papers on speech disorders , describing a visual and later an auditory word centre , as well as word blindness and word deafness ( later known as Wernicke 's aphasia ) . |
19 | He was a brilliant but also a tortured thinker , in many ways a solitary and tragic figure , his personality marked by a tendency to depression , and by the decision he made in 1843 to break off his engagement to Regine Olsen . |
20 | To yank someone entirely out of their time and smack them around for not being of our time is perhaps a salutary but only a limited exercise . |
21 | It will build this on a ledge if one is conveniently available , but it is perfectly capable of fixing the nest to a vertical or even an overhanging wall of rock . |
22 | This should be a rewarding and therefore a motivating experience if the learner does come away from it with a feeling of achievement . |
23 | Apart from the difference in the colour of the coat — there were blacks , chestnuts , a grey and even a piebald — the beasts were exactly alike . |
24 | So all of you in this room are either a psychocentric or probably an alocentric . |
25 | However , questioning the medical professional is a difficult and often a daunting task , given their present high social status . |
26 | For the history of linguistic analysis in the West is overwhelmingly a prescriptive and overtly a political one . |
27 | Kohlberg has speculated on the existence of a seventh stage in which the universal human perspective is replaced by a holistic cosmic perspective which might have a religious or even a pantheistic orientation . |
28 | This therefore implies a sort of traumatic stratigraphy with major events , such as transgressions , virtually synchronous on a continent-wide or even a world-wide scale . |
29 | When Sjahrir resigned , his successor was Amir Sjarifuddin , a Christian and supposedly a moderate . |
30 | Veljko Kadijevic , the National Defence Minister , in a speech to the Collective State Presidency , responding to the EC peace plan , accused Germany of " being about to attack Yugoslavia for the third time this century , … preparing first for an economic and then a military assault " . |