Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | Frame 's international standing was rewarded with a Vice-Presidency of the World Federation of the Deaf and a place on its elected Bureau . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The accused and a couple of friends staged a false robbery to get the money from the victim . |
| 6 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 7 | I do n't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here . |
| 8 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 9 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Labour , wholly in thrall to this feminist cause , will create a Ministry of Women ( as well as a Minister for the Disabled and a Minister for Children ) to generate ‘ legislation for women ’ . |
| 12 | I consider in the light of the foregoing that a reference to the objectives of the Community system of quotas can not be used to justify national rules on the registration of fishing vessels , even if those rules were applicable only to vessels intended to fish for species subject to quotas . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His mock-learned apparatus — appendices , maps of Middle-Earth and indexes — suggest a sense of erudition amiably mixed with bonhomie and fun ; his no-nonsense Christianity a hunger for the spiritual and a yearning for roots . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 1357 , was not a Franciscan but a Carmelite of the Whitefriary , and his connection with Stamford is purely related to the university legend . |
| 21 | This will be a more flexible list because prices tend to creep upwards ( except when you want to sell anything ) and your tastes and finances might well change a little or a lot along the way |
| 22 | So , for example , we 've got a positive with a negative , then we have a positive with a positive , a negative with a negative and a negative with a positive . |
| 23 | You have only to read her bestselling books , In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window , to recognise that by temperament she is a romantic and a child of nature . |
| 24 | Robin Knox-Johnson has recently been honoured at the Silk Cut Awards for his seamanship in navigating his yacht Suhali one way across the Atlantic with nothing more than an astrolabe , a cross-staff and a lot of skill , and then back without a mast , engine , radio or compass after a battering in a series of storms . |
| 25 | We should constantly be aware that when most people use the term ‘ mixed race ’ they do not mean a child of Indian and African parents , nor a Chinese and a person of African descent , they generally mean the child of a white person and any other person who is not white . |
| 26 | For all the earthy language and talk of struggles to come , it sounded more like community singing in a bomb-shelter than a call to arms . |
| 27 | Steve came in with a danish and a cup of coffee and I 'm thinking |
| 28 | Cos there 's only a red or a blue in there , so if I |
| 29 | Octogesima Adveniens ( 1971 ) on the 80th anniversary of Rerum Novarum was not an encyclical but a letter to Cardinal Maurice Roy , then president of International Justice and Peace . |