Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Pacquement admits that , in recent times , contemporary art has been viewed with too eclectic , uncritical and almost deferential an eye . |
| 2 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 3 | It is as simple and as revolutionary a milestone in human culture as the invention of the wheel . |
| 4 | An avenue of limes , dead straight and exactly half a statute mile in length , ran from the gates to the big house at Maran Hill . |
| 5 | The vicious force which was now her essence and to which she gave the name of hatred ( only this was too narrow and too petty a name to describe it ) was directed upon Jack : Jack on whom daily , as he looked at her sometimes so anxiously , so humbly , she smiled the smile of reassurance and of calm . |
| 6 | From 1873 to 1945 , 19 out of 23 Attorneys-General and over half the Solicitors-General later held high judicial office . |
| 7 | A new packaging method means that the nappies are gently compacted immediately before packing , allowing them to fit inside a bag which is extremely solid and roughly half the size of the old packs . |
| 8 | To relieve the unskilled operator problem much of the decision making is now handled by the program rather than the user ; Ventura being a classic example where the stylesheet is created by a professional and then all the user needs to do is to pour text into the file to create a fully formatted document . |
| 9 | That the petitioners beg earnestly to press the consideration of these circumstances upon the Presbytery in the hope that they shall use every effort to obtain services of some servant of Christ who may promote his cause among so neglected and spiritually destitute a community , to which perhaps a parallel will not be found in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 10 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 11 | In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’ |
| 12 | As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face . |
| 13 | Though the very fact that it is so traditional and so formal a poem in the pastoral tradition , held in the tightness of all the conventions that it employs , not only allows , but in some strange way makes possible , the intensity of personal feeling that it contains . |
| 14 | This score is so inspired and obviously such a pleasure to play that it never seems to receive a really disappointing recording . |
| 15 | So , for accountants and those that can receive plenty of training and can get to grips with the program , it is very powerful and as complete a set of tools as you 'll see . |
| 16 | However , not long after , Grisewood resigned and Mrs Whitehouse later said that he was , to her mind , ‘ too sincere and too gentle a Christian to be at ease amongst the demolition men who frequented the BBC at the time ’ . |
| 17 | And contrary to Adorno — the more apparently homogeneous the product , the more important and potentially productive the role of reception , and of the mediations interposed between the two ( DJs , peer-group opinion , subcultural appropriation , use-situation , and so on ) . |
| 18 | Maggie feels no doubt about that : so small a word , so small and so necessary a word is bound to survive , to slip through the net of destruction that she and Fenna — no , that she herself , alone — will loose on the cold sky tonight . |
| 19 | ‘ I am confident that , in due course , self-governing schools will become as accepted , as successful and as beneficial a part of the Scottish education system as school boards have become . ’ |
| 20 | The resurgence of ‘ fashion ’ as a topic high on the agenda , the preoccupation with food and clothing as matters of status and importance , provides as big and as successful a distraction now as it ever did . |
| 21 | Of course nobody no that 's not fair and then all the time he keeps coming back to this issue . |
| 22 | Yes , I feel very anxious and very frustrated a lot of the time . |
| 23 | We must fill our minds with the utmost of irrelevant information so that things we look at will remind us of other things and the more distant and more ridiculous the analogy , the higher the chance of the idea being really valuable . |
| 24 | ‘ They were the fun part , because she was lovely and just such a giggle . ’ |
| 25 | It would have been too chancy and too tiring a journey for her to have taken by the complicated network of bus connections , with its many waits , and there was her luggage . |