Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet whenever you feel the urge to venture forth into civilisation again — perhaps for a romantic dinner a deux , or a soothing massage in the capable hands of a master masseur — the first class Hotel and adjoining Country Club are but a short walk from your front door . |
| 2 | So for a short while the two movements , Co-operation and trade unionism , had fused . |
| 3 | Pilger told him they had better get together for a serious talk the minute he got off the plane . |
| 4 | Suddenly with a tremendous stroke an old man close by threw a tiny fish up in the air and down it fell . |
| 5 | In a period of very bad weather , for example , especially in a rural area the post office may run out of real cash , as might other shopkeepers , after a few days without contact from the outside world . |
| 6 | Horse manure , horse muck or just plain horse shit , depending on your susceptibilities , was a much needed and highly effective fertiliser for the allotments , and so from an early age a daily chore was to keep an eye open for droppings , grab your shovel and bucket and run out to scoop it up . |
| 7 | To quote the Federation 's annual report for 1948–49 , ‘ one purpose of the Federation ’ is ‘ that of bringing together in a friendly atmosphere the members of different Branches and Groups and thereby strengthening the unity and spirit of the WEA in Essex ’ . |
| 8 | Project Work is the first attempt to bring together in a coherent way the wealth of information available on this topic . |
| 9 | They gather together in a dense fleet a thousand or more strong , and paddle steadily towards an inlet or a small bay , splashing vigorously with their wings and feet . |
| 10 | This brought together in a simplified form a number of remedies obtainable from a Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division consisting of two or three judges . |
| 11 | The four of them — Simenon , Denyse ( re-named Denise ) , Tigy and Boule — lived together in an exhausting menage a quatre until Denise became pregnant and Simenon demanded a divorce . |
| 12 | Such paths are called geodesics and naturally on a flat surface a geodesic is a straight line . |
| 13 | So to a certain extent the idea was to that if we had the thing worked out it would be of great benefit to the people who were popping by . |
| 14 | So to a considerable extent the individual , and the problems that ageing people experience generally , are structured by dominant social attitudes and values , and this element needs to be added to the circle . |
| 15 | It brought together on a grand scale the children of many nations whose parents and older brothers would have fought on opposing sides in the war . |
| 16 | Such juries bring together on an integrated basis a variety of relevant experience and opinion . |
| 17 | It was irregularly paved , and lit only by an open window a few storeys above . |
| 18 | Indeed , after this fluid has begun to flow away as a copious diarrhoea the patient often feels so little indisposed that he can not persuade himself that anything serious is the matter . |
| 19 | Well they said the witnesses said they thought it was just like an older brother a younger brother . |
| 20 | ‘ My dear young woman , ’ he drawled , ‘ must you shy away like a startled horse every time I get within yards of you ? |
| 21 | At Faial there is a new bridge over the Ribeira Seca as the old one was washed away in a violent storm a few years ago . |
| 22 | Thus in a simple action the past tense of narrative is transformed into the present and the presence of drama . |
| 23 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 24 | Braque sensed , too , that by dismissing the conventional , single viewpoint perspective it was possible to synthesize into the depiction of the head a variety of information ; thus in a three-quarter view the knot of hair at the back of the head is seen clearly , as if from the side . |
| 25 | Thus in an extraordinary manner the physical manifestation of a woman 's fertility which had always been welcome and extolled in ancient and traditional Hindu society , where even mother earth was conceived to be menstruating in the beginning of the rainy season , came to be associated with a sin.s |
| 26 | Thus to a large extent a horse is what it is through the formation of many habits . |
| 27 | You 're lookin' more like a battered wife every day . ’ |
| 28 | Christ ! he thought , I 'm becoming more like an Irish peasant every day . |
| 29 | Moreover from an early stage the Greeks used sculptural decoration on their temples in a way which had no close parallel in earlier arts and , as it developed , encouraged a new approach to relief . |
| 30 | It would have an educational benefit and bring home in a dramtic way the frightening nature of serial killers . |