Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day of the battle dawned a hot May morning . |
| 2 | The significance of the user applying a similar strategy to library catalogues has not been realized . |
| 3 | She raised Skogen to her face and through it she saw Ghost of the Tree turn a quizzical and penetrating look upon her . |
| 4 | Each day they became fewer until my image of the tree became a pink and brown blur , it being blossom time . |
| 5 | Among the issues which they pursued were proposed NIHT rent increases , resettlement grants , poor soundproofing and finishing in their accommodation and the refusal of the NIHT to provide a communal television aerial for Rossville Flats which would enable the tenants to receive Radio Telefis Eireann ( the Irish television network ) . |
| 6 | Out to sea the beam of the lighthouse swept a great arc every fifteen seconds ; on one side of the headland were the lights of the town and harbour , on the other it was just possible to make out a line of cliffs receding into the darkness . |
| 7 | The purchase price has been agreed at £5000 , and the form of the conveyance follows a conventional pattern . |
| 8 | In the centre of the hut stood a tall coke stove , blackened from use , deep in dust , and its chimney stack climbed to the ceiling and through its open hatch there was the glow of fuel working out a second day 's burning . |
| 9 | Yet the need to harness the ability of the computer to monitor a dynamic situation far faster than is possible with manual methods was as pressing for SGB , with a Group payroll at the time approaching £13 million , as for the very large organisation able to make substantial investment in computerised personnel records . |
| 10 | Since the family were exiled from France there could be no question of the Prince having a political role within the country , even though there was no lack of latent Bonapartist feeling among all sections of society . |
| 11 | In a second phase of training presentation of the tone preceded a nausea-inducing injection of LiCl . |
| 12 | The bidirectional reflectance of the soil has a considerable effect on that of the canopy ( , ) , see Table . |
| 13 | Wide side decks and a long run of substantial grabrail on each side of the coachroof allow a secure passage to and from the foredeck . |
| 14 | Much will depend on the legal knowledge and ingenuity of counsel and the court , as well as on the readiness of the court to take a liberal view . |
| 15 | The extent of the problem varies a great deal from one species to another . |
| 16 | The work of the Council achieved a significant increase in media coverage from the press , radio and television at both national and local levels . |
| 17 | The work of the Council achieved a significant increase in media coverage from the press , radio and television at both national and local levels . |
| 18 | It is within the power of the Council to make a one-off grant to the World for golden hellos to attract a higher calibre of research workers . |
| 19 | The publication of land registers for the greater part of the country represents a major opportunity to secure the better use of massive acreages of underused land . |
| 20 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 21 | In his Topographical Account of Cunninghame , compiled about 1600 , Timothy Pont recorded — ‘ This part of the country yields a great deal of excellent butter but especially the parishes of Stewarton and Dunlop . ’ |
| 22 | Such a practice eventually attracted the suspicion and hostility of Parliament ; it opened up the possibility of the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 23 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 24 | She ca n't know how I value my freedom , Donald , the freedom to do what I like and take advantage of the opportunity to explore a new city , learn a new language , try my hand at a way of life I did n't know existed . |
| 25 | In general many beeches , particularly those on the western edge of the Park show a general lack of vitality … |
| 26 | In fact , one could go further and claim that the negative image of the Jew provided a common denominator which was able to combine and provide justification for all these ideological themes . |
| 27 | The first scene of the novel involves a paradigmatic ‘ crossing ’ of characters from different fictional worlds . |
| 28 | The occurrence of such constructions in later parts of the novel maintains a stylistic unity , though other features of the style are very different . |
| 29 | This change in the law and in the locus of power will not end the debate , which has prevailed for a number of years , about control of the curriculum of schools ; such a debate emerged once the content of the curriculum become a controversial subject in the 1960s and has continued since . |
| 30 | The Council has to try and ensure that the subject ‘ bits ’ of the curriculum form a coherent whole and somehow deliver the broad and balanced curriculum enshrined in the noble opening passages of the Act . |