Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 2 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 3 | If diagram is the right word , we hope that it is like a set of arrows , or avenues , pointing outwards in some of the many directions an artist interested in photography might explore . |
| 4 | One of the first things an infant elephant has to discover is how to use its trunk . |
| 5 | Where after a full dissolution the winding up of the practice is in the hands of some only of the former partners an allowance may be made to them in recognition of their efforts before the net profits are determined for the purposes of this section or otherwise . |
| 6 | In four of the five patients an increase in baseline pressure of 5–10 mm Hg preceded the peristaltic contractions . |
| 7 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
| 8 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 9 | speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier |
| 10 | The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want . |
| 11 | In the space of a few days an apartment building is burned down by drug dealers who suspect a rival crack gang of operating in its basement . |