Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of a contrary statement in the contract between X and Y Ltd. , property will normally have passed by virtue of sections 16–18 of the Sale of Goods Act ( paragraphs 3–07 to 3–24 ) . |
| 2 | A dolphin can emit up to 700 clicks a second with this apparatus and from them is able to detect not only the presence of a solid object in the water but to deduce what sort of object it is . |
| 3 | RIBA Council , on the recommendation of the regional council , approved the setting up of a fifth branch in the region to serve the members in Central Wales . |
| 4 | Isaac Wolfson , son of a Russian refugee in the furniture business in Glasgow , became lord of chain store after chain store in the Fifties . |
| 5 | But make sure you pay attention not just to the basic impulses and enthusiasms , which are sound and fine ; not just to the incidental portrait of a consummate mountaineer in the passages about Dave Breashears ; but also to a strange sort of instinctual third dimension which Blessed 's larger than life character seems to entice into play : |
| 6 | FIREMEN found the body of a 13-year-old girl in a burned-out hay barn yesterday . |
| 7 | David Herald and Paul Muller presented their analysis under the heading ‘ Observation of a probable change in the solar radius between 1715 and 1979 ’ . |
| 8 | Between February and October the Labour and Tory votes both fell , and Labour 's parliamentary success was merely the result of a greater slump in the Tory vote . |
| 9 | Similarly , the huge privatisation programme of the Thatcher years came like a torrent , without even the democratic courtesy of a prior notice in the Tory 1979 manifesto . |
| 10 | Dr Ballard has already beamed live pictures from the wrecks of a Roman galley in the Mediterranean and two American warships sunk in 1812 . |
| 11 | Anselm himself remembered from his youth , and in old age told his companions , a story of a Roman judge in the time of Pope Leo IX , who was condemned to eternal punishment because he had incurred the hostility of saints Agnes and Laurence by depriving their churches in Rome of a garden and three houses respectively . |
| 12 | It was the site of a Roman estate in the first-third centuries , the Saxons established farm clusters , two of its settlements were mentioned in Domesday , and King John used it as a hunting base ( and purchased his wines there ) . |
| 13 | I had the impression of a marble statue , of a Roman senator in a museum . |
| 14 | They were conscious of a tall man in the habit of a friar keeping a crew of ragged rascals at bay with his staff . |
| 15 | mention of a tall Human in a metal mask having been seen in the catacombs and passages not long before the adventurers . |
| 16 | However , this change has been brought about almost entirely by the increase in the long-term unemployed rather than an increase in the living standards of older people in the lowest income groups ; it is not the result of a vast increase in the incomes of older people . |
| 17 | However , some progress has been made concerning the knowledge acquisition problem : Amsler [ 1982 ] , Calzolari [ 1984 ] , Chodorow [ 1985 ] and Alshawi [ 1988 ] have all demonstrated the use of a machine-readable dictionary in the automatic construction of semantic relations and networks . |
| 18 | From time to time I took in little details of his face : his small , neat ears round which the moonlight-blond locks curled ; the light golden stubble round his laughing mouth ; the rather dry , sensuous yet slightly cruel lips ; the perfect column of the neck and throat emerging from his open shirt , unbuttoned to give me — was it deliberate ? — a shadowy glimpse of a dark nipple in a hairless chest , the beautifully smooth breast of an ancient god . |
| 19 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |
| 20 | The incident happened late last night and was less than forty eight hours after fourteen year old Sally Cattell died at the wheel of a stolen car in a crash in Erdington , Birmingham . |
| 21 | Similarly the court in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis took note of the duration of a restrictive covenant in a former employee 's contract of employment in determining how long it would restrain the defendant from using an index of customers removed from his former employers . |
| 22 | Smart makes the point that prostitutes became the focus of a moral panic in the 1950s , in spite of the growing liberation of female sexuality . |
| 23 | Prostitutes , that is to say , therefore became the focus of a moral panic in the 1950s , at least partially because of the growing liberation of female sexuality . |
| 24 | The nation has always been aware of its pre-eminent position , and proud of a moral ascendancy in the political sphere which has been sustained for centuries . |
| 25 | In the same year , as the result of a freak accident in the Alps , Steve 's friend Georges Bettembourg perished . |
| 26 | Then we can write , when a homologous element is not made unity , unc Here a , b , c , d ; p , q are the values of a homologous element in the various columns ; a , b , c , d are known . |
| 27 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 28 | Hawk always felt ill at ease in these conversations , as if he were forced to read the lines of a savage redskin in a Hollywood film . |
| 29 | SOME of the world 's most enduring stories are about the disturbingly sudden appearance of a Savage Outsider in a community that regards itself as settled and , by its own lights , civilised . |
| 30 | She had an almost childish sense of comfort when she was with him ; the comfort of a roaring fire in the grate , muffins for tea , home and safety . |