Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using any of the traditional methods of cost analysis you will need a substantial quantity of paper , a good financial calculator , a ruler for drawing up the forms and a quiet corner to get on with it . |
| 2 | A van stood by to take the bottles up to the municipal bottle bank , another for the cans and a red plastic hippopotamus with its mouth wide open waited to receive the litter . |
| 3 | With the bruises and a three-day beard , I was told I looked even more like him than I had done . |
| 4 | In Periplaneta the cercal nerve tracts lead directly into the extensively ramifying dendritic processes of the interneurons from which giant axons run forwards through the thorax to activate the antennae and a general alarm system , though the accompanying leg movements are controlled by separate motor neurons with more slowly conducting pathways ( Dagan and Parnas , 1970 ; Milburn and Bentley , 1971 ; Harris and Smyth , 1971 . |
| 5 | The cash will be raised by a five per cent levy on all transfer fees received by the clubs and a 10 per cent cut of their end-of-season prize-money from the League . |
| 6 | We stood back in the shadows hypnotized by the flames and a family group circled round them . |
| 7 | One of the Fellowship moved too close to the flames and a bull 's mask went up in flames . |
| 8 | Over the years his interests included a car showroom in Maryhill Road , another venture renovating buildings in the Gorbals and a similar business in the city 's Shettleston Road . |
| 9 | From the document we learn that not only were pumps installed to drain the mines but a water-powered battery of stamps had been erected at Tilberthwaite . |
| 10 | Speaker B's view of ‘ what I think we 're talking about now ’ must now involve speaker A , A's father , the Scouts and a man ( who may have something to do with telephones ) . |
| 11 | He has previously been linked with the Chargers and a move down the Calfornian coast may be on the cards . |
| 12 | I 'll cheat myself of the patterns that a beast can register , with its robot-wired mind alert to supernatural vibrations . |
| 13 | He never helped or joined in any of the village activities and had ignored all the signs that a war was approaching . |
| 14 | ‘ Frozen Food Sold Here ’ said the signs and a new generation was born — the first to be raised on fish fingers and beefburgers . |
| 15 | The same goes for The Shamen as a whole . |
| 16 | The garment leaves the front of the body bare , and clings tightly to the parts it does cover , marked only by the hems and a tiny free hang below the elbows . |
| 17 | Under supervision by a bankruptcy court , a firm in chapter 11 draws up a reorganisation plan which it then negotiates with the creditors while a judge arbitrates . |
| 18 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
| 19 | I have not seen that report , but I have expressed before the dangers that a minimum wage policy would hold for employment levels . |
| 20 | But there are two problems : who should tell the courts that a debt has been discharged ? |
| 21 | Until its demise , Drexel had not only cornered the market in issuing junk , it had also built a reputation with investors for reorganising the debts if a borrower neared default . |
| 22 | Michelin , a tyre firm , bought Uniroyal Goodrich in America for $1.5 billion and is now staggering under the debts and a fall-off in its business . |
| 23 | This mismatch led to our including clear , key-by-key sequences in the notes and a resolution not to go out on CDL trials before reaching the stage of adequate documentation , as time is too valuable . |
| 24 | You like the noise and the bustle of the city , you would n't want to be stuck out here , with nothing but trees and flowers to look at , and no one to talk to but the birds or a passing rabbit ! ’ |
| 25 | Imagine the nightclub is in full swing , your 2000 watt sound system is rocking the foundations and a good time is being had by all but … a small fire starts in the adjacent kitchens . |
| 26 | My past curiosity gave a sharpness to the outlines of the trees and the houses and a magic quality to the people I saw moving about . |
| 27 | I hope Prince Charles approves the plans before a brick is laid ! |
| 28 | Donald Hebb , the Canadian psychologist , reported : A day in the woods or a day-long car trip after a sedentary winter sometimes has an extraordinarily vivid aftereffect . |
| 29 | A Friendship House was constructed in the middle of the woods and a ‘ free university ’ opened . |
| 30 | There is also talk of a Muppet version of Sondheim 's Into The Woods and a new TV series of Dinosaurs . |