Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kalchu took it downstairs to the stable twice a day when he milked the mother . |
| 2 | Students will need to discipline themselves to keep a record , in a loose leaf binder , on a very regular basis eg. weekly or at the longest once a fortnight . |
| 3 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |
| 4 | As the mother of two small children , the youngest hardly a month old , her eventual decision to remain at Stowey was clearly sensible . |
| 5 | If — as happens too often — the new methods are even more inconvenient than the old then a change-over is difficult , because to the basic inconvenience of the new pattern must be added the inconvenience of learning it . |
| 6 | Devlin scored the second after a number of scrums , free kicks and penalties all close to the line , and in injury time John Paul Speirs touched down to ensure victory . |
| 7 | There are two common types of fitting : one where the waste pipe is simply pushed into the outlet of the trap ; the second where a plastic ‘ compression ’ joint — using a rubber or plastic washer to make the seal is incorporated into the outlet of the trap . |
| 8 | Dr. Rao saw the deceased twice a week . |
| 9 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 10 | In the Habsburg territories also , as has been seen , a series of able ministers backed by Maria Theresa , the greatest ruler of the dynasty , created from the 1740s onwards a whole range of important new organs of administration ( see pp. 153–4 ) . |
| 11 | In the mid-1920s only a little over 1 per cent were receiving a formal education . |
| 12 | It was created in good part by the situation in the 1970s when a poor match developed between the pressure to lend from donors , and the administrative ability of the borrowing countries to ‘ receive ’ . |
| 13 | However , he had returned all but three of the tourists ' passports to the safe-keeping of the Manager at The Randolph — the latter just a fraction irked that it now appeared to be his own responsibility to return these passports to whatever location the departed tourists happened to find themselves in . |
| 14 | Four Moscow-based distributors include ArguSoft and 4i Datost — the latter also a Computervision reseller with a second outlet in Kiev , Ukraine . |
| 15 | Four Moscow-based distributors include ArguSoft and 4i Datost — the latter also a ComputerVision reseller with a second outlet in Kiev , Ukraine . |
| 16 | Two examples , one from Silandra 's ‘ Vieni , vieni ’ in Orontea , the other from Arsete 's ‘ Non scherzi con Amor ’ in Act I of his Florentine court opera , La Dori ( 1663 ) : show ( i ) his construction of a long descending phrase pivoting on a descending scale and given cohesion by a motivic sequence ( the latter already a well-known Venetian device ) , ( ii ) his ability to write a sheer catchy tune . |
| 17 | How about the ten over a hundred what will that come to ? |
| 18 | There 's a very old study by Walker and Guest nineteen fifty-two and I think you might find the findings may reflect the fifties quite a lot , found that seventy percent of assembly line workers erm initiated upwards communication . |
| 19 | It was worked by various tenants until the 1730s when a number of owners culminated with the well-known family of Painswick clothiers , the Packers . |
| 20 | You wo n't , you definitely wo n't ask at the end of the first not a hope in hell begin the second , cos you might ask at the end of the second appointment . |
| 21 | ‘ Still , I suppose to the uneducated even a degree in Liberal Arts is impressive . ’ |
| 22 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge had been reading Purchas 's His Pilgrimage after taking some opium : In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall , wherein are fertile Meddowes , pleasant Springs , delightful Streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure . |
| 23 | Well I mean if you had twenty or thirty that 's only the same only a little bit different , that 's all |
| 24 | This is — and we can say the same about a dozen or so batsmen in our region including Somerset 's luckless Ricky Bartlett and Gloucestershire 's Mark Alleyne — a crucial summer for him . |
| 25 | His assertion that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism marks paradoxically a return to the spirit of the intellectual climate in France in the 1930s when a general belief in the coincidence between the movement of history , socialism and realism led to a fruitful collaboration between the socialist realist writers of the French communist party , such as Aragon and Nizan , and sympathetic fellow-travellers such as Bloch , Malraux and Gide . |
| 26 | The Incident happened in the 1930s when a Hartlepool couple were jailed for attacking a shop owner who 'd remonstrated with them for drinking out of the vinegar bottle . |
| 27 | ‘ It is possible that the body was taken to the Close only a short time before it was discovered , ’ Morton said . |
| 28 | Of these , two were corn mills , one eventually became an iron works and the other probably a corn mill , although there may have been a period when it was used as a fulling mill . |
| 29 | There are currently two options available on the market , one of which is a truly functional brace and the other merely a support . |
| 30 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |