Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |
| 32 | It is from the mechanical that a block is made for printing . |
| 33 | Circumstances which may lead to chronic grief or clinging , for instance , included a previous ambivalent relationship with the deceased or a previous relationship in which the survivor felt either inferior or insecure . |
| 34 | But it is not until the 1840s that an awareness , not only of the gulf between rich and poor , but of its dangerous significance in the lurid light of revolution , comes into being . |
| 35 | Coke died in the 1840s and a monument was erected to him at Holkham , guarded by a cudding Devon cow carved in stone . |
| 36 | The Buddhist revival gained momentum in the 1870s after a series of public debates between Buddhist and Protestant preachers increased Buddhist self-confidence . |
| 37 | A. V. Dicey 's Law and Public Opinion in England , first published in 1905 with a second edition in 1914 , was a distinguished lawyer 's analysis of the growth of ‘ state collectivisim ’ since the 1870s and a warning ( more insistent in the 1914 edition , after the Liberal reforms ) that these developments were incompatible with democracy . |
| 38 | Food-sharing , or trophallaxis , allied with the power of pheromones to trigger patterns of action , is the regulatory bond which gives the colony its aura of the miraculous and an account in these terms is wholly sufficient . |
| 39 | He reformed the Pacemakers in the seventies after a resurgence of interest in his music … he 's been on the road ever since . |
| 40 | It was the tail-end of the Seventies when a frighteningly young Noel McKoy and some schoolmates formed the Albians and recorded the all-time classic lovers ' rock tune ‘ Princess ’ . |
| 41 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 42 | Moz was a four-year old stallion who for most of his life , the three and a half years following weaning , had been kept in a small yard measuring no more than 20 x 20ft ( 6 X 6m ) . |
| 43 | In only its third year of operating the three and a half mile branch between Bodmin General and Bodmin Parkway , the B & W has established itself as a major leisure attraction and is building a reputation as one of the more progressive preserved railways in the country . |
| 44 | The three and a half mile line running between Hammersmith and Riddings Junction with intermediate stations at Butterley and Swanwick Junction was originally opened in 1875 and acquired by the Midland at a later date . |
| 45 | In the three and a half years between his abdication and the summer of Dunkirk , King Edward , had he remained on the Throne , might have developed differently . |
| 46 | And that 's where these certificates are the only guarantee that I can provide which will actually say well if we get fifteen percent inflation in nineteen ninety seven , they will pay fifteen p percent inflation , plus the three and a half percent three and a quarter percent bonus . |
| 47 | At least she was n't being forced to fork out the three and a half thousand pounds . |
| 48 | ‘ Naturally , I demand your written undertaking that the eighteen months ’ hard labour I have agreed to do here cancels out , fully and forever , the three and a half thousand pounds I owe you . ’ |
| 49 | Why is there a need , sir , to repay the five hundred and one thousand pounds of the three and a half percent cumulative pref shares it 's quite a low interest involved . |
| 50 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |
| 51 | However , the three and a half inch works out more expensive . |
| 52 | The three and a half inch is as I said it 's approximately |
| 53 | And the three and a halfs agreed with seven twenties . |
| 54 | I do n't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here . |
| 55 | Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature . |
| 56 | there is a large barn behind the gallery , a granary on the left and a shippen below , following the usual pattern . |
| 57 | A high wall bars any chance of escape to the left and a frosty beech hedge borders the alley to the right . |
| 58 | The Casas Viejas incident of January 1933 , involving a massacre of Andalusian villagers by government forces during an anarchist rising , provoked disgust on the left and a cynical outcry on the right , and began an eight-month process of governmental demoralization and disintegration . |
| 59 | What was important was a shared antagonism towards democracy and the left and a common commitment to some sort of authoritarian , corporate state . |
| 60 | A really solid black plastic case with a real key copy of the Spectrum 's existing keyboard on the left and a 12-key numeric/editing keypad on the right . |