Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the most damaging and erroneous of the myths is the belief , and disdain , held in Australia and New Zealand that the Mother Country sent weedy wrecks to fight alongside hefty , bronzed , open-air Gods of Nature , or , even worse , sat about ‘ drinking tea ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ You put me one step clear of a chain gang , two miles over the line . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You put me one step clear of a chain gang , two miles over the line . ’ |
| 4 | He slipped on a rigid gold bracelet once he was back in the dressing room and Dominic pulled a curtain clear of a radiator to get more heat into the place . |
| 5 | When an ant shares a common border with an elephant , it makes a lot of sense for the insect to stay well clear of the animal 's footsteps . |
| 6 | And the peewit tumbled clear of the laundromat |
| 7 | Stormy , wet , windy , typical August weather , cormorants , wings flapping clockworklike against the force 5–6 wind , gulls gliding majestically , effortlessly over the wave tops , gannets swirling way up high before plummeting dramatically hurling themselves into the sea with terrific , surely painful splashes , then the puffins , taking off clumsily along the surface of the water , bouncing bomb style , crashing into successive wave crests in their attempts to stay clear of the bow , wildlife in abundance and this was only the view from the MacBraynes ferry ! |
| 8 | Not for Howard the prison tour which , avoiding the darker recesses , steered clear of the conditions endured by all those confined . |
| 9 | Use fibre or brass washers between the sink and the board to keep the sink about 2mm clear of the board surface . |
| 10 | Resistors R1 and R22 should be mounted 3mm clear of the board . |
| 11 | These two resistors should stand 3mm clear of the board . |
| 12 | Even bicycles have to steer a path clear of the road . |
| 13 | He had stayed clear of the subject of religion since Christmas . |
| 14 | Having made the two , comes through to there , you just having clear of the metal work , you put , this is a three foot , just not in it at the moment . |
| 15 | In a Vulcanian eruption , the ejected material comes in the form of solid blocks and highly-fragmented ash , and the explosions are often powerful enough to heave blocks weighing many tons clear of the crater while smaller ones may be thrown for a kilometre or more . |
| 16 | A dune had encroached onto the road and he was slicing away its tip , tossing it clear of the tarmac behind him . |
| 17 | Despite the protection of the suit , she would have to stay clear of the shuttle 's thrusters as it descended through the doorway . |
| 18 | Now that he was clear of the hawthorn scent of the hedge and the reek of cattle dung , he became fully aware of what had already been drifting into his nostrils while he was lying among the thorn . |
| 19 | When clear of the top of the T , finish off by passing the last but one wrap over your finger tip to form a loop , pass round again and slip the end through the loop and pull tight , and the elasticity will hold everything tight . |
| 20 | His feet hung clear of the stirrups , and he was arched over like a letter G in the saddle ; his reins had slipped down round his horse 's hoofs . |
| 21 | Very slowly and deliberately Isambard slipped his feet clear of the stirrups and leaned forward as if to swing himself out of the saddle , but in the act he jabbed home hard into the beast 's side with his right spur , and drove him not forward , but flinching sidelong into the bushes in a wild leap ; and leaning both hands on the pommel of his saddle he vaulted out of it and dropped crashing into the bushes almost on top of Owen . |
| 22 | For the rest of the first circuit Run And Skip and Dawn Run , both regular frontrunners , vied for the lead on the fast ground , and their duel took them well clear of the rest of the field . |
| 23 | He had 71 points from the 36 hole competition , seven points clear of the rest of the field . |
| 24 | Boivin/Hoyer were leading Andriev/Haralambie , clear of the rest of the field , the Trains being 7th at the head of the third group at this stage . |
| 25 | Wilkinson also had problems at the 17th with a six , but then birded the 18th for a level par 72 to finish three shots clear of the rest of the field . |
| 26 | Canizares , 45 , second and fourth on his last two tour outings in the Catalan and Portuguese Opens , is the only player under par on 212 , four under , and is five strokes clear of the field as he attempts to emulate the millionaire feats of Severiano Ballesteros , Jose-Maria Olazabal and Jose Rivero . |
| 27 | Durand , only the third Frenchman to win the event , came home alone after he and three others had broken clear of the field with 134 miles to go . |
| 28 | Then in the US Open , Norman was three strokes clear of the field by twelve holes of the third round , but slipped away to finish no higher than 12th . |
| 29 | He was some three shots clear of the field standing on the 14th tee , but then lost this advantage after he recorded a double-bogey and two bogeys in the last six holes . |
| 30 | LIZ McCOLGAN pulled clear of the field early on to clock an impressive victory in yesterday 's Tokyo women 's marathon . |