Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the law of attempts , the least that a defendant must be proved to have done is something ‘ more than merely preparatory ’ to sexual intercourse , with intent to have unlawful sexual intercourse without the woman 's consent . |
| 2 | The study day will include lectures and remembrances of the line , which finally closed in 1959 , a walk along part of the trackbed and a viewing of some of the recently restored buildings of the lead mine which the Railway opened to serve in 1877 . |
| 3 | I live in Galway and have been supporting Leeds since 1977–1978 when I think we finished 5th in the first , endured the bad 80 's and have mostly enjoyed the 90's though a couple more trophies would n't go astray . |
| 4 | Frame 's international standing was rewarded with a Vice-Presidency of the World Federation of the Deaf and a place on its elected Bureau . |
| 5 | Our first step in illustrating interval harmony using the whole chromatic octave will be to write a succession of consonances in two parts : This succession of six two-part chords uses the total-chromatic and a variety of consonances , though not the 4th and major 6th . |
| 6 | It had occurred neither to them nor to the British that a diplomat was involved . ’ |
| 7 | Despite sore feet and blisters , they completed the 26 and a bit miles to raise thousands of pounds for charity . |
| 8 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 9 | The accused and a couple of friends staged a false robbery to get the money from the victim . |
| 10 | It is from the mechanical that a block is made for printing . |
| 11 | Coke died in the 1840s and a monument was erected to him at Holkham , guarded by a cudding Devon cow carved in stone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He reformed the Pacemakers in the seventies after a resurgence of interest in his music … he 's been on the road ever since . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | I do n't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here . |
| 16 | The sacrifice of TWW and the merger of ABC and Rediffusion into Thames were acts of some courage and panache , in which the ebullient personality of ITA chairman , Lord Hill , a former broadcasting star as the Radio Doctor in the 1940s and a cabinet minister under Harold Macmillan , were an important factor . |
| 17 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 18 | The sixteen and a half foot long great white shark matched the description of one that killed diver John Ford on Wednesday off the resort town of Byron |
| 19 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 20 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 21 | It was reduced to only two dozen cows during the 1970s but a breed society was formed in 1984 and numbers have increased to about 100 , with a large bank of frozen semen ; it remains severely endangered . |
| 22 | But it remains to be seen whether NFC is a throw-back to the 1970s or a model for the 1990s . |
| 23 | The other three parties to contest the 1989 elections were the SWAPO-Democrats ( SWAPO-D , founded by SWAPO dissidents in the 1970s and a participant from 1985 in the transitional government , Andreas Shipanga , l. ; on Aug. 13 SWAPO-D announced that it would disband and join the NPF ) ; Christian Democratic Action ( CDA , Rev. Peter Kalangula , l. ) ; and the Namibia National Democratic Party ( NNDP , Paul Helmuth , l . ) . |
| 24 | They can be very useful , especially for those with chronic conditions , and for the elderly where a mix of medicines may result in undesirable side-effects . |
| 25 | Although Germany had steel mills as early as the 1780s and a railway line by 1847 , it was still able to learn from the mistakes and avoid the dead-ends of its competitor neighbours . |
| 26 | So even at ten and a half percent rejection , if you look at the latest figures , it costs you thirty pounds a month for an Eagle Star low-cost super super-duper endowment , but at the end you 're only going to replace your money , if you 've got erm the ten and a half growth rate , ten and a half percent , which is unlikely i in current circumstances . |
| 27 | It led , tentatively at first , to High Tech with its borrowings from industrial functionalism ; continued with forays into Revived Deco , the fifties and a nod towards Japan , all eventually combining in an apparently homogeneous contemporaneity . |
| 28 | The opening phase of the war , however , produced domestic difficulties and grievances not dissimilar to those experienced by Edward 's father and grandfather ; and it was only with the military successes and material gains of the 1340s that a change in attitude to war amongst both the nobility and the commons became apparent . |
| 29 | His eagles came from a 15-yard bunker shot at the eighth and a putt of similar distance at the eleventh . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State can not , however , overrule a finding by the MMC that a merger , for example , is not contrary to the public interest . |