Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the grandest is a colossal torso of the mid century from Megara ( fig. 38 ) : all the power of the youth from Sunium ( fig. 14 ) with a new subtlety . |
| 2 | The 17th is a par-5 of 500 yards or more , but Tom reduced it to a drive and a sand-iron ! |
| 3 | I 'm expecting him to chip-up and two-putt for a five ( the 17th was a par-5 ) , so I 'm thinking we have to do the same in reverse . |
| 4 | The fivesome are a comfortable shambles , wandering around and , like , being nice and loose about this whole gig scenario . |
| 5 | For the only time in any of her decorations Walker has made some of the figures quite distinctly male — the clearest being a nude figure in a pose which is repeated in reverse on either side of the central action , at the head of the crowd . |
| 6 | The 3450-UP is a single processor version of the one to four processor 3450 MP , with a lower entry-level price . |
| 7 | What how d' ya get the That 's a difficult one really . |
| 8 | … For the conviction of the guilty is a public interest , as is the acquittal of the innocent . |
| 9 | But , if I can take it ( given you 've stuck with me so far ) that I 'm preaching to the converted , then let me say that I think the GR-1 is a vast improvement on the GR-50 in terms of sound and ease of approach . |
| 10 | The 68060 is a static , modular , superscalar and superpipelined part built using 0.8-micron CMOS technology — BiCMOS techniques will be incorporated in the planned 68080 and 68100 , Motorola says . |
| 11 | The youngest was a Spanish cabinboy who had run away a few years before from his vicious captain , the oldest a maroon from Benin who had fled a plantation on an island to the north : he had stowed away in a pirate ship that had stopped to draw water on Oualie . |
| 12 | That , I concluded , was because , by comparison with the French , the English were a joyless lot and confined sex to the obligations of the marriage bed . |
| 13 | Every idea that evokes the infinite is a magic wand that freezes the mirror lake , and it is like the climax of passionate love , only more subtle and beautiful . |
| 14 | And this is the this is a typical example this is my la my last but one assignment last but one commission form , I would pick one of the good ones would n't I ? |
| 15 | But then the British are a bloody tolerant lot |
| 16 | ‘ The British are a military people . ’ |
| 17 | If the British are a whimsical nation , their whimsies can be well researched and well rehearsed , like the epigrams of an accomplished conversationalist , and as carefully planned . |
| 18 | The British are a peculiar people in having a class structure which is more complex and pervasive than that of any other western industrial country . |
| 19 | The British were a superior race , blessed with exceptional energy , toughness , and qualities of leadership , which they refined in their play and used throughout the world to promote the rule of law , the Christian religion , and the ‘ rational ’ use of economic resources . |
| 20 | The gharial is a poor walker on land but it is probably the most aquatic crocodilian of all . |
| 21 | ‘ The French were a dirty lot . |
| 22 | The French were a practical nation . |
| 23 | The French were a favourite target , and the new popular press was instrumental in crystallizing xenophobic imagery . |
| 24 | The 280 is a lightweight tournament racket of high modulus graphite . |
| 25 | The 320 is a good sized board on which to learn funboard manoeuvres since uphauling is still possible . |
| 26 | The outer is a flexible Two-ply Taslan Gore-Tex , in a tasteful dark green and subdued purple , with an inner polypropylene mesh . |
| 27 | The MicroVAX 3100 90 and VAX 4000 100 act as distributed nodes and the 100 is a new entry-level system to the 4000 family . |
| 28 | The second is a managerial tradition deriving from F W Taylor 's theory of scientific management and his studies of work administration . |
| 29 | The first is a cognitive agreement , the second is a performative one . |
| 30 | The second is a practical outfit that is comfortable to be worn throughout . |