Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | France was an ally of the US and it was as such that she was to receive the greater part of the half a billion dollars in military assistance for the Far East which had been appropriated by Congress . |
| 2 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 3 | During the day a Cant Z.501 flyingboat of the 184 a Squadriglia R.M. was also lost , apparently to Malta fighters , and probably while searching for the downed German aircrew ; the crew of this aircraft were rescued near the Sicilian coast . |
| 4 | Diego Dobrilla of the 287 a Squadriglia R.M. had taken off from his base at Elmas with a Naval tenente aboard his Z.506B as observer . |
| 5 | Lester Brown , the head of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington , DC , calls the food mountains of the 1980s a ‘ temporary aberration ’ which will soon run out . |
| 6 | During the later years of the seventeenth century and the opening decades of the eighteenth a few provincial towns began to grow rapidly . |
| 7 | Gauguin 's chair , an ample , armed chair , was painted in the dark against a lamplit green wall " in dark brown-red wood , the seat of greenish rush , and in the place of the absent a lighted candle and two modern novels " . |
| 8 | First to be cleared was a string of a half a dozen caravans . |
| 9 | Giuseppe Sanguettoli of the 74 a Squadriglia being killed ; the pilots of the 23° Gruppo claimed one Hurricane shot down between them . |
| 10 | In the later years of the Eighties a series of events and episodes has served to direct the attention of British readers to the issue of authorship and its autobiographical character or constituent . |
| 11 | The complex nature of the autistic handicap and the individual behaviour of the autistic child has made the education of the autistic a difficult task . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the 1980s a group of community activists , trade unionists , community educators , peace workers and feminists met and agreed that what was needed was a reappraisal of previous efforts in the field , a conscious effort to determine their own social and political position and to choose an educational model or approach which reflected the latter . |
| 13 | Do you see in the first two movements of the Fifth and in the whole of the Sixth a certain prophetic note , or do you see them in purely musical terms ? |
| 14 | In the decade of the 1950s a new series of county histories was initiated under the heading The Darwen Series , after its founder Lord Darwen . |
| 15 | On a day basis , it 's about forty five pence a day , which is er less than the price of a half a glass of beer . |
| 16 | There was , however , he suggests , a shift away from legal moralism , and through the reformist legislation of the 1960s a certain amount of ‘ piecemeal moral engineering ’ was achieved . |
| 17 | All have doctorates in musicology from either Cambridge or Oxford ; two are currently associated with King 's College , Cambridge ( where the wellsprings of the English a cappella renaissance are to be found ) , and one has taught for several Oxford colleges that are also medieval choral foundations . |
| 18 | Despite this one Macchi of the 79 a Squadriglia was seen to go into the sea between Gozo and Cap Scalambria possibly due to oxygen starvation of the pilot , Serg.Magg . |
| 19 | By the end of that decade , it promised , the strongest and richest capitalist country , the USA , would be overtaken in total production ; by the end of the 1970s a state of abundance would be created and a communist society ‘ in the main' would be constructed , to be ‘ fully completed ’ over the following period . |
| 20 | The poised , lively writing in this incident adds a different dimension , unfortunately a rare one , to novels which for all their scholarship and vigour seem for the taste of the eighties a little sedate , a little soft — in short , a little too romantic . |
| 21 | Armando Boetto , commanding officer of the 49 a Squadriglia , Blue 1 getting in the final burst before it disintegrated and fell into the sea . |
| 22 | By the middle of the 1970s a markedly different , and , according to some observers at least , much improved congress had come into being . |
| 23 | Since the middle of the 1870s a world monetary depression had thrown trade into confusion . |
| 24 | There was no foreseeable possibility of a such a scheme . |
| 25 | Considering he had been in possession of a thousand a year from carefully invested family money , a very good unearned income in 1925 , he had not done well . |
| 26 | What we are presented with is a range , from almost completely ‘ dependent ’ work at one end ( exaggerated by Adorno , neglected by Benjamin ) , to relics of aura tic art and new types of critical practice at the other ( the effectiveness and interrelationships of the two a matter of dispute ) . |
| 27 | A sum in the region of a half a million pounds has already been raised or pledged . |