Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the layout of trees seemed familiar , or the way a particular branch overshadowed the path . |
| 2 | This is not a suggestion we agree with , but it is a popular one , especially in North America where a number of closely related discussions have emerged recently about the content of feminist philosophy , or the form a feminist critique of philosophy should take ( Flax , 1983 ; Hartsock , 1983 ; Jaggar , 1983 ; and see also Ruth , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | It follows that the angle a vertical edge subtends at the left eye divided by the angle it subtends at the right eye is greater than 1 for the left-hand edge of the pattern , but is less than 1 for the right-hand edge . |
| 4 | In some patients ( e.g. Coltheart et al. , 1983 ) , only the first pattern is seen , so that the way a printed word is comprehended is via pronunciation ; in others ( e.g. Kay and Patterson , 1983 ) one does see examples where a word is read aloud wrongly but comprehended correctly . |
| 5 | These schoolchildren talked very differently about the nature of society than the way a social scientist would . |
| 6 | Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming . |
| 7 | The number of nested Boolean conditions that can be handled by an inverted file is generally less than the number a serial file can handle . |
| 8 | The lur blowers are far more intriguing because local legend has it that every time a virgin walks past them the sound of the lur echoes round the square . ’ |
| 9 | After all , give someone who is barely more than a child a high-powered ‘ toy ’ and there is bound to be trouble when they go out to play with it . |
| 10 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 11 | There had grown between Cissie and the boy a strong abiding love that was wonderful to see . |
| 12 | There were narrow flowerbeds in need of weeding on both sides , and in the sheltered corner between the store and the wall a tall rose lifted imperious petals like flames . |
| 13 | There 's a croquet lawn , tennis court and the sea a short stroll away . |
| 14 | But for many people , the Sunday-school outing remained the fondest memory of day-tripping and the station a vivid part of that memory . |
| 15 | They wanted the House of Commons to represent the opinion of the middle orders of Britain for ( as one reforming MP put in 1830 ) " there has arisen in the minds of the wealthy and enlightened middle classes of the country a conviction that there did not exist between them and the legislature a sufficient link " . |
| 16 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |
| 17 | The air outside was marvellous after the close warmth within , sharp and sweet , and the sky a pale , soft grey like plucked feathers . |
| 18 | In Musselburgh , there was a beach game ( called fitba ) in which the goals were of little sticks and the ball a dried bladder of seaweed flicked with the middle finger to score . |
| 19 | And the Uzi a primitive weapon , the bio suit mistaken for some sort of ceremonial armour ? |
| 20 | The first correct answer drawn will win £15 cash and the second a new AEA umbrella . |
| 21 | Then in 1773–4 he made two designs for a bridge to cross the Severn in Stourport , Worcestershire , the first to be of timber with stone abutments and the second a single arch of brick but resting on a cast-iron centre . |
| 22 | If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same . |
| 23 | When the Prime Minister said on Tuesday that if the Conservatives were re-elected they would not increase VAT , was he giving the House and the country a categorical assurance ? |
| 24 | It is the babies who come first here , and the mother a close second . |
| 25 | The desired family form was a household consisting of a married couple and their children , where the man is the breadwinner and the woman a domestic worker . |
| 26 | It is a process which enables people from tiny communities who have important ideas about how to make their communities , the nation , and the world a peaceful and humane home for mankind to translate those ideas into action . ’ |
| 27 | The church committee may need a concise report every three or six months , and the congregation a pictorial summary once a year . |
| 28 | The complications are endless and the resolution a hilarious bundle of coincidence and tortuous explanation worthy of the worst soap . |
| 29 | The sea was dead calm and the coral a glistening treasure trove of vivid gems . |
| 30 | In a second the blaze was over , the mixture and the wasp a single black lump of scarred and blistered debris cooling from a bright yellow heat . |