Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was able to act as a reconciling agent in a way no one could ever have foreseen . |
| 2 | To catch a frisky horse or a young colt in a field the horseman placed a little of the mixture of oil of origanum , oil of rosemary , oil of cinnamon , and oil of fennel about his person . |
| 3 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |
| 4 | City 's attackers The signs were already there for City that they might be in for a spanking when their formidable attack of Andy Cole , Leroy Rosenior and playmaker Jacki Dziekanowski were held in a tight grip in a first-half an opening 45 minutes that was marked by a spectacular 30-yard goal from Justin Channing , in the final week of his loan spell from QPR . |
| 5 | In such a mess in a town the lighter fragments blow about : the main squalor is on the ground . |
| 6 | To draw unemployment benefit in an off-season a seasonal worker must show he has already had , or can reasonably expect to obtain , a substantial amount of employment during the current off-season — normally at least one quarter of that period . |
| 7 | The plaintiff carried on business in a market the owner of which demanded tolls from him . |
| 8 | Following its second poor electoral showing in a row the SPD remained divided . |
| 9 | The FOND only covers those members present within that file , so , for example , if you had Helvetica and Helvetica Italic in the System but Helvetica Bold and Bold Italic in a Suitcase the latter two would not be found by the System . |
| 10 | With one of the pair in orbit , the interferometer swings around much more rapidly — reducing the time required for observing each source — and the separation is not limited by the size of the Earth : present technology permits a radio telescope in an orbit a hundred times larger , improving the resolution a hundredfold over that possible from Earth |
| 11 | She had a beautiful singing voice , played the tambourine in an unusual way , had a " nice uniform cape in a style no one had ever seen before " , and an accent that drew immediate attention . |
| 12 | instead of facing each other in a clash the arrows are aligned in their upward movement . |
| 13 | However , with BBC BASIC you can turn to a particular character in a file an the tedium only takes a couple of seconds , so it 's well worth doing . |
| 14 | Ziba 's 35-year-old brother , Meho , who worked at the dairy and fought with the Sarajevo defence force , had been killed during the night in a skirmish a few blocks away . |
| 15 | NINETEEN blacks were massacred at a taxi-rank near Johannesburg last night in an attack the African National Congress said was aimed at derailing the transition to majority rule . |
| 16 | This conditional landholding — the pomestie — created the nucleus of a new service stratum dependent on the Prince in a way the boyars had never been . |
| 17 | Raoult 's law is a useful starting point and defines an ideal solution as one in which the activity of each component in a mixture a i is equal to its mole fraction x i . |
| 18 | When you have had your fill of art galleries , there still remains the Konrad Kellenberger collection of clocks in the renovated Town Hall , and the Swiss Technorama , where contemporary technology is skilfully related to everyday life in a way the visitor can understand . |
| 19 | The party was a success in a way no quick-lunch counter could have been — but you will have got my drift by now . |
| 20 | An example would be when an extra record is added for each project in a company every day . |
| 21 | The circumstances which govern this price for any given amount of the commodity vary in character from one problem to another ; but in every case the more of a thing is offered for sale in a market the lower is the price at which it will find purchasers ; or in other words , the demand price for each bushel or yard diminishes with every increase in the amount offered . |
| 22 | But being the oldest swinger in a town a hot mile 's walk away was a life Sombro was used to . |
| 23 | Earlier Rangers had been thinking of survival rather than victory as for the third weekend in a row the Glasgow giants found themselves seriously threatened by a club from the bottom half of the table . |
| 24 | It makes a valid connection in a collection the order of which almost certainly varied during the process of composition and which was never completed . |
| 25 | What 's your own view in a nutshell the way forward to democracy ? |
| 26 | I could n't imagine Ted contemplating the nature of Eva and Dad 's taut happiness or telling of how they were always trying to pull each other 's tracksuit bottoms down and playing games like seeing who could throw a lolly-stick in a bin the most times out of ten . |
| 27 | An interview elicits spontaneous speech in a way a prepared talk does not . |
| 28 | Thus it is accepted that without good discipline in a school the standard of teaching and learning , and thus the achievements of both teachers and pupils , will suffer . |
| 29 | It was the second time in a fortnight the Glens had gone down to Portadown , but Saturday 's was a much brighter performance than the 3– |
| 30 | This is the second time in a fortnight the Chancellor has broken with the convention that he does not comment on interest-rate movements . |