Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [adj] a " in BNC.

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1 and the response to such a command could be to hand up some dictionary definition of a bar as a drinking place .
2 It is very unlikely that Francis had been summoned to Rome : much more likely that he brought himself there seeing the opportunity of such a gathering .
3 The unknown artist had painted the fur with such a delicate brush you felt you might stroke it .
4 Breeze and Gay had printed their handbills with great care , and had painted their board most beautifully — with the result that on the following Sunday afternoon the entire population of Overclyst and Clyst St George filed past Sunset Cottage in slow procession , gazing open-mouthed at the birthplace of such a surprising scheme .
5 Yet I hold the town close to my heart , for it is the birthplace of many a dream and memory : it is winter , it was always winter and cold , I am alone on the beach building a secret world , a sand landscape of hills , mountains , ravines with bridges , towns and harbours .
6 And 69 Members ( including the tellers ) voted for an amendment that would have made permanent television conditional on the provision of such a channel .
7 The provision of such a variety of telecommunication and travel facilities makes it impossible for any community however large or small to develop in isolation .
8 The plaintiffs submit that if maladministration includes the provision by an employee of a negligent valuation , then the result would be anomalous because , as is common ground , the provision of such a report by an independent surveyor could not be maladministration .
9 I see no justification for concluding that if the service provided involves the use of professional skill and judgment , the provision of such a service to the society can not also constitute action by the society .
10 The provision of such a valuation is in relation to the grant of a further advance because that is its raison d'être .
11 However , the provision of such a small resource on a cost-effective basis is open to debate , particularly when small facilities would be required for those with functional illness , physical illness and social problems .
12 How could he possibly be associated with the excesses of such a raggle-taggle outfit ?
13 A few rich families began to emerge at the top of such societies and the numbers of poor cottagers grew significantly , but the old-established middling families long remained the backbone of many a rural community .
14 And erm Sir William who was the designer of it er had designed the stabilizer in such a manner that all sorts of er materials were required for it .
15 For Marx and Engels the existence of such a stage , or something like it , seemed essential in order to show fully the purely artificial and relative nature of both relations of production and private property in capitalism .
16 Again , some wrongs , such as fraud , in their essence involve a guilty state of mind , and in such cases the extreme youth of the wrongdoer may be inconsistent with the existence of such a state of mind .
17 I was not conscious of the existence of such a committee until I received the report …
18 The existence of such a statement confirms that the child has greater special educational needs than most other children with such needs .
19 A consequence of the existence of such a link is that excitatory conditioning will be retarded when an inhibitory CS is used to signal the occurrence of the US .
20 Realistically , though , you would need to have strong evidence that the existence of such a right is part of your particular deal with your employer , and that you have been denied satisfaction from your work in a clear and unjustifiable fashion , before you could pursue litigation with confidence .
21 The existence of such a market guarantees the reversibility of such a claim but not the disposal price or value .
22 The sterility of absolute atheism completely denies the realisation of any hopes of the existence of such a power , and this can not be acceptable .
23 The existence of such a body is seen as giving more appropriate recognition to the commercial and practical realities of an auditing services market dominated by a small number of large accounting firms . ’
24 The theme of thwarted conventional ambitions that was essential to both anomie and delinquent subculture theories implied that criminals and delinquents suffered from a ‘ gap ’ between their aspirations and expectations , and the existence of such a gap came to be taken as the measure of the validity of the theories .
25 Despite the existence of such a remedy , a number of problems have plagued the use of the remedy .
26 Although Buckingham was to take possession in most cases only as offices fell vacant , the existence of such a powerful reversionary interest could only be seen as a threat by existing office holders .
27 The existence of such a large ( see 12:37 ) alien group in his borderlands has for some time made Pharaoh uneasy .
28 The existence of such a valuation is a sine qua non to the grant of a further advance .
29 As for the possibility of granting certain persons dispensation from the nationality condition , which was mentioned in the last part of the national court 's question ( 2 ) , the Commission referred to Openbaar Ministerie of the Netherlands v. van Tiggele ( Case 82/77 ) [ 1978 ] E.C.R. 25 and Criminal proceedings against Anton Adriaan Fietje ( Case 27/80 ) [ 1980 ] E.C.R. 3839 , from which it appeared that the existence of such a possibility did not redeem a national measure which was incompatible with Community law .
30 The existence of such a principle was negatived by Nolan J. [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 but accepted by a majority of the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 790 .
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