Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after North 's sentencing , the blundering charmer now a felon , both Time and Newsweek called him ‘ Ollie ’ on their covers . |
| 2 | Nervously Meredith gazed at the open water ahead and then back at Venice , the minarets and bell-towers , the tall palaces just a distant unfocused blur in the morning mist . |
| 3 | What bugged me was the way they sampled that line ‘ Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ’ from the film Withnail and I. It was a shame , since what I liked was the way the album had its own space and logic . |
| 4 | There are several reasons for this extension but the most important in the case of the declaration is that , being a non-coercive remedy ( which means that failure to comply with a declaration does not amount to a contempt of court ) , it is available against the Crown ; and it is very useful in other situations where the seeking of a coercive remedy might be thought unnecessarily aggressive , and where the plaintiff is confident that the defendant will do the right thing once a court says what it is . |
| 5 | It took the Croatian archaeologists almost a year to obtain permission to get into the Barbariga military base . |
| 6 | In McMurdo Sound , Antarctica , Tedrow and Ugolini ( 1966 ) and Tedrow ( 1977 ) estimated that shifts of 30–40°C occurred several times daily in the surface of rocks under summer sunshine , and Nichols and Ball ( 1964 ) found bare ahumic soils passing through the freeze-thaw cycle over a hundred times in the course of a summer . |
| 7 | On shopping the statement 's aim is to ‘ enhance Middlesbrough 's position as the area 's premier shopping experience where the widest choice , highest quality and a friendly welcome combine in the exciting atmosphere only a thriving town centre can offer . ’ |
| 8 | A type I superconductor , I confess , is not a perfect diamagnet ; it will let in the magnetic flux just a little bit . |
| 9 | Wounded were being brought out from the orchard at the back of the farm which was being subjected to unusually heavy mortaring from the German positions just a short distance across the fields . |
| 10 | This will disgorge the stored information twice a day , at alternate intervals of 10 and 14 hours , as IRAS passes over the operational control centre at Chilton in Oxfordshire . |
| 11 | As I crouched down in the trench I thought of the French family just a short distance away from us . |
| 12 | It is one of the old dishes especially made for potted char , the freshwater fish once a celebrated delicacy of the Cumberland lake district . |
| 13 | The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was therefore very important , since they give us a Hebrew text of much of the Old Testament about a thousand years older than anything we had before . |
| 14 | It took the industrious Lowndes nearly a hundred lines to explain it all . |
| 15 | They fled the civil war there a year ago . |
| 16 | If , we reasoned , there really is a morphogen gradient , it should be possible to weaken the signal by decreasing the concentration , and so , instead of getting an additional set of digits 4 , 3 , 2 at the anterior margin only a 3 , 2 or a 2 should develop . |
| 17 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 18 | Turning to the particular case of a quarter-wavelength line , , so that and equation ( 9.91 ) reduces to the simple result Thus a quarter-wavelength line can easily be used to transform one impedance into another . |
| 19 | IAN WRIGHT grabbed a superb 73rd-minute winner against his old club Crystal Palace as Arsenal moved menacingly up to third place in the Premier League just a point behind leaders Blackburn . |
| 20 | She adds : ‘ Even if you feel at times that you ca n't face the extra work in the kitchen that Christmas seems to involve , it 's worth making the extra effort once a year . |
| 21 | Here Trogus introduces a note of realism which is echoed by Livy when he describes how at the beginning of the second century B.c. a third of the Greeks of Ampurias — a secondary settlement of the same Phocaeans — manned their walls every night in fear of the neighbouring Jberians ( 34.9 ) . |
| 22 | But is the 23-minute chat really a lovey-dovey phone call between Princess Di and an admirer ? |
| 23 | At the same time , where a member has opted for a method known as settlement to market , all matching sale and purchase contracts are netted off and resulting gains and losses accounted for , leaving in the member 's account with LCH the following morning only a net long or short position in respect of each commodity or instrument for each delivery month . |
| 24 | From the middle of the eighteenth century onwards a growing chorus of voices had championed the creation of a professional police . |
| 25 | They both soon scattered when a mortar bomb burst at the entrance to the orchard , sending shrapnel whistling through the trees and thudding into the walls of the little cottage just a few yards away . |
| 26 | With its younger sibling , the Edinburgh International Television Festival , the EIFF supplies a focus for the world of the moving image once a year . |
| 27 | Now locate the drilled side just a shade higher so that as you hammer the pin in place it moves down just far enough to produce a perfect joint . |
| 28 | When you get back to the Club Zorna Hotel , the action is still going on , whilst at the International Nightclub just a few hundred yards away , the night 's just beginning — and I went to Yugoslavia thinking it would be restful ! |
| 29 | But over the succeeding weeks only a handful came out the rest chose to stay . |
| 30 | In the present research only a lower level study has been attempted in which the relationship between the aloof measure and the true leaf area obtained after cutting has been plotted . |