Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . ’ |
6 | A type I superconductor , I confess , is not a perfect diamagnet ; it will let in the magnetic flux just a little bit . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | As I crouched down in the trench I thought of the French family just a short distance away from us . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | They fled the civil war there a year ago . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 ) . |
17 | But is the 23-minute chat really a lovey-dovey phone call between Princess Di and an admirer ? |
18 | 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 . |
19 | From the middle of the eighteenth century onwards a growing chorus of voices had championed the creation of a professional police . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | With its younger sibling , the Edinburgh International Television Festival , the EIFF supplies a focus for the world of the moving image once a year . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 ! |
24 | 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 . |
25 | I saw the major-domo turn away a couple weighed down with medal ribbons and jewels , while admitting a fat young man in a greasy fez and ragged robe . |
26 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
27 | Not since the Crimean War nearly a century earlier , when middle-class radicalism latched on to the opportunities for attacking the aristocratic Establishment in the name of efficient prosecution of the war , had pacifist opinion found itself so isolated in Britain . |
28 | Byrne is a central midfield played who plays the Batty role ie. an agressive tackler/ball winner . |
29 | So is the Orange Tree quite a famous theatre , then ? |
30 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |