Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradley Dredge , last year 's beaten finalist , also looked poised for a 67 after a run of five straight birdies to the 11th on Dunluce , but happily settled for 69 as the wind reduced the 17th to a drive and short iron , but put the 18th out of range for everybody . |
| 2 | Existing NCR 3450 and 3550 server users will be able to upgrade from the 80486 via a board swap . |
| 3 | She was approached by talking book company chief Clive Stanhope who tells me : ‘ I met Julie when she was in rep in the 60s in a comedy called The City Madam — she was marvellous but the play has n't been performed since . ’ |
| 4 | In relation to , for example , technological systems , design posits a means of overcoming control problems since it posits a means of knowing-practice which incorporates the technical as a moment and which can itself thus internally incorporate social requirements ( no other mode of knowledge practice can do this ) . |
| 5 | Father Kleinsorge went to fetch water for the wounded in a bottle and a teapot he had borrowed . |
| 6 | The distinctly old-fashioned romance is tweaked into the 90's by a spot of gratuitous nudity and a bizarre courting scene in which the lovers drop trousers and urinate together . |
| 7 | Lacking the elaborate Go-motion system of rods and computer control that Tippett had devised at ILM for the dragon in Dragonslayer ( 1981 ) , intended to create a slight blur as each single-frame shot was made ( since in real motion the subject moves fractionally in the one-fiftieth of a second for which one frame is exposed ) , they simply shook the puppet a bit each time . |
| 8 | The answer is still not clear , but what is certain is that the five-rayed plan was established even in the Cambrian in a number of diverse echinoderms ; it is evidently highly functional . |
| 9 | He was also associated with the Glasgow Institute for the Deaf as a director . |
| 10 | She was always on the alert for a scene of frustration between husband and wife . |
| 11 | Take the enclosed to a printing or duplicating Agency and arrange for at least 9 copies to be made . |
| 12 | I meant to pop the enclosed in a drawer of the chest of drawers to thank you for its removal — better late than never , and the card early to save a stamp . |
| 13 | First of all , we will use the total-chromatic in a succession of consonant two-note groups ( Example 108 ) : Our next step is to form three-part harmony by adding a note to each chord which is dissonant with one of the existing notes . |
| 14 | When Warner Bros , the company with which she had signed an exclusive long-term contract , squandered her potential during the Thirties in a series of amusing but , for her , unfulfilling potboilers ( eg Fashions of 1934 , The Big Shakedown , Jimmy the Gent , Fog over Frisco ) , she took the unprecedented step of departing for England , where she could continue working outside of American jurisdiction . |
| 15 | This scheme differs from the Protogeometric in a reduction of the black areas and of concentric circles and semicircles , and in a careful selection of the rectilinear motives and the ordering of them to cover the pot with a skin of graded zones which emphasise its shape . |
| 16 | It appealed for sympathy with the unemployed in a way which did not challenge the consensus about the problem . |
| 17 | The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion . |
| 18 | One would think , in some Christian churches , that the Devil is entirely concerned with tripping-up the faithful on a day to day basis and has nothing to do with racism , class hatred , war , ecological disaster , and political oppression ( see chapter nine ) . |
| 19 | In the very book of Malachi from which he derived the understanding of his own mission to prepare the way of the Lord , he would have read of fire both burning up evil-doers and also refining and purifying the faithful like a refiner 's fire ( Mal. 4 : If , 3:1–4 ) . |
| 20 | and a half , one over two the reciprocal of a half if you turn it the other way round it 's two over one |
| 21 | Since an element in the reciprocal of a matrix M is defined as the ratio of the cofactor of the corresponding element in M to the determinant |
| 22 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 23 | With support for the 88000 as a system architecture dwindling to a few hardy companies , a core 88open unit will continue to service their requirements , testing and branding system software and applications . |
| 24 | 29996 preserves many more of his compositions , together with an alternatim organ Mass by another St. Paul 's musician Philip ap Rhys , who succeeded him as organist , and a considerable number of organ works ( including the Proper of a Mass for Easter Day and eight ‘ Felix namque ’ which might be regarded as a set of variations though they were not of course played as such ) by Thomas Preston ( d. c. 1564 ) , organist of Magdalen College , Oxford , and later of the Chapel Royal at Windsor . |
| 25 | , David ( 1813–1898 ) , iron- and steel-maker , was born in Campbeltown , Argyll , and was baptized there 17 February 1813 , the son of Robert Colvill and his wife Janet Mitchell , the youngest of a family of eleven . |
| 26 | I enjoy shocking people by describing how goods were introduced into households under the guise of gifts for children : the fridge in the house of the children we played with over the road was given to the youngest as a birthday present — the last thing an eight-year old wants . |
| 27 | They use the 80860 as a vector processor for complementary co-operative processing , explains Parsys 's commercial director Ian Coburn , who goes on to stress that the company has no plans to use the Intel processor as a replacement for the delayed T9000 . |
| 28 | The sort of behaviour that , in sunny costa del bovver , labelled the British as a nation of hooligans and had the Tories publicly screaming for passport controls and privately considering drowning every male working class child at birth . |
| 29 | The Kandyan Kingdom fell quietly to the British as a result of its internal weaknesses and divisions , but part of the aristocracy led a major rebellion in 1817 — 18 . |
| 30 | Sometimes , we are forced to be members of one group rather than another ; in the British colony , Kenyans were ill those inhabitants excluded by the British from a share in political and administrative power , or at least that was the appearance . |