Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Habsburg territories also , as has been seen , a series of able ministers backed by Maria Theresa , the greatest ruler of the dynasty , created from the 1740s onwards a whole range of important new organs of administration ( see pp. 153–4 ) . |
| 2 | In the mid-1920s only a little over 1 per cent were receiving a formal education . |
| 3 | Two examples , one from Silandra 's ‘ Vieni , vieni ’ in Orontea , the other from Arsete 's ‘ Non scherzi con Amor ’ in Act I of his Florentine court opera , La Dori ( 1663 ) : show ( i ) his construction of a long descending phrase pivoting on a descending scale and given cohesion by a motivic sequence ( the latter already a well-known Venetian device ) , ( ii ) his ability to write a sheer catchy tune . |
| 4 | How about the ten over a hundred what will that come to ? |
| 5 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge had been reading Purchas 's His Pilgrimage after taking some opium : In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall , wherein are fertile Meddowes , pleasant Springs , delightful Streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure . |
| 6 | Well I mean if you had twenty or thirty that 's only the same only a little bit different , that 's all |
| 7 | This is — and we can say the same about a dozen or so batsmen in our region including Somerset 's luckless Ricky Bartlett and Gloucestershire 's Mark Alleyne — a crucial summer for him . |
| 8 | ‘ It is possible that the body was taken to the Close only a short time before it was discovered , ’ Morton said . |
| 9 | Without this exodus of labour from Southern Europe , which allowed it to reconstruct a reserve army at home , West German capitalism would have been unable to achieve its formidable expansion of outputs in the 1960s without a catastrophic decline in the rate of profit . |
| 10 | Moreover , not very many of their sculptural portraits have survived ( only a few over a hundred for the three centuries after Alexander ) , partly because they were often made of bronze which was readily melted down for re-use . |
| 11 | Twelve and a half per cent 's going to be twelve and a half over a hundred , er , oh , well , we 're going to cancel , but first of all we could go the opposite way , and multiply , just to get rid of this fraction . |
| 12 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 13 | If he had put a second £100 into the FT-SE index each time he bought from the state , the resulting shares would now be worth only a little over a third more than he paid . |
| 14 | Do you want to borrow , well it 's on two tapes , well I 've still got it on the tapes if you want it , it 's quite a good quite a good film |
| 15 | which is again , er I dun , one of the guys at work , another guy at work come which is quite a , well it 's near Guildford , Primchet , which is quite a good quite a good |
| 16 | Where " events " last several days , the level of activity can vary from day to day , sometimes in a predictable sometimes an unpredictable fashion . |
| 17 | A fourth exactly a fourth . |
| 18 | You pot a red then a yellow then another red then a green … and so on . |
| 19 | The training means people can relate quality to their work so it 's no longer just an airy-fairy philosophy but a practical tool kit . |
| 20 | At the departmental level we might have ten a hundred possibly a thousand users but when we go enterprise-wide there may be thousands or many tens of thousands of users . |