Example sentences of "[art] [adj] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Father Kleinsorge went to fetch water for the wounded in a bottle and a teapot he had borrowed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It appealed for sympathy with the unemployed in a way which did not challenge the consensus about the problem . |
| 8 | By December 1961 the Fouchet committee , which met independently of EEC institutions , had devised a plan that aimed to build up cultural , defence and foreign policy co-operation among the Six in a Union of States . |
| 9 | Next there is the instinct that it is contrary to fair play to put the accused in a position where he is exposed to punishment whatever he does . |
| 10 | ‘ the instinct that it is contrary to fair play to put the accused in a position where he is exposed to punishment whatever he does . |
| 11 | The latest decrease in the bank 's Short Term Facility — of 0.5pc to a new rate of 10.25pc — was the third in less than a month , and the second in a week . |
| 12 | One view is that Frank Reed 's release , the second in a week , may be the last for some time . |
| 13 | , Sir John Alexander ( 1871–1949 ) , author and editor of popular works of reference , was born in Alexandria , Dunbartonshire , 27 February 1871 , the second in a family of two sons and one daughter of James Hammerton , clog-maker of Oldham , and his second wife Janet , shopwoman , daughter of Alexander Lang , mason . |
| 14 | The minority centre-left government led by the Socialist Party survived a motion of no confidence on Nov. 23 — the second in a month [ see p. 39161 ] — when the three centre-right and right-wing parliamentary groups gained only 257 of the required 286 votes in the National Assembly . |
| 15 | The defeat , the second in a by-election to the House of Councillors ( the upper chamber of the Diet ) within a month , occurred despite the investment of huge campaign resources . |
| 16 | During college based sessions the first part of the morning is spent on a whole group presentation ; the second in a workshop/seminar situation . |
| 17 | Initially , Aegon will find the additional in a way that will give them a 50 per cent stake in the non-with-profits business . |
| 18 | Bloody Scamp had the sawn-off in a plastic dustbin . |
| 19 | Her target was an excessively tall gangling gentleman , not very suitably clad for the Mediterranean in a suit of gingery wool with the trousers ending in tight bands round the calves . |
| 20 | I think we 're gon na struggle with the three in a day on the twenty foot . |
| 21 | I think football seems to , to bring out the worst in a lot of people and that 's the part of it that I do n't like . |
| 22 | There is also a tendency to state the obvious in a way that stops it from being obvious . |
| 23 | What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form . |
| 24 | Although open lines of communication are important , they should not be used by the superior to command the subordinate in a matter where authority has been delegated to the subordinate . |
| 25 | It was stated earlier that the Poisson distribution was a satisfactory approximation to the binomial in a case such as this ; to test this assertion both equation ( 6.2 ) and equation ( 6.3 ) have been used to calculate the expected ‘ perfectly randomized ’ results . |
| 26 | From this point of view there is room for the state to assume an interventionist role for the many in a way that may well eat into the freedoms of the few who exercise private , economic power — power that many constitutional authorities are actually concerned to protect and defend through their stress on the importance of liberty , and constitutional limitations on taxation , state intervention , parliamentary sovereignty , and the play of democratic politics itself . |
| 27 | Competition , as more and more noticed , can favour the poor in a way state monopolies are never likely to do ; in fact it is precisely through concentrated economic power , not least in the great nationalised industries and services , that the rich can sometimes best thrive . |
| 28 | Government response to the crisis has hit the poor in a way that has become all too familiar in the Third World . |
| 29 | In general the move towards wage supplementation in the rural South and East enabled the old Poor Law just about to cope with the problem of subsisting the poor in a period of unprecedentedly high bread prices , during which some years can only be described as desperate . |
| 30 | In the first section , Standards Six and Seven were taught , the latter in a corner alcove , usually consisting of about twelve to fourteen boys . |