Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many thanks were due to all the teachers and performers who had made the afternoon such a success . |
| 2 | S. H. Used the truncheon many a time , especially on Lime Street . |
| 3 | It aims at increasing the number of trained programmers from the present 500 a year , to more than 22000 . |
| 4 | That term is sometimes used loosely to refer to travellers and persons of nomadic habits , and in Mills v. Cooper a Divisional Court accorded the term such a meaning for the purposes of the Highways Act , which made it an offence for a gypsy to encamp on a highway . |
| 5 | I think these are the fears of the county council that er the uncertainty such a policy would bring . |
| 6 | If they beat the scousers tonight , I 'm afraid I 'll concede the title to the B******s especially with the boost such a victory would give them . |
| 7 | In the right circumstances , horses can also learn affection for a person — which not only makes training a horse so much easier , but makes riding and working the horse such a pleasure . |
| 8 | I said I do n't want and Keith says , I , I get so angry I , I stand up and give the boat such a wack |
| 9 | She told me how much food to give him every day , and to be sure to leave the window open a bit so he could get into the garden and do his business . |
| 10 | Very roughly , my wanting the window open a moment ago is to be understood not only in terms of the stuffiness of the room ( the stimulus ) , and my subsequently opening the window ( behaviour ) , but also in terms of various beliefs , attitudes , and the like , including certain ordinary causal beliefs about open windows and perhaps attitudes having to do with propriety and the neighbours . |
| 11 | In the stillness you can hear calls from the hillside half a mile away . |
| 12 | As golf is another favourite Hastings sport and an ideal means of relaxation it probably does n't help his back problem that he gives the ball such a lick as to threaten to land it in the next kingdom ! |
| 13 | ‘ I would like to thank all those who helped make the event such a success , everyone from the security people to the restaurant staff — who did a roaring trade . |
| 14 | The legal advice an applicant has received is part of the evidence that a remedy . |
| 15 | Six years ago we successfully brought about a European-wide ban on the bulk trade in tortoises where the UK alone was importing at the height of the trade 250,000 a year of which 80 per cent were dead within two years . |
| 16 | Businesses are collapsing at the rate 76 a day with a total of 7,014 company insolvencies in the three months to the end of September , according to the British Chambers of Commerce . |
| 17 | Businesses are collapsing at the rate 76 a day with a total of 7,014 company insolvencies in the three months to the end of September , according to the British Chambers of Commerce . |
| 18 | The gang would have come in a high-powered motor launch , not in an ordinary punt , hired from the boat-yard half a mile upstream . |
| 19 | I 'll pull out my sword like this ’ — and I showed him what I would do — ‘ and give the creature such a wound that it will never come near me again ! ’ |
| 20 | The government , says Roith , should take some of the credit for the growth in computer literacy in Britain over the past half a decade . |
| 21 | A variant of the language has evolved in the course of the past half a century or thereabouts , and is used everywhere . |
| 22 | It looked southward , across the length of the green , to the little market town of Lulling hidden in the valley half a mile away . |
| 23 | Instead , they went on watching the Syrian tanks manoeuvring down the road half a mile away , in what had the previous day been the Christian front line . |
| 24 | The bus , which was travelling towards Redcar left the road half a mile west of Dormanstown roundabout , hit a lamp-post and fence and ended up on its side in a ditch . |
| 25 | First silicon of the follow-on UltraSparc-II a year later should start where UltraSparc-I leaves off , going to 275MHz with Specint 92 ratings of between 325 and 475 and Specfp 92 between 550 and 750 . |
| 26 | First silicon of the follow-on UltraSparc-II a year later should start where UltraSparc-I leaves off , going to 275MHz with Specint 92 ratings between 325 and 475 and Specfp 92 between 550 and 750 . |
| 27 | Meanwhile Iris II N195 had been converted to a Mk IV by having three 800hp Armstrong Siddeley Leopard radials fitted , the two outer as tractors and the centre one a pusher . |
| 28 | Eventually Rosie , the youngest of the nursery maids , pushed the door open a fraction , a handkerchief to her face . |
| 29 | He tried to scan his surroundings but the interior was too gloomy so he kicked the door open a bit further , flooding the freight car with light . |
| 30 | Leave the door open a minute Christine it 's a bit warm in here . |