Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 The advent of racier papers with topless models featured on the inside pages and a grim concentration on the latest doings of talentless television stars , equally talentless soccer stars and the Royal Family had taken away its market .
2 Furthermore , in many more isolated and smaller settlements a wife may be unable to work regularly owing to a lack of jobs or transport ; therefore the total mortgage that a would-be home buyer can obtain will be based on a multiple of the husband 's income alone .
3 Forty three patients had partially treated iron deficiency with a typical blood film and microcytosis ( mean cell volume <76 fl ) or iron , iron binding capacity or ferritin , or all four at the extremes of the normal range and a response to iron treatment .
4 A further important point is that on two scores — the overall symptom score and the resistance score — there was a difference between the normal women and a group of normal men who were also given the inventory .
5 The show is a mix of puppets and a human Alice when she 's the normal size and a puppet Alice when she 's shrunk by the potion .
6 The law compiles doctrines such as fraud , mistake , duress , undue influence and incapacity , which share the task of specifying the occasions when the normal presumption that a person acts voluntarily may be rebutted .
7 This contrasts with many other societies in which sharing a home with relatives has been regarded as the normal option and a permanent arrangement .
8 I felt I was n't appreciate anymore and was suffering from the normal jealousies that a father has when the child monopolizes the mother 's attention .
9 Other events there will be A Night Out with Goldsmith , Johnson and Burney at the Georgian Theatre and a performance by Fritz Spiegel and the Spiegelers .
10 Soon it was moving at the speed of a trotting horse between a high hedge on the right-hand side and a stone wall on the left .
11 The emergence of a distinction between the full-time workforce and a large part-time group is a comparatively recent phenomenon .
12 The NRC , consisting since the February 1989 elections of 210 elected and 68 presidentially appointed members ( and of 98 appointed members hitherto ) , acts as a legislative body for the interim period until a new constitution has been framed .
13 The President is assisted by a Prime Minister and a Cabinet composed of representatives of a number of political parties ; although the parties continue to exist , political activity is banned , and elections to the National Resistance Council ( NRC — hitherto comprising 98 appointed members ) were conducted on a non-party basis in February 1989 [ see p. 36455 ] , since when the NRC , now consisting of 210 elected and 68 presidentially appointed members , has acted as a legislative body for the interim period until a new constitution is framed .
14 ‘ The first term I was there I remember doing a large choral concert , an opera with the junior school and a carol service . ’
15 Perennials like linarias bring a subdued colour to the narrow border and a yellow jasmine around the door will give a warm welcome in the colourless winter period .
16 Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
17 Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
18 Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
19 Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
20 Arctic Finland , in contrast to both Norway and Sweden , is flat , a vast tundra forest with lakes that is ideal country for the pulka-pulling skier but a little less inspiring for the walker .
21 the divine lotus or a man with a lotus blossom on his head .
22 It comprehended at once distrust in the divine voracity and a proportionate credulity in the assurances of satan , unbelief , Side B graditude , disobedience , gluttony , ‘ In the man excessive uxoriousness , in the woman a want of proper regard for her husband , in both an insensibility to the welfare of their offspring and that offspring the whole human race .
23 The government 's desire to play down the incident was set against a background of high political tension fuelled over recent months by widespread protests against austerity and official corruption and the persistent rumours that a repeat of the February military coup attempt was imminent [ see pp. 38759-60 ; 39048 ] .
24 A dead leaf will make a smaller contribution to the measured image than a living one but the errors arising from other sources are certainly of much greater magnitude .
25 The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the continuation of trends already clearly visible — a consolidation of the network of diplomatic links between the European states and a further growth and elaboration of foreign offices .
26 This confirms the analogy which has often been drawn between the founding treaties of the European Communities and a written constitution in a sovereign state .
27 The electoral campaign , which had begun on Dec. 4 , ended on Feb. 21 , and was attended by an estimated 2,500 international observers including representatives of the United Nations , the Organization of American States and the European Parliament and a United States team led by the former President , Jimmy Carter .
28 A CSCE mission was nevertheless permitted to visit Nagorny Karabakh on Feb. 12 , and on Feb. 17 Hassan Hasanov , the Azerbaijani Prime Minister , arrived in Brussels to attend a session of the European Parliament and a meeting of NATO 's Political Council , where he spoke about the background to the conflict .
29 Nonetheless , statistics have been produced by the FPSC for the countries in the European Community and a tentative ‘ league ’ table of one parent families produced .
30 To that end it has recently amended the European Commission 's proposals for the introduction of a licence system for art exports outside the European Community and a directive concerning the regulation of the return of works of art illegally removed from one member state to another .
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