Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study day will include lectures and remembrances of the line , which finally closed in 1959 , a walk along part of the trackbed and a viewing of some of the recently restored buildings of the lead mine which the Railway opened to serve in 1877 . |
| 2 | Frame 's international standing was rewarded with a Vice-Presidency of the World Federation of the Deaf and a place on its elected Bureau . |
| 3 | Our first step in illustrating interval harmony using the whole chromatic octave will be to write a succession of consonances in two parts : This succession of six two-part chords uses the total-chromatic and a variety of consonances , though not the 4th and major 6th . |
| 4 | Just the Scottish and an English ? |
| 5 | It had occurred neither to them nor to the British that a diplomat was involved . ’ |
| 6 | After the sheriff 's judgment , there was an indication from the fiscal that an appeal would be lodged . |
| 7 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 8 | The accused and a couple of friends staged a false robbery to get the money from the victim . |
| 9 | It is from the mechanical that a block is made for printing . |
| 10 | Food-sharing , or trophallaxis , allied with the power of pheromones to trigger patterns of action , is the regulatory bond which gives the colony its aura of the miraculous and an account in these terms is wholly sufficient . |
| 11 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 12 | I do n't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here . |
| 13 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 14 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 15 | They can be very useful , especially for those with chronic conditions , and for the elderly where a mix of medicines may result in undesirable side-effects . |
| 16 | The Earth 's magnetic flux is , therefore , from Antartica to the Arctic and a compass needle aligns itself with this . |
| 17 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 18 | Labour , wholly in thrall to this feminist cause , will create a Ministry of Women ( as well as a Minister for the Disabled and a Minister for Children ) to generate ‘ legislation for women ’ . |
| 19 | I consider in the light of the foregoing that a reference to the objectives of the Community system of quotas can not be used to justify national rules on the registration of fishing vessels , even if those rules were applicable only to vessels intended to fish for species subject to quotas . |
| 20 | It follows from the foregoing that a condition of the type at issue in the main proceedings , which stipulates that where a vessel is owned or chartered by natural persons they must be of a particular nationality , and where it is owned or chartered by a company the shareholders and directors must be of that nationality , is contrary to article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 21 | His mock-learned apparatus — appendices , maps of Middle-Earth and indexes — suggest a sense of erudition amiably mixed with bonhomie and fun ; his no-nonsense Christianity a hunger for the spiritual and a yearning for roots . |
| 22 | The essential difference , the author claims , is that ‘ caring work involves a degree of intimacy , of closeness socially ( emotionally and/or physically ) between the carer and the cared-for and a recognition of the individuality of the person receiving the service ’ . |
| 23 | In the early years of the nineteenth century , the classical had sustained its peaceful co-existence with the Gothic and a variety of other styles , largely because each house remained at heart Palladian , assuming alternatives merely as decoration . |
| 24 | ARCO invented an imaginative solution to that challenge and , for five successive years from 1988 , bought results by paying for leading collectors and senior museum officials to visit the fair and a city which was becoming one of the most fashionable capitals in Europe . |
| 25 | This will allow more room in the main section of the fair where a number of innovations will be in evidence next year : a separate section for galleries exhibiting for the first time ; a section for photography and publishers and a more spacious layout of stands and aisles . |
| 26 | Police said a report had been prepared for the procurator-fiscal and a man is expected to appear at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Monday . |
| 27 | She complements it with vocal caricatures of the monstrous and a keening she calls a ‘ vengeful mourning cry ’ . |
| 28 | Short-term benefits derive from crime prevention amongst the young and an improvement in their perception of the police , which it is hoped will have residual effects in the long term when they are adults , but the wider community in Easton is only addressed secondarily as parents or guardians , which limits the short-term effects the programme might have on improving its perception of the police . |
| 29 | Here there may arise a conflict between two principles , one that the court will not imply a term unless it is one which reasonable men would obviously have agreed to if their minds had been directed to the point , the other that a contract should if possible be interpreted in such a way as to achieve fairness between the parties … mistake is a much more difficult problem … [ than fraud or partiality ] . |
| 30 | Rice and crates of soft drinks survived the capsize and a system was rigged up to collect rainwater . |