Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 2 | In the indoor galleries a range of exhibitions and audio visual presentations provide background information about the lives and experiences of the thousands of other Ulster-American emigrants and the part they played in the birth and growth of the United States . |
| 3 | To most people in the rural areas a car and a radio , and even electric power , remained luxuries they could not afford . |
| 4 | However , in the right circumstances a Court Scheme can be more attractive ; those circumstances are examined , and the advantages and disadvantages of using such a scheme and the procedures involved are explained below . |
| 5 | This was a liberal middle-class reformist cop-out guaranteed to give the right women a step up in the power stakes as well as provide appeasement for male consciences which were getting a bit ragged at the edges from the constant battering of Irish feminists . |
| 6 | They said I could work just in termtime as long as I give them notice of the definite weeks a month in advance . ’ |
| 7 | Before the regional elections a year ago he was constantly predicting that his party would win 15-20 per cent of the vote . |
| 8 | The moor was virtually desolate , every tree and bush a landmark , the scant villages a collection of shacks . |
| 9 | The bodies of nine crewman who were killed when their Hercules crashed in the Scottish Highlands a week ago , will be flown back to RAF Lyneham tomorrow . |
| 10 | By contrast , Marx saw in Morgan 's emphasis on the primacy of the matrilineal gens a challenge to these principles . |
| 11 | For example , whereas land rights were inherited through the mother in the matrilineal systems a father could leave economic trees to his sons , thereby providing them with a small independent base . |
| 12 | Enthusiastic supporters claimed that the movement gave to ‘ the Free Churches a unity they have never had before ’ although this same observer recognized that it was ‘ the Establishment that lies at the foundation of our contention ’ . |
| 13 | In the approaching waves a rotation of the polarization is expressed by a rotation of the components Φ 2 or Φ in the complex plane . |
| 14 | On the shores of the Blighted Isle the Dark Elf host assembled , determined to deny the High Elves a foothold on the shore . |
| 15 | It made the nifty moves a bit difficult . |
| 16 | Southend are one off the bottom … but they 've given some of the top teams a run for their money this season … |
| 17 | One of the top skills a driver 's got have on a road if he 's gon na maintain safety . |
| 18 | For the cyclist however it was a ‘ challenge ’ in more ways than one , partly because the distance was much greater than is usual in such events , thus giving the motorised modes a head start on the outer-suburb uncongested sections , and partly because traffic was lighter than usual on that particular day . |
| 19 | One of her first arrivals at Heathrow gave the British tabloids a field day as she climbed off a long-haul flight from Australia in the same travel-weary outfit she had boarded in . |
| 20 | It adds : ‘ The viability of this proposal will need to be further explored with the private sector and others as it is too early at this stage to value the commercial opportunities a road might bring for improved coal and mineral extraction , forestry , recreation and other developments to defray construction costs . ’ |
| 21 | Under King Charles II Bishop Cosin turned the hall into a chapel after the dilapidations of the Commonwealth general , and gave the medieval windows a clerestory . |
| 22 | He is known to have favoured that , but it is rejected by the report as a ’ a crude device which can not do justice to the different abilities a pupil may show in different subjects and contexts ’ . |
| 23 | Time to give the old legs a rest on a steep descent into the beautiful Farndale Valley |
| 24 | For example … / in the old days a man of my standing would never have gone to the shops ; everything would be sent to his house : grain , chillies , cotton , cloth . |
| 25 | In the old days a man could be left to languish in prison uncharged and forgotten . |
| 26 | Whereas natural science works with a basic or datum language of physical behaviour , which , if adopted for social science , would mean that action-descriptions were inferred from descriptions of behaviour , Weber offers the social sciences a datum language of actions . |
| 27 | He jerked it a couple of times , and somewhere inside the cavernous depths a bell jangled loudly . |
| 28 | Indeed , as we shall see in the final chapter , one of the principal skills a drama teacher requires is the ability to recognise the potential and suitability of each mode for the particular topic and the particular group and to recognise that the incipient performance mode in dramatic playing and the incipient dramatic playing mode in performance provide the means for an imperceptible movement between the two . |
| 29 | Manlius Vulso a speech in 189 B.C. in which , to encourage in the Roman legionaries a contempt for the Galatians , he finds traces of Celtic barbarism even in Massalia : " Massilia inter Gallos sita , traxit aliquantum ab accolis animorum " ( 38.17.11 ) . |
| 30 | Little research has yet been carried out on controls of brittle fracture within the subsurface , although Bj rlykke ( 1983 ) attributed cement dissolution ( and consequent secondary porosity generation ) to overpressuring , with subsequent cementation in the overlying strata a consequence of pressure release . |