Example sentences of "a [adj] note " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the formal case the record will be in the minutes ; in the informal case a dated note should be inserted in the minute file giving the time , place and people present when the decision was taken and a brief statement of the decision . |
| 2 | A diagrammatic note of early 1869 is closer to the ground : on the one side , academic philology ( Universitätsphilologie ) with its goal of the " scientific " study of history and language ; on the other , classical education ( klassische Bildung ) with its acknowledgement of the ancient world as a standard or model for life . |
| 3 | There was a whining note to Kathleen Lavender 's voice . |
| 4 | Sociological positivism struck a resonant note in nineteenth-century Britain primarily because of its anti-metaphysical approach . |
| 5 | ( 6 ) This is the time , if you have not before acted for your client , to send a polite note of thanks to the person who introduced your client to you . |
| 6 | A private note , signed by twenty cardinals and ten major religious superiors , reached Paul VI on the eve of the third session ( see Hebblethwaite , 1988 , pp. 598–601 and p. 614 ) . |
| 7 | There is both an exultant and a suffering note in the return of the destructive dove which is also the Christian bird of Incarnation whose message for both individual and society , parish and city , is driven home in the famous anthem passage when ‘ The dove descending breaks the air . ’ |
| 8 | Then your mother and grandmother read its scandals aloud to each other in the kitchen , with a monotonous note of sustained outrage that was never sated . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me , ’ Melissa began , on a low note that she could hear becoming steadily more shrill , ‘ that after stabbing Angy , Barney locked himself in the bathroom and left her to die while he calmly washed away her blood ? |
| 10 | His voice dropped to a low note of affection as he slid an arm around her shoulders and drew her close to his side . |
| 11 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. 's quoted words , when read in isolation , do indeed send a strong note of medical independence . |
| 12 | The Young Conservatives involved , intoned Naughtie , a strong note of disapproval in his voice , were mainly Scottish West Coast , former members of the Federation of Conservative Students , a body so high on lager that even Mr Norman Tebbit had been obliged , when Party chairman , to disband them . |
| 13 | I detect a definite note of cynicism in Amanda 's prose regarding her homeland , and personally she may have good reason to feel bitter . |
| 14 | Each string , then , is associated in the player 's mind with a definite note , which is played on the same string whether it is flat , sharp , or natural , the pedals being alone responsible for the chromatic alterations . |
| 15 | A derisive note was back in Luke 's voice . |
| 16 | Only one of the brand-new lifts is working , or so a smudged note scrawled in chalk on a blackboard attempts to tell us : ‘ Due to a defect , certain lift operations suspended . ’ |
| 17 | Nurses who found her were reduced to tears when they read a heart-rending note pinned to her dress . |
| 18 | The years covered by this present chapter were broadly sad ones , so it is , for this author , a pleasure to be able to end on something of a light-hearted note . |
| 19 | Shares ended the account on a weak note . |
| 20 | But the affectionate satire of outrageously hammy theatricals , though amusing , strikes rather a hollow note when so much of the company 's own work is stridently self-indulgent . |
| 21 | She bustled to the door and her voice took on a repressive note . |
| 22 | He got the pending Indian debate brought forward a week to 12 March and took little counsel about the form of his speech , although receiving plenty of advice from his colleagues to strike a conciliatory note . |
| 23 | Sweeter than some , softening the fieriness of the spirit ; ends on a refreshing note . |
| 24 | ‘ This is a strange note , ’ said Mr Utterson . |
| 25 | Since the rise of semi-literate England as seen in the dissolution of so many libraries is something that only political action will be able to solve — in an age when , despite a decade of ‘ Thatcherism ’ and a supposed return to Victorian standards , the state is still all-powerful — it is suitable to end on a political note . |
| 26 | ‘ This time ? ’ she exclaimed with a telling note of derision in her voice . |
| 27 | The goalless first half finished on a controversial note when Cambridge were denied an advantage after winger Lee Philpott was felled . |
| 28 | The only way to discover exactly how much this all adds up to is to make a daily note of everything you spend , for a month . |
| 29 | A cymbal splashes to the tune of a brandished stick of drum and runs about the auditorium , bashing its head on the available hard surfaces , fastly chased by a bass note from another kind of guitar-mad guitar . |
| 30 | Another distant roll of thunder added a bass note to the orchestrated shrillness of the tropical night , and Devraux lifted his head for a second to listen . |