Example sentences of "a remarkable [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haslemere sweeper Ferguson and the defence of Crombie , Hull and man-of-the-match Cracknell were pushed to protect 'keeper Bradshaw who pulled off a remarkable stick save . |
| 2 | Looking around Old Town Square , it is a remarkable survival for a capital which was rich in the 19C and which could have been rebuilt then . |
| 3 | WITH the divorce of the two republics of Czechoslovakia at midnight tonight , the Prince of Wales and Vaclav Havel have a formed a remarkable alliance . |
| 4 | One seems to have been situated along the Stanegate , west of the town , where , in addition to single burials , a remarkable mausoleum has been investigated at Shorden Brae . |
| 5 | Of the all-rounders , wicketkeeper Marsh , who claimed 70 victims , weighed in with 910 runs at 33.7 and Ellison 415 plus 47 wickets , while Fleming averaged 31.62 with the bat and showed a remarkable flair for bagging high-class , if not always low-cost , wickets . |
| 6 | ( Chlorine , though , already one of the main commodity businesses when ICI began in the 1920s , still accounts for a remarkable 12% of total sales ; the proportion will be reduced by last month 's decision to shut two chlorine plants at Hillhouse , Lancashire . ) |
| 7 | The road steepens to reach and pass alongside Dent Head Viaduct , the tremendous arched buttresses soaring high above with dramatic effect , the whole a remarkable tribute to the skill of the Victorian railway engineers . |
| 8 | It is a remarkable tribute to their builders that they have survived for fifty years in regular service , albeit in rebuilt form . |
| 9 | Meredith Jones 's decision and subsequent determination are a remarkable tribute to him . |
| 10 | The British press continued to display a discretion which was a remarkable tribute to the influence of the Palace as an institution with the ‘ respectable ’ proprietors , and of the King himself with Rothermere and Beaverbrook . |
| 11 | Moses is silent , but God 's answer is a remarkable tribute to the man ( 6–8 ) . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it is a remarkable tribute to the perseverance and courage of the participants that the ceremonial proceedings were concluded , although no one could have heard a single word of what was spoken into the gale and blown back . |
| 13 | When he was killed Vincent Massey , the High Commissioner for Canada , and Mr Justice Lawrence , the High Court Judge for whom Dermot had marshalled , wrote appreciations of him in The Times , a remarkable tribute in this time of war to an unknown young man . |
| 14 | Miss D'Arcy might be a young woman with a remarkable inheritance , but there were others , and money was not the sole factor at moments such as this . |
| 15 | It is equally clear , however , that it is a remarkable phenomenon and that the chances of its leading to the detection of a diversion that has already taken place , or is in the course of taking place , are reasonably good and are improving as the Agency 's technology in this area develops … |
| 16 | Axelrod draws a moving illustration of the importance of the shadow of the future from a remarkable phenomenon that grew up during the First World War , the so-called live-and-let-live system . |
| 17 | But in Italy at the same time both foreign and native composers were developing forms of secular polyphony which later in the century were to spread over most of Europe and bring about a remarkable expansion of music 's technical resources in the regions of harmony and tonality and in emotional and pictorial expressiveness . |
| 18 | The intermingling of theory and practice is shown in the first place by the fact that the systematic study of politics is far from being confined to institutions of higher learning , even though academic political studies , like the social sciences generally , have undergone a remarkable expansion during the present century . |
| 19 | The last two decades have seen a remarkable expansion in quantitative history relating to Ireland . |
| 20 | Over the long eighteenth century there was a remarkable expansion in the volume and value of British overseas trade . |
| 21 | Even Archibald earl of Argyll , nearing the end of a long life noted mainly for a remarkable inability to make decisions , now found ‘ boldness ’ in him ; he ‘ reformed many things ’ , we are told , and , despite the strictures of archbishop Hamilton , he maintained the Protestant preacher John Douglas in his household . |
| 22 | Mr Falt could be forgiven his smirk when , on election day , he was able to report not a body count but a remarkable turnout of voters . |
| 23 | Despite this standardization the country small-town stations achieved a remarkable diversity , with many individually designed stations for division points and other more important centres . |
| 24 | Despite the consistent influence of the Crown Agents ' technical assistance in all these colonies , a remarkable diversity still prevailed . |
| 25 | For a backbencher , it has been a remarkable performance . |
| 26 | Leila drives , a remarkable performance given that we are so wet and steaming that she must peer through condensation thick enough to carve . |
| 27 | Brilliant staging is also the key to CYRANO DE BERGERAC ( Theatre Royal , Haymarket ) — that and a remarkable performance by Robert Lindsay ( aka Citizen Smith ) . |
| 28 | Bremner is one of many Scottish players who made a remarkable transformation when he took up a career in management . |
| 29 | In 1892 , with the appointment of McFadyean as dean ( he became Principal in 1894 ) there began , on the foundations laid by his predecessors , a second century showing a remarkable transformation which led to a marked expansion of the numbers of teaching staff , to a greater development of the staff 's research activities , and to the full incorporation of the College into the country 's university system . |
| 30 | However , such is the current power and purpose of a team who 'd only ever won four times before the start of this season , that nothing less than victory will do to complete a remarkable transformation from perennial under-achievers to Championship top dogs . |