Example sentences of "a fine [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For examples of this way of writing seen in the American manner , that is , told with that tremendous briskness of pace and with a fine spattering of one-line wisecracks , let me recommend the farce crime novels of Donald E. Westlake . |
| 2 | you see if it was a fine stand crop you could cut quite a bit but if it was all raffled it took a while . |
| 3 | I make a point each day of leaving the New York before lunch to walk along the Rue de la République where , fifth on the right , is a fine flower shop . |
| 4 | ‘ OSWALDKIRK HAG ’ , a fine belt of hanging woodland which covers the steep side of this beautiful stretch of the Hambledon Hills , shelters the Hall from cold northerly winds . |
| 5 | It is a smooth spreading sausage , similar in texture to a fine liver sausage , with a bright pink colour . |
| 6 | Quick and easy to prepare , not too heavy or sweet , it makes a fine choice to follow a roast — just leave it to cook while you eat the main course . |
| 7 | So did Mr Gorbachev 's nomination of Gennady Yanaev , a Communist apparatchik , for the new post of vice-president ( a fine choice , said that figurehead of Soviet conservatism , Yegor Ligachev ) . |
| 8 | The Beefeater Bar gives you a thoroughly relaxed , informal setting for a fine choice of meals from our new Beefeater Range bar menu . |
| 9 | Dorling Kindersley 's beautifully illustrated Eye Witness Guides ( £7.99 ) are a fine choice . |
| 10 | He would be a fine choice , giving the GATT job a higher political profile . |
| 11 | Good variety of whiskies and a fine choice of beers . |
| 12 | The London Daily Telegraph of 25 August 1887 , under the heading " A Sailors ' Association " chose to deal at length with the birth of the union , praising its objects , but predicting its early demise : " The North Country " , the article read , " was always the nursery of the famous and best seamen and it is here that we find Jack hard at work originating a fine scheme . |
| 13 | The following exhibitions were discussed in last month 's issue and are recommended to readers : Sean Scully 's convincing demonstration of abstract art at Waddington ( to 23 December ) , the new graphic works of Roy Lichtenstein at Mayor ( to 23 December ) , theatre paintings by Sickert at Browse and Darby ( to 23 December ) , Bernard Jacobson 's handsome selection of paintings by Stanley Spencer ( to 5 December ) , with Spencer 's drawings at Dover Street Gallery ( to 18 December ) , and a fine installation of Grenville Davey 's sculpture at Chisenhale ( to 13 December ) . |
| 14 | An hour 's work with a fine brush might , just might , manage to get an approximation of the vividly human colour , softness , fullness , femininity , innocence and yet sensuality of that one small feature of her beautiful face . |
| 15 | To copy these onto your artwork , draw the outline of the area in tape or dry transfer lines , and then fill in the middle with either wide dry transfer lines cut to size or use two coats of matt black enamel paint applied with a fine brush , and allow to dry . |
| 16 | This is established with a fine brush . |
| 17 | I now use washes of neutral tint , indigo , Vandyke brown and Payne 's grey for the darkest colours , and when bone dry will overlay each grass in turn with a fine brush . |
| 18 | Grasses are applied in fine , light lines using a fine brush loaded with acrylic paint . |
| 19 | First , fill in the skeleton shape : using a fine brush , draw a V- shape of charcoal eyeshadow from the centre of the eye out to the corner and up into the socket line . |
| 20 | Start with black powder eyeshadow on a fine brush , gently build up a fine line close to lashes and out as far as is flattering . |
| 21 | Sister explained to me , ‘ The poor old dear 's in a fine twitter as she thought the bus was stopping , not starting — ’ Sister shot off to meet an anxious young woman with a baby in her arms and a small tearful boy hanging on to her skirt . |
| 22 | On examination the patient was anxious , flushed , tachycardic , and hypertensive , with a fine tremor of the outstretched hands . |
| 23 | There 's one outpost of northern civilization in the heart of the city centre — a fine Sam Smith 's pub called the Three Goats Heads . |
| 24 | The discoverer — reputedly Ingolfur Arnarson after whom a fine peak near Þingvellir and Ingólfshöfdi is named — called the country ‘ Iceland ’ because of the ice he found there ; this created the first half-truth about the islands of the north . |
| 25 | A fine fool she 'd look if she allowed herself to be swept off her feet by more of those blood-stirring kisses , then found herself dropped like a burning coal the moment Doreen stepped through the door . |
| 26 | A fine fool she 'd look if Silas returned and found her in a state of emotional upset . |
| 27 | Make your way along Pařižská Street from the river and you will pass on your right a fine statue of Moses by Bílek ( 1906 ) in the gardens beside the Old-New Synagogue . |
| 28 | Those days are remembered in a fine statue in Galashiels of a mounted reiver with typical steel bonnet and lance . |
| 29 | Adjoining the forum is the Temple of Apollo which is the best preserved temple at Pompeii ; it had a portico of 48 columns and there is a fine statue of the god in the courtyard . |
| 30 | A large area , part wooded and part a rocky summit , situated just north of Broombriggs on B.591 , providing a fine viewpoint over a large part of the Midlands . |