Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Determined to experience life as a catwalk photographer , I swapped my pen and notebook for a Canon Eos camera , 200mm lens with a doubler and a monopod ( bravely loaned by Michel Arnaud ) and squeezed into the ‘ gun emplacement ’ at the back of the Salle Sully . |
| 2 | This spell enables the caster to transport a friendly or an enemy unit or a single model up to 18″ across the table in any direction . |
| 3 | Thereafter , you adopt a wholefood diet with a little or no dairy products and no more than one cup of coffee or two cups of tea a day . |
| 4 | Moreover , when they do occur they are more often allowed to operate in territories ( in both a spatial and a policy sense ) in which others ' intervention is limited . |
| 5 | Glass is an amorphous substance which has properties of a solid and the structure of a liquid . |
| 6 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 7 | I mean , even if you go for a , a Chinky or an Indian it 's |
| 8 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 9 | They also go about with a galvanometer and a Geiger counter to measure ‘ sources of power ’ . |
| 10 | So she was n't a stranger but a friend : one of the friends of Lili 's London afternoons ; a woman dressed in black wool with silver hoop earrings . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're quite a stranger and no mistake , ’ he greeted his brother over his shoulder . |
| 12 | Out of this splendid , imperishable lantern the deep eyes glared as though a stranger and a savage inhabited the dwelling an angel had abandoned . |
| 13 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's always nice to get on the scoresheet , but I really do see myself more as a goal-maker than a goalscorer . |
| 15 | She did not care a damn whether the information was protected or not . |
| 16 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 17 | But whatever happens to particular processes , it remains a general condition of modern cultural technology that it both requires social forms of production and yet , within this , under specific economic conditions , imposes not only a professional but a class division of labour . |
| 18 | If you 're doing twenty in a forty and a copper comes along and pulls both of you , it 's gon na be you that gets fucking done , not him ! |
| 19 | But it was an extension that in the first instance was of greatest benefit to the middle classes , who were , in both a social and a transportation sense , the mobile classes . |
| 20 | Now in the scriptures , we 're gon na have a look at a few because the scriptures counsel us time and again , er that we are living in difficult times , we know that and it can become difficult to stay spiritually alert and awake and that 's why constantly throughout the scriptures you 'll find that we 're er counselled and encouraged to stay awake , stay awake and as we sang stand firm and , and grow mighty spirits , the first one is in Romans chapter thirteen . |
| 21 | More generally , it seems that there are many cases where prenominal adjectives express occasion values , and not a few where a characteristic , in his sense , is expressed by a postnominal adjective . |
| 22 | virtually no grammatical structure is evident — certainly no proper sentences , and a few or no function words , prefixes or suffixes ; |
| 23 | He had in mind a Brookner , a Lively or a Colegate ; a Pym ( Barbara , not Francis ) would be a comfort ; anything but Martin Amis . |
| 24 | It was seen as a one-off but the rest of the band recognised Solowka 's zeal . |
| 25 | For example , if an a 2 and a b 2 vibration of a C 2ν , molecule are both singly excited , we calculate the representation of the final state like this : |
| 26 | ‘ When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , ’ said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . |
| 27 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 28 | Last season there were also two one-cap players at Sussex , by P.W.G. Parker has now moved to Durham ( who incidentally now regularly field a Smith , a Brown and a Jones in the same side : truly a classless county ) . |
| 29 | Have you got a couple of settings on yours is it a high and a low ? |
| 30 | She said Naomi appeared to live in a world of her own and was either on a high or a low , adding : ‘ She was a lovely child . ’ |