Example sentences of "in a [adj] [no cls] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle it would be quite possible for the study of English poetry to begin in a similar ab initio fashion , except that it would be fruitless for someone to embark on it who did not have at least some familiarity with poetry and a wish to read more . |
| 2 | At least Chris Burden , in a dangerous folie de jeunesse , got himself shot as an art event . |
| 3 | Certainly she could not compete on anything like equal terms with Hilda Doolittle , the poet H.D. who , having mythologised her relations with Pound in a roman à clef many years ago , did it all over again just before her death in End to Torment , a supposed ‘ memoir ’ which people seem disposed to take literally , though in its scattiness it may well be as fictionalised as the novel had been . |
| 4 | SUPERMAN Alan Shearer destroyed Watford in a personal tour de force as Blackburn coasted into their first League Cup quarter-final for 31 years . |
| 5 | Ashton enlarged this choreographic gem in The Tales of Beatrix Potter when Pigling Bland and the Black Berkshire indulge in a delicate pas de deux , both sur les pointes . |
| 6 | She was easily impressed , but Charles felt like indulging himself in a little tour de force . |