Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If you give a deaf person the score of a piece by Bach or Mozart , he can learn to see the composition of themes and their recurrence but not why this is so marvellous because he can not feel it . |
2 | Because of the nature of personal involvement in education ( in a deaf school a teacher may be closely associated with the same child for a number of years ) the form of treatment used relates to the personality and experience of the educator . |
3 | Because Burma is not a rich country the potential for racketeering is limited , and shrugged off , For those Burmese who want one foot in the material world , at least so far as the occasional bottle of Scotch is concerned , the black market exists . |
4 | In a retrospective analysis a latex agglutination test gave positive results in all mothers who delivered infants with group B streptococcal infections , and no neonatal deaths due to group B streptococcal infection occurred in the group testing negative . |
5 | His clothes were delivered , a haughty sniff the woman 's only protest . |
6 | If the calculated starting rate does coincide with a resonant rate the designer can either elect to use a lower frequency clock or try to reduce the resonance with additional damping . |
7 | At Lausanne , the Ramallah Congress delegation discovered that without a representative government the refugee community had no standing , except as the subject of the deliberations . |
8 | As a one-way passage the model clearly does not square with the repeated movements between verse and prose that we find in Shakespeare . |
9 | By the time I reached Tintern I could go in straight lines easily and had a right wrist the size of a tennis ball that was painful to touch and crackled ominously when I flexed it . |
10 | Travelling in a clockwise direction the route proceeds from Cat Nab , Saltburn along part of the Cleveland Way and along the cliff edge down to the beach at Cattersty Sands . |
11 | For a private customer the borrowing must also be " suitable " for him . |
12 | By living in a private house the student can be independent while having the opportunity to meet British people and to live in a British environment . |
13 | Where a farmhouse or other building is regarded as being a private dwellinghouse a bank/organisation will only be required to notify its interest to an insurer where the sum insured exceeds the threshold . |
14 | He preferred to count what rugby had given him , as he remarked to his squad when the tourists handed out their thank-you presents at a private party the morning after the Second Test . |
15 | If joint and several liability is accepted , there is nothing to prevent the vendors from settling between themselves in a private agreement the basis on which they would each be required to contribute if a successful claim is brought against any one vendor . |
16 | They evolved rapidly and spread widely , and with a little experience a glance at an assemblage of graptolites on a shale surface can be used to determine the approximate age of deposition of the rock . |
17 | After a little way the rabbit-hole suddenly went down , deep into the ground . |
18 | A little time every day . ’ |
19 | But there 's no hope for a fifty mile an hour limit along the whole road because some sections have already been made dual carriageway . |
20 | If you have a solid structure the blast hits it full on and moves the structure . ’ |
21 | At the beginning of a drug-induced hallucination the subject often sees simple , coloured , geometric patterns . |
22 | The second prejudice against dissection was held by religious people who took in a literal sense the resurrection of the body , and had an emotional commitment to this doctrine , even if intellect told them that an incomplete body could be no bar to the miracle of rising from the grave with the sounding of the last trump . |
23 | In the desperate circumstances of Edward 's war , especially in the last years of the reign , prayer was not always enough and the clergy had frequent occasions to become in a literal sense the church militant . |
24 | A meeting of Leaders and Trustees was held in the Carleton Cafe the following Friday evening , 18 December — they wasted no time — and after a prolonged discussion the decision was taken to build a new church as soon as possible and certainly within the following five years . |
25 | Chepstow is renowned for its soft ground and even two weeks ago after a prolonged drought the going was on the soft side . |
26 | Her son discovered her in a drowsy state an hour later . |
27 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
28 | Thus , because its shares trade at a low price the company will need to issue a larger number of them to raise a given amount of capital than would otherwise be the case . |
29 | Because this is a low probability the researcher could feel justified in accepting the result of the experiment as , at least , probably demonstrating a causal connection . |
30 | Although restorative proctocolectomy is associated with a low mortality the morbidity is considerable . |