Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The screenplay focuses on the incongruous and interdependent friendship between a dimwitted stud and a petty con man . |
| 2 | Two loyal members of the Hunt , a hawk-faced lady and a meeker male partner , his coat a warm flame in the dark crevice where they sat , took their tickets , and money from Dada , and handed programmes , a Hunt button engraved on their backs and a tiny pencil attached to them by a red string . |
| 3 | Although Burn showed both originality and ingenuity in his initial designs for the Edinburgh Academy , giving a two-storey building a single-storey façade and an unfluted portico to save on façading costs , others made the Greek revival their own : Thomas Hamilton who developed the basic arrangement of the final design of Burn 's Academy into the Royal High School , and William Henry Playfair , Burn 's contemporary at Smirke 's , whose work showed awareness of the latest developments in Germany . |
| 4 | Eight minutes of swooning , swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli 's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario , akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through . |
| 5 | Eight minutes of swooning , swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli 's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario , akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through . |
| 6 | It is harder to predict the length of a financial-led recession than a manufacturing-led one . |
| 7 | This produces an interference pattern which is converted to a periodic change in voltage by means of a light-emitting diode and a photodetector . |
| 8 | There was a wooshing sound as the fat man sagged . |
| 9 | Southmoorhenge has n't yet been listed as a historic monument and no Americans have been spotted having their pictures taken next to it , but it 's early days . |
| 10 | Nature Boy , on the other hand , funks along in a pleasant style and a vocal that my flatmate swears says ‘ funky nibbles ’ , but then he 's mad . |
| 11 | Public rooms at the hotel include a comfortable lounge with TV viewing area , a pleasant bar and a restaurant which extends onto a long covered terrace running the entire length of the hotel and facing out across the promenade and the road , to the lovely lake . |
| 12 | A pleasant smile and a willing spirit melt barriers and keep communications civilised . |
| 13 | The rooms form an L-shape around a pleasant lawn and the main house contains the bar , small lounge and restaurant where excellent Creole and Continental cuisine is served . |
| 14 | B : A pleasant read and a vital source of information about my pin-ups |
| 15 | They had had a pleasant walk and an easy supper . |
| 16 | Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body . |
| 17 | Not a pleasant task but the men get a bit browned-off sitting on their hunkers here , doing precious little but dig , and insecure grumbles to their wives and girl friends creep in from time to time . |
| 18 | Householders however , who look out over the proposed site may fear the loss of a pleasant environment and a drop in their property value . |
| 19 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 20 | This is because the former faces lack either a sunny aspect or a pleasant prospect and the preservation of privacy is an important consideration on elevations so close to the highway . |
| 21 | This is a pleasant town and a major road junction , for it is here that the road forks up to the pass of Encumeada across the centre of the island — and the way we will return . |
| 22 | The smart cocktail bar is an ideal meeting place with a pleasant atmosphere and the restaurant serves a good selection of food . |
| 23 | It is a pleasant venue and a good city . |
| 24 | Pasachoff manages to present , in a non-mathematical way , astronomy as a science with a rich past and an active present . |
| 25 | I knew he hoped to take the treasure , cut every honest throat on that island , find and board the Hispaniola at night , and sail away a rich man and a murderer . |
| 26 | These cheese buns have a rich filling and a crisp crust , which are just right with a cup of coffee at breakfast or a glass of wine later in the day . |
| 27 | But look , ’ — David was beginning to spray ideas around the small office in his enthusiasm — ‘ Peru has a rich sea but no advanced fishing vessel and yet a medium-sized ship can net ten million dollars of fish in one year ! ’ |
| 28 | The powerful company is a rich company and the powerful business person is successful in that particular context . |
| 29 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 30 | To be associated with them you must be either a square-headed German or a bearded Bolshevik . |