Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] nice [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll see your mum has a nice cup of tea waiting for you ’ |
| 2 | Now , with players like Hassler , Reuter and Moller emerging , Klinsmann confirming his European Championship promise and Augenthaler re-emerging from the shadows as libero , the side has a nice balance between youth and experience . |
| 3 | The Old Testament has a nice line in vituperation of other cultures and their beliefs when its writers suggest that non-Israelites worship , not the true God , but satyrs or he-goats or demons … . |
| 4 | Les Echo managed a nice increase in financial advertising , but elsewhere volumes were flat erm , and so the revenue increased has depended on er , rate increases , changes in the mix or circulation revenue , with a mixture of cover price increases and some increases in circulation . |
| 5 | It would be a pity to spoil a nice face like yours . |
| 6 | The Art Gallery had a nice exhibition about slices of NZ history done on a ‘ time-travel ’ theme ; a teenage girl travels back to visit Abel Tasman 's ship , Joseph Banks ’ study etc and sends aerograms ‘ home ’ , full of description but made realistic with 20th century NZ teenage jargon . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , Mama had a nice line in that , as well as Papa , ’ said McAllister , remembering for once to use the past tense when speaking of her parents . |
| 8 | This creamy pâté makes a nice alternative to the usual cheese and egg sandwich fillings . |
| 9 | Right so it 's not just that the National Party want the people on the ground to choose the nice addresses . |
| 10 | A physical science student showed a nice awareness of the science/arts hierarchy when , talking about her brother who was doing a Fine Art degree , she said |
| 11 | It is no use having a nice display if people ca n't see it , but I ca n't afford to have this sort of thing happen again . ’ |
| 12 | The lamb had a nice expression rather like a kitten 's . |
| 13 | He 's lying down on the floor having a nice lie down are n't you Toby ? |
| 14 | Add a bit of orange peel , it you like , and a crushed dried and seeded chilli gives a nice flavour . |
| 15 | ‘ But I would like enough money to have a nice home of my own — and to be able to set my mother and my brothers up somewhere else . |
| 16 | Formal paved areas in the garden provide a nice contrast to the freely curving growth of the plants but , however well laid the paving stones , tiles or bricks , sooner or later weeds sprout through the cracks , and it is either a case of weedkiller , not popular with organic gardeners , or constant weeding , which scrapes fingertips and breaks nails . |
| 17 | A brown sedge and floating line took a nice trout of 8lb 3ozs for Billy Stewart , Carrickfergus , while , Martin Coard , Belfast took a good brace at 7lb 12ozs and 6lb 8ozs on a Black Buzzer . |
| 18 | The book provides a nice blend of information and entertainment , and gives the reader a broader appreciation of RAF aircraft of 1940 than other publications . |
| 19 | No , she said Marks and Spencer do nice su , actually dad got a nice suit from Marks . |
| 20 | ‘ With high-profile black figures , we can show that drug dealing is n't the only way to gain a nice car , ’ explains BROTHER director Curfew . |
| 21 | For Saturday 's match with St John 's Chapel ( attendance three , we 're told ) the ‘ club notes ’ consisted of advice on where to drink afterwards and an injunction to have a nice day . |
| 22 | ‘ It is why my family sacrificed a nice life in Tenerife to come back to the cold of Britain four years ago . |
| 23 | Further , such a view provides a nice parallel with semantics : for just as a semantic theory is concerned , say , with the recursive assignment of truth conditions to well-formed formulae , so pragmatics is concerned with the recursive assignment of appropriateness conditions to the same set of sentences with their semantic interpretations In other words , a pragmatic theory should in principle predict for each and every well-formed sentence of a language , on a particular semantic reading , the set of contexts in which it would be appropriate . |
| 24 | The Unwins , rosetted , were showing uninhibited pleasure in Upper Gumtree , who did in fact have a nice face , and was n't unacceptably sleepy . |