Example sentences of "a [adj] tour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each plate in the book is over 381 x 305 mm in size and the printing is a technical tour de force . |
| 2 | Here was a back-to-the-wall President who BELIEVED in what he was saying and who shifted opinion overnight with a high-risk tour de force which seems to have swung next week 's referendum . |
| 3 | It was like that all the way , the timing impeccable , a theatrical tour de force . |
| 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 | The viaduct carrying the railway over the Thames to the east of the town centre was a typical tour de force of I.K. Brunel ( q.v. ) on his Great Western Railway . |
| 6 | No. 1 was the first work she composed for herself to perform , and it is a pianistic tour de force . |
| 7 | It takes about five years for a top amateur to become a real Tour de France rider . |
| 8 | She was easily impressed , but Charles felt like indulging himself in a little tour de force . |
| 9 | Then , if the product appears to be commercially successful , as well as a technological tour de force , suddenly competitors are marketing what amounts to a second generation product . |
| 10 | Then , if the product appears to be commercially successful , as well as a technological tour de force , suddenly competitors are marketing what amounts to a second generation product . |
| 11 | Her monument in Boughton Aluph church , Kent , is a majestic tour de force and ably illustrates early seventeenth-century female grave-clothes . |
| 12 | With Wagner 's ‘ The Ride of the Valkyries ’ blaring from the loudspeakers , and rockets and machine-guns firing , the helicopters devastate the village in a scene which is simultaneously appalling and a cinematic tour de force . |
| 13 | ’ Tom Lehrer 's catalogue-aria of the chemical elements is a musical tour de force . |
| 14 | No one would claim , of course , that they constitute a literary tour de force . |
| 15 | Perhaps he worries too much about Mr Carman , who , he says , ‘ will not be running true to form if his closing speech is not a formidable tour de force . |