Example sentences of "a [adj -er] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Determined to experience life as a catwalk photographer , I swapped my pen and notebook for a Canon Eos camera , 200mm lens with a doubler and a monopod ( bravely loaned by Michel Arnaud ) and squeezed into the ‘ gun emplacement ’ at the back of the Salle Sully . |
| 2 | They also go about with a galvanometer and a Geiger counter to measure ‘ sources of power ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're quite a stranger and no mistake , ’ he greeted his brother over his shoulder . |
| 4 | Out of this splendid , imperishable lantern the deep eyes glared as though a stranger and a savage inhabited the dwelling an angel had abandoned . |
| 5 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 6 | No one stepped forward , no one seemed to be on the lookout for a stranger and the other passengers quickly dispersed . |
| 7 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 8 | Nor could she then justify employing a cleaner and the odd-job man who kept all the local gardens more or less under control . |
| 9 | There is usually a better and a worse spot to stand and fight . |
| 10 | The piece prepared by the six young musicians includes a crisp packet being scrunched , playing cards flicked with the skill of a sharper and the zip on 14-year-old Sunjeev Singh 's bag buzzing backwards and forwards . |
| 11 | However , a safer and a wiser idea is to take up what I began with : Phyllis Bottome telling how Pound , when they were both young , tried to turn her as a writer from an amateur into a professional . |
| 12 | Naturally , my master bowed and I had to follow suit , reminding myself with a secret smile that Wolsey was only a commoner and no better than me . |
| 13 | In any intimacy between a stronger and a weaker personality the weaker is inclined to yield even when he has the means to prevail , from a compulsion to see through the eyes of the stronger . |
| 14 | This reply comes in a stronger and a weaker form , but in either form it has clearly got some point . |
| 15 | ‘ A sadder and a wiser man ’ , Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( 1798 ) , pt. vii . |
| 16 | This definition breaks away from the previous categorisations of handicap and attempts to introduce a subtler and a more relative concept . |
| 17 | Though covenants were made between equals , the religious use of the term always referred to a relationship between a greater and a lesser partner . |
| 18 | So bear that in mind , even the beginning of this story look at that first paragraph it 's in a darker type it 'll make me filthy , a darker and a larger size . |