Example sentences of "['s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 2 | One parallel to the scope of Janson 's book on Western art , Sherman Lee 's A History of Far Eastern Art , was first published in 1964 . |
| 3 | Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream and Hamlet would be a good starting point — As You Like It , Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar you may already be familiar with , as they are often set for O level courses . |
| 4 | He followed this with Jack Absolute in The Rivals at the National Theatre and David Mamet 's A Life in the Theatre with Freddie Jones at the Open Space . |
| 5 | DROP DEAD FRED is set to be this year 's A FISH CALLED WANDA ! |
| 6 | Choreographers should also study John Lanchbery 's sensitive handling of some lesser-known Chopin music for Ashton 's A Month in the Country and his equally successful score for Ashton 's film , The Tales of Beatrix Potter . |
| 7 | Some of the best examples of the single gesture of great significance are to be found in Ashton 's A Month in the Country and MacMillan 's The Invitation . |
| 8 | Similarly the delicate and subtle nuances of such ballets as Ashton 's A Month in the Country , Robbins ' Dances at a Gathering and MacMillan 's Song of the Earth are successfully conveyed and capture the audience 's attention from the moment the curtain rises by the impetus , rhythm , dimension and variety of dance . |
| 9 | Is the tale to be told in the short space of thirty or forty minutes with a minimal cast ? 1f so , then care should be taken to dispense with any dancer or item not essential to the action , e.g. Ashton eliminated several characters in Turgenev 's A Month in the Country . |
| 10 | Do they weigh heavily downwards as in MacMillan 's A Distant Drummer , where the pas marchés become a military exercise of horrific quality ? |
| 11 | This is what happens in MacMillan 's Romeo and Juliet and Ashton 's A Month in the Country . |
| 12 | ( As played by the Moscow Arts Theatre , Turgenev 's A Month in the Country takes over two hours , Ashton 's ballet roughly half an hour . ) |
| 13 | More interestingly , theory called forth counter-theory , in the late Geoffrey Thurley 's Counter-Modernism in Current Critical theory , A. D. Nuttall 's A New Mimesis , Patrick Parrinder 's The Failure of Theory , and Raymond Tallis 's not Saussure : A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory . |
| 14 | But then there came ‘ new ’ comedy to blow away the medieval cobwebs ; and then there came Russell Davies to make documentaries about it , with titles like There 's A Racial Stereotype In My Soup ( Radio 4 Saturday ) . |
| 15 | But Dilys Powell could reasonably complain of Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) that there was ‘ hardly any suspense , hardly any of the building up to a climax which makes the dullest American film tolerable ’ , and enthuse about Carol Reed 's A Girl Must Live ( 1939 ) , saying it showed how the British could make ‘ a comedy which has the speed and glitter and impudence of the best American comedies . ’ |
| 16 | Vic Brown in John Schlesinger 's A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) settles for telly-watching inanity within marriage , while Billy Liar in the same director 's 1963 film turns away from the girl who offers him the chance to fulfil his ambitions in London . |
| 17 | Recommended films in London : Kieslowski 's A Short Film About Killing , Greenaway 's The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover , Soderbergh 's sex , lies and videotape , Russell 's The Rainbow , Phil Noyce 's Dead Calm , Spike Lee 's Do the Right Thing , Kenneth Branagh 's Henry V and Bertrand Tavernier 's Life And Nothing But . |
| 18 | The 20-year overnight transformation from an obscure documentarist working with Krzysztof Zanussi 's Tor unit to Poland 's leading director came on November 26 when Kieslowski 's A Short Film About Killing ( Krotki Film O Zabijaniu ) took the first European Oscar . |
| 19 | Similar chords of pathos are struck in Kieslowski 's A Short Film About Love , where an adolescent voyeur becomes infatuated with an older woman living across the square . |
| 20 | The round still proves the soundest of methods : even given limited rehearsal time , there was much security in the warm-up sequence , a point surprisingly made with This Little Babe from Britten 's A Ceremony Of Carols , and by the time we reached Runswick 's final party ensemble not a single face on stage I could see registered anything less than complete involvement . |
| 21 | As in the entry : ‘ Tonight , this night of March 25 , with the Andante of Schubert 's A Major Sonata stealing out into the night , I swear all I have of passion , all I have of love , I will pour into a message of faith as I carve . ’ |
| 22 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 23 | Now her powerful , operatic voice appears on Soul II Soul 's ‘ A Dream 's A Dream ’ and she is working on a solo album , ‘ Glomozon ’ , to be released on the Soul II Soul label . |
| 24 | Phil Daniels CURRENTLY IN RSC 'S A CLOCKWORK ORANGE |
| 25 | Initially , he recorded comparatively little : an Ein Heldenleben for Deutsche Grammophon , a grand , craggy Bruckner Eighth and an exquisitely poised account of Mozart 's A major Symphony , No. 29 , K201 for EMI . |
| 26 | In Edna O'Brien 's A Pagan Place , which followed Veterans at the Royal Court in 1972 , Eyre drew from a 16-year-old school girl called Veronica Quilligan , who had never acted before , a performance of exquisite subtlety and emotional truth . |
| 27 | In 1988 Eyre directed various Chekhov pieces under the title of The Sneeze at the Aldwych , and that same year he again joined forces with Alec Guinness , who played the tired cynical pessimist Botvinnik in Lee Blessing 's A Walk in the Woods at the Comedy Theatre . |
| 28 | From my earliest days , my interest in the Old Masters has frequently led me to consult Hofstede de Groot 's A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century which includes the work of such household names as Rembrandt and Frans Hals , Johannes Vermeer and Jacob van Ruisdael among some 40 major Dutch artists . |
| 29 | Following his translation of the Bible into the Algonquian language , the next book Eliot translated was Baxter 's A Call to the Unconverted . |
| 30 | According to Major-General John Strawson 's A History of the S.A.S. Regiment , its soldiers had to get themselves to the target ‘ by any means from submarine to caique ’ . |