Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , he is treating the semi-final trials more as a tune-up . |
| 2 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 3 | Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood . |
| 4 | Nance Rashleigh ripped out entrails and flung the gutted fish accurately into a barrel four feet away . |
| 5 | ‘ Once we even used the painted wall opposite as a screen to give a slide show . ’ |
| 6 | In Rowntree 's examples of typical streets in 1900 , in the poorest streets up to a third of the householders were widows , in contrast to less than 5 per cent in the best working-class districts . |
| 7 | Rosehaugh 's results for 1989/90 revealed a pro-tax loss of £165 million , the largest deficit ever for a UK property enterprise . |
| 8 | She glanced round her , there were boots to be tapped , heavy working boots belonging to Cleg the Coal with the sole hanging off like a ragged tongue . |
| 9 | The odd name there with a familiar ring to it I fancy . |
| 10 | So from a view of the president as impotent and ineffective and helpless you have a view of the president as being er the action man , the crisis manager and it 's Lincoln 's view , the Linc Lin Lincolnian view of the presidency which has survived er an and developed with , with the odd , the odd hark back to a previous , a previous age . |
| 11 | The horse can move its lower jaw from side to side when eating , and the jaw muscles drag the lower teeth inward in a grinding motion . |
| 12 | He assisted nevertheless in keeping the Protectionist party together in a difficult period , with few resources and little help from his leaders . |
| 13 | the bloody postman down as a |
| 14 | I also know how to get the red-tailed buzzard out of a tree at night , so if it flies off I stay by the tree in which it settles until dark , then I go and fetch sticks and a torch so that I can see what I 'm doing . |
| 15 | After the placing , for example , they threw a huge party for the professional advisers downstairs at a local Chinese restaurant , and in early 1987 , almost as a thank-you , they took the audit manager and me out to Chicago to meet the team there . |
| 16 | Does it have to enrol , turn up at a classroom , do homework , remember to take the right equipment along in a bag ? |
| 17 | Remember to rub the right date off with a copper coin of the realm or you ca n't go anywhere . |
| 18 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 19 | The CAA 's contribution is excellent and shows an admirable determination to get the right information across to a GA community which seems perpetually suspicious of the authority 's attitudes towards light aviation . |
| 20 | I liked the way the usherette threaded the torn half-tickets on to a long string so they made a branch of monkey-puzzle tree . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , in the event that , in the future , short term letting could not provide a sufficiently profitable return , the possibility of long term letting or even the complete selling off of a number of these chalets , can not be ignored . |
| 22 | As stated in the AEA Times bulletin our clear preference is for our commercial business to be retained essentially in a single company that is transferred to the private sector either by a public flotation or private placement . |
| 23 | Derive an expression for the maximum stored energy , W max considering that the dielectric breaks down at a field intensity Eb . |
| 24 | MR JOHN SMITH , the Shadow Chancellor , formally launched his campaign for the Labour leadership yesterday with a cautious pledge to examine the role of the trade union block vote in the party 's affairs and to keep open the options for electoral reform . |
| 25 | Nicholas Ridley , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , will open the attack on Neil Kinnock , the Labour leader today with a warning that the party could revert to its left-wing image , if it were elected . |
| 26 | The suspension of the armed struggle just over a month ago was seen as a break-through , but within days , peace seemed as far away as ever . |
| 27 | Dessie … one of the greatest of all the Gold Cup winners was in town to get the racing week off to a flying start … |
| 28 | RANGERS manager Walter Smith last night paid tribute to his ‘ unsung hero of Ibrox , ’ Scott Nisbet , the scorer of the goal that keeps the Scottish champions in with a chance of a European Cup final place , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 29 | He was shovelling up the broken glass on to a piece of cardboard . |
| 30 | Place the blown egg upright on a piece of dough or clay while you decorate it . |