Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |
| 2 | I have a kitchen knife so sharp |
| 3 | Both Republicans and Democrats on the recent National Economic Commission proposed a variant : count in social security but aim to run a budget surplus exactly equal to the social-security surplus . |
| 4 | Plodding through a text book virtually unaided is boring with a capital ‘ B ’ . |
| 5 | The response rate to a verbal questionnaire can easily be 90% or more but a mailed questionnaire can have a response rate as low as 30% even with follow-up reminders . |
| 6 | When a drug user previously negative for HIV is admitted to hospital for bacterial pneumonia serological tests should be performed to detect possible seroconversion for HIV . |
| 7 | The SGSA 1982 incorporates into such a contract terms almost identical to those applying in the sales contract ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 8 | by the late Seventies it was generally acknowledged that a funding system partially dependent on the departments would be unlikely to assure speedy progress towards a comprehensive service in the sector and would do nothing to reduce the substantial regional inequalities in the distribution of extra hospital facilities . |
| 9 | Have a look look very close it 's not mag it 's No oh that 's capital N this is a little N M N. |
| 10 | IMAGINE a gramophone needle so sensitive that it could detect the individual atoms on a record . |
| 11 | However , there has been considerable controversy over the meaning of the link between events and depression — whether in fact the existence of a psychosocial stressor makes a depressive response so understandable that it should not be considered a disease . |
| 12 | The essential feature of this timekeeping device was a linkwork escapement quite different from the verge-and-foliot system invented in Europe in the late thirteenth century ( ch. 7 ) . |
| 13 | What was crucial here as far as Chicago was concerned was that it could now boast a movie theatre as good as anything in New York and that the movies had been decisively disassociated from ‘ immoral ’ ragtime music by now being coupled with the Symphony . |
| 14 | If such a position were copied by a club player less skilled and using a less powerful hand-and-arm action , the clubface would stand little or no chance of squaring up on impact . |
| 15 | The restrictors fitted to the Stage One V8 are easily removed by removing the carbs and pulling the restrictor from the manifold They are in fact aluminium discs with three holes about ⅜″. diameter in each one and are held in by an expanding steel clip Select a suitable diameter tap and tap a thread with a smear of grease on the top to collect swarf , fit a long bolt and lever out with a pry bar Extremely obstinate ones may be split into three large bits with a small chisel and pulled out Clean the debris out with a vacuum cleaner A piece of l/2″ hose taped onto the suction pipe will reach most places in the manifold . |
| 16 | Knit them at a stitch size as low as the machine will comfortably knit . |
| 17 | Professor Ivan Tolstoy , himself a geologist , was one of the scientific experts who argued that there were enough uncertainties — from the cracking of rocks during an earthquake to the build-up of subterranean water channels — to make the choice of a burial site both unquantifiable and unpredictable . |
| 18 | A 40 minute drive from San Francisco brings us to Palo Alto , a college town supposedly full of yuppies . |
| 19 | In an account of the continuation school movement , written in the 1920s , he was credited , together with Sadler and Stanley Hall , as being the man who made ‘ the issue clear : either organize the adolescent life of the nation on liberal lines or reap the consequences in a citizen body less stable , less progressive , less sound in mind and body than it might be ’ . |
| 20 | It is of a rock type not common to the immediate area , the nearest appears to be found at Cayton and Cornelian Bays , ten miles distant , and is believed to have been brought to Rudston for religious reasons , since it was there long before the church . |
| 21 | I would sink down into a velvet void so entire and impenetrable that whether it was I or I was it , became moot . |
| 22 | If , if you look in your books page one seven seven , you 'll see a beautifully illustrated instruction on how to do it , which you can refer to yourself this evening or later on in the course if you forget but I 'm now gon na show you how to do one as well , you , if you want to know it 's there for you to look up you take the bandage and fold it into your narrow fold band and put it round your leg , you 've got something to tie a reef knot round , okay ? if you know how to do a reef knot already fine , just do it , if you do n't , follow instructions . |
| 23 | considering , I mean , there is a closing date quite quick |
| 24 | Teaching , then , can be conceived of as a research activity whereby experimental techniques of instruction are designed to correspond with hypothetical principles of pedagogy , with provision made for mutual adjustment so as to bring validity of principle into as close an alignment as possible with the utility of technique . |
| 25 | By the end of the decade more papers were being published on the hippocampus than on virtually any other brain structure , and it even warranted a research journal entirely devoted to it . |
| 26 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 27 | So maybe another kind of gathering for you — a tea party somewhere nice , maybe even in the Assembly Rooms at the Stockade , they 've been hired before now . |
| 28 | The road gradually descends into kinder surroundings , the sight of trees being welcome after the barren crossing from Gruinard , and arrives at a car park as large as a football field , usually well patronised by cars and coaches and obviously indicating the presence of a major attraction . |
| 29 | An engraving from 1737 by John Kip ( private collection ) of St Clement Danes , Strand shows a shop-front of a furnishing undertaker not dissimilar to that of Messrs Barnard 's premises in an anonymous water-colour ( c.1850 ) in Brighton Museum . |
| 30 | The bed that Boy climbed into that morning , knowing that he would n't sleep , but wanting just to lie there a while , was on the twentieth floor of a council block right close by the river on the east side of the city . |