Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 2 | He motioned Karlinsky forward and with a generous flourish directed him up the three steps on to the small platform in front of the Ark of the Law where a lectern had been placed . |
| 3 | Moat Hall lay in a fold of the hills perhaps a mile from the A1 . |
| 4 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 5 | Jess elbowed through the crowd , aiming for the opposite side of the barn where a ladder led to a hayloft . |
| 6 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 7 | Under the redundancy procedures of the pastoral Measure , authorized by parliament , listed building consent is not required ; but a special procedure has been agreed with the Department of the Environment whereby a public inquiry will be held if the church is listed . |
| 8 | It 's uncapped you know the thing you put in banging of the guns under a hundred years , it has n't got that in it . |
| 9 | Even if you work in a large consultancy of the future where a media department controls the production , you will still probably have to write . |
| 10 | Facing him on the other side of the arena was the current Executioner , whom Angel One had watched fighting and killing the previous holder of the office barely a week before . |
| 11 | Louisa had been skidding unsteadily about the ice for the best part of an hour when a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and , after a moment 's debate , Edwin Frere sprang down to give a helping hand to his well-muffled wife . |
| 12 | ‘ We had a riot and the bloody natives burned part of the place down a week before it was due to open . |
| 13 | He recognized that the manyattas were ‘ an indigenous school ’ , an integral part of the process whereby a Masai became distinctively a Masai , and recommended that their character-building qualities be respected and adapted . |
| 14 | It 's just been a bit of a surge once a month . |
| 15 | But Plange completed his hat-trick and sub Ian Hughes scored the try of the night after a 40-yard dash . |
| 16 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 17 | The VISCOUNT system itself was enlarged in the course of the year when a further three English regional library bureaux joined . |
| 18 | That magic could be both proto-scientific and protoreligious is most transparent in the literature of the Paracelsians where a critique of traditional , Galenic medicine was developed within a magical philosophy that demanded an initiation into the secrets of chemistry . |
| 19 | Such phases may reflect the work of individual workshops , individual craftsmen breaking new ground , or the conservatism of the consumers once a type was fully developed . |
| 20 | Many acres of land were cleared to await future development and there were few places either north or south of the river where a group of traditional waterside commercial buildings remained . |
| 21 | In the early eighteenth century poverty was partially responsible for the many applications for military rank , for in the first half of the century even a commission in a new regiment , and the near certainty of half-pay at the conclusion of the war emergency , was attractive . |
| 22 | They escaped the scene of a massacre just a week ago , and have used the time since to come to terms with their ordeal . |
| 23 | SOMERSET batsman Mark Lathwell was yesterday named Whittingdale Young Cricketer of the Month after a flying start to the new season . |
| 24 | It is not a job that can be undertaken on the basis of a business meeting of the governors once a term . |
| 25 | Progress seemed to have halted ; two more furtive searches of Charlie 's office had turned up nothing other than his hidden Scotch bottle but then , every evening of the day after a job , she 'd see him go in there empty-handed and the book would be on his desk when he summoned her . |
| 26 | Huntsville was then a small agricultural town , and the population of the state probably a lot less than one million . |
| 27 | Cropping up now and again in the nationals from Nottingham , has been the story of the mongrel Merv , named after Merv Hughes the Australian cricketer , who tried to grab hold of er Merv on the first day of the test about a week or so ago . |
| 28 | He pointed to the bolster at the top of the bed where a small , white rose lay like some gift waiting to be presented . |
| 29 | And , er , so the , so Freud 's theory does n't necessarily require that , that any source of anxiety should be traced to today 's events , what it what it does say is that very often today 's events shape the manifest , and sometimes the latent , content of the dream quite a lot . |
| 30 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |