Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows therefore , does it not , that one has to look at the characteristics of the land you now propose to take out of the greenbelt , in the same way as the land immediately to the north , which you propose should remain . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ say City fans of the way it quietly concentrates on its local patch and gets on with the job . |
| 3 | I often thought her blindness was not entirely physical : she wanted finally to shut her eyes to the sorrows and miseries of the son she still adored , for she could not bear to see me suffering . |
| 4 | We agreed that Deborah would cover the administrative side of the discussion , the need to raise funds for rehabilitation , for residential care and for support for the carers ( whose life is as devastated by the loss of the person they previously knew as it is by the burden of twenty-four-hour dependency . ) |
| 5 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 6 | Norman Lamont , she thought , would look good in a gangster movie of the kind she occasionally watched on the telly , playing opposite George Raft or James Cagney . |
| 7 | When you have these on either side of a path it often indicates an ancient trackway or road of some description . |
| 8 | When fixing trellis panels to a shed fence , or the side of the house I always use hooks and eyes . |
| 9 | In the last exercise you learnt that to remove a number from one side of an equation you simply had to do the opposite or reverse operation to both sides . |
| 10 | On successful completion of the training they then transfer to another ship in the fleet and work as a waiter or waitress . |
| 11 | He trails after her , making dramatic declarations of a sort he never has the occasion to make to Felicity . |
| 12 | If the industry can answer ‘ yes ’ to these and similar questions about other sectors of the industry it probably makes sense to take a hard look at what is happening in New Zealand and to then advocate some radical thinking in both London and Brussels . |
| 13 | Maxim stood on the rails md tried to imagine the bustle as a train panted in , of the steam glowing the lamplight at night , of the sense of distance and connection … but it was trying to imagine the broken chimes of a clock you never heard . |
| 14 | However , as I start walking in the direction of the lake he merely steps into stride . |
| 15 | On this part of the case I respectfully agree with the observations of Lord Donaldson M.R. , at p. 325f , in the Court of Appeal and of Neill L.J. , at p. 328f . |
| 16 | ‘ This is the part of the house we actually use . |
| 17 | If anything went wrong in any part of the world he always said " That 's because you got rid of the little man " . |
| 18 | In addition to attempting to assess attitudes , in this part of the questionnaire we also sought information about routine evaluation . |
| 19 | But to take some fact that a novelist has written of and to add it to the mishmash at the back of your mind and then to reproduce it as part of the web you eventually weave : this is the process of creation . |
| 20 | Part of the time it just hung there in the water , not even the tip of a fin moving . |
| 21 | Part of the time he just looked out into space . |
| 22 | Pure logic is only a small part of the thinking we habitually do , and can only be so because it is only appropriate for certain limited activities . |
| 23 | As he prepared to take full advantage of the situation he suddenly recalled a horrible memory . |
| 24 | And tomorrow TI 's finance team it due to visit Cheltenham for a close inspection of the company it now owns . |
| 25 | Yes I think it depends on what kind of a message you actually have on your recorder to start off with . |
| 26 | She saw his eyes travel her body and Robyn wondered what kind of a mess she much look . |
| 27 | ‘ You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and discharge my duties as the heir to the throne without the help and support of the woman I now loathe . ’ |
| 28 | In the course of an afternoon he usually managed to finish a medium-sized painting , although larger paintings took two or three sessions . |
| 29 | In the past decade , however , we have also learnt that to understand the physics of a solid we seldom need to know the ‘ complete structure ’ ; in most cases the ‘ local structure ’ is sufficient . |
| 30 | Another barnstormer of a game I here ( 3–3 ) . |