Example sentences of "[art] [noun] be [adv] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as a chapel was more than four walls and a roof , so the forest was more than pillars and a canopy . |
| 2 | The difference is partly that gifts and the offence-vengeance cycle are routes to intragenerational mobility , while exchanges of women and wives have more to do with intergenerational mobility . |
| 3 | Under certain circumstances indeed water would be taken upwards by the lift-for instance , if the bulk of the traffic was downwards and barges loaded to 65 tons , then each barge passing down would squeeze out into the top pond 3.150 cu. ft. ( or about ⅓ of a lock ) of water This however is an ideal case and the following statement shews the theoretical gain or loss of water which would occur in working out of these lifts . |
| 4 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |
| 5 | Here the girl died , but on other occasions the message is sometimes that women 's actions may have dire consequences for the fragile male , even though she herself may be unharmed . |
| 6 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 7 | These are essentially meant to be measures of productivity and of service quality , and the idea is both that targets be set , and that analysis of outcomes be presented . |
| 8 | Perhaps a draw was more than Rangers deserved on the night . |