Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the disciples of one Malam Ibrahim , a teacher of the Koran whose studies had slowly convinced him that the Jesus of whom he read in its pages was the mediator through whom the prayers of the faithful are offered up to the All-Merciful . |
| 2 | Cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ) conjures up the image of a frenetic ( often chaotic ) and emotive scene where the dying are brought back to life . |
| 3 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 4 | ‘ The Japanese are coming in through ‘ Big Bang ’ ’ . |
| 5 | In this year the Japanese were driven on to the defensive , with the increasing damage to their shipping creating shortages in essential foodstuffs and vital petrol supplies . |
| 6 | The second is put down by a another sacked minister , Mr George Walden , who opposes the bill in principle . |
| 7 | The second was called up by reference to Archbold , Criminal Pleading Evidence & Practice , 44th ed. ( 1992 ) , vol. 1 , p. 433 , para. 4–45 . |
| 8 | The move reflected a growing interest in share trading among the Gulf Arab states as their economies recovered from recession in the mid-1980 's brought on by lower oil prices . |
| 9 | Women 's experimental art of the seventies was left out of the original choice . |
| 10 | The criteria for distinguishing between the three are laid out in Table 4.1 . |
| 11 | It 's about ordinary people in an ordinary world and the most special thing that can happen to anybody is to fall in love , and the worst is to fall out of love . |
| 12 | The less well-off are doing things like swapping chocolate biscuits for cheaper plain ones ; the better-heeled are staying out of restaurants and eating gourmet meals at home instead . |
| 13 | The former is a collection of the more interesting statistics published by the state , and the latter is made up from the same sources , but is presented in a more varied and readable form , including charts and diagrams . |
| 14 | Whether the latter is put through as a reduction in sales or a rebate should be discussed in terms of the effects of these alternatives on the usefulness of the profit and loss account as a guide to the future . |
| 15 | His feelings about the latter are summed up in the phrase ‘ God does not play dice . ’ |
| 16 | The latter were passed around for us to examine . |
| 17 | The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights . |
| 18 | Black and Asian guards began to appear in Britain and in many places menial station tasks , catering employment , and the like were taken over by immigrants or by guest workers . |
| 19 | According to a long and dominant tradition , the physical is bound up with the spatial . |
| 20 | Compared with the billions being spent out of the road fund in England to make the motorways even wider , the cost would be chicken-feed . |
| 21 | But in the devastating Resolution of 1948 , the Sixth was singled out for criticism and removed from the repertoire . |
| 22 | Leading after three rounds , the fourth was washed out without a ball being hit . |
| 23 | It made little difference as York 's full back Richard Stevenson bamboozled Novos with a hat-trick of exciting tries from set piece moves , the fourth being touched down by scrum half Martyn Harrison in the 49th minute . |
| 24 | And the first is to pick up on concealed households and just to add to the points that have already been made that erm neither the House Builders Federation nor ourselves are assuming that all be housed , but the projected number is five thousand whereas we 're housing three thousand odd of them . |
| 25 | The first is to spell out to you the precise erm constitutional position of the president and the second , and perhaps more interestingly , is to talk about the notion of presidential power . |
| 26 | These may be made from fencing stakes driven at an angle , the top of the first being windlassed back to the bottom of the second , and so on . |
| 27 | Ziff-Davis Publishing Co is closing PC Sources and is turning Corporate Computing into a newsletter ; the first was beaten out of the market by another Ziff publication , and the latter was squeezed as Ziff 's personal computer magazines increasingly encroached on its turf . |
| 28 | Two pensioners lost their second home — the first was wiped out by Hurricane Elena in 1985 . |
| 29 | The first was coming back from a fruitless wait for Gríshnakh the orc , dead and burnt that same day , with the smoke from his burning ‘ seen by many watchful eyes ’ . |
| 30 | The first was passed by with a view to concentrating efforts on the second . |