Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the sense of dread , the awful dropping away with fear of her stomach , that was worst . |
| 2 | I mean , it can turn gold into copper while at the same time it is still gold , it makes men rich by destroying their possessions , it allows the weak to walk fearlessly among thieves , it passes through the strongest doors to leach the most protected treasuries . |
| 3 | As the English moved southwards into Maine and Anjou , so French prospects grew bleaker . |
| 4 | Until relatively recently , the British benefited greatly from lordship over large numbers of people in many different countries , most of whom were black . |
| 5 | The French attacked there at sunset , but were checked by Saxe-Weimar 's men . |
| 6 | Yet the Japanese spend less per head on education that we do . |
| 7 | The second came recently at Newlands , the imposing Cape Town stadium — at least , it was imposing till they tore out large bits to install even more corporate hospitality guzzlers — where by their second-half performance they imposed themselves on South Africa and crossed the final frontier of world rugby at a surging gallop . |
| 8 | The second relates more to skills the application of that knowledge , practical , oral and investigative , which figures in some examinations to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 9 | Three practices had employed an extra member of staff either during the first year or at the beginning of the second to work specifically on fundholding duties or to release the practice manager to do this . |
| 10 | Chapter 8 examines the selection , acquisition and organization of computer software in school libraries and shows how the traditional working together by school librarians and teachers can be harnessed to these new sources of information and learning . |
| 11 | Obviously a person who has spent all their life avoiding such situations will never have had the opportunity to learn about the plateau stage and the gradual fading away of anxiety . |
| 12 | One of the saddest things that old people find is the gradual dropping away of people who come to visit them . |
| 13 | Nearly all of the former and two in three of the latter went straight into jobs after they were made redundant . |
| 14 | While the former adhere more closely to a direct representation of the objects at hand , the latter tend more towards abstraction and rely more on memory than imagination . |
| 15 | The judge held that the discretion under section 78 may be wider than the common law discretion identified in Reg. v. Sang [ 1980 ] A.C. 402 , the latter relating solely to evidence obtained from the defendant after the offence is complete , the statutory discretion not being so restricted . |
| 16 | Gay or lesbian relationships , the latter described movingly by Macdonald and Rich ( 1984 ) , should be recognised . |
| 17 | It discarded purgatory and intercession for the dead , asserting that the damned went straight to hell and the saved directly to heaven . |
| 18 | The Anti-Rex smiled sweetly upon Ed Kelley , leaned forward as if to kiss his cheek and ripped off his other ear . |
| 19 | The systematic putting together of parts to a purposeful design is something we know and understand , for we have experienced it at first hand , even if only with our childhood Meccano or Erector set . |
| 20 | One of the first to go ashore at St Pierre after the disaster was the Vicar-General of Martinique , Monsieur Parel , who was at Fort-de-France on the morning of the eighth , having left St Pierre only the afternoon before . |
| 21 | He had carried his bat through the innings , the first to do so for England at Lord 's , thus winning another campaign medal of note . |
| 22 | Of the nine shows still in existence , Egton Bridge is the only one left in Yorkshire — the others are all in Cheshire . |
| 23 | Such schemes are said to help align the interests of managers with those of shareholders and hence make the former behave more like owners . |
| 24 | Perhaps it is to do with the nature of his conception , and with the lustful coming together of man and woman . ’ |
| 25 | I knew the two plays almost by heart . |
| 26 | And is any question of price and means ( the two go together of course ) simply obscene because no human , social , economic or political price is too high to pay for such a benefit ? |
| 27 | A design engineer might well require an appreciation of transmission line theory to ensure that the two connect together without data corruption . |
| 28 | The two Russians would replace the two cosmonauts currently on board , and would stay in space until January 1993 . |
| 29 | The preservation of the basic Ulster divide of Protestant and Catholic into the age of nationalism ensured that competing political ideologies would be added to the religious and ethnic divisions : the Irish Catholics became nationalists while the Scots Presbyterians and the Anglo-Irish drew together as unionists . |
| 30 | This score bettered the 71 set both by Brian Barnes and Max Faulkner in 1974 when , along with Bernard Gallagher , Clive Clark and Carl Mason , they played the course in aid of the Lilian Board Cancer fund . |