Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 2 | I find that many new writers ' stories and poems seem to occur in a spatial and social vacuum : the writer launches straight into an account of action , ideas , thoughts , feelings , without giving any clear sense of where all this is taking place . |
| 3 | The afternoon kicks off with a tour of the former Delorean complex including a trip around the original test track . |
| 4 | In return for giving this guarantee , both employer and employee pay lower national insurance contributions , and the money goes instead into a separate pension fund . |
| 5 | For the time being the parliament serves only as an advisory body of Noriega loyalists . |
| 6 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 7 | ‘ ( 1 ) When the seller is ready and willing to deliver the goods , and requests the buyer to take delivery , and the buyer does not within a reasonable time after such request take delivery of the goods , he is liable to the seller for any loss occasioned by his neglect or refusal to take delivery , and also for a reasonable charge for the care and custody of the goods . |
| 8 | ‘ ( 3 ) Where the goods are of a perishable nature , or where the unpaid seller gives notice to the buyer of his intention to resell , and the buyer does not within a reasonable time pay or tender the price , the unpaid seller may re-sell the goods and recover from the original buyer damages for any loss occasioned by his breach of contract . |
| 9 | And then the present falls out with a hat . |
| 10 | Then follows more hearsay evidence , and the trail peters out on a question mark . |
| 11 | Once the females arrive , the male displays frantically in an attempt to persuade them that his own particular territory will be the best place to breed . |
| 12 | The current in the coil rises rapidly to a value limited by the series resistor when the core reaches saturation . |
| 13 | The story rips along at a cracking pace instead of suspensefully loitering , yet it somehow lacks the frisson of Alien in its businesslike efficiency . |
| 14 | The story begins almost like a fairy tale with the old king calling upon the three princesses to divide his kingdom among them and ‘ shake all cares and business from [ his ] age ’ . |
| 15 | The moral decline of the West cries out for a return to the morals of protestant Christianity which will tell the nation what they must do to be strong once more . |
| 16 | The driver launches forward for a narrow escape . |
| 17 | I feel the Pope should draw his clergy 's attention instead to these new things called Buzzboards — motorised two-wheel scooters on which the driver travels upright at a dignified speed of 20 mph . |
| 18 | The driver pulls up outside a small , somewhat dilapidated shop in the back streets . |
| 19 | The noise builds up to a shattering roar . |
| 20 | The assessment relies largely on a combination of operational experience and professional judgement . |
| 21 | When a clerk of the course comes out with a statement like this it seriously weakens the case of those , like myself , who would like to see transport allowances reintroduced . |
| 22 | Something vulnerable in her manner brings out an element of sadism in the way the long final act teases her endurance ; but it also makes the denouement extremely touching , and the part lies well for a voice that has managed Janacek 's Capture as well as Verdi 's Violetta . |
| 23 | The child 's reaction changes according to whether or not the stranger appears abruptly through a doorway while the mother is out of the room , or whether mother and child are introduced to the stranger together ; whether the child is approached quickly , unsmilingly and is physically picked up , or whether the stranger hovers deferentially , smiling and offering a toy . |
| 24 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 25 | The camera holding the action switches slowly to a normal , positive picture — more acceptable to viewers now that the impact has been made . |
| 26 | The light swerves off in an instant , and it 's darker than ever . |
| 27 | When she has created the right conditions , the light comes through from a source beyond her vision , with its own energy and life . |
| 28 | Since the anomaly arises here from a clash between the meaning of a closed set item and the meaning of an open set item , it can be cured by changing either . |
| 29 | Tests on women with dermatitis found that the condition worsens just before a period , and those sensitive to base metals are most likely to develop a reaction at that time too . |
| 30 | 2 The defender drives upward with a full knee spring out of the attacker 's reach . |