Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 2 | More recently , there have been a number of attempts to capture and characterize the patterns that are actually emerging in departmental organizations . |
| 3 | It was under the protection of the Estates and was also known as the Estates Theatre . |
| 4 | The poison preys upon the vitals and is only extinguished by death or , by as fatal a cure , the accomplishment of its own desires . |
| 5 | Available on or off the bone , the meat is usually from only the breasts of the birds and is lightly smoked , moist and quite delicious . |
| 6 | The ANC rejected the plans as being specifically designed to deny power to the black majority . |
| 7 | That the view of the judge 's role as declaratory is inadequate can be seen if one considers that the reason many cases come to court ( which are only a minority of the cases that are actually started ) is because there is genuine doubt as to what the law is . |
| 8 | Here are some of the reasons that are commonly found in contemporary documentation for failures in conservation programmes . |
| 9 | I think there 's certainly a lot of activity concerned with doing some of the rather more creative thing with micro-electronic systems , and the time will come , I 'm sure , when quite a lot of the skills that are normally exercised by people will be exercised by machines . |
| 10 | It also gives an initial view into the worlds of the mind and the wonderlands that are there waiting for all who aspire to them . |
| 11 | Manoon immediately surrendered himself to the authorities and was later charged with , among other crimes , conspiracy to assassinate Queen Sirikit in 1982 . |
| 12 | On Oct. 6 Klaus Kuron , 54 , who had worked since 1962 for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution ( Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz — BfV ) , gave himself up to the authorities and was formally arrested shortly afterwards . |
| 13 | Our financial strength and our determination to accept only profitable business will enable us to take full advantage of the opportunities that are now emerging , particularly in the UK . ’ |
| 14 | They collected their horses from the stables and were soon pounding their way back up the cobbled streets of Edinburgh to the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 15 | The indicators that are traditionally used are the money spent on health care or the number of health workers per head of population . |
| 16 | Some of the funds that are now flowing from the CAP — not always put to as good a use as we should like — should encourage rather than discourage environmentally friendly farming . |
| 17 | God-like , Niall flings himself on to his adoring audience , sinks beneath the waves and is eventually restored to the stage in time for the anti-rap encore of ‘ Where 's Me Jumper ’ . |
| 18 | They are related to the break point of the waves and are sometimes referred to as break point bars . |
| 19 | Illuminated in Tours around 1520 , it contains twelve full-page miniatures of the emperors and was possibly made for the library of Francois I. The manuscript has a distinguished provenance : it belonged at the Jesuit College de Clermont Library in Paris and later to the celebrated English collector Sir Thomas Phillips who considered it among the finest of his 60,000 manuscripts . |
| 20 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 21 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 22 | The black liquid contains the spores and was once used as a cheap substitute for Indian ink . |
| 23 | Among the parties that are soon to come to life the Socialists , National Democrats and the Christian Democrats will figure strongly . |
| 24 | It is more than a year since the red and white surveyors ' poles glinted above the reeds , blazing a trail for the draglines that were soon to follow . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the audience for the images that were sometimes drawn and painted inside such books — portraits of the evangelists , for instance , or ( like the picture on the cover of this book ) of a royal patron — must have been very restricted . |
| 26 | The main problem of an edge interpretation is that some form of intelligence is necessary to add the material between edges and so remove the lines that are naturally hidden by the surrounding solids and surfaces . |
| 27 | Oranges were first introduced into Europe by the Arabs and were originally seen as status symbols . |
| 28 | His pleasure at the escape had for some reason given way now to even more sadness in the presence of the eagles that were still caged , as if the escape of one had intensified the sense of imprisonment of the others . |
| 29 | And what we do from research is that children who smoke are more likely to smoke the brands that are heavily advertised |
| 30 | A familiar example of interference in the case of light is the colors that are often seen in soap bubbles . |