Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguably the blinder kinds of sexual radicalism , wherein sexuality is made the prime political mover , have tended to be mainly heterosexual , and in the case of Wilhelm Reich , overtly homophobic . |
| 2 | And one who has arguably the toughest brief of all the carvers at the palace . |
| 3 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 4 | Berge and the entire Mitterrand government were made to look complete fools when , a few weeks later , he was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony — arguably the great powerhouse of American orchestras . |
| 5 | He is particularly good with young players and will have to weigh up that security against taking arguably the best job in English cricket . ’ |
| 6 | The sermons in which it is presented are arguably the finest contribution to moral philosophy in English . |
| 7 | It finished the year with the launch of the Twingo , arguably the biggest breakthrough in small car design since the Mini . |
| 8 | These commodities are arguably the primitive valuables of early Anglo-Saxon society , used to oil the wheels of social and political activities ( Huggett 1982 and forthcoming ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The petitioners remark that ‘ the Royal Veterinary College of London is the private property of the subscribers thereto who may continue or close the same at their discretion ; that it is only from their desire to advance the veterinary art that they have allowed their institution to be employed as a College of instruction ; and that thereby the veterinary profession in this country owes even its existence to their establishment ’ . |
| 10 | But nevertheless if it were handled properly the high-yielding seeds of African maize , upland rice and cassava which are on the way could make a real difference . |
| 11 | In order to work properly the dominant forces in each of the three spheres have to monopolize the key resources for which there is great competition . |
| 12 | Additionally the full range from Marvic Textiles is now available from Sloane Avenue providing an exceptionally comprehensive selection of furnishing fabric . |
| 13 | Additionally the full range from Marvic Textiles is now available from Sloane Avenue providing an exceptionally comprehensive selection of furnishing fabric . |
| 14 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 15 | The major objective of the study is therefore to investigate empirically the strategic behaviour of such firms . |
| 16 | First , they fail to discuss empirically the relative seriousness of corporate compared with ‘ conventional ’ crime . |
| 17 | Eventually the traditional route to professional training will emerge whereby qualified community interpreters will , after a defined period of professional practice and experience , be trained to pass on their skills . |
| 18 | Eventually the total rose to 350 women on the platforms of trams and buses , and at Whit 1940 the first ten motorwomen were trained . |
| 19 | Chapters 20 and 21 of this book give detailed attention to ‘ fiction ’ — overwhelmingly the main preoccupation of public library users — and to the related fields of biography and travel writing . |
| 20 | Overwhelmingly the biggest problems in post-war British buildings ( and other structures such as bridges as well ) is concrete . |
| 21 | The criteria mentioned above have often been employed , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , in the construction of very broad evolutionary schemes , but these have been increasingly criticized — in Marxist thought as elsewhere — for their excessively abstract depiction of the ‘ stages of development ’ which seem to fit very loosely the actual changes in political systems in different regions of the world and in determinate historical periods . |
| 22 | And the labour council — in reality a fragile and temporary alliance of Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) , Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) , christian socialist , Irish nationalist and independent members — elected on a platform little different from that of progressives on the LCC , was never able to challenge effectively the accepted boundaries of municipal activity . |
| 23 | This conservative response , led by the fiery Abbot Joseph of Volokolamsk , carried the day , and Ivan 's successors were unable even to halt effectively the further growth of ecclesiastical landholding . |
| 24 | For our purposes , however , the most important result was that the Mortgage Act 1949 did not change fundamentally the Roman-Dutch law on parate execution . |
| 25 | In the big retail market which opens later on the combined scents of ripe peaches and the fresh basil and thyme plants lying in heaps on the ground gave us our first sniff of Provence . |
| 26 | In 1967 he was appointed deputy chairman of the nationalised British Steel Corporation and in 1971 took on the additional responsibility of chief executive . |
| 27 | Class 5 leader Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon retained his post as Army C.-in-C. and was promoted to take on the additional post of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces , in place of Gen. Sunthorn Kongsompong . |
| 28 | No one was likely to recommend that a hopeless old chronic like him should be put on the new drugs at this stage , because they were still in short supply and there were many more interesting patients on whom to experiment . |
| 29 | ‘ Scalpel ! ’ , then , takes on the indexical value in this context of ‘ Pass me that particular scalpel ’ . |
| 30 | Operations support superintendent Barry Edwards takes on the added responsibility for those functions which were previously carried out by production branch . |