Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the technology which reaches the defence sector better utilised than in the civil economy ? |
| 2 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 3 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 4 | I 've got ta liaise with the information centre in the computer centre tomorrow see if there 's any guidelines we could probably use . |
| 5 | Some years ago , IBM bought into the videodisk business only to withdraw after it was tweaked by the press for backing a recording that purported to explain healthful massage but actually featured the kind of body rubbing one would n't show to anyone young enough to be dramatically influenced , Woody Allen 's romantic inclinations notwithstanding . |
| 6 | The Sussex man noticeably slowed as Hall continued to switch the play . |
| 7 | That was an essential b eventually that was taken away , but the building trade still believed if a building firm wanted men , they had to have at least a thirty two hour guarantee , which is at present still in operation . |
| 8 | It was the kind of sound that made you think of the noise lambs probably make when they can smell the mint being brought in from the garden . |
| 9 | At the close of the fishing season , the fishing folks always sang as the boat left the Stronsay pier and to hear the song , We 're no away to bide a while , always brings back memories . |
| 10 | ‘ It was as if The Wedding Present only formed when I joined , which was nice in a way , ’ says Charman . |
| 11 | By the time that she had balanced the tray on a small table , the silver teapot carefully placed where Matey could preside over it , Mrs Darrell had embarked on an attack on Dr Neil and the profession which he had taken up . |
| 12 | The wheel pit still exists although this has now been concreted up to the level of the existing floor . |
| 13 | The opposition kinsman/neighbour scarcely exists because all neighbours are likely to be reckoned as kin of one sort or another . |
| 14 | In this environment a material can be dyed without producing waste products , since the carbon dioxide simply evaporates once the pressure is reduced to normal . |
| 15 | By the time Tiare was ten , her mother made the girl promise never to marry until she was at least nineteen , telling her that hasty love affairs never led to happiness . |
| 16 | The enumeration tree now looks as in Fig. 11.2 if nodes 5 and 6 are ignored . |
| 17 | I am saying that Lord Justice Woolf , who produced an authoritative report on prison riots and the improvement of prison conditions — admittedly , a report that does not recommend the one thing that the Home Secretary has chosen to do , but a report which the Home Secretary wrongly described as comprehensive — draws attention time after time to the simple fact that all prisons that rioted in 1990 and were the subject of the inquiry were so overcrowded that many of the proper duties that prisons should perform were not being and could not be performed . |
| 18 | Mr. Scrivener points out that , in the days of capital punishment , it was the practice for the Home Secretary personally to decide whether to recommend a reprieve ; and political memoirs record how seriously that responsibility was regarded . |
| 19 | I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action . |
| 20 | The Transfer Regulations only apply where there is a transfer of an undertaking situated inside the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | The marriage age steadily dropped until half of American brides married by the time they were twenty and three-quarters of English girls were marrying by the age of twenty-five . |
| 22 | The spelling mistakes only occurred when I was shouted . |
| 23 | Thus the QLF structure above survives if and only if the constraints on the third argument of pick-up2 and on the only argument of jack2 are consistent . |
| 24 | In 1967 the Rover name almost disappeared when it merged with Leyland Motors . |
| 25 | Attacks from the War Wagon only apply when the War Wagon charges , crushing the enemy beneath its wheels and knocking foes to the floor . |
| 26 | Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening . |
| 27 | According to compensation theory the leisure society only arrives when people 's preference for extra leisure exceeds their preference for extra income . |
| 28 | Waterfalls , however , often serve as a filter return : the chill factor still applies unless you divert the flow with a length of guttering pipe or similar . |
| 29 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 30 | Such the quality committee regularly considers whether it 's necessary to have any new |