Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While officials in New York refused to confirm that the USTA could forget any idea of financial aid , there is no doubt that , in the current world recession , New York has been hit harder than most and that Mayor David Dinkins , although an avid tennis fan , would have difficulty in getting approval for the money to be spent improving access roads etc to a new tennis facility , in view of all their other problems |
| 2 | To replace text throughout the document in one step ( 'without confirmation' ) select : confirm : ( No ) of the same case as the text to be replaced select : case : ( Yes ) which only includes whole words select : whole word : ( Yes ) |
| 3 | At least one globe at the crossing should show a flashing light for the crossing to be deemed lawful . |
| 4 | There were demands in the press for the militia to be allowed greater use of firearms and for Interior Ministry troops to be provided with more and better equipment ( notably computers , communications equipment and vehicles ) . |
| 5 | GILLIAN LEDSON , 19 , is a retail business student who has had the experience of being made unemployed twice in five weeks . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , all the parents found the experience of being investigated traumatic and distressing . |
| 7 | Now I know time is against me : the horror of being left thirteen feet in the air with no stairs to reach the ground ! |
| 8 | The whole of the following morning was spent gardening and weeding in the area in front of the building ; there was the gravel to be raked and the flowerbeds to be kept tidy . |
| 9 | The name of the user to be made responsible for the SPR . |
| 10 | Obviously it is right for the West to be supporting any movement towards democracy in Eastern Europe , and obviously the EC should play its part . |
| 11 | Committee meetings had taken place at fortnightly intervals ever since early in the nineteenth century , but now , in view of the fact that there was a war on , the local government board asked for the meetings to be held monthly , a suggestion that was accepted with alacrity . |
| 12 | Among the titles to be published this autumn are : |
| 13 | I did not appreciate the irony of being knocked dead on my back with a bunch of flowers clasped to my chest . |
| 14 | Despite the blow to Hewitt , McHale said the injury would give former Leeds United and Northern Ireland star Phil Hughes the chance to re-establish himself in the side after being axed last week . |
| 15 | Backpackers need to keep the weight high and close to the back , but ski-mountaineers and climbers need the weight to be kept lower to increase stability , although weighty things should be kept close to the back . |
| 16 | The subject is the saint after his martyr 's death , the result of being flayed alive , with his skin over his shoulder like a cloak ; go around behind the statue to see the face , with hair , beard and eye holes . |
| 17 | The defendant on being told this alibi must immediately amplify it under questioning , and can be ‘ gonged ’ for undue hesitation in answering or for any vagueness in answering ( he must not say ‘ I think so ’ or ‘ That is probably what I would have done ’ ) . |
| 18 | Of the aircraft to be supplied 48 were reported to be the most advanced version , the F-15E Strike Eagle — never before exported — although with slightly downgraded navigational and weapons systems . |
| 19 | Is it the moment of swallowing , the oscillation between danger and salvation , when we imagine ourselves miraculously rescued from the peril of drowning only to be cast into the peril of being eaten alive ? |
| 20 | In closed systems the fear of being considered faint-hearted , or uninvolved , or unsupportive prevents such doubts being voiced at all . |
| 21 | There is ( intentionally ) no proper derivatives market that allows the peso to be sold short . |
| 22 | Both Bills would have preserved the deprave-and-corrupt test , significant in itself , but would have added a new test , sufficient in its own right for the work to be deemed obscene . |
| 23 | Ministers would have to be prepared for legislation to be defeated , time and again , without feeling the need for the issue to be made one of confidence — on which the government would feel it necessary to force an election . |
| 24 | To pay for the considerable expense of running the hospital , the directors of Ca'Granda offered portraits to any worthy donor , the portrait to be painted full face for a large contribution , profile for a much smaller one and in various degrees between the two . |
| 25 | ‘ In the house behind the garage , ’ said Mrs Molesworth , looking faintly surprised , as might the Queen on being posed that question . |
| 26 | Lastly , the hearth has to be tended , constantly supplied with fuel , and this can be likened to the need for the home to be paid ongoing care and attention , the absence of which will be felt as a cold and empty atmosphere . |
| 27 | It is therefore entirely proper for the directors to be given proper assurances by Government about the funding of a project undertaken on behalf of Government . |
| 28 | In this business , as soon as one meal is complete there is a need to start on the next , and the ACC chefs of the battalion , lunch behind them , had now to prepare for the functions to be held that evening in the Officers ' , and Warrant Officers ' and Sergeants ' Messes for 180 and 350 people respectively . |
| 29 | If there is no alternative to using a foster mother whose natural litter is the same colour as the mice to be fostered great care must be taken to mark the fostered animals by toe clipping or all the natural young must be removed . |
| 30 | Thus , the preamble to the Company Act , 1988 , speaks of the purpose of the Act as being to create up-to-date legal forms , thereby assisting the income-earning capacity of the national economy , the development of a market-type production and distribution system , and the flow of capital ( including foreign capital ) in the economy . |