Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps disappointing to note that over a quarter of the total sample fell into this latter category , and it may be emphasized that staff in libraries of all sizes have training needs . |
| 2 | At any one time only two out of five surnames in the parish were those of this hard core of families , but four out of five of the total entries belonged to this group . |
| 3 | Mr Rowse the healer at 93 Mafeking Street , a Miss Potter and sixteen cats at No. 95 , themselves at No. 97 , a Mr Hill in a ménage à trois at No. 90 — perhaps all the normal people lived down another street ? |
| 4 | The European Commission continued during this period to pursue a resolution of the conflict over technical standards for high definition television ( HDTV ) broadcasting in the single market after 1993 . |
| 5 | However , the statistical picture remains somewhat unclear for two main reasons : the data have not always been analysed with sufficient attention to all the possible factors implicated in such over-representation ; there are insufficient provincial data to show how general are the London results . |
| 6 | However , it seems unlikely that the political will existed among many rural authorities to embark upon a rapid and expensive programme of housing construction . |
| 7 | For the top teams in the group of eight this would mean a total of 40 league games as opposed to the 44 matches which will have to be fulfilled if the 12-club division continued for another season . |
| 8 | Grey warmed into red like hot iron , then into pink , until the lower sky glowed like that above a blast-furnace at night . |
| 9 | Ultranationalist thinking on the rural sector seemed in many ways only a more radical version of official views . |
| 10 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 11 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 12 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 13 | Therefore , three of the four documented deaths over the intervening period occurred in those who had survived for at least 5 years after surgery . |
| 14 | The unfinished building stood for several years as a mute witness to their sad state . |
| 15 | In effect , the concern to increase calibre embodies a concern to recapture the social relations , style of politics , and class of leadership , that existed before the franchise was extended and before the working class rose to some sort of local political power through the Labour Party . |
| 16 | It merits the longest entry devoted to any one person in Boswell 's account , and no more than two sentences in Johnson 's : the person they met was Flora Macdonald , who had helped Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape after Culloden . |
| 17 | The strongest criticisms came from those congressmen whose regional power bases were now threatened , and from PL and PSC power brokers whose ability to elect and re-elect their own people was endangered . |
| 18 | In contrast to the offence of this ONE man Paul then declared what ONE other person , the Lord Jesus Christ had accomplished on behalf of many ‘ the grace of God and the gift of grace , which is by ONE man , Jesus Christ , hath abounded unto many ’ ( v.15 ) ‘ by the righteousness of ONE the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life … by the obedience of ONE shall many be made righteous. ’ ( v.18/19 ) . |
| 19 | In 1969 , the destruction of monasteries and suppression of monks and nuns during the Cultural Revolution led to another desperate rising , largely unknown to the outside world . |
| 20 | E-shaped , as was the fashion , it centred round its Great Hall , a reminder still of the public life lived by many Tudor leaders . |
| 21 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 22 | Instead , consonant with the prevailing economic orthodoxy , the public interest became at most a background justification for the free availability of incorporation and limited liability . |
| 23 | For the French the peace of the last years of the fourteenth century led to little more than the need to garrison their frontiers . |
| 24 | Suchlike suspicions did not deter prospective travellers from paying the high prices asked for such authentic delicacies ; maybe even encouraged brisker sales . |
| 25 | Yorick screamed again — the high wail lasted for several seconds before it ended with a sharp report . |
| 26 | The Sunday afternoon walk along the lanes was always interesting , even to very young children , for the high banks towered on either side of us , covered in wild flowers — campions , hemp agrimony , foxgloves , honeysuckle and many , many more . |
| 27 | Here the seismic acquisition continued throughout much of 1992 . |
| 28 | The raw material came from such sources as Renaissance sketchbooks , engravings and travel guides and was originally limited to Antique works of art known between 1400 and the conquest of Rome by Charles V in 1527 . |
| 29 | As to what the hon. Gentleman said about those who worked for Karl Construction , the building firm that was decimated on Friday , let me pay here , on the Floor of the House , the most profound tribute to those in civilian employment in the Province who go to work to make it possible for the security forces to do their job . |
| 30 | I have listened with concern to what the hon. Gentleman said about this matter . |