Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not encourage control other than through the total cost and it limits the opportunities for a rational approach to budgeting . |
| 2 | In Lewis , machair is a small percentage of the total area and it occurs in a variety of forms ; small bayhead units , larger east coast elements north of Stornoway , complex beaches and strands in the southwest at Uig and semi-continuous expanses between Barvas and Ness on the northwest coast . |
| 3 | ‘ It would cost them too much to do a one-off in the normal way and we offered a cheap alternative . |
| 4 | ‘ The call came through in the normal way and we dealt with it as we normally would , ’ he said . |
| 5 | But his blood seemed to be flowing at twice the normal Speed and he stood carefully , so that he could see the doorway . |
| 6 | She felt him pushing her backwards on the overstuffed settee and she let him . |
| 7 | ‘ Kenny has been competing since the junior level and he has done so very successfully , ’ said Mr Sullivan . |
| 8 | He eased it on to the narrow road and it coughed and spluttered along . |
| 9 | When she stops and turns back , we decide to abandon the low-key approach and we wave our umbrella in the air , pointing at it and grinning dementedly . |
| 10 | Miss Fogerty was a little afraid of Miss Watson , for though she herself had spent thirty years at Thrush Green School , she was only the assistant teacher and she had been taught to respect her betters . |
| 11 | All four of our mystics wrote in what we now call Middle English , a language which had developed after the Norman Conquest and which grafted French onto the old Anglo-Saxon . |
| 12 | As my honourable friend said from the front bench , the Labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the European parliament and I hope that when the elections come Mr Deputy Speaker , and people will be arguing about why they 're voting for Europe on June the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they 've got erm erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last European election because the registration will be different , allowing all kinds of erm how can I put it foreigners in inverted commas , to vote in our elections in this country because it is the European elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed . |
| 13 | They have noted that demand for lamb is growing throughout the European Community and they want a slice of that market . |
| 14 | The other type of assessment may comply with schedule 2 to the original environmental impact assessment directive from the European Community and it does not have to be referred to the appropriate regulatory agency . |
| 15 | ‘ We have seen five consecutive months of serious decline in the European market and it has to be a matter of concern to all motor manufacturers . ’ |
| 16 | As she placed her hands trustingly in his , he moved out of the strong light and she saw his face . |
| 17 | Very simply put , you 'd have one amp to deal with the low end and one to deal with the upper mid of your bass signal . |
| 18 | Congress , as a strong Labour Party supporter and member for many years , and my father before me , I 've always believed it to be the working man 's Party , created and born from the sweat and blood of our predecessors , and throughout many years supported and financed by the unions with our subscriptions and the political levy and I see it 's supported by the trade unions . |
| 19 | He proved incapable of imposing his leadership on the political system and he failed to bring about significant public policy change . |
| 20 | Barbara told Clinton : ‘ There is a shift in the political wind and I feel that it 's blowing our way . ’ |
| 21 | Fourthly , Realism accepts that political acts have moral significance , but only in a sense which relates to the interests of the political agent and which has more to do with prudence than with traditional ethics . |
| 22 | It was surprised by ps Technologies Inc 's showing , considering the collapse of the ACE Initiative and its merge with Silicon Graphics Inc : Mips revenues decisively recaptured third place from IBM 's Power architecture . |
| 23 | We met in the odd foursome and it did n't really work out . |
| 24 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
| 25 | Aranjuez , however , had clarified Napoleon 's muddled thinking on the Spanish question and he had no intention of using the opportunity it presented in order to support a puppet king whose character and intentions he mistrusted . |
| 26 | Add to this a chair lift to the top of the Alpine Slide and you have a day out for all the family . |
| 27 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |
| 28 | However , Nagel is well aware that Smith himself had doubts as to the social validity of the subjective principle and he cites a passage from The Theory of Moral Sentiments : |
| 29 | This 1960 proposal thus predated the major space proposals put forward by President Kennedy early in 1961 — proposals which included the moon-landing programme and what became the INTELSAT world telecommunications system . |
| 30 | ‘ Now is n't that the strange thing and me going all the way to Belfast market . ’ |