Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main streets offer dignified Georgian facades whilst the narrow lanes behind abound with charming old cottages . |
| 2 | Smoke from the burned rajathuks still coiled into the heavens . |
| 3 | It should be noted that the anti-discrimination statutes also apply to termination of partnerships by this means . |
| 4 | The only activity at the plant that is secure is mainframe manufacture — as well as the water-cooled ES/9000s it already builds , it is to take over the air-cooled models currently built at the Valencia , Spain plant , as well . |
| 5 | The European settlers gradually increased in numbers and additionally brought over slaves from the Guinea Coast thus bringing pressure to bear on the already sparse natural vegetation . |
| 6 | The titles are sometimes mis-spelt , but the low prices still pull in crowds of eager buyers . |
| 7 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |
| 8 | Mr de Klerk said Mr Mandela was fully aware of the proposed releases , lending substance to the belief that the world 's most famous political prisoner has played a decisive negotiating role with the government way beyond the political limitations normally placed on prisoners . |
| 9 | Although the Bush administration stopped short of making a full protest , its official statement described the remarks as " not helpful " , and the issue added to the political pressures already mounting in the USA for protectionist action against Japan . |
| 10 | Sometimes the associated qualities clearly relate to attributes which the animals undoubtedly possess — an elephant is an obvious symbol of strength and power in any culture — but it is by no means obvious why a bat should be associated with happiness or a deer with affluence . |
| 11 | Instead of waiting a matter of seconds for the lights to change , the hapless riders either remain in the saddle , take a chance when they see a gap in the traffic , or get off and wait for the green man . |
| 12 | We can see our own ‘ freedoms ’ caricatured in the south : the ebb and flow of free-market economics in the ‘ metropolitan ’ countries is matched by the alternation of democratic and authoritarian regimes in the south , in which the economic policies scarcely vary in any particular , and in which the steady flow of wealth from poor to rich is consistently maintained . |
| 13 | Because the Advanced Courses officially finished at any time from June through to December 1984 , the question of timing became significant ( one course officially ends in early 1985 ) . |
| 14 | Although they were at the agricultural policies undoubtedly continue to be relevant , still have a significant part to play in many current situations . |
| 15 | ( I know that in wildlife programmes on TV the professional naturalists never interfere with natural savagery , but since the size of the moggy population in the area is unnatural , I felt it was right to lend a hand . ) |
| 16 | As to what steps may be effective to prevent a holding out , there may be some discrepancy between what will suffice for the Law Society to exempt a salaried partner from compliance with the professional rules already referred to and what the Court might regard as appropriate in proceedings brought by a creditor of the firm . |
| 17 | When added to the innovative shows regularly staged by the Ikon Gallery and the newly-established Midlands Contemporary Art , which specialises in the work of local artists , this makes Birmingham the equal of any other provincial city in the country as a mecca for art lovers — and potentially much more besides . |
| 18 | The regional officers also wrote to the Chilean authorities calling for the prompt introduction of legislation which will give official licenses to the many community radio and TV stations that hitherto have been operating under severe restrictions . |
| 19 | Some of the Scandinavian ships then went to Denmark , and Danes and English came to an agreement at Oxford . |
| 20 | In the M-form enterprise , in contrast , the company is organised into separate product divisions , each with responsibility for many of the administrative operations formerly performed by the head office and its sub-offices . |
| 21 | The statement that ‘ the parties that contended in turn for domination regarded the possession of this huge state edifice as the principal spoils of the victor ’ is nowhere more true than in the immediate pre- and post-colonial competition among indigenous interests for the administrative positions hitherto reserved for the imperialists . |
| 22 | But the reluctance to take account of the new obligations imposed by government to consider the housing needs of the working classes also derived from more political motives . |
| 23 | Sir Arthur Nicholson , a contemporary observer noted : ‘ should the peasants excited by socialist and anarchist agitators be led on … and should the working classes simultaneously rise in the towns there will be a catastrophe such as history has rarely witnessed ’ . |
| 24 | In his discussion of the problem in ‘ Mourning and Melancholia ’ Freud offers the initial hypothesis that mania is to be understood as a state in which the ego appears to have got over its loss of the object with the consequence that the instinctual drives previously fixated on it are now liberated — giving rise to the boundless energy and enthusiasm of the manic condition . |
| 25 | But he did , and explained why the Tory reforms attended to patient and parent whereas the Labour ones only pandered to the producer . |
| 26 | The broken bricks now lie in the living room . |
| 27 | The coats of affected animals in both syndromes are dull and the hind quarters heavily soiled with faeces . |
| 28 | The compelling analysis of this anecdote is then shown to have important implications for the reading of some familiar literary text , revealing that it too shares in the cultural presumptions critically uncovered in the anecdote . |
| 29 | The end of April saw the withdrawal of the last remaining freight , the weekly Wednesdays only Stanlow to Aberystwyth oil tanks . |
| 30 | Private space where people have some resources , is smart and well cared for , but the public spaces always seem to be mucky or breaking down . |