Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Kennedy 's talent won over the hard-to-please punters despite him being one of the scruffiest acts ever to face the Royal box . |
| 2 | Labour and Delivery was quiet tonight , and so was Recovery , to which they were directed by the matronly grandmother of five who presided over the ward . |
| 3 | Shaw , Black and Lulu all cheekily carved their own slices of the cake before they reached the matronly age of eighteen . |
| 4 | At Notting Hill , Carnival was rained on but still managed to struggle past the 7pm curfew in parts , though sensible southerners spent Monday in the marquee at the Full Circle all-dayer . |
| 5 | Its use does not preclude the side-by-side use of specific MAS checklists or work programmes but the SEPR must be regarded and treated as the lead control record . |
| 6 | This paper is for the most part about medical practice , particularly general medical practice of the British variety , within the context of a more theoretical discussion of some aspects of professional work . |
| 7 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |
| 8 | The main thrust of Lukacs 's criticism is that the rich potentiality of socialist realism degenerated for the most part into what he terms the " anaemia of socialist naturalism " because its practitioners deliberately chose to substitute the profundity of Marx 's original dialectical understanding of reality for the banality and facility of Stalinist economic subjectivism " , the inevitable consequence of the Stalinist personality cult . |
| 9 | Under Queen Anne parties of a modern kind did not exist ; but it is possible to speak without gross inaccuracy of Parliament and the politically active part of the nation as being divided for the most part into Whigs and Tories . |
| 10 | For were not the brothels and whorehouses of Panama City and pre-revolutionary Havana developed for the most part for the benefit of American troops ? |
| 11 | The kitchen had one small window , the parlour two , one looking out over Brodick Bay , the other inland ; joined to this main building were various outhouses , each having a door , a window , a box-bed , a small deal table , a candlestick , and a wash-basin of its own : these were let for the most part to single gentlemen , though now and again she had also lady lodgers . |
| 12 | Although the Peace Tax Campaign has so far eschewed the use of extra-constitutional forms of dissent , confining itself for the most part to orthodox expressions of protest such as parliamentary lobbying and legal action in the courts , the failure of conventional forms of political protest to influence the prevailing defence strategy/taxation policy could have important implications regarding the future choice of tactics to be used . |
| 13 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |
| 14 | Those votes of Caraher 's which were transferable went for the most part to Hendron ( Alliance ) in Stage VI I I , and ensured his election with a surplus of 498 . |
| 15 | The number is easy to divide by 8 as it consists for the most part of successive multiples of 8 . |
| 16 | In fact , much points towards the conclusion that , despite its centrality to Hitler 's own thinking , anti-Semitism was for the most part of no more than secondary importance as a factor shaping popular opinion in the Third Reich . |
| 17 | The igneous complex is composed for the most part of very resistant rocks , and less erosion has taken place here than with the other rock types , so that this region contains some of the highest hills in the Outer Hebrides , such as Roneval , Bleaval and Chaipaval . |
| 18 | However , these are for the most part of very low quality and certainly can not meet the needs of the poorest sectors . |
| 19 | Could you take a part which would involve the wearing of an acid-yellow loose négligée for the most part of the proceedings ? |
| 20 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 21 | She howled for the most part of her first two years . |
| 22 | He had been in trouble for the most part of his life , the eldest of the poor working class family of seven children , he had always been the black sheep . |
| 23 | Officially the trams , which use railway lines for the most part with a quick dive into the streets as they reach the city centre , are ‘ Light Rapid Transit ’ vehicles , or LRTs . |
| 24 | The bones consist of lagomorph remains for the most part with a few small lizards and rodents . |
| 25 | While the Treaty as a whole was deeply humiliating to Germany , it was accepted for the most part with a sullen resignation and silent disgust . |
| 26 | Regulatory control , however , is concerned for the most part with organizational deviance , and with many activities in which compliance does not reside simply in refraining from an act , but in positively doing something to remedy a state of affairs . |
| 27 | Synonymous for the most part with the hegemonic culture of the bourgeoisie , the novel is not a form easily adapted to the demands of a revolutionary communist ideology explicitly contesting the assumptions of the class by which the form itself was fashioned . |
| 28 | The theories considered so far deal for the most part with major changes in the form of society , but it is evident that there are more continuous , relatively small-scale changes which affect political life . |
| 29 | Mr Strachan 's time in office coincided for the most part with the tenure as Librarian of the late Professor Denis Roberts . |
| 30 | When he gives evidence , sitting for the most part on two cushions , he leans forwards attentively like a headmaster , and with something of the same terrifying effect . |