Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [art] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , head to waist , is fearfully weathered ; the other , waist to one knee , has on the contrary a finely preserved surface and forms of great if primitive power . |
| 2 | In almost all cases the anterior deltoid is the most developed and the posterior the least developed . |
| 3 | There may be a touch of sour grapes here , for there were in fact extensive consultations at many levels — one prominent Kenyan academic has dubbed the curriculum the most discussed in the world . |
| 4 | During the festivities a hastily built bonfire was set alight in the middle of the market place , and an equally hastily assembled replica of the Japanese Emperor was burnt to a cinder on top of it . |
| 5 | It would only take a marginally improved thrust to give the aircraft a vastly improved ground-to-air time , a higher ceiling and a greatly boosted top airspeed . ’ |
| 6 | Whereas Rolle 's poetic understanding of spiritual life embodied in his English works makes them like flares sent up to illuminate dark ground , each a light but each separate , Hilton 's Scale brings into the daylight a carefully worked out map of spiritual life with each of the major stages interconnected . |
| 7 | The British Red Cross hope their course will help plug a potentially dangerous loophole in the law governing the standard of care offered by babysitters , giving the parent a well earned night out with peace of mind . |
| 8 | The professionals will be driving for the world championship … a jackpot of a £100,000 … the amateurs the so called privateers are on the road for pride and pennies … |
| 9 | London 's only entirely new tube line in recent times , the Victoria , opened in 1971 , and the Jubilee , only a small part of which was new , the rest the partially transformed Bakerloo of 1905–15 , was completed in 1979 . |
| 10 | However , if the company elects to exercise its option at the beginning of a contract year , it must pay the artist a previously agreed sum of money as an advance against future royalties . |
| 11 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 12 | Only for her to step back , the calm a little shattered , as Sally-Anne blushed to her hairline . |
| 13 | The plant was described by the ancient Greeks to improve eyesight ad this belief continued and travelled to Britain where Gerard recommended : " that the herb a little boiled or skalded and kept in pickle as Sampier ( samphire ) and eaten , quickens the sight " , or : " applied with honey and the juice of Fennell , is a remedie against dim eies " . |
| 14 | Above the door a simply painted sign read Eagle . |
| 15 | Whitaker and Givens give the proceedings a much needed lift and the latter shows promise and the conniving seductress . |
| 16 | I particularly like the way the markedly understated look of the combo belies its facilities ; I much prefer to be surprised by a product 's performance . |
| 17 | In the meantime the relatively favoured escaped to the suburbs , leaving behind the very low paid , especially the casually employed . |
| 18 | Libation began in a vast library-living room , often the bottle a newly discovered chateau or domaine , gleefully introduced with the latest ripe tale . |
| 19 | Kylie believed that her image — the sound , the clothes the carefully constructed ‘ look ’ that millions around the world copied — belonged exclusively to her . |
| 20 | In the North the seasonally adjusted figure fell by more than 3,000 as the region started to gear up for the tourist season . |
| 21 | Yes , 3Com is trying to solve the right problems , says Proteon , but no , it does n't believe that 3Com will ever make the technology a widely implemented standard . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture . |
| 23 | British Rail is now a large residential landowner in Warwick gardens and will wish to offload on the market the expensively obtained properties that it has acquired . |
| 24 | During the reception a beautifully made scale model of Searcher was presented to the Department for display at Headquarters alongside all the other models of cutters through the ages . |
| 25 | I remember now that I saw neat features , a nose a little hooked , and a very good figure . |
| 26 | I wondered why Americans always called a spade a manually powered entrenching instrument . |
| 27 | Across the North-East as a whole the seasonally adjusted figure rose by 1,500 on last month . |
| 28 | Understandably nervous , and no doubt a little distracted and distraught both with his loved one 's untimely departure and that which he was planning for himself , he resorted without a thought to his habitual method of calming himself down , and lit a Marlboro . |
| 29 | He studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London , under A. W. von Hofmann , and in 1860 joined as a partner the well established chemical manufacturing business founded by his grandfather , Luke Howard [ q.v. ] , in 1807 . |
| 30 | A son no sooner found than lost . |