Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably , the closer the referents of the familiar terms in a domain are to the potential referent of an unfamiliar word , the more specific are the inferences that children can legitimately make . |
| 2 | But the very things that make the hay rich are the things that now make it poor . |
| 3 | Mountain sorrel Oxyria digyna and tufted saxifrage Saxifraga caespitosa typify highly variable species ; the colder and more exposed the site , the darker , more heavily pigmented are the stems and leaves ( Savile , 1972 ) . |
| 4 | No , not grammar but but basically , maths and English are the tools that the other subjects |
| 5 | The Song of Roland does not have much local colour in it , except of a perfunctory ‘ high are the mountains and dark the valleys ’ kind , so there is no particular call to read the poem before visiting the scene , in hopes of recognizing the poet 's descriptions . |
| 6 | We do n't ask a Hollywood actor whether his latest blockbusting performance was fuelled by cocaine or booze ( though to be told that it was is mildly titillating ) , so why should we care how unorthodox were the preparations that preceded the athlete 's explosion off the blocks ? |
| 7 | When in 1870 Prussia went to war with France the general feeling was that the French were the aggressors and that Bismarck might perhaps teach them a lesson . |
| 8 | Hypnotic is the password that keys 11th Hour into an epic eight-minute atmospheric adventure , ushered on to the floor by tribal rhythms , annexed by haunting pianos and African paeans , all set on course to become another top bazooka with clubland . |
| 9 | the victim of the whole burnt-offering is a male because the male is more complete , more dominant than the female , closer akin to causal activity , for the female is incomplete and in subjection and belongs to the category of the passive rather than the active . |
| 10 | Wet 's a condition that suits you . ’ |
| 11 | Equally unavoidable is the conviction that it is not in the public interest for any profession to become the subject of so much unwarranted regulation and criticism ( not to mention claims ) that it is unable to retain or recruit individuals of the required calibre . |
| 12 | So unpleasant is the experience that nations adopt a variety of devices for coping with it . |
| 13 | But what , of course , makes New Zealand different is the fact that farmers there receive no subsidies whatsoever . |
| 14 | More interesting is the discovery that while You is the stylistically unmarked form , more matter-of-fact , ‘ not impolite ’ or ‘ not informal ’ , Thou can express both intimacy and anger , or indeed any increase in the emotional tone of a conversation . |
| 15 | Perhaps the least interesting is the possibility that the change of context modifies the way in which the CS is perceived , either because of some change in the physical nature of the signal ( the properties of an auditory cue , for instance , are likely to change according to the shape of the space in which it is presented ) or because there is some change in the way the cue impinges on the animal ( if different contexts promote different patterns of orienting behaviour , the same cue , defined physically , may be experienced differently in the contexts ) . |
| 16 | What is also interesting is the way that stereotypes are portrayed on tv with the males being strong , sometimes violent , sometimes very intelligent , characters and the females being shown as helpless , stupid , domesticated and neurotic . |
| 17 | More interesting is the question whether on stylistic grounds one would postulate one designer or two at Olympia , but that too admits of no easy answer . |
| 18 | Particularly interesting is the fact that , after backing so many winners , Pound in The Exile backed unmistakably at least one loser . |
| 19 | Far less celebrated is the fact that she was the first contemporary British artist to win the international prize for painting at the Venice Biennale in 1968 . |
| 20 | This ageing is an art and is surrounded by ritual ( and not a little secrecy ) . |
| 21 | What was not clear was the manner or the extent of their involvement . |
| 22 | So insistent was the noise that she padded downstairs in her nightshirt and picked up the handset . |
| 23 | Self-contained was the phrase that occurred to him ; everything was there to hand . |
| 24 | So popular was the film that , a month after its opening , AIP decided to release Madigan 's Millions , two years after it was made , to cash in on Dustin 's name , double-billing it in the USA with Fearless Frank , films both actors rather hoped had been dead and buried . |
| 25 | But what was totally unfamiliar was the athleticism and poised stage presence she had achieved in such a short time . |
| 26 | How old was the female when she changed to her male coloration ? |
| 27 | ‘ How old was the aunt when she moved in ? ’ she asked . |
| 28 | But Clara , upon her first visit , could find no other possible point of resemblance , and even this point she missed , so different was the architecture and the attachment from anything she had ever before approached . |
| 29 | Even more interesting was the fact that over 300 cars were parked at the Park and Ride facility at Harman 's Cross which obviously reduced the level of traffic along the road to Swanage by that amount . |
| 30 | The following are the rates that were effective from 6 April 1976 , but it must be remembered that these are liable to change at any time ; full information on contribution rates can be obtained from the Department of Health and Social Security . |