Example sentences of "[art] [adj] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The Spanish have also noticed this extremado rigor estilístico . ) |
| 2 | The Prudential has recently called for greater disclosure of treasury matters by listed companies . |
| 3 | Here the faithful had once met , safe ( I hope ) from prying Protestant eyes . |
| 4 | The youngest has just gone |
| 5 | Perhaps the best known exponent of this model of general education in the UK is Hirst ( 1969 ; 1974 ) , but it is familiar in most countries , and results in the relatively academic type of secondary school curriculum that one finds in the English grammar school , the French Lycée or the German Gymnasium , with appropriate national differences of emphasis ( the English have always stressed ‘ process ’ rather than ‘ breadth ’ ) . |
| 6 | It is appropriate that the first great English opera of modern times should be so deeply English in tone , and should derive from the art which the English have always excelled at — poetry . |
| 7 | Such an achievement depends upon two things for which the English have always had a special genius : a sense of place and a sense of compromise . |
| 8 | In another country they would have been called intellectuals , but the English have never admitted to having any intellectuals . |
| 9 | In addition , since 1919 , the British had largely failed — so it was argued — to promote alternatives to imperialism and traditional power politics . |
| 10 | In expanding their empire , the British had habitually sought out local agents through whom to impose their authority , and though these arrangements often broke down after the initial period of contact , sometimes they did not . |
| 11 | In forty-four years the British had yet to recover fully from victory in the Second World War , even though the Germans and Japanese had so manifestly recovered from defeat . |
| 12 | Signs of this were evident at Christmas and , happily , at Easter , too , Not only did Channel 4 go out in peak time with Granada 's king Lear on Easter Monday but also had the bright idea of showing us on that day , in Are you having any fun ? archive material demonstrating how the British had determinedly convinced themselves they were enjoying themselves as long ago as 1896 and as lately as 1964 . |
| 13 | The British had never envisaged such a rapid build-up to this situation : India 's constitution was not finalised until 1950 , while Pakistan had to wait until 1956 for its soon-overthrown constitution ! |
| 14 | The British had obviously decided to wash their hands of the whole affair . |
| 15 | Agreement was reached in October 1954 , though , as the British had always feared , at a significant cost to themselves . |
| 16 | The British had hitherto favoured the US-led NATO system NAAWS . |
| 17 | German agents were allowed to act freely in what the British had hitherto considered their own area of influence . |
| 18 | At one point he even went as far as to tell a group of American diplomats that he expected the United States to take over the " primary role " which the British had hitherto held in the Middle East . |
| 19 | And then there was another old-timer , Jose-Maria Canizares and there was the water , something the British have always used to defend themselves from invaders … |
| 20 | Queues and history : the British have always appreciated the value of both . ’ |
| 21 | It is not necessary to put the matter in quite those terms to recognise that the British have always preferred using industrial products to getting involved in making them . |
| 22 | The British have always preferred using industrial products to getting involved in making them |
| 23 | The mundane details of the denunciations , the decrees against Jews using the telephone or travelling on the Métro and so on had brought home to him that the French had both suffered by and been complicit in the Holocaust . |
| 24 | While these momentous events were unfolding in Belgium , on 7 August the French had improvidently launched their long-planned assault into Upper Alsace and on 14 August a greater force — the First and Second armies — thrust into Lorraine , south of Metz . |
| 25 | In fact , Mike Connolly , of Sainsbury , said the French had slightly increased their share of the supermarket group 's sales at the cheaper end , although other retailers had a different experience . |
| 26 | In point of time , however , one can find the specific civilian proposition from the US Ambassador in Paris a week earlier , on 11 December , not only to extend aid to Vietnam from the President 's special $75 m. fund but also recommending direct ‘ Marshall plan ’ financing for Indo-China : which the French had tentatively asked for at the beginning of 1949 . |
| 27 | Even before the discussions during and after the Delors Report ( April 1989 ) , the French had largely accepted the German demand . |
| 28 | By that time , the French had already built an extensive network in North Africa , the Uganda Railway was under construction , the Germans had begun their railways in both Tanganyika and South West Africa , and the British had driven their railway through the Sudan as part of their reconquest of the upper Nile . |
| 29 | When the two sides met again at the hill station of Dalat in April 1946 it was obvious that the immediate disagreement was on the nature of the Indochina Federation and whether or not the Government of Vietnam , which the French had already recognized , was anything more than the Republic of Tonkin . |
| 30 | The French had obviously suffered a debâcle but , in itself , the opening up of the frontier with China might only have been a prelude to Chinese invasion and ensuing catastrophe . |