Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please for god 's sake stop playing Fairclough at the back — the defence is a shambles when he 's there — quite honestly I 'm getting pretty pissed off with Wilko — i know we 've had a long unbeaten run and we 're still second and he 's won us the championship etc etc and this is defenitely over reaction to last night but get rid of the fucking bastard and find us someone who 'll pick teams that can beat the Norwich 's and Man Utd7s of the league or we 'll be perenial mid table finishers . |
| 2 | the basis of the defence is the absence of any control by the defendant over the acts of a stranger on his land and therefore the nature of the stranger 's conduct is irrelevant . |
| 3 | The most significant feature of the response is the existence of a critical pulsatance which marks the end of an ideal pass band and the beginning of attenuation . |
| 4 | The response was a tightening up of Poor Law policy from 1871 . |
| 5 | The response was a forgery purporting to be a letter from Gregori Zinoviev , president of the Third International in Moscow , to the British Communist Party , urging it to promote revolution and to foment mutiny in the armed forces . |
| 6 | Steam-heated hauled stock was also eradicated , and the response was the reclassification of more Class 31/4s and 47/4s , plus the first Class 37/4s . |
| 7 | Under general rules the income is the income of Mr B ( as trustee ) . |
| 8 | er , if you just to avoid doubt , it looks as though , as we presume we go back to one , three , four that 's less than the income was the revenue from things like the guest room and er the lounge and so on , you see ? |
| 9 | From afar , the two most striking buildings in the park are the Observatory and the replica Eiffel Tower . |
| 10 | The park is a sanctuary for 41 endangered species . |
| 11 | In the park is a children 's playground with a carousel . |
| 12 | When I say " The oldest tree in the park is an oak " , I am referring to the the tall tree of rich foliage standing half-way between the eastern gate and children 's playing ground . |
| 13 | I can assert of the oldest tree in the park ( if there is such a tree ) that it is an oak , but I can also say of the sentence " The oldest tree in the park is an oak " that it means the same , or that it expresses same thought as , say , its French or Chinese translation , irrespective of whether it says anything true . |
| 14 | The Park is an estate of older high-class housing , right in the centre of town — according to Burgess this should be newer and on the outskirts of town . |
| 15 | In fact , the only bird of prey I ever saw hovering over the park was a kestrel . |
| 16 | And leading the way on the one-mile hike through the park was a Belfast man who has been helping the Ulster-led Everest expedition walk to the top of the world . |
| 17 | The fountain in the park was an enchantment , with the orchestra at the beginning iridescent , all seen in reflection from afar . |
| 18 | But the majority are no problem . ’ |
| 19 | The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people . |
| 20 | Making its debut and dominating the stand was the brand new First 53f5 , born of a collaboration between naval architect Bruce Farr , and stylist Pininfarina , with Bénéteau themselves contributing a considerable amount of production engineering technology . |
| 21 | The eye is like a camera : the glass on the camera lens is the cornea ; the aperture is the pupil ; and the shutter is the beautifully coloured iris , which contracts and relaxes to let in more or less light . |
| 22 | But the ideology is a construct . |
| 23 | The conscious articulation of the ideology was a product both of political crisis — the fear of social disintegration for which the breakdown of familial and sexual order became a striking metaphor — and of the self-development of an increasingly dominant class . |
| 24 | The terminology is a bit confusing . |
| 25 | The remainder is a retrograde of the same series a semitone lower . |
| 26 | The remainder is the amount of fabric which will be fitted into the pleats . |
| 27 | The remainder was the yield on various customs and excise duties levied primarily on beer , spirits , wines , tobacco , cocoa and other ‘ luxury ’ items which varied a little from budget to budget . |
| 28 | ‘ I messed around with it and got into this thing of splitting up the amps because I always thought that the guitar was a bit flat in mono . |
| 29 | When I was 15 , my handicap was 1 , so in my teenage years sport was my main thing and the guitar was a hobby . |
| 30 | On the shield are the words VOT PR and the mint mark is STR . |