Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book has a Royal Botanic Garden Library stamp on the inside end-paper which also bears the hand-written class-mark F39A |
| 2 | These two examples can hardly represent the total number which originally existed , although lime may have been produced in small , temporary clamps which have not survived later destruction . |
| 3 | At last , faint and far off in the total blackness which now surrounded him , he saw another gleam of light . |
| 4 | cutting waste with it , as I say the ribbon stuff it must it , the georgian furniture you usually see that in |
| 5 | To their credit , The Cherrys are more to do with cartoon frenzies than the slick professionalism which seemingly warrants a Spin front cover at the drop of a bobble hat , but it 's as hollow a victory as Linford Christie 's Olympic Gold in the absence of Carl Lewis . |
| 6 | Rachmaninov 's Second Symphony appears to have fully emerged from the shameful obscurity it once endured to become one of the most popular and recorded of all Romantic symphonies . |
| 7 | The same can be said of the junior ministers who finally wrecked the government in 1922 ; many of these would have been cabinet ministers in a party government . |
| 8 | It is larger than her earlier work , but more nearly anonymous , not so marked with the idiosyncratic personality which so much delights readers in most of her novels and stories . |
| 9 | In every human body , they insisted , there remains a spark of the Divine Principle which once irradiated its entire being . |
| 10 | An unfolding of the divine purpose he also discerned in the revelation that in relation to the world God is active by his word and wisdom , like ‘ two hands ’ shaping the world and guiding the church . |
| 11 | It is the more-educated people who most use complementary medicine , thus helping to dispel the idea that it is ‘ unscientific ’ and used only by the uncritical ; and about 10 per cent of clients going to complementary practitioners are referred by doctors or paramedics . |
| 12 | Mergers that are found to possess an EC dimension must be notified to the European Commission which then carries out an investigation to determine whether they are " compatible with the common market " . |
| 13 | The European Commission itself now recognises that principle . |
| 14 | But of all the damn fighters I ever did see , |
| 15 | So much for a blatant attack , but what about the friendly stranger who suddenly comes too close for comfort in the car park outside the local pub ? |
| 16 | He boasts all the trappings of a billionaire : the 385-foot yacht which also acts as a roving business headquarters ; the private jets ; a string of racehorses ; gold supposedly held in the form of bars ; the twenty-mile-square holiday island of Spetsopoula , off Athens ; the shipping fleet on which his fortune is based ; a string of trophy wives and mistresses topped only be the late Aristotle Onassis ; and prime investment property around the world . |
| 17 | The aim was to give the writers the advance information they always sought and to gain interest from cinemas . |
| 18 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 19 | Black-figure continues in use long for slight work , and for the prize vases at the Panathenaic games it far outlasts red figure , going deep into the Hellenistic age ; but from the generation after the Pioneers all major vase painters work primarily in red-figure . |
| 20 | The River Otter , Coleridge 's ‘ dear native brook ’ , borders the town to the west , and makes its leisurely way through a landscape which to eighteenth-century inhabitants seemed ‘ the richest finest Country in the world ’ , and which even now preserves the striking beauty which so impressed itself on Coleridge 's young mind . |
| 21 | Mind you there 's a lot of Northern Ireland lads in London anyway , erm we think that when our members voted to return the political levy they also voted to continue to have a say in the running of the Labour Party . |
| 22 | Now the political culture of the time was such that the political system which actually emerged is rather different from that which some of the people who went to Philadelphia thought would emerge and that really reflects a number of changes , one that America has grown from four million to two hundred and fifty million , two , from being isolated , remote and scattered the population has consolidated and grown , America has become a vast industrial power as opposed to a , an agricultural nation and all these have had their impact upon the importance and scope of government . |
| 23 | The political forces which once made that movement move are now enveloped in a catastrophe that has two distinct dimensions . |
| 24 | Yet the Labour leader has finally found a theme which can appeal to traditional Labour voters and , more crucially , also to those voters from the political centre who now feel disenfranchised . |
| 25 | Whilst there is still some pressure for further reform , it is generally recognised that the Lords do perform a useful function and the abolition lobby no longer enjoys the political significance it once did . |
| 26 | The political crisis which vastly increased its recruitment could not help but give it an unusual character . |
| 27 | He will often apologise by overplaying the spastic idiot everyone around must suspect him of being . |
| 28 | Traffic lights blink impotently at the odd cyclist who now , as later , ignores them . |
| 29 | At last she said slowly , ‘ Well , having done nothing but small-animal work for two years in London , I have to say that apart perhaps from the odd pony I never really considered anything else . |
| 30 | Despite the depressed economy she still finds little real evidence of publishers pruning their lists and , as a consequence , there are ‘ too many major titles to be able to do justice to them all ’ |