Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On writing about his perfect country house , Baillie Scott is adamantly opposed to the vulgar and proposes what he considers to be the simple open plan way of life : ‘ Having arrived at the central idea of a hall or living room as the keynote of a home it follows naturally that one must group round this the various other rooms … first the ‘ ladies ’ bower'' , the ‘ ‘ drawing-room' ’ as we now call it . |
| 2 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 3 | The visionary places in the ordinary the elements of the eternal and raises it to a higher plane of reality . |
| 4 | The travel agent admits he 's in the wrong and says he 's trying to ensure that Norman Culliford gets at least some of his money back . |
| 5 | ‘ That I 'm able to offer specially designed , hand-painted tiling lifts my kitchens out of the ordinary and helps me to market them . |
| 6 | This sets him apart from the ordinary and gives him a reason for living . |
| 7 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 8 | So , the natural ability goes beyond the physical and manifests itself mentally when players are in the process of play . |
| 9 | She recognizes the fact that she loves both Paul and Bernard , but transposes this love onto the plane of the sacred and finds herself released from sexual desire . |
| 10 | One part turns on the other and sees it as worthless , leading to the self-reproaches and relentless self-criticism of melancholics . |
| 11 | In more anthropomorphic terms , it is as if one of the particles ‘ knows ’ what measurement is being carried out on the other and adjusts its state accordingly . |
| 12 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 13 | She 's a professional and does everything right . |
| 14 | She recalled singing in both operas at Boosback as a 16-year-old and says she was amazed to be given the female lead in The Beggars ' and only three weeks in which to learn the words and music ! |
| 15 | One thing er pu puzzles me a little and gives me a little difficulty , that is erm the addendum refers to an invitation to all baptised members . |
| 16 | The need to call police to sort out minor disturbances only skims the surface of a problem that does the name of the club no good and reduces its image to that of second rate . |
| 17 | Never be afraid to step out , if it harms no other and gets you your heart 's desire . |