Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depression flattens the voice almost to monotony ; movement is slowed , and a dejected facial expression is characteristic of many people when they are in a low mood . |
| 2 | A Latin graffito on the north wall of the church tower at Ashwell , Hertfordshire , records the plight there in 1350 : ‘ Wretched , terrible , violent . |
| 3 | The pleasure of ‘ … watching it melt down and reform to become an object of its own , involves the viewer completely in the painting ’ . |
| 4 | They play a fairly passive role , though the taking of notes involves the student actively in the learning process , particularly if an attempt is made to record the main points of the lecture in a logical sequence . |
| 5 | ( This process in some ways parallels the emergence earlier in this century of the smaller civic universities — and some overseas ones — from under the wing of London University . ) |
| 6 | It blows debris into the net and it tightens the net rather like wire netting and decreases its catching power . |
| 7 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 8 | A violent cough racks the body sometimes with a headache and copious mucus . |
| 9 | Then he swishes his tail ; points his nose at the offending brush ; flattens his ears ; thrusts his head ; raises a warning back foot ; and finally , if nothing brings satisfaction , drives the person away in exasperation . |
| 10 | They are based on the classic ‘ closed loop feedback ’ system where the desired position is compared with the actual position and if there is a difference , an error signal is generated that drives the output closer to the desired position . |
| 11 | The new rule is ‘ no player will be offside if he receives the ball directly from his own half of the field ’ . |
| 12 | This displays the fault digitally on the control panel . |
| 13 | As you can see from the details on the bottom of figure 6 , the system produces the information quickly at relatively low cost . |
| 14 | Lewis again , ‘ whoever tries to rebel against God produces the result opposite to his intention … |
| 15 | For purposes of litigation , it is true , an infant can and must be represented by an adult , who will be called ‘ the next friend ’ of an infant plaintiff , the ‘ guardian ad litem ’ of an infant defendant ; but such a next friend or guardian represents the infant only for the purposes of the particular lawsuit , and is not necessarily , though he is commonly , the infant 's parent or general guardian . |
| 16 | Type 4 represents the flying apart of the liberal democratic systems , which Lijphart expects to occur when elites compete in a fragmented culture , creating ‘ centrifugal ’ tendencies , in which the state disintegrates . |
| 17 | A stockbroker , he wins the award ahead of Robert Jones ( Swansea ) , Martin Haag ( Bath ) , Rory Underwood ( Leicester ) , Neil Edwards ( Harlequins ) , Richard Webster ( Swansea ) and Ben Clarke ( Bath ) . |
| 18 | The proximity of the College to London with its many places of interest offers the opportunity also for family parties as there will be a limited number of places available for this purpose . |
| 19 | She dumps the baby straight into his cot . |
| 20 | A reconsideration of these moves us onto a more analytical plane , and points the way forward to discussion in subsequent chapters . |
| 21 | A pilot points the way ahead as if to will the journey was sufficient to make it happen . |
| 22 | The whole-tone system can combine well with the archaic modes , giving a gentle harmonic stress which turns the atmosphere more towards the 20th century . |
| 23 | McNamara reports back and turns the volume away to nothing . |
| 24 | Fraser observes that ‘ analysis is more limiting because it recreates the past only in the forms in which it was internalised or repressed. , |
| 25 | If a painter wishes to paint a sombre portrait , he first covers the canvas entirely with a dull brown colour . |
| 26 | One example might be the ‘ divide and rule ’ thesis presented in Statement D. It is in the interests of employers to use immigrants as a source of cheap labour and this also usefully weakens the workforce politically by creating internal divisions . |
| 27 | Should you have difficulty getting the ball into the air with irons , select a club which has the weight more towards the sole of the clubhead . |
| 28 | Each pattern proclaims that it has the solution instead of collaborating in the search . |
| 29 | He has the confidence simply to be himself . |
| 30 | There is , of course , the Bill of Rights 1689 but it is just as much subject to repeal , and has in fact been impliedly repealed more than once , as any other Act of Parliament , and in any case has the effect rather of strengthening the hand of Parliament , than of protecting the ordinary citizen against its excesses . |