Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand I was afraid that if I made the driver sound too important he might end up under the wheel of a bus instead of behind one . |
| 2 | It has already been suggested that the drafter 's primary objective is to transfer , so far as possible , the risks of the contract away from his/her client and onto the other party to the contract . |
| 3 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 4 | So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch . |
| 5 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Julia Garvey 's body was found in one bedroom of the family home at Teddington near Cheltenham … the two children Ben aged 4 and Hannah aged 2 were in a bedroom next door . |
| 7 | The main competition for the Royal Oak comes from the Black Bull , an old coaching inn also located in the town centre , and from the Leofric , a two-year-old motel located on the outskirts of the town close to both motorways . |
| 8 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 9 | Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority . |
| 10 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 11 | Without these provisions , the collapse of the structure perhaps over a much wider area must be anticipated . |
| 12 | In recent years , the school has seen major changes with the enlargement and modernisation of the building to accommodate the extra children from nearby Froyle , following the closure of the school there in 1986 . |
| 13 | This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard . |
| 14 | That way she 'd be more in command of the situation instead of turning up the next morning knowing all eyes were going to be fixed on her . |
| 15 | This was the result of a combination both of increased farming skill , a growing sophistication in the demand for agricultural products and galloping inflation which pushed up both prices and profits . |
| 16 | Traditionally the largest man-made hole in England , it is the result of the running together of a number of small quarries Cornish slates were widely employed for roofing in the county by the fourteenth century and indeed by 1314 they were certainly in use on buildings in Winchester , Hampshire . |
| 17 | The editor will know that , and the editor will be sensitive to the readership , and the editor will look at it , not through the eyes of an editor just as an individual , but will say , ‘ Putting myself in the , in the position of my readers , would they want to read this ? ’ |
| 18 | Thus , the judge should focus the attention of the jury upon ‘ the state of mind of the victim immediately before the act of sexual intercourse , having regard to all the relevant circumstances , and in particular the events leading up to the act , and her reaction to them showing their impact on her mind . ’ |
| 19 | However , we learn from a repeat of the incident later in the play that the ruse was unsuccessful — both as act of survival and as act of love . |
| 20 | Forte gets a cool Pounds 402m — a profit of around £300m — and still retains just under 25% of the caterer ahead of a future flotation . |
| 21 | When they examined thin sections of their samples under the microscope , stained to pick up particles of iron , they found appreciable concentrations of the metal only in these same bones ( Nature , vol 301 , p 78 ) . |
| 22 | And , once on that tack , she saw Luke everywhere : in the purposeful stride of a man ahead of her in the crowd ; in the dark , white-stranded head of a man bent over his newspaper ; in a rich crimson and grey striped silk tie … |
| 23 | When he woke from an exhausted sleep Greg had — he felt — one piece of the jigsaw definitively in place : the letter from Walter Machin to Hilda dated 2 June 1939 was a fake . |
| 24 | ‘ Ah , ’ said the majordomo , ‘ I 'm well aware that the college of the priesthood here in the capital was destroyed during the rebellion . |
| 25 | Together they support multiple authors working on different aspects of an application simultaneously over a network . |
| 26 | ( N.B. not all companies participated in all aspects of the survey either by express wish for total confidentiality or by unavailability for interview ) . |
| 27 | If you have learned calligraphy in school or at Brownies you could write the words of the Promise neatly on the bookmark . |
| 28 | After removing the knitting from the machine pull the ‘ gathering ’ thread at the side of the knitting away from the end , so that the cast-on edge of the knitting is gathered into a smooth flat edge . |
| 29 | Some people may find it too exciting ; certainly , there is something to be said for being on the side of the road away from the steep drops into the valley , which means driving eastwards by this route and not westwards , or into Bigorre not out of it . |
| 30 | Neighbours are on this side of the road only in this street . |