Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | exactly , but who has to pay in to the contingency fund if it 's agreed by the residence ? |
| 2 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 3 | Erm an alkali is contained in the base family but it 's got a special property . |
| 4 | The participative nature of Pilkingtons ' job analysis was vital in managing the change process because it ensured the practicality of work reorganization , while positive gains were made in commitment by relying on employee representatives . |
| 5 | ‘ If this judgment is less helpful than the parties hoped , as it almost certainly is , the reason lies in the terms of the statute , which places the discretion so unequivocally on the trial judge that it leaves little or no room for an appellate court to lay down principles or even guidelines . |
| 6 | Behind it all is the Whitehall attitude that it knows better than Brussels . |
| 7 | It is one of the unhappy paradoxes of the Whitehall market-place that it reacts to the goad of strong , abrasive ministers like Duncan Sandys , whose revolutionary ideas it detests , and yet is slow to implement the more balanced , evolutionary policies of a Harold Watkinson , for which it craves . |
| 8 | ( The purchase of Treasury bills takes money out of the money markets as it flows to the government , therefore sales of Treasury bills during a shortage creates a greater shortage . |
| 9 | If the government borrows but does not spend the proceeds , what effect will this have on the money supply if it borrows from ( a ) the banking sector ; ( b ) the non-bank private sector ? |
| 10 | When Uncle Vernon was a boy a Catholic had let off a firework in the path of the brewery dray-horse and it had lumbered sideways , the streamers of orange paper fluttering from its bridle rein and drifting to the kerb . |
| 11 | We recommend that … there should be put on the statute book a ‘ definition ’ based on Lord Macnaghten 's classification , but preserving the case law as it stands . ’ |
| 12 | It works with an HP Scanjet Directly which means you can store the text file as it scans . |
| 13 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 14 | The process , which a highly skilled operator controls through a keyboard , itself caused a revolution in the printing industry when it appeared in the 1890s , putting many hand composers out of a job . |
| 15 | The barley which is grown in the Borders is particularly useful to the whisky industry because it has a high starch and low nitrogen content . |
| 16 | You also pay premiums into an endowment savings plan or pension plan — the proceeds of the endowment plan when it matures , or the cash sum at retirement from the pension plan , are used to pay off the capital at the end of the loan . |
| 17 | The employees at Binns on High Row volunteered for the yearlong course after it came up in the company 's suggestion scheme . |
| 18 | I pulled the coat off him and flung it onto the hawthorn bushes where it rested upside down , spilling the contents of the torn pockets . |
| 19 | down and there 's a path goes along and it comes , it goes under the road bridge and it comes out at the foot bridge and it runs next to it |
| 20 | Make sure there 's enough room in the toe box and it fits snugly over the top of the foot . |
| 21 | Lifeboats also stood by the yacht Giaconda as it waited to refloat after going aground near the entrance to the River Colne . |
| 22 | The bulk of coil production is for the building industry but it has a wide range of other applications , from washing machines to venetian blinds . |
| 23 | ( At the same time , the government reformed the rating system as it applied to companies by introducing a uniform business rate — set at the same rate throughout the country . ) |
| 24 | Costs will be kept to a minimum by making sure the job is proofed as the typesetting stage before it goes to press . |
| 25 | John wound up the toy car so it went . |
| 26 | *John wound up the toy car because it went . |
| 27 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 28 | Sales of its Unix products will , for instance , outstrip revenues from the DEC versions that it markets over the next year or so , it reckons . |
| 29 | There was plenty of competition too for the Shildon operation before it secured the paint contract . |
| 30 | Our cask-conditioned party could all agree on one thing , we 'd love to be on board the Champagne Express when it sets fullsteam-ahead for Reims this August . |