Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 2 | Moat Hall lay in a fold of the hills perhaps a mile from the A1 . |
| 3 | For example , if a stepping motor is used to drive the carriage of a teletype then the system must come to rest for the printing of each letter . |
| 4 | When you consider that the event is only played on this side of the Atlantic once every four years I do n't think that the decision-makers at the BBC did the event justice , particularly with all the hype which went before it . |
| 5 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 6 | It 's uncapped you know the thing you put in banging of the guns under a hundred years , it has n't got that in it . |
| 7 | This confused me until I realised that the more shadowy the figure of the ex then the greater her power , because no-one can compete with a phantom . |
| 8 | Facing him on the other side of the arena was the current Executioner , whom Angel One had watched fighting and killing the previous holder of the office barely a week before . |
| 9 | The criteria for assessment of a return i.e. the balance sheet , could only be results . |
| 10 | The volcanic history of that event does not need restatement here , but the complexity of the stratal history makes this part of the column both the most confusing and the most controversial of all . |
| 11 | For the treatment of one part of the state usually the government — as the state itself introduces a major element of confusion in the discussion of the nature and incidence of state power ; and that confusion can have large political consequences . |
| 12 | After quite a few practice turns , the last child , or to make this part of the game quicker the last two children , to sit down are out . |
| 13 | If the solicitor takes advantage of the option then the office monies must be transferred to the office account within seven days . |
| 14 | It 's just been a bit of a surge once a month . |
| 15 | The bit where he like jumping on the lake they 've cut away a bit of the platform so the only way you can do it is jump onto this bit of wood then fly , and literally he was like that , just going in mid air and landed right in the water ! |
| 16 | But Plange completed his hat-trick and sub Ian Hughes scored the try of the night after a 40-yard dash . |
| 17 | That they had any cohesion at all was impressive and when they also succeeded in driving through the heart of the French forwards an improbable victory became at least possible . |
| 18 | To the extent that spiritual and temporal functions were united in the same house , by the same blood , the union would be doubly consecrated , doubly sanctified , and the unity of the nation all the more hallowed . |
| 19 | Such phases may reflect the work of individual workshops , individual craftsmen breaking new ground , or the conservatism of the consumers once a type was fully developed . |
| 20 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 21 | This may seem like an impossible demand to make on someone who has smoked 20–60 cigarettes a day , but psychologically it works better for most people than attempting the ‘ slowly does it ’ campaign of a cigarette less every day . |
| 22 | In the early eighteenth century poverty was partially responsible for the many applications for military rank , for in the first half of the century even a commission in a new regiment , and the near certainty of half-pay at the conclusion of the war emergency , was attractive . |
| 23 | Until the second half of the century even the greatest powers still occasionally made use of multi-member embassies and there was still some surviving feeling that a ruler was particularly honoured by receiving a group of ambassadors rather than an individual . |
| 24 | They escaped the scene of a massacre just a week ago , and have used the time since to come to terms with their ordeal . |
| 25 | SOMERSET batsman Mark Lathwell was yesterday named Whittingdale Young Cricketer of the Month after a flying start to the new season . |
| 26 | I think in some way here , with this particular situation as okay we , we go into the question of the house now the house should n't be the issue here . |
| 27 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 28 | It is not a job that can be undertaken on the basis of a business meeting of the governors once a term . |
| 29 | Progress seemed to have halted ; two more furtive searches of Charlie 's office had turned up nothing other than his hidden Scotch bottle but then , every evening of the day after a job , she 'd see him go in there empty-handed and the book would be on his desk when he summoned her . |
| 30 | Huntsville was then a small agricultural town , and the population of the state probably a lot less than one million . |