Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She clicked her false teeth together , and announced with something of the normal snap in her voice that she was going to call Margaret right now . |
| 2 | So far from regarding the 1935 result as a foregone conclusion , Baldwin always felt that the choice of date , intermeshed with the fostering of the suitable national mood , was one of his more considerable political challenges . |
| 3 | But , because the umbilical goes through the basket , the diver can always find his way back . |
| 4 | The Chinese government says that the number of Taiwan-financed projects approved last year was greater than the 3,815 approved during 1983–91 . |
| 5 | Cramped and cold in his hide , he listened as the sounds of the day fell from him into silence one by one , until he could hear the measured pacing of the watch on the walk between the gate-towers . |
| 6 | Their layered structure and microscopic size 100 times smaller than a skin cell — enable the liposome to penetrate into the epidermis easily and integrate with the intercellular tissue . |
| 7 | Beaverbrook considered it an achievement that the USA and UK had settled on the 1943 draft as a formula for future negotiations , but US ambassador John Winant , at lunch with Churchill , Berle , and Beaverbrook , thought the Prime Minister wanted the Lord Privy Seal to ‘ soft-pedal ’ the internationalization aspect so as not to offend the USA . |
| 8 | The simultaneous bringing into play of two senses can be effected either by coordination , as in 32 , where John and his driving licence select different senses of the verb expire , or by anaphora , as in 33 : |
| 9 | But I 'm very annoyed with er , the incessant canting about the John Major government . |
| 10 | And I think where the confusion sometimes comes , is that the costume you have , the , the actual evidence of what people were wearing , a lot of it comes from fashion plates , and it 's like saying , erm judging what people in the nineteen-nineties wear from Vogue magazine . |
| 11 | On some coals drawn to the side of the neat little fire , strips of meat were laid to grill : with the subtle savour of wood smoke they spread a most provocative smell on the still air . |
| 12 | Nearly 12 hours later , he did sink it and then made a four at the 15th to keep in touch with Parry . |
| 13 | But all at once the light-hearted feel to the conversation had flown . |
| 14 | Hand in hand , the lovers roam the streets while Loutside ] the drunken and the debauched revel in all kinds of perversities . |
| 15 | The muscular derring-do of our film heroes inspired us to imitative feats of climbing , usually trees ; and their prowess in stalking and sniffing out was echoed in our exploration of sombre , dingy and often damp places . |
| 16 | Feeling that she had given her due of politeness to the curate , the due exacted by her mother and elder sister , she pattered onto Maurice , and , after having a bit of a poke round , shot across the connecting gangplank onto Grace . |
| 17 | What does this legislation do for the low paid in Britain ? |
| 18 | You can follow in the footsteps of the legions at Fishbourne Roman Palace : one of the finest built outside Rome itself . |
| 19 | It is one of the finest known from Roman Britain . |
| 20 | It also emerged that a $400,000 donation , the largest made at the dinner , was from Michael Kojima , a heavily indebted businessman who was being pursued by numerous creditors . |
| 21 | This year 's donations were the largest given in a single year . |
| 22 | In the later years , however , these issues were pitched at optimistically low interest rates : the last BEA issue , of £200 millions in August 1955 ( among the largest seen by the London market ) , was left largely in government hands . |
| 23 | The largest planned for Regional Railways would mastermind train movements on about 100 miles of track . |
| 24 | A recent survey of the 443-kilometre Khutzeymateen valley showed it contained a population of 50 grizzlies , the largest known on Canada 's west coast , but that logging of the valley 's temperate rainforest-although it could be economic-- " would pose a substantial threat to the bears and the habitat " . |
| 25 | The present issue of the ILN is the largest published in recent years , with 116 pages . |
| 26 | A decline of the sculptor 's reputation derived not only from the political discredit into which the regimes of the years before 1914 had fallen , but also from a distaste for allegory , and a revulsion from naturalist sculpture ( which the young Brancusi expressed forcefully as a dislike for ‘ beefsteak ’ ) . |
| 27 | But while this suggestion is plausible enough , it raises the question whether the shapes of structures are to be explained simply in terms of one another , the political responding to the ideological , the ideological to the economic , and so on . |
| 28 | Of the 120 affected at Southend 43 will have the chance to move to East Midlands . |
| 29 | We took the 09:30 ferry to Dunkirk and met a driver from Perth . |
| 30 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |