Example sentences of "[art] [adj] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the acute is over the picture of the chronic state should be more prominent . |
| 2 | Of several portraits the finest is in the possession of Queens ' College , Cambridge . |
| 3 | The largest is at the base of the tail . |
| 4 | When a trio of dots are in GP by both size and interval , the group is most stable when the largest is on the shortest arms and the smallest is on the longer arms . |
| 5 | The largest was at Gretna on the Solway Firth and it became no less than a State-developed new town , south-west of the existing village . |
| 6 | Although more than 40 camps were revealed to have existed , the largest was at Lovech in northern Bulgaria . |
| 7 | The clearest is from conversation D-6 , where Valerie talks to the baby in both English and Creole : |
| 8 | Cutting the that was for for the or the dairy cows . |
| 9 | The only bak er and the that was about the only three big bakeries and they had plenty of collectors and shop stewards in these places to look after themselves . |
| 10 | One was the failure of the self- regulatory body I M R O and the second one was really the fact that he was able to change his financial year end from April ninety-one to December ninety-one and during that period he was able to do things with those erm those funds in his accounts and er and really there was , there was no check on that , and I do n't see that the that was in er Good would have changed much of that situation at that end . |
| 11 | His theory is that , as they were fourth on the water , the Spanish are at least fourth favourites to win . |
| 12 | While the Muslims were after captives , the Spanish were after tribute-paying subjects and converts . |
| 13 | The report states that rates of child poverty ’ remained constant in the 1980 's for most countries , but doubled in the United Kingdom The results of longitudinal studies suggest that countries that have more child poverty and do not provide universal child care or other programmes to reduce inequalities before the child goes into the school system will have more crime . |
| 14 | The eight were amongst 21 members and associates of the family who were indicted in March 1990 . |
| 15 | And while the performance of the Alpine is in the supercar league , the cost of using it , in terms of comfort , running costs and fuel economy , is definitely not — which holds out the enticing prospect of accomplishing long , fast continental journeys in great comfort and 25 mpg economy . |
| 16 | This was not to say that organized and structured prayers for the dead had ceased , for the Roman Rite included plenary intercessions for the living and the dead at every mass ; the annual mass for the departed was on All Souls ' Day , a standard event in the Church 's calendar , set apart for the benefit of souls in purgatory . |
| 17 | The political and the economic were of course inseparable . |
| 18 | The cause is not signal splatter ; the noise which annoys the deaf is at a much lower frequency . |
| 19 | This meant that fund-raising news and any other news about the deaf was in the forefront of everyone 's attention . |
| 20 | Founded in 1864 , the group has maintained its image as a typical home service company , with a mixture of ordinary and industrial branch life business and general insurance business sold through a field force of up to 6,500 individuals , second only in terms of size to the Prudential 's of more than 12,000 . |
| 21 | And not long before leaving England I 'd read a newspaper item revealing that a Gauguin landscape bought by another novelist , Hugh Walpole , in 1924 for £145 would now in the thirties be worth around £6,000 , and that Hermann Goering in Nazi Germany had recently paid Alfred Krupp the armaments boss 10,000 Reichmarks for another of the wayward artist 's pictures . |
| 22 | According to the press , the vote at the Scottish Conservative party conference in 1988 at Perth was about 600 to 12 , the 12 being in favour of devolution , one of whom , I happen to know , voted that way simply because he was sorry for the minority . |
| 23 | Among numerous objections , the strongest was to the rearrangement of the northern façade of the structure , generally considered the Spanish capital 's finest neo-classical building . |
| 24 | The English liberals studied their seventeenth-century predecessors with great attention — Wordsworth frequently refers with enthusiasm to Milton and Algernon Sidney — but for them the land of the free was on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 25 | For while , in the oral world of non-literacy , ignorance of letters , the national language or national institutions is no handicap , except to those whose business ( which is rarely that of agriculture ) makes such knowledge necessary , in a literate society the illiterate is by definition inferior , and has a strong incentive to remove that inferiority , at least from his or her children . |
| 26 | Most of the English are on this side of the river , naturally , since they besiege Berwick . |
| 27 | It would not be long before the English were at Dunbar , now that Southern Scotland lay wide open to their advance . |
| 28 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 29 | But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere . |
| 30 | After this , Pound 's relations with England and the English were for the most part an aspect of his relations with that one of his erstwhile protégés who had become , surprisingly , a pillar of the English establishment — Eliot , editor of the Criterion . |