Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has gradually come to be accepted that there are no clear lines dividing normal and abnormal behaviour , only several continua on which people might be placed that shade very gradually from the recognizably normal to the clearly disturbed . |
| 2 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 3 | Er it should not be a an unconstrained figure for employment , it should be related to the economically active in the new settlement that is proposed . |
| 4 | The chansons , mostly published between 1564 and 1576 , vary in style from the mostly note-against-note of ‘ Margot labourez ’ and the setting of Ronsard 's ‘ Bon jour , mon coeur ’ to the graceful polyphony of ‘ Le rossignol ’ , l from three such different scherzi as ‘ Fuyons tous d'amour ’ , ‘ Quand mon mary ’ , and ‘ Sauter , danser ’ to the grave du Bellay settings ‘ O foible esprit ’ , a pure madrigal , and ‘ La nuict froide et sombre ’ . |
| 5 | The puzzles facing you range from the blatantly obvious to the hopelessly obscure : how , for example , can you pass the troll guarding the castle gate ? |
| 6 | Miss D'Arcy took the compliment , appreciated the censure and the mocking of Mrs Crump , and smiled the smile of the dumbly adoring at Hope , who was alerted by such a perfect response but nevertheless willing at this stage to receive it at face value . |
| 7 | The term abstraction , of course , covers a multitude of if not sins at least variations of severity , from the wholly recognizable to the utterly ‘ pure ’ ( one stroller to another recently on the Battery Park City esplanade in lower Manhattan , noticing R.M. Fisher 's fanciful gateway sculpture : ‘ Oh look ! |
| 8 | Keegan ( 1989 ) has developed a typology which he argues illustrates the development process that companies undergo in transforming their marketing activities from the wholly domestic to the completely global . |
| 9 | ‘ The dead live by love ’ ; and they could evidently also live by impersonation . |
| 10 | The dead lay in rows under fans of palm and banana , so many dead the survivors had wept that they had been spared . |
| 11 | The dead lay inside this fortified enclosure in rows as neat as those in the Martins ' kitchen-garden . |
| 12 | They looked just like the Dead raised to life on Judgement Day , brought out of their graves and tombs , or cast up by the sea as it dried up utterly . |
| 13 | Out of sight , on the edge of the desert beyond the wide stretch of cultivation , lay Abydos , one of the most sacred sites of ancient Egypt , where the souls of the dead gathered at the tomb of Osiris . |
| 14 | In the comfort of its lair its powerful jaws were soon mangling the puny chest and shoulders of the dead Annamese into a bloody pulp . |
| 15 | You found the dead embedded in the walls of the trenches , heads , legs and half-bodies , just as they had been shovelled out of the way by the picks and shovels of the working party . |
| 16 | Any sign of Men and he was off out of sight using the dead ground between rises to stay hidden , and he was careful to rise when he could over ridges where rocks or trees broke the skyline and so camouflaged his presence . |
| 17 | Machicolations , usually regarded as a sign of nobility , had their practical value in that they permitted vertical defence against those who might have reached the dead ground near a wall , and might be setting about digging or mining under it . |
| 18 | Having arrived in the dead quiet of the afternoon , I had the place to myself which was fortunate since all 30 prints were of a scale that demanded close contemplation . |
| 19 | They still build their houses in the arc-like forms , they say , of the ships which once brought them , and their funeral rites , which for their nobility are unequalled for extravagance , are intended to launch the souls of the dead back to the stars of their origins . |
| 20 | He was in the most Arab of all poses , sitting on his heels , his feet flat on the ground and his arms folded across his knees . |
| 21 | For the fungally uninformed , morels are the most prized of the world 's mushrooms . |
| 22 | Among the most prized of Ackermann 's books are his histories of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and of various famous public schools , his Picturesque Tours in England and many foreign countries , and his illustrations of costume and architecture . |
| 23 | On the other hand , it was not until 1973 that good Chardonnay , the most prized of all Australian white wines , was being produced . |
| 24 | ‘ Especially in countries where there are large rural populations still living under Third World conditions , the transistor is usually among the most prized of possessions . ’ |
| 25 | Many of my tutors have said that one of the most salutary of their experiences has been to work with a good adult class , which starts with no preconceptions , does n't necessarily have a qualification in mind , and ask the kind of questions which would tend to be asked say in Swift 's Gulliver Travels . |
| 26 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 27 | In the developing world measles is the most devastating of all the six major childhood diseases — killing more than two million children a year . |
| 28 | That is one of the most devastating of editorials . |
| 29 | The barrage was the most devastating in a series of recent rocket attacks on Kabul by the Western-backed mujahedin . |
| 30 | Biographical time , the most complex of the three , the most various in the chronotopal forms it takes , and the most influential on later developments of the novel , places character at its centre , organizing space and time around it , variously tracing time as a spiritual or intellectual journey through a symbolic landscape , unfolding character through a series of acts and deeds , or tracing character through the different components of domestic and public life — family life , conduct in war , memorable sayings . |