Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why nothing less than the incredibly savage and dangerous piranha . |
| 2 | The way to resolve this necessary dilemma is surely not to discredit spatial policy altogether but to contextualise it , to draw out the links between the locally specific and the internationally ubiquitous , as Patrick Bond describes in his description of the campaign for the community control of capital in Baltimore ( chapter 8 ) . |
| 3 | But in doing so , he stood the traditional ‘ toxic mix ’ theory on its head by claiming that prison order was rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences , even suggesting that at Wymott ‘ a more stable inmate population might have been achieved if the predominantly young and short-term population had been diluted with some older men or those with longer to serve ’ ( para 7.09 ) . |
| 4 | Secondly , the suitably defiant-sounding Women Call the Shots series screened by Channel 4 in 1990 demonstrated that there is a whole world out there of women 's cinematic practices which has hardly yet had a look-in from the predominantly White and Western body of academic feminist criticism and theory . |
| 5 | But little of the earnings trickle downwards : most of the foreign currency earned goes on imports of food and goods demanded by the predominantly white and affluent visitors . |
| 6 | They have been promised permanent showing : they have been given carefully considered hanging , and in some cases have chosen the position themselves ; their works are set off with surprising poise by the predominantly green and white college buildings and gardens , a complex severe and playful at once , severe in its geometry and playful in its romanesque quotations . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , over the past 10 years or so , the predominantly histological and morphological descriptions of early post-implantation embryogenesis have been augmented by valuable information relating to the more dynamic aspects of development , such as the normal fate and developmental potency of different tissues or regions of the embryo . |
| 8 | The vastly superior and more rapid method for metaphase chromosome preparation , of air-drying of germ cells following a short hypotonic pre-treatment , has long since superseded squashing . |
| 9 | By the time they were interviewed in late 1982 and early 1983 ( some three years after being made redundant ) , they were divided almost equally between the economically active and inactive — 51 per cent and 49 per cent respectively — according to the standard definition of such activity . |
| 10 | The process of exclusion in operation currently is an important part of the social construction of the definition and redefinition of the labour force , of the economically active and inactive , of the unemployed and retired , of the productive and unproductive , and , therefore , of working age and old age ( Walker 1980 ; Phillipson , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | It is difficult to think of even a few ‘ minus points ’ to set against the outstandingly beautiful and accommodating Fairy Wrasse . |
| 12 | ‘ Someone should have shut you in a hospital for the criminally insane and thrown away the key . ’ |
| 13 | John Ross , formerly from Fast Drains , and Kevin Stone from the Hygiene branch at West Hoathly braved the bitterly cold and freezing rain to operate the high pressure Rota blast jetter which has a rotating head that produces 10,000 lb per square inch of water pressure . |
| 14 | His view finds support in the memoirs of Iakov Solov'ev , one of the major participants in the process of reform , who asserted that " Only the will of the autocrat could have sustained the numerically small and socially ill placed progressive party , which without it could have been destroyed " . |
| 15 | Under the more favourable conditions of their past , they had developed into the remarkably beautiful and striking breeds that made such an impact on the visitors to the early cat shows . |
| 16 | Aherne has n't got the remarkably crisp and long pass of Saunders , the man he ousted , but then few in international rugby have . |
| 17 | The aim of the fundamentally new and untested approach to the treatment of Aids is to inject patients with ‘ fake ’ copies of the Aids virus , carrying an anti-Aids gene , to prevent reproduction of the real virus . |
| 18 | What is more , the funny side of John 's situation is made explicit in the tale by lines which indicate the fundamentally urbane and clerkly bias of the humour of the fabliau : The laugh is on the uneducated man who thought his common sense better than the clerks ' sophistry ( 3448 – 91 ) . |
| 19 | Why no , it 's already 30-love to Holland 's own BETTIE SERVEERT , but do n't go to San Francisco — you can treasure the intensely sad and beautiful RED HOUSE PAINTERS in the melancholy gloom of your own front room |
| 20 | The chronologically first and formally most decorous of his critical books , The Spirit of Romance ( originally 1910 ) , can very profitably be used — I speak from experience — as a manual for able undergraduates ; especially if taken along with Confucius to Cummings , the anthology that many decades later Pound compiled along with Marcella Spann . |
| 21 | Yet it also had much to do with the overwhelmingly middle-class and aristocratic composition of the suffrage campaigns . |
| 22 | Indeed , it may be argued that the current wave of ethnic or mini-ethnic agitations is a response to the overwhelmingly non-national and non-nationalist principles of state formation in the greater part of the 20th-century world . |
| 23 | The Italian example is evidence not only of the effective and widespread use in a western democracy -of the industrial co-operative model but also of the rigorously businesslike and wholly unromantic attitude of LEGA towards it . |
| 24 | Does the Under-Secretary understand that if the Government had not embarked on the wholly cynical and two-faced policy of enticing schools with surplus places to opt out , the children at Stratford school would not now face chaos ? |
| 25 | These famous short stories by the master of horror explore the dark world of the imagination , where the dead live and speak , where fear lies in every shadow of the mind … |
| 26 | For it hardly damages the contemporary legislature 's ability to work its will if judges decline to speculate about how to read cloudy rules from the dead past or what the intentions of people very different from contemporary legislators would have been if they had thought about a problem they actually ignored . |
| 27 | The work finished , the dead buried and the site cleared , Batty Green reverted to a sullen silence broken now only by the occasional passage of trains , the rhythmic pulse of their wheels seeming to sound a requiem for those who perished . |
| 28 | Die Grünen is generally regarded as the most turbulent and self-destructive of the Green parties , but its internal quarrels are , says Sara Parkin in her guide to the European Greens , ‘ only a more flagrant example ’ of what goes on in all the parties . |
| 29 | The English Civil War ( 1642–1651 ) is one of the most turbulent and complex chapters of British history . |
| 30 | In the five years between 1982-87 Third World countries as a group , including the most impoverished and crisis-ridden in Africa , sent us $220 billion more than we sent them 3 ( see box ) . |