Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Athelstan turned to the porter and tossed him a silver coin .
2 So I 'm afraid you 'll just have to contain your Aries impatience a little longer — unless , of course , you intend to call the porter and have me put out … ’
3 Naturally the inherent constraints of the archaeological evidence , our caution about the relationship between the archaeological record and the activities that formed it , and the limited research which has been carried out determine the cohesion and balance of a work of this type .
4 Northumberland National Park were pleased at the response and felt it was a very worthwhile event , while in the Peak District 17 schools took part .
5 To achieve more precise control over the response and quantify it , the researchers immobilized the slug by pinning it to a stage and standardizing the tactile stimulus by using a jet of water delivered with a water-pick .
6 Mansfield Park , for example , is no less a great house because it has recently arrived , or because the income that supports it is drawn from the West Indies and not from its own land .
7 Now does that have a er I , I know you lose the income but does it , does it penalize you at all ?
8 ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . )
9 All the Official Custodian was doing was receiving the income and paying it over to the charities .
10 The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince .
11 It is a body that simultaneously defines the continents and divides them from each other ; at the same time it knits together some of their distant and improbably linked civilizations , as well as their anthropologies and histories .
12 It was a means of providing controlled access to the unspoilt beauty of the Park and keep it that way .
13 ‘ Second , once sterling left the ERM , and with inflation sharply down , we were right to take the opportunity that gave us to relax policy and get interest rates down .
14 In other words , in each image Picasso synthesizes information obtained from viewing the subject from various angles , and , relying on his knowledge and memory of the structure of the human figure , he gives a complete and detailed analysis of the nature of the forms that compose it .
15 She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime .
16 She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime .
17 When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest .
18 If you just put the figures in the calculator and write it down and it 's wrong or this one times that one .
19 There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them .
20 ‘ Then it was the horse-riding that brought you here ? ’
21 I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state .
22 To round up clans of Ayoreo Indians with the dubious intent of rescuing them for Christianity , massacring those resistant to ‘ taming , imprisoning the remainder and allowing them to sink into ill-health and torpor , seems monstrous .
23 Due to the timescale involved in ordering the guitar and building it , this competition will close a little earlier than would normally be the case — on 19th February 1993 .
24 At that point were both of you behind the shield or had he stepped out from behind ?
25 So all Mr Evans had to do , to get rid of her , was take the Will and destroy it ! ’
26 Tripoli was reported quiet yesterday , seemingly proving that Col Gaddafi is able to bring out the crowds and send them home at will .
27 Outside on the terrace , at the point from where Francis used to dive , and made the dive that killed him , I looked down into the moon-flecked pool .
28 A phenomenon which can occur on a high speed reach when air bubbles work their way down the skeg and cause it to lose its grip in the water .
29 It is what leads her to animate the inanimate in her descriptive passages , and it is the child-in-the-adult that moves us in her most memorable characters ( often male ) : Denisov , Kissov , Gruishunya , Peters .
30 It was the veil that told it was not the garden , then the hat that went to race-meetings and the dressing-case made up the rest of the story : Maman was going away .
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