Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid confusion of terms , I prefer to refer to the activities as either projected or ‘ non-projected ’ . |
| 2 | The main effect of wind is probably to be seen in undercutting and fluting at the base of upstanding rock masses , while such things as wooden telegraph poles and stone monuments may be undercut at the base and even worn through . |
| 3 | The boy was in Nunnery Lane when another youth asked him for a ride on the bike and never returned . |
| 4 | Weary of the struggle and increasingly harassed by both right-wing and left-wing elements , the Assembly gave way , repealed the Law of Exile and allowed Louis-Napoleon to take his seat . |
| 5 | This flexibility of approach is impossible with the EEC as presently constituted . |
| 6 | And in 1961 Britain publicly changed its attitude towards the principle of the EEC and formally applied for membership . |
| 7 | It was given only six months in the cinema and then screened in the third week of Channel Four transmission in 1982 . |
| 8 | He was third , but only 3000 behind the winner and almost put in the Liberal in what should have been one of the safest Conservative seats in the country . |
| 9 | These are likely to be self-serving , but , in Berle and Means ' view , the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests , or those of the shareholders as currently required by law , management might act in the interests of society as a whole , evolving into a ‘ purely neutral technocracy balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 10 | One was the PCA as just discussed . |
| 11 | Despite the instruction often given by teachers to emphasise personal involvement towards the end of an essay , you should avoid the sort of over-personalised ending found in this essay : After reading the first paragraph , I did n't expect such an exciting story , but gradually I got more and more involved in the narrative and finally overwhelmed by this splendid spectacle , which I could vividly visualise . |
| 12 | Animal life began with the invertebrates and then ascended through the sequence of vertebrate classes in the order : fish , reptiles and mammals . |
| 13 | Her application was refused , the Court of Appeal regarding the case as effectively determined by Neilson v. Laugharne [ 1981 ] Q.B . |
| 14 | Their sins deny them rest and they will continue their nefarious behaviour beyond the grave unless formally exorcised . |
| 15 | Lambert nursed his coughing , shaking aircraft back to the field and thankfully touched down on the first available yard of turf . |
| 16 | She 'd win the race overall if Nuclear Electric , back down the field and now surrounded by supporters , was more than 7 hours behind . |
| 17 | Campese dismissed the matter , but when he chose to put less confidence in the cover on the field and deliberately knocked down Peter Winterbottom 's pass , Bevan should have taken that as an admission that the so-far impregnable ‘ Gold Wall ’ was about to be breached . |
| 18 | The first crew removed the bodies of three of the airmen , but Raymond removed the body of the navigator , P/O McFarlane and took from him , his identity papers and personal papers which he concealed from the Germans and later passed to the French Resistance . |
| 19 | He also had time to record his radio shows and to think about the scripts that still mounted up in Peter Eade 's office . |
| 20 | It applies when , through no fault of either party , events take an unexpected turn making it impossible to carry out the contract as originally conceived . |
| 21 | Wittingham made it two nil on the hour and then followed two further goals from Wittingham with Faraday replying for Bournemouth , but Wittingham struck again his fourth to make the final score ; Portsmouth five , Bournemouth one . |
| 22 | The emoluments of the directors including the Chairman and highest paid director fell within the following bands : |
| 23 | I said about to see him and I says no , he says I should of kept the houses and just done the lot . |
| 24 | In Tirgu Mures , the HDUR candidate for mayor had been deemed ineligible to stand by a local court ; the party then supported an independent candidate , who won the election but then resigned after revelations that his nomination papers were irregular . |
| 25 | He says the enormous sums spent on advertising by political parties — in particular the Conservatives — have more to do with boosting party workers ' morale and with the fact that it would be deeply embarrassing and demoralising if they lost the election but still ended up with cash in the kitty . |
| 26 | Dealers said both institutional fund managers and private client investors — having seen the latest opinion poll results pointing a much closer finish to the election than previously expected — decided that the potential gains following a surprise Tory victory this morning actually outweighed the risks associated with the formation of a Labour government . |
| 27 | She ran through the woods and only stopped when she reached the fence between the woods and the Botanical Gardens , which spread for a great distance along one side . |
| 28 | The word ‘ sweet ’ is used so often throughout the scene that it loses all worth , in the same way that a Chaucerian epithet such as ‘ fresshe ’ comes to mean almost the opposite when continually applied to January 's wife May in The Merchant 's Tale . |
| 29 | This view is held by Mr Leahy ; it is expressed most forcibly by Jeffrey Sachs , a Harvard economist who has advised the Russians and long argued for more aid . |
| 30 | The Kenya administration in particular included a number of vigorous reformers , most prominent among them R.W. Hemsted and C.E.V. Buxton — both completely wrapped up in the Masai and both determined to bring them , under British supervision , into the twentieth century . |