Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swan had no view as to the rival merits of the narrow as opposed to the wider band of the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 2 | He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th . |
| 3 | There will be some extra benefits for the needy and help with the increased fuel costs for all pensioners . |
| 4 | The two distal oral papillae are block-like , the distalmost one is the largest and arises on the adoral shield and/or the oral plate . |
| 5 | Their Lordships also had to look after half-a-dozen Caribbean islands , of which the newest , Jamaica , was much the largest and looked like providing the best prospects for the future . |
| 6 | How our love-child , Robin , had been captured at sea by the Spanish and taken to Madrid . |
| 7 | Bassist Jennifer — 12 hours ' sleep in three days , we reckon — adding : ‘ I 'm having a really bad night tonight and I do n't know what it is , but the next person who smacks the mic or stands on our gear … |
| 8 | How to tell , how to be the perfect lover , eight over the eight and exploding with tenderness . |
| 9 | In a way he sees the eternal and translates into human words the wonder of existence ; for him the individual soul has eternal meaning . |
| 10 | It sees no antithesis between the liberal and the technical and contends for the wider acceptance of the truth that the latter will be of no lasting value to the community unless the people of this country are adequately equipped to participate actively in its government and culture . |
| 11 | Although it is now clear that Sutherland 's attempt to fit , indeed squash , corporate crime into his theory of differential association has not proved comfortable , and that his concentration on the economic as opposed to the physical and social effects of corporate crime made his study too one-sided , it none the less did , at the time , constitute a rich legacy to bequeath to criminology . |
| 12 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 13 | While not for one moment can the appalling state of housing in many of the major English cities be denied , there is no reason to believe that the problems of poor housing and underprivilege are any less acute among the rural as opposed to the urban poor : they are merely less obvious and less concentrated in numbers . |
| 14 | In 1921 , Parker created a pen that broke all the rules , officially called the Duofold but known as the ‘ Big Red ’ . |
| 15 | Having gone down with the monarchy in the 1640s and learnt from that experience that its fortunes were closely dependent on those of the crown , the established church was more than ever determined to shore up the monarchy as a means of guaranteeing its own survival . |
| 16 | Well I think you can look at it on two levels and one , one reason is to change the Party structure shake them up a bit , cos there 's , there 's evidence that they were erm you know moving to the right and allying with er rich peasants and landlords , and the other , on the level is actually having a policy which would get mass support and this obviously would require incentives in the form of land to peasants . |
| 17 | Theoretical studies in this sense might adopt an approach which utilises the findings from a variety of national contexts in order to produce generalisations that attempt ‘ to distinguish the invariant from the variant , the stable and continuing from the fluctuating and transitory ’ ( Schollhammer , 1973 , p. 24 ) . |
| 18 | The three men watched the animal snuffling among the elder and then , satisfied that he would nibble at the leaves , they left the stable and turned towards the house . |
| 19 | It is in no sense a rival body to the National Institute for the Deaf but works in active co-operation with it and has direct representation there on . |
| 20 | On the first day of BDA Week 1985 twelve deaf children , chosen from various schools for the deaf and accompanied by their teachers and Susanne Turfus , presented the Declaration and a copy of the Report to Sir Keith Joseph in his office at the Department of Education and Science . |
| 21 | Donations totalling £15,000 have been set aside from the site 's charity trust fund to buy much needed equipment to help mothers and children , the elderly , the injured , the deaf and handicapped in the area . |
| 22 | As the Note makes clear , the working and winning of aggregates is causing increasing public concern in terms of its serious and irreversible impact on the environment , and on the quality of life of communities in close proximity to the activity . |
| 23 | As the Note makes clear , the working and winning of aggregates is causing increasing public concern in terms of its serious and irreversible impact on the environment , and on the quality of life of communities in close proximity to the activity . |
| 24 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 25 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 26 | THE draw for the 1990 World Cup has been kind to the host nation , Italy , but hard on the holders , Argentina , easy on the West Germans and Brazilians and fair to the Scots but mean to Belgium , Uruguay and Spain . |
| 27 | Backless Hill , to the north of the loch , was the eighteenth-century lair of a Caithness ‘ Robin Hood ’ , said to have robbed the rich and given to the poor . |
| 28 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 29 | It is time to give serious consideration to a standing United Nations army , perhaps paid for by the rich and manned by the poor of the world . |
| 30 | Taken as a whole , the tax and transfer system takes money from the rich and gives to the poor . |