Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's happening to the local government this time of the democracy and they have been savagely attacked savagely attacked at the locally controlled Labour councils . |
| 2 | Such an exhibition , and its permanent record in the lavishly illustrated new book edited by Wendy Roworth , should alert us to the rich possibilities offered by serious reassessment of the work of such a varied , complex and intellectual artist as Angelica Kauffman . |
| 3 | But with more than 50mpg available and the possibility of good deals to reduce the outlay , the cheapest Fiesta has made me take a long hard look at the lavishly equipped hot hatch we use as a shopping car . |
| 4 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 5 | And further , is it really possible — given the varieties of people , the gigantic distances and the vastly differing ideological systems to be found in the Pacific — that this part of the world could assume the mantle of leadership ? |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the vastly expanded social contacts removed a shield of isolation from village life . |
| 7 | We were even using the papally approved contraceptive method , only in reverse . |
| 8 | In Manhattan , the famous yellow water-taxis thread their way through the grid of canals to take you directly to the landing-stage of hotels in the luxuriously converted upper storeys of what were once the city 's proudest skyscrapers . |
| 9 | First , the ‘ working class ’ in Britain may be seen as a subset of the economically defined working class ( i.e. wage and salary earning employees separated from the means of production ) , although it probably also includes sections of the petty bourgeoisie ( in the strict sense of small-scale producers and traders employing their own means of production and labour power ) who regard themselves as ‘ working for a living ’ . |
| 10 | The British middle class , on the other hand , includes large sections of the economically defined working class ( especially salaried employees ) as well as sections of the petty bourgeoisie proper and sections of the ‘ individual bourgeoisie ’ ( i.e. personal owners of means of production and employers of the labour power of others ) . |
| 11 | To look at the matter differently , one could say that the members of the economically defined working class in Britain are divided between the ‘ working class ’ and ‘ middle class ’ collectivities , with this division depending on a range of factors including place within the division of labour by strata , parentage , education , home-ownership , and income . |
| 12 | COMPUTERS can ease the financial problems of countries in the economically troubled Third World . |
| 13 | These include the curved canines and straight incisors of hippopotamus , walrus tusks , which project downwards from the upper jaw , the teeth of the sperm whale and the spirally twisted left tusk of the narwhal . |
| 14 | None of the districts came out with a clear resolution of the underlying planning difficulties , and the clear cut local decision in favour of closures which the RHA had hoped for , was not forthcoming . |
| 15 | The 1986 data destroyed the myth that the foreign kill rate was comparable to the US rate , and confirmed that the widely accepted official figure of 6 million dolphins killed by purse seiners over the past 30 years was a gross underestimate . |
| 16 | Wandering through the vibrant streets of Rome , one is constantly reminded of the widely differing historical periods . |
| 17 | Advantage uses the widely recognised 1000 Watt Metal Halide Lamps for its illumination . |
| 18 | President François Mitterrand had warned in December following the most recent city riots [ see p. 37869 ] that modern socialism had to come to grips with the management of urban society , and the worst affected local authorities had complained that they lacked resources and bore a heavy burden compared with more affluent areas . |
| 19 | Only a week after the strike , a clean-up of the more open violence had begun in the worst harassed loyalist districts . |
| 20 | Among the worst hit Third World export commodities are : petroleum ( $36 in January 1986 dropped to $18 by January 1987 ) , palm oil ( $644 in 1984 to $231 in 1986 ) , tin ( $12 in 1985 to $6.16 in 1986 ) , cotton ( 63 cents to 26 cents in 1986 ) , sugar ( prices stuck at 5-6 cents although production costs are double this ) . |
| 21 | The stylishly colour co-ordinated hotplate offers the best in gas technology , with three standard and one semi-rapide burners , each igniting instantly at the touch of a button and each with a simmer-stop position , which maintains a steady flame at a low setting . |
| 22 | This is clearly a much more sophisticated analysis of the phenomena than the empirically invalidated instrumental account . |
| 23 | The Italian dirty tricks department worked overtime as Galvano 's management tried to scream ‘ no contest ’ , claiming a head clash caused the badly cut left eye that meant their man could n't go on after the third round . |
| 24 | They also suffered most from the centre-left government 's failure to push through reforms — in particular , its failure to modernize the badly overstretched social infrastructure in the northern cities to which the migrants had flocked . |
| 25 | In education , the period between the remarkably inexplicit 1944 Education Act ( based on the social consensus of wartime ) through the closer definitions of circular 10/65 and subsequent legislation in the 1970s and 80s , to the book-length ERA and its accompanying barrage of programmes of study etc , presents , among other things , an historical progression from implicit to explicit . |
| 26 | Glancing over at the faint quiver in the hand holding her fork , and at the nervously fluttering long eyelashes , casting dark spiky shadows on her pale , trembling cheeks , he gave her a warm and reassuring smile . |
| 27 | Yet many of us do not really know how much we drink or the medically recommended sensible drinking levels . |
| 28 | The goldfish is the rarely used thirteenth sign of the zodiac . |
| 29 | And not just the ordinary version you see today , but the rarely encountered Hanoverian version . |
| 30 | During her third term Mrs Thatcher became the longest serving Prime Minister this century , and she has had , therefore , an unparalleled opportunity to change British society . |