Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 AT LAST the electors have an opportunity to put in power a government that will look after the needy instead of the greedy .
2 The contracts — $217m for Eteq and $127m for Alaris — are the largest yet for the IBM Charlotte facility , which began contract manufacturing last August .
3 Its twelve articles covered military as well as economic collaboration , and the Soviet presence in Egypt in the early 1970s became the largest anywhere outside the communist bloc at this time .
4 On May 20 the government deployed 630 companies of paramilitary troops — the largest ever for an election — to supplement security arrangements .
5 The good news is that the surplus of a hundred and ninety three thousand six hundred and eighty seven pounds after tax is the largest ever in the Association 's history .
6 As the stories are presented , the timeless Paradise is always placed at the beginning and the time-bound here-and-now at the end , though in some versions , as in Christianity , there is also a vision of an eschatological future when mankind , redeemed , will once again get back to the Paradisal beginning .
7 Alright , now if we look at the , the rural instead of the urban wage rate , right , up here alright , now let's just say that it takes that amount of time before this individual gets a job in the urban area , alright , now if we discount alright the erm , the rural , the urban wages right , that 's all this
8 because we have done everything we should of done , we 've defended the right all over the world , we went to the Falklands , we , we defended the right in it
9 The 1985 is very charming and beautifully balanced , the 1986 seemingly in a quite different style — chewily tannic and concentrated , but unpredictable .
10 Canada 's Norm Hadley and Glenn Ennis , widely recognised as two of the outstanding forwards during the ‘ 91 World Cup campaign , have been in Japan since late last year and are now looking ahead to the new season .
11 After the red-hot protests of the retired classes , Clinton will not touch the expensive cost of living adjustments to their social security pensions , although he will make taxable 85 per cent of the benefits paid to the rich instead of the present 50 per cent .
12 The US space shuttle Columbia successfully completed a 14-day flight on July 9 , the longest ever by a space shuttle crew , during which the prolonged effects of weightlessness on the human body were further studied .
13 Starting from the position that the dominant framework of feminist film criticism was ‘ too restrictive in the kinds of questions it asks of cinema ’ Gledhill gave a convincing defence of feminist realist practices and concluded with a plea for a kind of cultural analysis which could ‘ hold the extra-discursive and the discursive together as a complex and contradictory interrelation ’ .
14 Before the National Anthem had finished playing , the first air-raid siren of World War 11 had sounded , a false alarm that sent the British nervously into the shelters , some — like Winston Churchill — defiantly clutching bottles of strong drink .
15 Elizabeth chased him back into the wet again with no compunction .
16 It would not have surprised me to hear him say that he had advised the Almighty strongly against the Flood and other similar claims , the foolishness of which was self-evident , but not to Him .
17 You 're now ready to knock the joint apart with a mallet or hammer and a block of scrap softwood .
18 Cover the joint loosely with a tent of foil and leave to rest for 15–20 minutes before carving .
19 As my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) has pointed out , Britain 's overseas aid budget last year was not maintained but was the lowest ever as a percentage of this country 's gross domestic product .
20 Now if you fi go back to sort of in the 1970 's and the nineteen possibly into the 1980's erm there was er a certain amount of emphasis on disrupted family dynamics , there 's something wrong with the families where this kind of thing occurs .
21 And then the outburst of anger , and the quick sliding through the window to the outside again from the furious warm inside .
22 Nykrog , for instance , suggested the morals were a redundant , fossilized feature inherited by the fabliaux from twelfth-century precursors that were fables ; Ménard sees the moral largely as a façade and Charles Muscatine is most inclined to see the moral simply as a convenient , traditional way of closing a text .
23 Nykrog , for instance , suggested the morals were a redundant , fossilized feature inherited by the fabliaux from twelfth-century precursors that were fables ; Ménard sees the moral largely as a façade and Charles Muscatine is most inclined to see the moral simply as a convenient , traditional way of closing a text .
24 Coun Griffiths said : ‘ D furnace was one of the 10 best in the world .
25 If so , this would place the body of the nucleosome just above the molecule of GH5 in Fig. 5 .
26 For Engels , by contrast , the possibility revealed by the gentile constitution was a major guarantee that the Marxist vision of the withering away of the State in a future communist society was not a recipe for chaos , as was argued by his opponents .
27 Ceauşescu must have amused his colleagues with his remarks ‘ strongly in favour of the acceptance of free will ’ and his thought that ‘ the withering away of the State would be very welcome though he did n't quite see the withering away of the [ Communist ] Party ! ’
28 Ceauşescu must have amused his colleagues with his remarks ‘ strongly in favour of the acceptance of free will ’ and his thought that ‘ the withering away of the State would be very welcome though he did n't quite see the withering away of the [ Communist ] Party ! ’
29 The Marxist claim that a socialist revolution will inaugurate a classless society , an end to all forms of domination and the withering away of the state is just another myth of popular control , propagated by an emerging counter-elite , the leadership of the new industrial working class .
30 The 1986 Programme , similarly , contained no reference to the historic goal of the withering away of the state ( it had long been predicted that the only thing that would wither away was the idea that the state should wither away ) ; its main emphasis was upon practical and short-term objectives , and it struck a disciplinarian rather than utopian note in its references to careerism , nepotism and profiteering .
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