Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pron] [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pity the faith he will hand on to his child . |
| 2 | Among those it failed to deter was a predatory heron which discovered that by activating the light it could purloin a splendid fish supper from among the transfixed koi carp in the garden pond below . |
| 3 | To resolve the dilemma they must piece together the sort of documentary and pictorial evidence that is usually plentifully available for the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The girl who could Dream was remote , a fantastical character . |
| 5 | the question what could lilies mean |
| 6 | So long as he speaks the truth it can t be folly — that 's what you 're going to say , is n't it ? |
| 7 | Last night was really the night I must value — the night when I was aware of all the gifts Amantani has borne me . |
| 8 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 9 | His style of preaching contrasted greatly with the average clergyman of the day who would discourse drowsily on the virtues of doing good . |
| 10 | When we have the chance we will camp Lappish style , with lavvus , the wigwam tents made of birch poles and reindeer skins , but tonight we are using a modern lavvu of canvas and aluminium poles . |
| 11 | As she plodded through her notes she decided that at the end of the month she would hand in her notice , and on the day she left she would brandish Elise 's diary before his eyes . |
| 12 | Er we 're going to take questions at the end er the camera there is for internal use only and at the end we 'll hand out copies of the slides to anyone who wants them . |
| 13 | The access group wants a new law by the end of the century which would enshrine the freedom to roam , providing no significant damage was done to land management or conservation . |
| 14 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 15 | In the meantime she must Plan . |
| 16 | Against this , as we saw , the existentialists argued that rather than making futile attempts to " eliminate " the problem one should subject it to a different type of treatment that would help place it in a proper philosophical perspective , and this was correct as far as it went . |
| 17 | One was for a building which would seat 306 people as well as the choir . |
| 18 | In such a contest everything will hinge on the state of the economy and whether Major and his team are trusted more than Neil Kinnock and his . |
| 19 | A command which will renumber the lines and correct the cross references inside a program . |
| 20 | They are making their way towards its head , preceded by a domestique who will elbow a path through the bikes . |
| 21 | The award and the ceremony itself were instigated by the British Fashion Council , which tried every tactic it could -including the setting up of a smarter venue at The Duke of York 's Barracks -to persuade Katharine Hamnett to show in London . |
| 22 | You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that . |
| 23 | Knowing what the Bushmen knew then — that the NEA was unpopular with conservative legislators and already the target of fundamentalist Christians for subsidising offensive art — they can hardly have seen this as a plum they could hand to a big contributor or a rising political star or , indeed , to anybody aiming to leave town alive . |
| 24 | They are closed and there is no opening you can unblock easily . |
| 25 | She could put up with that if it got her to a city , or within reach of a ve-hickle she could scav . |
| 26 | He was n't a man you could cross-question . |
| 27 | And if I can , then it would be a lever you could hand to him . ’ |
| 28 | By 1808 the unpopularity of Godoy had spread beyond these circles to embrace all classes and the revolution prophesied in 1798 was turning against the court that supported his power : a monarchy which could disgrace itself and by its foreign policy plunge Spain into inflation , dear bread , commercial depression , and the loss of the American market must be limited by a constitution . |
| 29 | ass If she starts out a goosegirl she 'll shit on |
| 30 | On no account whatsoever should cleaning chemicals be transferred to food containers , bottles or packs used for drinks or drinking vessels including paper or plastic disposable cups . |