Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A striking feature of the campaign is the firm grasp voters seem to have of the main issues , and the shrewdness and acumen they show in arguing not only for one side or the other but for all sides at once . |
| 2 | It does of course raise serious questions about reductionism ( Peacocke 1985 ) , although it is worth noting that reductionism between levels ( e.g. from the social to the biological or from the biological to the biochemical ) is different from reductionism within a given level ( e.g. the psychological as against the sociological , or the sociological as against the economic ) , which is a matter of perspective or aspect rather than level in Comte 's terms . |
| 3 | Rather like those nineteenth-century American ladies who often found it easier to fight for slaves , or Indians , or heathens or The Poor than for themselves . |
| 4 | Certainly those working with the mentally ill or the handicapped or the senile or in health education may properly think it is . |
| 5 | The cumulative total of adult HIV infections in Latin America and the Caribbean as of early 1991 was estimated to be close to 1,000,000 , and the total number of adult AIDS cases slightly over 100,000 . |
| 6 | Christian conscience and enlightened self-interest would often combine to enable relief to be given to the poor and the needy and for more ostentatious acts of generosity to be accorded to the village as a whole . |
| 7 | Are they , for example , based on our concern for the truth , respect for the absolute value of life , our solidarity with the poor and the marginalised and with the realisation that communication is a fundamental human right ? |
| 8 | Central to service is the interaction between the member of staff and the customer and here lies a fundamental dichotomy — in many service industries such as hospitality , the employee who has the most important job of serving the customer is frequently the lowest paid , the most unskilled and the inexperienced and with the highest labour turnover . |
| 9 | The state of goth — as catch-all historical movement for the too-ugly and the too-grim and as a modern phenom — is given little credence by UK Decay , the ridiculous Virgin Prunes , the talentless and misguided Christian Death , The Neff 's rubbish psychobilly and the new blood 's slavering adherence to the Sisters Of Mercy songbook ( eg Rosetta Stone , James Ray , Nosferatu ) . |
| 10 | The initmate scenes she interrogates purport to represent the normal and the everyday but in the selection process she has constructed a cogent version of her ‘ family ’ , aimed at a particular art audience . |
| 11 | In the View from the Hotel Mistral Braque had been influenced decisively by Cézanne , and a significant and till recently little known Landscape with Houses , executed probably a month or two later shows him putting his studies of Cézanne to daring if not totally satisfactory conclusions . |
| 12 | For if I should wish to love you and no other except for my wedded husband I shall not fail to tell you . " ) |
| 13 | A particularly instructive example is not a temple but an exquisite and in part well-preserved little marble building , the treasury set up at Delphi by the islanders of Siphnos . |