Example sentences of "[art] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ab initio course in German involves an intensive study of the language including a summer course in Germany at the end of Year I. All students undertake a basic unit in computing in Year I to acquire an awareness of this key area of modern technology . |
| 2 | Admission to the ab initio German course is conditional on a satisfactory performance in a language proficiency test and interview . |
| 3 | This implies the ab initio design of a new course , including ( as in the Oxford case ) the dissolution or suspension of an old course . |
| 4 | OPPOSITE BELOW Versailles from the Piece d'Eau des Suisses ; painting by Justin Ouvrie . |
| 5 | It had a smoking-room with fitments and atmosphere to rival the most exclusive gentleman 's club , a ladies ' drawing-room like a miniature boudoir with silk , tapestry and chaise-longue in the style of Louis XV , but the piece de resistance was the dining-car . |
| 6 | Although its collection of relics contained many choice items , such as pieces of Aaron 's rod and Christ 's foreskin , the piece de resistance was undoubtedly the arm of St James , brought to England from Italy by Richard 's grandmother , the Empress Matilda . |
| 7 | Don Perignon , caviar , kebabs , a pilau of diced partridge , fruit salad , fabulous wines and , the piece de resistance , flaming ice cream in honour of which the lights were lowered . |
| 8 | But the piece de resistance will be the gala night at the King 's Hall . |
| 9 | I used my usual metal overflow piece , which I keep hidden in the dunes near the best dam-building site , and the piece de resistance was an aqueduct bottomed with an old black plastic rubbish-bag I 'd found in the driftwood . |
| 10 | But the piece de resistance had yet to come . |
| 11 | More comprehensive is the Annal des Communautés Européennes ( Delta , Brussels ) . |
| 12 | The churches and the Assessorato alla Cultura ( cultural affairs department ) last collaborated in 1988 , at the time of the Veronese and Palma Giovane exhibitions when they then worked together to produce two small but well-researched publications on works by the two painters housed in the various churches , with suggested itineraries for visits . |
| 13 | Just one point , you said er passing water through the ur er blood through the urine is two things er |
| 14 | It 's the ur er Yeah . |
| 15 | Well , well er well it is , because I mean so many go for the sa da damn same job do n't they ? |
| 16 | The maître d'hôtel looked up from his reservation book and smiled warmly . |
| 17 | They waited by the desk of the Maître d'Hôtel , and the Maître d'Hôtel took his time in appearing . |
| 18 | They waited by the desk of the Maître d'Hôtel , and the Maître d'Hôtel took his time in appearing . |
| 19 | ‘ One moment , ’ the Maître d'Hôtel said , ‘ while I check , ’ and Lucy was pretty sure that whatever it might say on the reservations list , no booking in the name of Wingate was about to be found . |
| 20 | Charlie walked away and the Maître d'Hôtel watched him with the eyes of a deep-sea predator , all dull surface and no depth . |
| 21 | But she did n't move and she said nothing , and the Maître d'Hôtel did n't so much turn his attention to her as give her the briefest of glances . |
| 22 | ‘ Out , ’ the Maître d'Hôtel growled from by her ear . |
| 23 | The women must already have been there , for the maître d'hôtel brought them immediately . |
| 24 | The la wo in front ? |
| 25 | The the facilities the kind of things I mean what what kind of you know the ki erm is erm Would you like more there to be more friendly people or not , do you or do you think there 's enough ? |
| 26 | sitting there doing paper work and the ki erm the kids use it as a a an office and what have you , there with their paper work , Sarah does her homework there and we have our meals in there so erm sort of it does n't really matter but er you know it saves them all coming out for a meal , and having to do it cos trouble is it 's too small to keep an eye on people to see if they want anything , everything 's alright and what have you |
| 27 | The last one is based on the popular song O du lieber Augustin and its exaggerations ( knowing ‘ how far to go too far ’ in Cocteau 's famous phrase ) bring it close to the kind of waltz parody found in the Valses bourgeoises by Lord Berners ( Unicorn-Kanchana , 1/79 — sadly now deleted ) . |
| 28 | Dear L.B : When one has finally done the job and found the mot juste , I dare say violent language usually disappears . |
| 29 | Selection procedures in general were rough and ready , perhaps because selection was scarcely the mot juste : oversupply of suitable candidates was not a problem for the Colonial Service until the 1930s , when years of misleading propaganda about difficulty of entry , combined with economic depression , had done their work . |
| 30 | Tolkien was not by any means cut off from the mainstream of English poetry , though the qualities he valued were not surprise , the mot juste , verbal complexity , but rather a slow probing of the familiar . |