Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People argue that by adopting a voluntary approach you lose the good and the bad . |
| 2 | I keep my distance and do not look at him , though from the comer of my eye I can see him so smartly attired , decked out in scarves and jumpers , set to brace the cold and the street at any hour . |
| 3 | A couple of years earlier Wayne had come into conflict with director John Huston when they made The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1957 . |
| 4 | Overjoyed at having a recognised part to play , he taught the Scriptures , but spent most of his time assisting the poor and the ailing . |
| 5 | The mortgage rates may fluctuate , but the administration and the repayments remain the same until the time comes to adjust . |
| 6 | You have to risk the cracking and the warping . |
| 7 | It must be stressed that the concept of The Smiths will remain the same and the group will continue to promote their forthcoming single and album releases and are eager to plan live dates once a new guitarist has been selected . ’ |
| 8 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
| 9 | But then the got the electric and the county water but the Sten the Kirkwall Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and the Stenness Hotel was all connected with the man 's own private phone . |
| 10 | I hate the pompous and the phoney . |
| 11 | Green realized he was better with the pencil than writing but made his excuse ‘ were his information for the satisfaction of an individual only , he would prefer the former as a vehicle for information , but to give to the public a numerous series of explanations all cloathed in bodily forms ; besides time and other minor considerations , it is necessary to consult the copper smith , the printer , and the paper merchant . ’ |
| 12 | It 's the miracle-madness — those travelling bandits with their gilded snares to catch the ignorant and the innocent . |
| 13 | Tillich concludes from this that even the most profound expression of compassion within Buddhism can not be compared with agape because it lacks the power to accept the unacceptable and the desire to change man and his society . |
| 14 | Let's leave the ‘ great voice ’ of Anita Baker and her ilk to dorks like Nicky Cambell while we celebrate the cracked and the imperfect . |
| 15 | ‘ No , a guy by the name of Jimmy Velvet has a museum ; he has the original and the body 's busted on it . |
| 16 | Separate typesetting codes are used to indicate the typesize and the font of the text . |
| 17 | I live in Galway and have been supporting Leeds since 1977–1978 when I think we finished 5th in the first , endured the bad 80 's and have mostly enjoyed the 90's though a couple more trophies would n't go astray . |
| 18 | To say that the other can remain absolutely other , that he enters only into the relationship of conversation , is to say that history itself , an identification of the same , can not claim to totalise the same and the other . |
| 19 | He had about a pound on him , in small change , which would buy no more than a chocolate bar and a couple of packets of crisps . |
| 20 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 21 | But the doctor discerned no more than the ghost of either in the Rector 's smile . |
| 22 | The crowd began to swell a little and the man was joined by a friend . |
| 23 | The left-hand foliage pendant which once hung above the west door of the King 's Drawing Room bore the brunt of the flames and only two tiny fragments of the original 7ft drop survive ; a couple of limewood crocus heads no more than an inch and a half across . |
| 24 | Even when the police car was able to surge up on to the elevated section of the motorway at Chiswick , the stream of traffic moved no faster and the Jaguar continued to glow in Dexter 's headlamps . |
| 25 | It may need no more than a discussion session , or a change of emphasis introduced at an appropriate point to allow this to be covered . |
| 26 | It is best to write no more than a bar of the leading voice before adding the consequent and assessing the result . |
| 27 | And he was there , making the impossible leap from the ground to the moving platform , ducking beneath the barrel of the cannon , waving his chainsword in circles as if it weighed no more than a walking stick . |
| 28 | Before she had time to move she felt his arms around her , scooping her bodily from the fountain as if she weighed no more than a feather . |
| 29 | She was lifted against his bare chest as if she weighed no more than a feather , the shock of his warm skin and the slight roughness of short , curling hair against her palms rendering her abruptly speechless . |
| 30 | The bomb weighed no more than a pound and a man could carry up to thirty of them . |