Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] and [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Critics and the viewing public were quite accustomed to seeing the nude and even courtisanes in pictures .
2 While the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) decision R v Sanyo Electrical Manufacturing ( UK ) Ltd , is a case which is of interest in its own right , its real significance is that it is yet more evidence of an increasing awareness by the courts of the crucial role they have to play in securing a healthier and safer working environment by ensuring that infractions of health and safety , and related legislation , are properly penalised .
3 Let's get the message over , let's go without one congress and I know that 's near to John 's heart and request the other unions , A E U , U C A T , T N G , request the T N , T U C to do the same and then plaster over every bus in Britain , the G M B's policy .
4 Thomas Henderson Docherty was born and raised a catholic and undoubtedly Catholicism contributed to his downfall .
5 I said , oh I lo I love it , I lo , I said I know it sounds awful thought no more and then Shirley said to me when she 'd gone she said , she came up to me one day she said I wish to God he 'd stop that bloody noise , this time !
6 The impressions gained from the WHO collaborative studies on the relationship between maternal age and the capability of fetus to survive the early and intermediately period of gestation are supported by more reliable national data from a European country .
7 A more promising approach seemed to be the invention of a new and universal language and writing system , and Slaughter gives a fascinating and commendably deadpan account of the attempts of ‘ language projectors ’ to achieve this objective .
8 Kanemaru had accepted the vice-presidency of the party in January 1992 in order to revitalize the unpopular and politically moribund administration of Miyazawa , who had been elected party leader and Prime Minister three months earlier .
9 At the finishing cropper where carpets are given their final sheer to achieve a smooth and even surface , £25,000 is being invested on an automatic height adjuster .
10 Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture .
11 We have no hidden gifts and no hidden donations to the Labour Party we have an open and upfront relationship with them and we intend to carry that through .
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