Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 2 | The Project provides a focus and catalyst for a large and continuously growing network of working groups whose emphasis is always on the development of professionalism and improved practice . |
| 3 | Though explicitly Christian , ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ forms between the earlier and later work a bridge over which the reader ( with access to the gospel word ) may cross into the release of Christianity , the new birth ; but , denied that access , the speaker of the poem can only seek relief in death to escape from having to return to the old way in which he is ‘ no longer at ease ’ . |
| 4 | Relating the story of the future Duke of Wellington in Self-Help , Samuel Smiles commented that the general had no intention of acting grandly or nobly , ‘ merely regarding the punctual payment of his debts as the best and most honourable mode of conducting his business . ’ |
| 5 | Bruno de Bayser , who sold sixteen drawings priced at FFr12,000–80,000 failed however to find a taker for an exquisite and very rare ink sketch of two boys by eighteenth-century Roman artist Pier Leone Ghezzi at FFr450,000 . |
| 6 | It would be expected that if there was no right field advantage for a stimulus then the RFA would be aproximately 0.5 as the values for the left and right visual field would be about the same . |
| 7 | From here we take the road marked Curral das Freiras for a short but very scenic and awe-inspiring drive . |
| 8 | True , with a firm the size of Stevenson 's , working on up to fifty contracts for a dozen or so companies , there could never be so dead a reckoning that the final moment could be named with certainty . |
| 9 | He is helped by some good performances , too , especially from Danny Webb as the cleverest and most conscience-racked of the sales force . |
| 10 | Capirossi 's first winter as world champ was a mind-expanding experience for the youthful but remarkably mature Latin . |
| 11 | Except where the bureaucracy rules through the military and so itself constitutes the executive branch of government , the executive and bureaucracy should not be confused . |
| 12 | ‘ I could n't believe what was happening , I had bought the horse for the National and here he was winning it . |
| 13 | The main gap in the theoretical analysis in both cases is any consideration of whether or when there is likely to be a divergence between the private and socially desirable directions of vertical integration for contractual reasons . |
| 14 | The Ukrainian settlement in the north west has always been close-knit and Ivan Solowka soon found himself running a club for the 20 or so families in Middleton . |
| 15 | A report by Cambridge Energy Research Associates forecasts that the geographical location of power stations , and not the international threat that they pose through global warming and acid rain , will determine the development of the power industry through the 1990s and beyond . |
| 16 | The first difficulty is , as we have seen , that the term ‘ child abuse ’ covers a range of behaviours and problems , so that a search for a single or even a cluster of ‘ causes ’ is likely to be in vain . |
| 17 | Walkers who have visited the caves and potholes already mentioned , and enjoyed doing so , will be sorely tempted to stay on the limestone shelf and search for the dozen or more other similar openings hereabouts and then return to the Hill Inn for refreshment . |
| 18 | Celebrity teams will be taking part in addition to many teams from local companies to raise funds for the blind and partially sighted in Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | By the 1880s the Longhorn was almost extinct but always regarded with a certain fondness as a quaint and essentially useful animal which appealed to cattle-lovers in spite of its commercial faults . |
| 20 | Art offers ‘ substitutive satisfactions for the oldest and still most deeply felt cultural renunciations , and for that reason it serves as nothing else does to reconcile a man to the sacrifices he has made on behalf of civilization ’ . |
| 21 | While SUGA is mainly a group for social events and self-help , the local carers officer , help members to plan sessions on careers guidance for the 50 or so members . |
| 22 | Under the title Strategic Force for the 1990s and beyond , and drawn up by army chief of staff General Carl Vuono , the plan calls for an entire army corps to be withdrawn from Europe , and for the US Army to be cut from 764,000 men to 630,000 . |
| 23 | The erm er on the television last night there was a programme about the fifties that actually I did n't see it but I taped it and I have seen it this morning er |
| 24 | I I 'm very grateful to the Secretary of State , erm is he aware that increasingly over this winter there have been examples of homes for the elderly and particularly nursing homes in the private sector without casting a valued judgement on the role of the private sector , er homes that are finding difficulty in the filling the beds because of policy that is being pursued in care in the community . |
| 25 | Even so , the direction of the indigenous developments on Crete during the neolithic and Early Minoan periods is enough to show a continuity into the Middle Minoan . |
| 26 | This seemingly contradictory combination of an extreme objectivity of vision with a strong vein of intimacy and personal humour emerges as one of the main characteristics of the classical and immediately pre-war Cubism of Picasso and Braque . |
| 27 | Normand undertook the bulk of the extensive and often tedious calculations ( which Dobson detested ) produced by all this work . |
| 28 | With the Hanoverians secure on the throne ( especially after the defeat of a second and more serious Jacobite revolt in Scotland in 1745–46 ) , with the grant of a considerable degree of de facto toleration to the Dissenters , the questions which had dominated internal politics in the reign of Anne appeared to have been settled . |
| 29 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 30 | His lithographs of Palestinian villages and of Lebanon , of Tyre and the peninsula of Ras Naqourra , of the temples of Baalbek , are bathed only in the peace of antiquity , a nineteenth-century dream machine that would become more seductive as the decades saw the collapse of the Turkish and then of the British Empire . |