Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] and [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 He is helped by some good performances , too , especially from Danny Webb as the cleverest and most conscience-racked of the sales force .
8 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 .
9 ‘ I could n't believe what was happening , I had bought the horse for the National and here he was winning it .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 ’ .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Normand undertook the bulk of the extensive and often tedious calculations ( which Dobson detested ) produced by all this work .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Energy conservation success in France is attributed to a high level of investment in energy saving as a result of a clear and highly visible policy and , as with nuclear power , centralised responsibility .
24 I am open to contradiction , but so far as I understand , the Association as such , played no direct part either in the recent increases in apprentices ' salaries , which were reviewed automatically , nor in the revival of their indenture , which is the result of a tortuous and painfully slow consideration by the Law Society .
25 They were the kinds of places in which learned authorities paraded such things as the wonders of nature , the relics of past ages , and the achievements of great people , before the eyes of a deferential and often uncomprehending populace .
26 Polybius himself gives a hint when he says that Aulus Postumius " made Greek culture offensive in the eyes of the older and more distinguished Romans " .
27 Dr James Tiedje and Dr Stephen Boyd at Michigan State University , are awaiting final approval of a grant to support further research of a startling and previously unknown anaerobic organism , which they found in sludge from a Michigan sewage treatment plant and in lake sediments .
28 This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all .
29 He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side .
30 There can also be a knock-on effect of the higher and more innovative technology that some foreign firms employ , all through society .
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