Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj -er] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | There can also be a knock-on effect of the higher and more innovative technology that some foreign firms employ , all through society . |
| 4 | Indeed , every day brings possibilities of new flowers , some new kind of insect : a fat , steel-blue oil beetle thrusting her way out of the earth to blunder over hedge-bottom debris in search of a slimmer but scarcely less clumsy male . |
| 5 | Compare the delicate creamy taste and springy texture of a Charme de France Brie with the softer but more traditional flavour of St Benoit Brie , both have a floury edible rind . |
| 6 | Never accept lifts from a stranger and never use ‘ moonlighting ’ cabs , no matter how desperate you are . |
| 7 | At the same time , there was an increase in the number of elderly people seeking retirement homes in the cheaper and more attractive areas away from the more urbanized regions ( Law and Warnes , 1976 ) . |
| 8 | He returned to London to find the chaos in the secret services growing , with talk among the younger and more foolish elements of resignation , betrayal , even suicide . |
| 9 | The emergency consists of a takeover bid by a larger and more aggressive company . |
| 10 | Listening to the debate which followed the papers in this session , one was struck by the persistence of an older and more fundamental truth . |
| 11 | It was part of a wider and profoundly important cultural movement — religious , theological and artistic as well as purely literary — whereby the problems of an individual 's inner life , the reasonings of his mind , the demands of his heart , all came to be regarded as being as important as his external behaviour . |
| 12 | In fact the channelling of reports and dissertations towards educationally productive goals is merely part of a wider and far more important issue , that of establishing a new climate of opinion among teachers and those who train them which regards enquiry about the learners and the environment in which they learn as an important part of a teacher 's professional life , which seeks to develop interests and provide skills for them to do so as part of their training and retraining and which rewards initiatives undertaken in college and subsequently . |
| 13 | There is of course a continuing controversy over whether the bureaucratic bourgeoisie of senior military , civil , party , co-operative and industrial administrators constitute a distinct class ; or whether they merely form part of a larger and more differentiated social stratum ; whether such a class is dominant or subservient to metropolitan capital ; where the boundary around such a class should be drawn ; whether it is fully formed or not , and whether the power of the state is equivalent to the power of the bureaucracy as a social entity ( Murray 1967 ; Leys 1976 ; Zieman and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |
| 14 | My childhood was the place where , for my mother , the fairy tales failed , and through the glass of that childhood I now see that failure as part of a longer and more enduring one . |
| 15 | In other words it is a part of the larger and even more complex issue of the relevance of current cost accounting . |
| 16 | The European variety has the advantage of a simpler and better understood theory of pricing , but it is a less flexible instrument . |
| 17 | The addition of the earlier and far from negligible Préludes is a very welcome bonus . |
| 18 | In the fourteenth century mystical awakening we see the first signs of a deeper and more committed type of religion , which would finally culminate in both Protestant and Catholic reformations . |
| 19 | Before its completion , there was a greater requirement for a lighter and less costly tank . |
| 20 | Above all , the Prime Minister and the Government should be negotiating for the inclusion of a wider and more positive concept of economic convergence in the treaty than any that has yet emerged . |
| 21 | Oh sure , it can be a tonic , and it 's useful as glucose if you just want to kick things over , but , come the advent of a newer and more just social order , the one for which we all cry out , there would be no place for the scandal and achievement of pop , for Prince and any foul Beasties . |
| 22 | Oddly , the majority of books available about the cultivation of waterlilies tend to display pictures and descriptions of the rarer and more unusual varieties . |
| 23 | In this way Minton can be seen to have had an influence on the tougher and more abrasive realism that first emerged at the ‘ Young Contemporaries ’ exhibition at the RBA Galleries in January 1952 . |
| 24 | They were expressions sometimes of pique and envy and sometimes of an essential regenerative process that caused a return to a stricter and more austere way of life and observance . |
| 25 | Bridge lengths vary from three to four rigs on the Leine to an average ten rigs on the Weser and really , given the practised excellence of the crews , this last thirty-one-rig bridge of Exercise Neptune 's Gallop 1989 should not have aroused much emotion , but it did made the thirtieth of June a little bit different . |
| 26 | The advantage of a Statutory Demand over the filing of a High Court writ or County Court summons is that it tends to bring on matters at a faster and more urgent rate . |
| 27 | Thus , as in the case of the USA , the size and complexity of the programmes , mixed successes , and the possibility that programmes have significantly reduced soil losses , or even the rate of decline rather than improved yields , point to the need for a longer and more sophisticated assessment than is given here . |
| 28 | Permission was given for " making of such engine or Engine Buildings or Buildings for the better & more effectual discovery , working and conveying on of such mines and veins … |
| 29 | Colin broke , I think he equalled a record for a leftwinger as well scoring goals we had er later on we had Bob came from Coventry , Coventry City . |
| 30 | Consequently there was much disappointment in Washington when the European Community was established in 1957 without Britain , and when the latter went her own way as leader of the looser and less ambitious European Free Trade Area . |