Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The impulse to partner parents can be as strong for children as the temptation for parents to confide in their children as if they were partners .
2 And really the doctors have known that for years because a lot of cancer patients they put on er
3 You 'll need this as proof if the landlord or agency hit trouble .
4 Invoking Woodrow Wilson , Mr Frohnmayer told his audience that , ‘ The world will not be free for museums until the world is free for ideas ’ .
5 Mr Morris , whose own house suffered relatively little damage , said he realised the potential danger early on Thursday evening when he asked for the river to be kept clear of debris before the level grew too high .
6 Snobbery may provide one answer : in his supposed solidarity with his own kind , he may not have wished to suggest that a tenant farmer could prove more generous of spirit than the laird .
7 Customer Care — If a customer 's car is off the road for more than 24 hours waiting for a component to arrive , Renault 's Customer Courtesy Service allows him or her to use a replacement vehicle free of charge until the part is delivered and the problem rectified .
8 Ground can sometimes be hired on a commercial basis but it is more often totally free of charge provided the farmer is assured of your good character and dependability .
9 She would have especially wanted to know more of her own mother , whose story is told in the final chapters and who died in 1903 of peritonitis when the author was 10 days old .
10 I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won .
11 The white areas of the design are stopped-out with varnish before the plate comes into contact with the acid .
12 French composers , notably Le Jeune , preferred in the 1590s to describe their chansons as ‘ airs ’ and the lute ayre was as definitely French in origin as the madrigal was Italian — and as completely anglicized by the different language .
13 All patterns are made in paper to try-cut the parts , and each seam is pre-stretched in turn as the shape is built up .
14 The latter principle is broader in scope than the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality , which , however , is the only general principle at issue here .
15 ‘ He was n't interested in experience because the idea was to train people , ’ she explains .
16 Tottenham and Nottingham Forest would also be interested in Webb if the fee was less than £1million .
17 AN INTENSE melting pot of American society in decline , Arthur Penn 's adaptation of Horton Foote 's play was far more popular in Europe than the country in which it was set .
18 Other significant phenomena which have emerged from such studies are that simple reversals of the numbers are a common form of error , accurate reproduction is facilitated by deliberate grouping in twos or threes and the ends of a span seem to be less prone to error than the middle .
19 Lenny Sinken , a lawyer for the Washington-based Christic Institute , wants the mission delayed for 18 months while Nasa studies alternative power sources or arranges for Galileo to leave Earth on an unmanned rocket , less prone to failure than the shuttle .
20 Heel of the palm : Fast and less prone to injury than a punch .
21 In 1989/90 a further group moved to Leatherhead and another to Wandsworth as the church planting began to gain momentum .
22 ‘ Success ’ inevitably remains elusive by definition unless the individual escapes the label altogether .
23 Such religious/humanitarian subject-matter — even the Holocaust , Hiroshima and Aids have not escaped — makes a fortress as unassailable by criticism as the art produced under tyranny .
24 Practising each of course if the key .
25 A man and woman who freely and willingly engage in anal intercourse are thus as guilty of buggery as a man who perpetrates a violent anal attack .
26 Yet it is hard to see why this defendant who has succeeded in terrorising a victim into submission should be any less guilty of rape than the man who threatens a woman that if she does not submit he will , there and then , overcome her resistance .
27 It was held that the accused was not guilty of theft because the transaction was a contract of sale which was voidable for mistake but had not been avoided .
28 Thus " an experienced woman worker " told her that men do the same work as women in many cases and at different rates , but there are certain parts of the work that women never do , such for instance as the lifting of the " formes " and " chases " .
29 But the discourses of memory are as much about history as the discipline of design history .
30 He also warned of dire consequences such as hyper-inflation if the country failed to maintain a unified budget and a co-ordinated fiscal policy .
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