Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 2 | But it was the patronage of Sir John Coke [ q.v. ] , one of the principal secretaries of state from 1625 to 1639 , which lay behind his rise to complete control of foreign and domestic posts in the 1630s ; and it was that achievement which gave him the opportunity both to create a new postal service and to acquire an estate in Essex worth £800 a year . |
| 3 | In behaving in such a fashion , maintained Marshall , " the majority today sends a clear signal that scores of established constitutional liberties are now ripe for reconsideration " . |
| 4 | The SES also oversees a separate market , the SESDAQ , which provides an alternative listing , enabling small and medium-sized companies with good growth prospects to raise finance for expansion . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect some take the veil simply to hide a flat chest ! ’ |
| 6 | For whatever that small voice of intuition was telling her about her destiny , common-sense decreed that the Prince already had a full hand of potential suitors . |
| 7 | The Royal family are country people , their interests and off-duty activities are all to do with the countryside , and the Prince always had a good knowledge of its workings ; but it was not until after he became chairman of the steering committee for Wales that he discovered the danger it was in . |
| 8 | The Prince now has a strong team behind him , which is more in tune with his activities than ever before , and better qualified . |
| 9 | There is a narrow road from the coast along the north side of Loch Morar as far as the little settlement of Bracorina and , from here , an easy climb to the crest of the ridge behind reveals a superlative view of Loch Nevis and Loch Morar , which are now little more than a mile apart . |
| 10 | The waves and the pebbles together constitute a simple example of a system that automatically generates non-randomness . |
| 11 | That would effectively require another audit to establish the position , because the Vendor would effectively be warranting that even in the light of events which have occurred prior to the Balance Sheet Data but which have come to light up to completion the Accounts still give a true and fair view of the Business 's financial position . |
| 12 | In addition to this major report on the Christian family , which is the Board 's contribution to the twin track work with the panel on doctrine , the Board also offers an interim report on young people in the media , and its final report presaged at last year 's general assembly on ritual abuse . |
| 13 | The board also received an oral report from the chief legal officer about a meeting with representatives of Norwich Union which had taken place on the morning of 29 October 1990 . |
| 14 | The board downstairs carried an impressive list of theatrical impresarios , agents and lawyers . |
| 15 | The cinema even had a special computer installed to cope with the demand for bookings . |
| 16 | The cinema even had a special computer installed to cope with the demand for bookings . |
| 17 | The FPR initially proposed a collective presidency with a national presidential council formed by a college of seven presidents . |
| 18 | the fancy letters the M and the T really need a powerful pack like CorelDraw . |
| 19 | Members of the estates then took a public oath that no trace of these hated documents should be preserved . |
| 20 | Today men from the Thames Valley force took the afternoon off to join a national protest in London . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , destroying the throne also releases a Foetid Cloud into the area around it . |
| 22 | A lead of sorts has been given by the national archives of north America with the Center for Electronic Records of the National Archives of the United States having already archived in access of 10,000 records or wearying size and complexity , and with the Canadians also pursuing an active of storing governmental records in machine-readable form ( National Archive 1991 ; National Historical Publications 1991 ) . |
| 23 | The parliament also gave a final reading to the bill creating republican armed forces [ see p. 38538 ] . |
| 24 | The programmer usually requires an n-bit result after multiplication , so an appropriate portion of the product must be extracted for further processing ; with the above ( integral ) convention , the right-hand n bits would be taken . |
| 25 | But the brand quickly gained a significant share of the fiercely competitive market . |
| 26 | The resort also features a mini golf course , and there is a tennis club available to all . |
| 27 | the case also has a small mixing palette which will be of use in the field . |
| 28 | The courts however take a commonsense view , rather than a philosophical view , and arrive at apportionments other than 50/50 . |
| 29 | In cases of personal injury it has been seen that the courts generally take a broad view of the question of kind of damage and also of the degree of foreseeability necessary . |
| 30 | The courts now adopt a purposive approach which seeks to give effect to the true purpose of legislation and are prepared to look at much extraneous material that bears upon the background against which the legislation was enacted . |