Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [coord] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 2 | The treatment of the problems of the emperorship and of the political state of kingdoms , such as England , and comtés , such as Toulouse , showed the pope as a world leader in a novel way . |
| 3 | In 1981 and 1982 the group had visited the test site with their ship the Vega and on the last occasion had been attacked and arrested by the French Navy as they attempted to enter the 12-mile territorial limit . |
| 4 | , Sir Rowland ( c. 1658–1726 ) , Whig politician , was born about 1658 , the eldest son of George Gwynne of Llanelwedd , Radnorshire , an MP under the Protectorate and in the 1660 Convention , and his wife Sybil , only child of Roderick Gwynne of Llanelwedd . |
| 5 | The rate of thermal escape depends on the temperature of the exosphere and on the gravitational field . |
| 6 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 7 | It is particularly notable that neither in the mines nor in the other industries nationalised at that time was there any substantial movement towards workers ' control . |
| 8 | Rice , coal and rubber were sold abroad for the exclusive benefit of French shareholders in Europe , and Annamese coolies were driven hard in the mines and on the rubber plantations for paltry pay ; peasant rice growers , too , were frequently robbed of their lands on flimsy pretexts so that bigger holdings could be granted to French colons and the few rich Annamese who collaborated with France . |
| 9 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 10 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 11 | Cranston shook his head and , vowing he would drink less sack , brushed past the anxious-looking maid , down the passageway and into the stone-flagged kitchen . |
| 12 | Hungarian lawyers before the war were proud of the fact that Hungarian civil law was a non-codified body of law based on the ‘ common custom of the realm ’ and crystallized in decisions of the Curia and of the five appeal courts . |
| 13 | What do you think would be the profile of an effective RE teacher , whether in the primary or in the secondary school ? |
| 14 | I shall discuss later the theoretical objections to technological determinism ; Goody in any case recognises the dangers and in a later essay himself rejects such determinism , refuting the claims that this is what he was doing . |
| 15 | Whichever he sues , he can not include a claim for damage done to the component or to the larger item which was supplied with the component comprised in it . |
| 16 | Consideration by Ministers of the member states at the Research Council is likely to follow at the end of December and it is hoped that this will produce a ‘ common position ’ , that is agreement on the proposal possibly as amended in the light of the comments of the Parliament and of the advisory bodies to the Council . |
| 17 | Or did do mind you I I would n't think it now not for younger folk that 's not the case but for the older folk it very much worse . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've done that before , ’ the guitarist said , scooping the coins from the case and into a large brown envelope . |
| 19 | Oh I think so , I mean I , again I hope there are n't any Catholics in the audience who are offended by my remarks , but it 's just my personal opinion , that yeah , th th you know , th th that is the case and at the least I mean whatever judgment one makes about this thing , I , I repeat what I said earlier about you got ta be terribly careful when using the word natural . |
| 20 | This was never the case and in the current working world it is even less so because of developing technology which has its impact on almost all jobs and also on the social context of work . |
| 21 | The jury should answer this by drawing inferences from the evidence in the case and from the surrounding circumstances . |
| 22 | ( Frottole were performed in France. ) 26 They inherited the syllabic note-against-note style , dominated by the text and with a good many repeat notes , lightly relieved by melismas or imitation , and the clearly marked cadences . |
| 23 | But the loss , damage or delay has occurred during the carriage by the other means of transport and was not caused by an act or omission of the carrier by road is determined not by the CMR but by the applicable international convention . |
| 24 | Employees aggrieved by the actions of their employers may seek redress through the courts or at an industrial tribunal . |
| 25 | ( a ) Conventions are non-legal rules of constitutional behaviour which are considered to be binding upon those who operate the constitution but which are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in Parliament . |
| 26 | Conventions of the Constitution are most aptly described as rules that are considered binding by and upon those who are responsible for making the Constitution work , but rules that are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in either house of Parliament . |
| 27 | [ The grass patch beyond the courts and to the old cooking centre is still owned by the Foulis Trust ] . |
| 28 | ( The grass patch beyond the courts and to the old cooking centre is still owned by the Foulis Trust ) . |
| 29 | For , as the speed of light rushed down upon her , she heard , in the untimeable pause between the upbeat of Fenna 's wings and their down swoop , she heard the singing of the spheres , the harmony of the universe which turns , turns , turns in the atom and in the infinite and is unmoved in its own movement and is all one single force . |
| 30 | She managed throughout the following years to maintain a front of firmness and dignity , earning the respect of the Germans and at the same time extracting the best terms she could for Sark and its people , with whom she shared the hunger and other privations of occupation , the anxieties engendered by two unsuccessful British commando raids , and the pain of separation when many islanders , including her husband , were deported to German prison camps . |