Example sentences of "[art] [noun] and [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The JCT suggest that the form is suitable where the proposed works are of a simple content involving the normally recognised basic trades and skills of the industry and are without any building service installations or other complex specialist work . |
| 2 | Such upwarps consist of broad swells running parallel to the coast and are in most cases flanked on their oceanward side by a great escarpment . |
| 3 | As this was fastened and he was made ready for departure , the prince for the first time seemed ill-at-ease — as if only then did he sense the poignancy of the moment and was after all loath to go . |
| 4 | An study by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has shown how EC " structural " funds , designed to alleviate poverty , fail to account for the environment and are in some cases responsible for the destruction of habitats and extinction of species . |
| 5 | George is quite realistic throughout the book and is in some cases , justifiably pessimistic . |
| 6 | The white cat , presumably by direct contrast , was seen as a force of light against the darkness and was in this way converted into a symbol of good fortune . |
| 7 | The FIS and IS in this passage can equally be understood as " narrative report of speech act " ( NRSA ) ( Leech and Short 1981 : 323 – 4 ) which is a mode of speech summary less faithful than FIS and IS to the actual verbal structure of the original ; and the ambiguity is amplified by the suggestion in the third sentence that Rousseau 's text autonomously " yields " information without intervention from a critic — a sentence which could also be considered as a form of NRSA . |
| 8 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 9 | In a letter for publication , Williamson had drawn attention to the fact that he drove a Jaguar and was for some time after known to the Gadfly column as ‘ Jaguar Man . ’ |