Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 the museum , built by Gottfried Semper in 1845–46 to house the extraordinarily rich collections of Augustus the Strong and his picture-obsessed son Friedrich August III , was closed for major renovation work . |
| 2 | My plea was wholly contained in the events barely a day old and swiftly took the Bench and the entire Court through the squirt of 174 cannon shells , the wounded , the flight engineer 's heroic effort in repairing the devastated controls twice , his treatment of the wounded and his immediate award of a DFM , which he had been celebrating . |
| 3 | As the girl dances close to me I can smell her perfume and all that has gone before is completely forgotten ; the slit trenches , the mosquitoes , the wounded and my dead comrades . |
| 4 | Many Irish catholic nationalists also consider the British and their Orange allies to have established tyrannical government in a part of Ireland . |
| 5 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 6 | Personal equity plans , for example , have not until now commanded the following that their tax-exempt status would justify , whereas scrip dividend facilities have enjoyed a high take-up rate given their generally modest benefits and administrative inconvenience . . |
| 7 | THE CHRONOLOGY OF DISCO is extremely vague , which is surprising , considering disco 's importance as a mass-market phenomenon through the Seventies and its musical influence up to the present . |
| 8 | This is all very much to the good but my inner voice keeps muttering ‘ That 's not it at all ’ — because studies of this kind never attempt to cross the boundary-line between behaviour and inner experience , and thus tend to side-track the issue I am raising here . |
| 9 | It is through her emergence as a cult painter of the feminist movement of the 1970s that her current reputation has evolved . |
| 10 | DETAILS OF SOME OF THE STATE BENEFITS OF MAJOR IMPORTANCE TO THE ELDERLY AND THEIR CARING RELATIVES |
| 11 | The beautiful step of the verse , the cogent movement of thought and feeling throughout , the sensitive perception of the little balanced in the great and their mutual dependence , the extraordinary directness , here and there quite naked , achieved in spite of the complexity of the whole conception ; … |
| 12 | In the Norman kingdom , Roger the Great and his legal advisers attempted an even more ambitious rationalization of the extreme diversity of the legal traditions of his subjects . |
| 13 | The Republicans forced Truman on the defensive and their greatest victory over the President was the Taft-Hartley Labor-Management Relations Act ( 1947 ) passed over Truman 's veto . |
| 14 | As was his custom , Sukarno adapted Nehru 's actual words to reflect his own hostility to the Dutch and his growing admiration for Japan . |
| 15 | I am Cambridged out , and it is only by getting away from the familiar that anything good will ( I hope ) emerge . |
| 16 | Julie Hall , the 1987 English Champion who was to finish as high as third , had an opening 82 which took in an 8 at the 12th where her 2-iron second took off in a gust and ended in rough so deep that her third was an air shot . |
| 17 | Apart from seeing the replacement of LNER-design inner-suburban Class 306s , Colchester , Southend , Bishop 's Stortford , Hertford and Chingford-line travellers will have to wait until the 1990s for their new stock . |
| 18 | He 'd changed the group 's name to the Condemned and his own name to Charlie Hero . |
| 19 | However , given the lack of such well-established theories in the human sciences , variable analysis proposed to achieve the homology between the mathematical and its substantive domains by working through the methodological stipulation that social and human properties be described in variable analytic terms and the measurement scales just discussed . |
| 20 | The dragon was the same as her wild longings , her fierce and stubborn courage , her desire to fly . |
| 21 | Monetary assets and liabilities are also shown at historic cost , though in many cases the historic cost of a monetary item is the same as its current cost . |
| 22 | Such success for developing countries is not always the case , even in the same industry ; Bolivia has had a sorry experience in trying to do the same as its Eastern rivals , but has suffered from a critical lack of expertise . |
| 23 | At first sight , it may appear that the value of aggregate demand for a country should be the same as its national expenditure . |
| 24 | The CsA carbon atoms of each CsA are coloured the same as its bound CypA molecule . |
| 25 | Well , I should imagine they 're just the same as their normal ones , and they 've stuck a , a whacking great white label on them , but I mean , you know , perhaps they 're of an inferior quality , I do n't know . |
| 26 | The last public polls , published last weekend , showed the alliance of the two main Right Wing parties with 38-39 per cent of the vote and the Socialists with 18-21 per cent — almost exactly the same as their respective positions at the beginning of January . |
| 27 | Desmond Morris interprets the behaviour of domesticated horses , and reveals it as being much the same as their wild ancestors . |
| 28 | ‘ About the same as your instinctive reaction … guarded doubt . |
| 29 | You would then compare this with the actual price on your island , and depending upon whether your actual price is higher , lower or the same as your expectation of the average price you would supply a quantity of output which is higher , lower or the same as your natural level . |
| 30 | Yeah , the same as my old man , but |