Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historical period which has seen its political devaluation is one in which political optimism has become unfashionable , which perhaps is one way of explaining the retrospective or merely historicist character of the Situationist exhibition , and the books I have reviewed . |
| 2 | At the ‘ community ’ level , most of the 300 or so species populations studied in the large plot on Barro Colorado Island discussed above show positively correlated survival with distance from reproductive adults up to 15 m . |
| 3 | He had his little peccadilloes , the quaint and rather Machiavellian ways to gain his little ends , but he knew me and I knew him , and in essentials he made good . ’ |
| 4 | The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see . |
| 5 | He trod on a patch of ice and slipped , falling down the dozen or so stone steps . |
| 6 | The 158 or so student societies are funded by the Students ' Association . |
| 7 | Kanemaru had accepted the vice-presidency of the party in January 1992 in order to revitalize the unpopular and politically moribund administration of Miyazawa , who had been elected party leader and Prime Minister three months earlier . |
| 8 | 130 beta NT copies are now with UK corporates , a further 2,500 will be delivered this month : at least 10% of the 45,000 or so NT developer kits shipped worldwide have landed in the UK . |
| 9 | As we have seen , by this time the traditional and often puritan belief in the virtues of abstemiousness and moderation was finding it hard to resist the reality of achievement , but they were still regretted . |
| 10 | Despite the recent re-issue of Rewald 's classic monograph , we still lack a true catalogue raisonné , bringing together all the visual and documentary material and engaging with the fundamental issues ; for example , after the sensational exhibition of the Mellon waxes at the National Gallery in Washington in 1991 , there is an even greater need for a study of the relationship of the waxes to the 1,500 or so bronze casts scattered throughout the world ; more understanding of Degas ' techniques and the reproductive processes used by his founder is urgently required ; a consideration of the images themselves , and their place in contemporary sculpture , is conspicuous by its absence ; and , the biggest question of all , the role of these wax figures in the wider oeuvre cries out to be examined . |
| 11 | Tony Fretwell-Downing , the Sheffield computer businessman who sponsored the event , very gamely claimed his first ever route with an ascent of the loose and long west flank . |
| 12 | The most zealous founders of the BFASS in 1839 were amongst those who had worked hardest to revitalise the local society network in the mid-1830s and so Joseph Sturge , John Scoble and the Quaker banker George Alexander toured areas of the country in 1839–40 to give the new national body the support of auxiliaries consciously orientated to universal abolition . |
| 13 | Puzzles are abundant and are only put there to stop Zack walking freely around the 60 or so factory rooms . |
| 14 | These are the tangible results of its activity , and take no account of the quality of the educational and indeed life experience gained by those who have passed through its doors . |
| 15 | BP is among the 40 or so member companies which subscribed to the formation of the training body . |
| 16 | We have an extremely flexible timetable in S6 and we are always pleased to welcome pupils from other schools who join the 130 or more Heriot pupils who stay on to Sixth Year . |
| 17 | We know some details of the backgrounds of the twenty-two or so party members who made up the Politburo . |
| 18 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 19 | While the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) decision R v Sanyo Electrical Manufacturing ( UK ) Ltd , is a case which is of interest in its own right , its real significance is that it is yet more evidence of an increasing awareness by the courts of the crucial role they have to play in securing a healthier and safer working environment by ensuring that infractions of health and safety , and related legislation , are properly penalised . |
| 20 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 21 | After a dozen or so phone calls , we finally discovered that TSL had secured coverage on Sportschannel America , a national cable sports network which reaches approximately nine million households . |
| 22 | Think instead about Quinta Paraiso da Mia , on the big sandy Luz Bay , just outside Lagos : a dozen or so apartment buildings linked by pathways in a shady garden , a minute 's walk from the beach . |
| 23 | To the right of the lodge were a dozen or so stone steps leading to a half-moon beach . |
| 24 | A more promising approach seemed to be the invention of a new and universal language and writing system , and Slaughter gives a fascinating and commendably deadpan account of the attempts of ‘ language projectors ’ to achieve this objective . |
| 25 | One advantage of that approach would be to direct attention to the particular source of danger , thus labelling the offence in a way which both describes the circumstances of the offence and serves an educative or even deterrent purpose . |