Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The most substantial of them farmed sufficient land to earn themselves the description of yeoman ; the poorest had merely an acre or two and perhaps the right to keep a cow and some sheep on the common . |
| 2 | Mark Hudson Out of the strong came forth the sweetness Not so much an installation as a duration piece created with treacle and sugar cubes . |
| 3 | The working class adolescent of the 60s had quite a job deciding what to do with his hair . |
| 4 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 5 | The English came over a crest , face to face with the Lord Owen in open field . |
| 6 | These failures arose not only from Edward 's lack of adequate financial resources , but also from the effectiveness of Philip VI 's resistance and the reluctance of the English to take on the French in pitched battle , as the stand-off at Buironfosse showed . |
| 7 | The Infinite becomes merely the extension ad infinitum of the finite instead of a reality ‘ wholly other ’ . |
| 8 | We also run a Hi-Watt 50 amp through a Marshall Emulator ; that goes through the direct send in the rack to the desk , so the sound man out front gets that as well as the mics on Bryan 's two Vox amps . |
| 9 | When the Vichy French fled , de Gaulle 's Free French and the British took over the capital . |
| 10 | Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office . |
| 11 | The old remember why the revolution was started and many still hold the original ideals dear , whatever may have happened in between . |
| 12 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 13 | Although it was not appreciated at the time when the Japanese swept away the administration , the power and the remaining claims to sovereignty of the French in Indochina , the Second World War in Asia had entered its final six months . |
| 14 | In all cases drunkenness may be material as showing that the accused had not the intention which forms part of the essence of the crime charged . |
| 15 | The first does attempt to obtain a value , the second remains essentially a cost and not a value . |
| 16 | Rather , there are three species , and each one of the three has both a 17-year and a 13-year variety or race . |
| 17 | The three climbing down the ladder broke the spell that transfixed them , petrified them into plaster statues . |
| 18 | It will allow the MDC to hand over the land at Herculaneum Dock to private companies which would finance development projects in return . |
| 19 | Open-mouthed , a little aghast perhaps , Frank Wharton pushed himself stealthily further out across the ice where he could view the parson 's progress , the better to see how the thing should be done . |
| 20 | Picking up on ‘ The Real Share Issue ’ and ‘ The Poor have n't a Share in the World ’ we may be able to give the whole campaign a title and see each unit as ‘ A Share for the Poor ’ . |
| 21 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 22 | After Saturday morning 's clean-up the 11 set out a plastic patio table and chairs , and were helped by town mayor Jackie Pell to stage the birthday party in the river . |
| 23 | The latter took over the kingship and established himself in power , until he was overthrown by Chlodomer 's brothers , Childebert and Chlothar , ten years later . |
| 24 | The latter pulls down a menu giving you the option to ‘ maximise ’ the window . |
| 25 | The latter explains why the Summit is being held in Brazil — the country with the largest contribution to the earth 's oxygen supply . |
| 26 | The latter picked up a crossbow , intending to use it in self-defence . |
| 27 | Before the posters could be distributed , the latter fired off a letter , claiming that , under the Representation of the People Act 1983 , it is illegal to incur expenses in order to promote a candidate without that candidate 's permission , and that ‘ if you proceed , you and anyone who joins with you may commit a criminal offence . ’ |
| 28 | In 9a ) , for consideration of the representative volume element , Hill calculates the volume average of for example the stress as the integral taken over the volume , divided by that volume . |
| 29 | The Anti-Rex strode along a corridor of floor sixty-five . |
| 30 | A question worth asking is whether it will be easier to teach competent makers in the first three categories , in which engineers are well represented , enough about the work of the fourth to understand how a company works , or to teach the fourth about the first three to the same standard . |