Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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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 The Infinite becomes merely the extension ad infinitum of the finite instead of a reality ‘ wholly other ’ .
5 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 .
6 The first does attempt to obtain a value , the second remains essentially a cost and not a value .
7 Rather , there are three species , and each one of the three has both a 17-year and a 13-year variety or race .
8 Archetypal suburbia from the 1920s contains virtually no housing for private renting .
9 The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel ( 1834–1919 ) is generally regarded as the first to put forward the idea that these changes in the embryo retrace our evolutionary history .
10 It has an apsidal termination but no complete ambulatory ; there are large flanking side chapels ending before the apse , and the ambulatory encircles only the end part .
11 The reason why reliance is more deserving of protection than expectations is that the former involves merely a resto-ration to the position once held , whereas the latter entails a transfer of wealth or the enrichment of one party at the expense of the other .
12 The latter deal primarily in a currency of meaning while the former have still a conflict concerning the appropriate register for the target language .
13 From there they would flow outwards to the masses through all state agencies , which by the 1930s included even the family .
14 Note it is important in that case that not only the settlor but the spouse of the settlor was not domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time of the last to die otherwise the property would not be in an excluded property settlement — see s80(1) which refers to the last of the spouse or the settlor to cease to be beneficially entitled to an interest in possession .
15 Both sides want to be the last to put forward a proposal , reckoning that if no rate is set , a court will pin the blame on whoever was last to reject one .
16 His father could hardly complain ; not far away in Manchester at that period only 43% of the children of the working-class reached even the age of five .
17 It would be no good putting together a menu that required certain equipment to be used and staff did n't have the ability to use it .
18 A third take away a quarter .
19 Like a third take away a quarter how did you do it ?
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