Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes a slippery road to make the Volvo wag its tail ; over-exuberance with the throttle otherwise does nothing more than make the inside rear wheel spin the power away . |
| 2 | The nub of the problem resides in the fact that an increase of consumer goods as a share of the total social product decreases the share of surplus-value in the net national income . |
| 3 | Can we use theories of the normal language-processing system to explain the various patterns of abnormality of language behaviour seen in different kinds of aphasic syndromes ? |
| 4 | By fitting a light wooden cradle to the scythe ( see Figure 10 ) the normal circular swing leaves the crop lying with butts to the right ready to pick up and bind . |
| 5 | The Ugandan Foreign Ministry denied the accusation as totally unfounded . |
| 6 | Behind the narrow sandy beach stands a sheer cliff of coral rock , seventy feet high . |
| 7 | Within the broad cooperative movement existed the Women 's Cooperative Guild , an organisation that was to exert an influence over the political alignment of working-class women in the interwar period quite disproportionate to its numerical size . |
| 8 | But the characteristic marking of this fish is the broad vertical band covering the tail fin , which is edged with white . |
| 9 | The broad vigorous body suggests a mind that has no need of the intellect to remain sane , though it gives itself to every fantasy ... |
| 10 | The broad social framework underlies the specific problems which education policy attempts to tackle . |
| 11 | Men in the rural setting had longer periods of unemployment , but fewer symptoms of depression , suggesting that the broad social context played a role in adaptation ( Gore , 1978 , p. 159 ) . |
| 12 | He made some non-committal reply and thought no more about it until , a couple of days later , when the mob was actually storming the chancery building in the main square , he looked out of the window to see the assistant military attache playing the pipes . |
| 13 | The policies of the Korean Communist Party emphasised the overthrow of Japanese imperialism as axiomatic and this must be followed by policies to foster mass education , liberation of women , and the elimination of religion . |
| 14 | Just as Germany was experiencing specific sources of job-related stress due to re-unification , so too in the UK where there has been a trend towards mergers and acquisitions between the UK and other European countries as the European Economic Community becomes a greater reality . |
| 15 | The European Economic Community produced a Directive on product liability in 1985 ( Directive 85/374/EEC ) and member states were given three years to introduce national laws which complied with the directive . |
| 16 | From about 1860 the European agricultural sector entered a period of crisis in which the baleful influence of the backward Prussian agricultural system and its links with the politics of the Prussian east were made abundantly clear : the mechanisms which the Junkers managed to hide from the German populace were at last revealed . |
| 17 | Later the European Athletic Association wrote a letter to the British team management reprimanding me for wearing the flag on the rostrum and covering my tracksuit . |
| 18 | The strong nuclear force has a curious property called confinement : it always binds particles together into combinations that have no color . |
| 19 | The low right-hand block held the boilers , the tall central structure the beam engine and the narrow left-hand building a gigantic wheel with slats that scooped the water into the river . |
| 20 | Although the day-to-day arrangements in Birmingham were similar to those in London , a brief account of the details is useful because Birmingham was the first and the largest provincial area to operate a scheme independently of the Board of Trade . |
| 21 | That was Coyle 's second goal , the first coming when he took a perfectly angled pass from Lawrence , and from the classic inside-right position stroked the ball to the net via the base of Goram 's right-hand post . |
| 22 | GIs , Wrens , Waafs , splendidly moustachioed Flying Officers and even the odd Rear Admiral brought the 1940s back to Chartwell , Sir Winston Churchill 's home in Kent , at the beginning of June when dancing to the Big Band sound of Syd Lawrence Orchestra continued into the early hours in a huge marquee decked out with the flags of the Allies . |
| 23 | All that remained was the odd burnt-out farmhouse to mark the spot where civilisation had once existed . |
| 24 | Which I suspect the odd tory MP having a heart attack , falling under a bus , the loss of directions might actually mean that they might see a degree of sense in borough capping . |
| 25 | Clambering out of bed , the tall dark-haired woman flung a silk robe around her slim figure . |
| 26 | In 1984 Kahane was elected to the Knesset as his party 's sole representative , but in October 1988 the Israeli Supreme Court upheld a decision taken by the central elections committee to ban Kach from competing in the forthcoming elections because of its " Nazi-like , un-democratic and racist " stance [ see p. 36947 ] . |
| 27 | On Dec. 23 the Israeli High Court rejected an appeal to reverse the deportation orders . |
| 28 | The vulgar physical body occupying the pure cerebral theoretical body . |
| 29 | Since historians are creatures of flesh and blood , often with passionate convictions and opinions , and since the Spanish Civil War represents a recent historical event of unusual political , ideological and emotional content , it is hardly surprising that historical accounts of the 1931–6 period often appear to lack the objectivity attainable to students of episodes further in the past . |
| 30 | Thus , for example , the special study on the literature of the Spanish Civil War offers a clear line of development from concerns raised in the first and second years . |