Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the parents do not know what has happened they should either not interfere in the upset or equally attribute blame knowing that a row can not happen without two parties being involved . |
| 2 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 3 | By the end of the 19th century the nude or partially draped figure was still of central importance to sculpture , and the arena in which the sculptor 's skill and intellect would be measured . |
| 4 | When the change with salmeterol was above the highest or below the lowest change seen with salbutamol the highest or lowest salbutamol dose was used in the analysis as a censored value . |
| 5 | Of more immediate concern to governments and , it seemed , likely to produce much quicker and more clearly identifiable results , were the growing efforts which many of them were now making to use for their own purposes the new or greatly strengthened force of the newspaper press . |
| 6 | Some are as much as five feet high , and the floor is pierced , whether for libations to the dead or just to prevent accumulation of rain-water . |
| 7 | Thus the education of a king 's son was supposed to include learning to sleep in a hard or badly made bed to prepare him for the rigours of a life of non-stop , and sometimes unexpected , movement . |
| 8 | But the allocation of library resources between subjects does not necessarily follow a logical or easily summarized method . |
| 9 | A great writer can have , at a particular time , a pernicious or merely deadening influence ; and this influence can be most effectively attacked by pointing out those faults which ought not to be copied , and those virtues any emulation of which is anachronistic . |
| 10 | For example , the cost and keep of a guide dog would be recoverable by a blind or partially sighted plaintiff . |
| 11 | Of granite , which he has used in dressings around the doors and windows , he wrote : ‘ Especial care is required to make the mouldings of a broad , bold and massive , rather than a small or delicately undercut character , and to avoid as far as possible anything like minuteness and pettiness in the finish . ’ |
| 12 | Down on Eagle Creek a hundred or so lit craft bob decoratively like candles in a Japanese water bowl . |
| 13 | Light and portable products both chemical and equipment are best controlled by assembling them into ‘ kits ’ , ready for use in an improvised or specially provided container . |