Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a vote of confidence on 28 March about the government 's handling of the industrial crisis , the Liberals , the Scottish Nationalists , and most of the Ulster MPs voted with the Conservatives , while the government enlisted the support only of the 3 Welsh Nationalists , 2 Scottish Labour , and 2 Ulstermen . |
| 2 | They rap , they rock ( rack ? rop ? ) , they 're tighter than a miner 's shopping budget , they scare the shit out of the entire convention with a brutality that could put Rollins to shame and they are so flabbergastingly right for 1992 they ca n't possibly fail to sell , ooooh , millions . |
| 3 | Subsequently , with the sending out of the Seventy , they were to announce , ‘ The Kingdom of God has come near you ’ ( Luke 10:9 ) . |
| 4 | The axial spin of the more massive body M tends to carry the tide ahead of the orbital motion . |
| 5 | Carrick 's other winner was Alistair Murphy who tore the heart out of the Old Bleach four skipped by George Adair . |
| 6 | And Sky are claiming 800,000 viewers for each live Premier League match after spreading their coverage evenly among the elite instead of the so-called Big Five . |
| 7 | You take some of the money out of the living assurance plan . |
| 8 | Hari took the money out of the old cracked teapot she kept on the shelf , she had just enough for the rent and she smiled in relief . |
| 9 | The girl who worked the front of house had already gone home and Rose had to take the money out of the safe and open up the box office to give the patrons their money back . |
| 10 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 11 | To the extent that policies are widely publicized and are regarded as credible by agents , the grafting on of the rational expectations hypothesis simply speeds up the process of adjustment to a lower rate of inflation . |
| 12 | IN 1905 , when the Automobile Association was founded , ownership and use of a car was the privilege only of the rich . |
| 13 | The Smiths were the second coming of Postcard — the whiter-than-white ‘ pure pop ’ : the sexual ambiguity ; the Luddite insistence on guitars : Edwyn Collins 's avowed rating of romance over sex ; the swoon instead of the earthy R&B rasp ; the flustered undanceability . |
| 14 | ONE of Europe 's symbolic Communist strongholds is preparing for its final battle after the decision yesterday of the state-owned Renault car company to close its 60-year-old Paris factory at Boulogne Billancourt in 1992 . |
| 15 | For we have long since ceased to regard the raising of houses in such an offhand fashion , even when they are to the glory only of the home-owning democracy . |
| 16 | The 19 district health authorities and 11 family health service authorities in the North Western Regional Health Authority , and the 11 SSDs in Greater Manchester and Lancashire , have achieved more than just the doling out of the joint finance budget . |
| 17 | They found that a groundsman had dolled off the hurdle instead of the adjacent steeplechase fence — ommitted because of false ground . |
| 18 | Phillips and Lipsey had measured the rate of change of money wages along the ordinate instead of the expected rate of change of real wages . |
| 19 | Sub David Cork was brought down by Wes Saunders after Cusack headed down a long punt by Prudhoe , but Cook , taking the responsibility instead of the absent Lee Ellison , blasted his spot kick too close to Gareth Howells and the keeper pushed the ball away . |
| 20 | The great strength of the British , its mental agility , was the drive behind the building up of the greatest Empire the world has known . |
| 21 | Waves formed by these northeast winds are responsible for the marked angle at the far point and for the building up of the recurved end so that it faces north-east . |
| 22 | Watkins also gives meanings for the obsolete word ‘ leye ’ as , firstly , an island , and secondly , flame , blaze or fire , both , as we have seen , relating to the laying out of the old straight track . |
| 23 | All these manifest problems intensified the effects of a creeping indifference on the part even of the southern rural poor . |
| 24 | The skulls of some of the early South American herbivores suggest that they " invented " the trunk independently of the true elephants . |
| 25 | Much bargaining is tacit and informal , but at times it may become formalized into tripartite arrangements involving government , unions and enterprise management ; a rare example in the British context was the drawing up of the 1974 ‘ Plan for Coal ’ ( Burgi 1985 ) . |
| 26 | Instructions to the boundary commissioners were revoked and amended so that they would be able to consider economic interest as well as population and community in the drawing up of the new constituencies ; this was regarded as vital by the Unionists , for it seemed likely that the merging of the small boroughs into the county constituencies would take away the last of the agricultural seats . |
| 27 | The President signed the committal warrant which was given to the tipstaff as his authority for conveying M. to prison and the governor 's authority for receiving and detaining M. The drawing up of the formal order that M. be committed to prison was left to the court staff . |
| 28 | Once constructed , the application of the classification schemes involves synthesis or the drawing together of the single concepts which are listed in the scheme from their different facets in order to specify compound subjects . |
| 29 | Other new routes coming into fruition have included the welding together of the trans-Pennine services between Leeds and Manchester with those starting back at Newcastle , Scarborough , Hull and the main line to Liverpool , with connections to Chester and North Wales . |
| 30 | This must have been the result partly of the astonishing scale of the royal demand and partly of the absence of any prior diocesan discussion . |