Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 2 | A comparison of the measured and calculated seasonal cycles of peroxide at Cape Grim is shown in Fig. 3 . |
| 3 | To reward the faithful service of count or young man in the palace , the king granted , out of the extensive and farflung royal estates , beneficia — benefices : the very term , meaning " good deeds " , implied something personal and arbitrary , outwith the normal regulations governing family inheritance . |
| 4 | Sickness and injury , from whatever cause , are frequently the natural method of eliminating the weak and maintaining genetic strength in a population . |
| 5 | She was not smiling now , but her look was full of a benevolent curiosity , and the soft island voice , with the lilt of the Gaelic moving through it like a gentle sea-swell , warmed me as palpably as if the sun had come into the dim and cluttered little shop . |
| 6 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 7 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 8 | Its master stroke was its ‘ double cross system ’ , whereby it turned enemy spies into double agents , working for the British and feeding false information back . |
| 9 | He was paid an annual sum by the British and tried any cases where there was a problem between them and the Portuguese . |
| 10 | The examples of induced innovation in Japan and USA responding to the different and changing relative factor prices are the best available . |
| 11 | They spent a year painting designs on the walls , finding new designer furniture to replace the old and making modest alterations like removing doors to create space and light . |
| 12 | It 's as if , instead of turning towards metal , early '80s hardcore decided to drop the politics for the personal and pursue some semblance of catchiness . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others . |
| 14 | During the process of ‘ translation ’ , the signifier inevitably intercepts the signified and draws each word into a network of other concepts . |
| 15 | The women 's liberation movement builds on those kind of feelings , the guilts and disappointments of the most passionate relationships , and provides the process in which women can say the unsayable and put personal pain back into politics . |
| 16 | To give a counter-example : in a long line consisting of two-note groups , you may need to do the opposite and emphasise each second note . |
| 17 | He is qualified to think the unthinkable and to pose those questions which in normal circumstances would go unasked . |
| 18 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 19 | But the sensational pile-up re-emphasised that any horse could win the National and revitalised public interest . |
| 20 | It coexists , often uneasily , with the anthropological and extended sociological use to indicate the ‘ whole way of life ’ of a distinct people or other social group . |
| 21 | They also created a mythical patron , a just ruler who rewarded the good and punished evil doers by unleashing massive snowstorms . |
| 22 | Governments begin to slough off some of the wealth in taxes to ameliorate the conditions of the poor and provide public amenities for their citizens . |
| 23 | He came to believe that in order to help the poor and to achieve social harmony both the state and charity should work to improve living and working conditions . |
| 24 | When the current and intended future positions have been established , the next step is to formulate alternative strategies to enable the business to move from one position to another . |
| 25 | The certificate and diploma courses have been designed to provide flexible , progressive , industrially orientated programmes of professional education , development and training based on extensive research into the current and predicted future needs of managers in the hospitality industry . |
| 26 | After the long and winding figure-of-8 Connaught Tunnel leading to the smelters of Trail we were in British Columbia , passing through the Kootenay Valley and Okanagan to the gently sloping side of the Pacific Range . |
| 27 | An unusually detailed account survives of the fortunes of the ancient and revered Benedictine abbey of Evesham in Worcestershire in a case against their local bishop , the bishop of Worcester , as to his jurisdictional rights over them and whether he had the right to inspect them . |
| 28 | Such an organisation could take the form of a formal association which would arrange qualifying examinations and the provision of certificates , like the legal and accounting professional bodies , or at least operate in the manner of the existing MCA . |
| 29 | It was the terrible and forbidden dark side of the pure and honourable Sanhailt and , although Nuadu had heard of it , he had thought it extinct . |
| 30 | They adopt the traditions of individual tribes , like the Sioux and take great pains to ensure their regalia is authentic … |