Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desperate or the disillusioned have poor vantage points on society ; their view is continually obscured , and they are constantly peering through the clouded lenses of a camera lacking high-quality focusing mechanisms . |
| 2 | Until the manner in which such goods are dispersed within regions is better understood we can only assume , at present , that places with very high consumption are also the points of distribution where a paramount controlled such prestige exchange , consuming most locally and allowing the passage of a little to other places . |
| 3 | I think I learned the lesson even then that the frail receive more love and attention than the healthy . |
| 4 | There was a representation that the accused had actual authority to make a contract with the shop and that the bank would honour the card . |
| 5 | In Bryson [ 1985 ] Crim LR 669 ( CA ) , it was decided that the fact that harm was probable did not mean that the accused intended that harm . |
| 6 | Now , what 's the difference between Switzerland and Scotland is it , is it that the Swiss have more money ? , is it that the Swiss are more body conscious , is it that the Scot 's are more puritanical , they think that there are more important things to think about , what do you think ? |
| 7 | This is a very great hardship indeed , and only a very determined effort by society will ensure that the disabled achieve real acceptance and integration . |
| 8 | It was then that the British gained much credit — especially with President Eisenhower — for their part in the creation of an alternative structure . |
| 9 | ( Of course they do ; it shows that the British buy more products than their industries are capable of supplying . ) |
| 10 | The suggestion that the Chinese made American civilisation says more about the myths of the modern age ( especially the one which says that the Confucian world will dominate the 21st century ) . |
| 11 | So it seems inevitable that the old fashioned British Hereford with its smaller , shorter legged bulls will eventually become a rare breed . |
| 12 | It is nevertheless of interest that supplies were being drawn into the Chinese market as early as the Han empire , that it featured among the tribute rendered by the Turkish tribes of central Asia during the tenth century A.D. , that the Portuguese introduced European amber through Macao and that during the Qing dynasty supplies were assured from the mines of north Burma , situated in the same region as the sources of jadeite . |
| 13 | A quick poll at the French Embassy in London established that the French spend more money on fewer items — looking for quality not quantity . |
| 14 | Because the US was sacrificing blood and treasure to assure peace and stability in the Far East , the maintenance of which after the war would be largely a US responsibility , it would not have been unreasonable ‘ to insist that the French give adequate assurances as to the implementing of policies in Indo-China which we consider essential to assure peace and stability in the Far East ’ . |
| 15 | We also managed to get tins of the famous , unappreciated Spam and bully beef back from the looters and , knowing that the English liked strong tea , we boiled up more of their mixture for them , producing something of an indescribable colour that was more like a meal than a drink . |
| 16 | I explained that I 'd found someone to substitute for me — one of the Carter boys was looking for holiday work — but he kept making objections about unqualified staff , mentioning a notorious case a few years earlier when one malcontent teacher wreaked his revenge by teaching a group of teenage Italians that the English greet each other in the street with the phrase ‘ Piss off , wanker . ’ |
| 17 | They were splendidly received by the villagers wherever they went , although the Japanese took brutal revenge afterwards on all who had welcomed them . |
| 18 | Ascites should be treated with diuretics , although the elderly tolerate marked shifts in fluid and electrolytes less well than younger patients . |
| 19 | Although the British needed this route to support Egypt , many of them saw Pan American as opportunistic and poised to exploit its advantage in the postwar years . |
| 20 | And the shot gun , is that a single barrelled twelve bore ? |
| 21 | The simple truth is that if the British withdrew this country would become an economic wasteland and whether there is a Catholic voting majority at some point in the future or not there will not be a united Ireland as no one would want to pay the enormous costs involved . |
| 22 | ‘ ’ Go and tell John what you hear and see , ’ was the instruction of Jesus to John 's messengers ; ‘ ’ the blind receive their sight and the lame walk , lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear , and the dead are raised up , and the poor have good news preached to them ’ ( Matthew 11:4–5 ) . |
| 23 | During the 1920s this fact had been used against universal family allowances because , it was claimed , they would have the ‘ dysgenic ’ effect of encouraging the idle and the feckless to have more children ( Gray ; 1927 ; McDougall , 1921 ) . |
| 24 | It 's interesting to note that , while the French and the English spend similar amounts of money on clothes , the French have by far the more stylist reputation . |
| 25 | Luckily , the same will not apply next year , for the championship is to be held in the South and the English have longer holidays . |
| 26 | And the self-important make indiscriminate use of the symbols of overt status — the job title , large office , several secretaries — to bolster their malnourished egos . |
| 27 | They did not : the Canadians had one sort of sovereign , and the British had another sort . |
| 28 | If the Shah and the British showed good sense , he remarked , " we may really give a serious defeat to Russian intentions and plans in that area " . |
| 29 | Both the North Americans and the British produce regular programmes in English for TV and film screening abroad . |
| 30 | This may seem a strange way of looking at it , since we are used to viewing the police and the military as our protectors ; but we can not avoid the conclusion that , ultimately , the police and the military maintain sufficient force to implement the decisions of the state . |