Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wright 's winner against his old club needed no hyperbole and was arguably THE highlight of a soccer-saturated weekend when Sky 's £304 million alliance with the BBC clearly came top of the entertainment stakes , if not the viewing figures . |
| 2 | Ivanov was capable of using his considerable social skills to cultivate and subsequently exploit successfully the acquaintance of a susceptible person engaged in strategic work . |
| 3 | The Labour party has attracted largely but not wholly the support of the working class , and the Conservative party that of the middle class . |
| 4 | Sandor Rado , in an article devoted to the elucidation of manic-depressive disorders , expresses the opinion that ‘ At the bottom of the melancholiac 's profound dread of impoverishment there is really simply a dread of starvation … drinking at the mother 's breast remains the radiant image of unremitting , forgiving love , ’ and he adds that ‘ It is certainly no mere chance that the Madonna nursing the Child has become the emblem of a mighty religion and thereby the emblem of a whole epoch in our Western civilization . |
| 5 | As we have seen , higher education in Latin America is predominantly the prerogative of the rich and , so , to have the opportunity to display merit , the Latin American businessman must come from a wealthy background . |
| 6 | Nowhere in the world did the railway station represent so powerfully the combination of an intrusive technical power together with the search for national identity as in Latin America . |
| 7 | Her son was named John Scott , so he was presumably the child of an earlier marriage . |
| 8 | Presumably the thought of a combined Frankish and Lombard opposition was too disturbing to bear . |
| 9 | Presumably the sight of a red and blue meal puts you off eating it . |
| 10 | Yes , erm , presumably the training for a technical post in the pollution section will give kind of basic bacteriology , which will be , you know , essential for going over into the food section , erm I mean , what will become . |
| 11 | The problem with the International Data Corp figures is that they try to treat Unix workstations as a separate market rather than bundling Unix workstations and Unix servers together , which is presumably the reason for the implied figure for IBM Corp sales of only $558m , where IBM has implied total 1992 RS/6000 business of $2,000m . |
| 12 | The US Administration under President Reagan rejected outright the need for a new international economic order or any sweeping changes in international monetary institutions . |
| 13 | And attempts to demonstrate empirically the operation of an acquired equivalence mechanism distinct from that responsible for acquired distinctiveness have proved unsuccessful . |
| 14 | She came across erm , T N T in the Overnight days , erm , and I 've had the pleasure of working with Linda right the way through the seven years , through Overnight , and Express . |
| 15 | An open balcony and a low sago-thatch balus-trade ran right the way round the single room and at night , when the resilient bamboo-strip flooring became everybody 's mattress , the family groups , in a transparent gesture towards privacy , divided themselves from one another with colourful cotton sarongs suspended on a fragile network of strings . |
| 16 | Right the meeting for the various District Councils and the County Council , is it going to take place before the redundancies occur on the first of April ? |
| 17 | Confidence right the figure in the square brackets next to the T ratio gives you the significance level of the coefficient , right . |
| 18 | I waited outside , rubbing my shin and inspecting the damage to my Docs ; luckily the scuff on the right toe did n't show up the way it would have with polished boots . |
| 19 | Eventually the level of the whole Australian continent rose . |
| 20 | Eventually the contest between the new Governor and the man he had replaced became violent : Balboa and four of his colleagues , summoned from their Pacific base to discuss ‘ matters of common concern ’ with Pedrarias , were instead arrested . |
| 21 | I believe that it is in the interests not only of the United Kingdom but of the whole world that we should seek to pursue much more vigorously the possibility of a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing . |
| 22 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 23 | Effectively the opposite of a Conservation Area , and intended to encourage development , it carries a number of financial benefits of which the most tangible is freedom from local rates for ten years . |
| 24 | The man in the White House is effectively the leader of the Western world . |
| 25 | Serge Mallet ( 1969 ) , writing in the context of developments in political theory in France , and hence particularly concerned with issues of class consciousness and conflict , took a view directly contrary to Woodward , arguing that new technology was leading to the development of new forms of class conflict that would threaten fundamentally the stability of the existing structure of the capitalist enterprise . |
| 26 | With that he started putting on the shabby jacket he always kept hanging on the hook on the back door . |
| 27 | The dismantling of the welfare infrastructure and the encouragement of the pursuit of profit has at times taken on the mantle of a moral endeavour . |
| 28 | Bronson will return to the role of Paul Kersey to take on the Mafia in the latest sequel to the vigilante saga . |
| 29 | Put on , on the bottom of the blank line , rather than putting it top of the total line . |
| 30 | The temptation to stay in town for a curry or a Schwarzenegger film , or both , can seriously disrupt that urge to carry on the journey up the 277 summits . |