Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |
| 2 | Also , as West European capitalism filtered across Germany and set in motion the inevitable homogenisation of markets and language within the customs union , the reaction of the Polish subject people , who were after all not the primary , nor even secondary , beneficiaries of capitalist modes of production and the spread of profit , and who had behind them a different set of cultural and political orientations , was similar to that of the Germans . |
| 3 | But we can be fairly confident , as a starting-point , that Rizzio , Darnley and Bothwell , chief actors in the drama of the last two years of her personal rule , are at best only a part of the explanation . |
| 4 | There is after all not a lot that sets franchise outlets apart from other businesses . |
| 5 | It seems reasonable that they should share the cost of what is after all only a system of humane debt collection acting on their behalves . |
| 6 | I return again to the point that I made originally — why is it that this vulnerable , waif-like , often frighteningly naive girl who always speaks her mind — but is after all only a pop singer — is taken seriously at all ? |
| 7 | The earliest mention of the church is in 1115 when the church and titles were given to the Abbey of St Martin in York . |
| 8 | As more than half the population do not pay income tax this is at best only a half-truth . |
| 9 | I do not agree that such a postmodern attack on autonomous and auratic culture is at all necessarily an offensive against ‘ bourgeois ’ art . |
| 10 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 11 | Whatever the official view of police work , to those on the ground , it was above all else a job . |
| 12 | For Nizan , it was above all else the year of the Spanish experience . |
| 13 | when I was in that nearly a fortnight . |
| 14 | The most recent case was in 1973 when the government appointed a commissioner to take over the housing responsibilities of the Clay Cross Urban District Council because the council refused to operate the provisions of the Housing Finance Act 1972 and charge higher rents to council tenants . |
| 15 | The occasion of the most recent serious attempt was in 1968 when a Bill designed to further limit the power of the Lords received a second reading in the House of Commons but it foundered . |
| 16 | The last really bad one was in 1978 when the electricity was off for four days . |
| 17 | The first involvement of judges , acting outside their courts , in Northern Ireland was in 1969 when the Governor appointed Lord Cameron to lead a commission of enquiry into disturbances . |
| 18 | Since the lift as constructed used virtually no water , there was from 1900 onwards no flow northward from Foxton . |
| 19 | Okay and erm when Dennis was on okay about a week ago |
| 20 | It was half-past eight when the key turned in the lock and Bob came in . |
| 21 | Even more remarkable , compared to the modern-day heroes , Fangio was aged 39 when the World Championship was introduced in 1950 and 46 when he won his fifth , and final , title in 1957 . |