Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity to press home the naval attack was thus lost and with it the possibility of the overthrow of Turkey . |
| 2 | Des said : ‘ This trip will give me the opportunity to see how the adopted project is doing and feed back some information to Edinburgh . ’ |
| 3 | Vice-Chairman Derek Edwards took the opportunity to stress publicly the urgent need to make their campaign a national one . |
| 4 | Those attending were given the opportunity to carry out the mock validation of a course which was defended by a very experienced course team . |
| 5 | All the sounds are bright and punchy , the humbucker dishing out the appropriate amount of clean chunk or coil-tapped crunch when desired . |
| 6 | It was for the juy to tie up the loose ends , unemotionally . |
| 7 | She was standing at the gas-stove , turning a plucked chicken over the flames to singe away the tiny feathers left behind in the skin . |
| 8 | In this way then the couplet brings together the three themes of each section and relates them very strongly to the speaker and the listener , with the use of ‘ thou ’ . |
| 9 | The Board took over the legal aid scheme 's administrative structure and most of the staff . |
| 10 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 11 | With the RAF closing down the adjacent airfield and it going on the market next year , YAM ‘ hope to expand and seek to continue to expand ’ , remarked Ian . |
| 12 | They could see a man with a ladder up against the cinema putting up the new poster , and the small round figure of Peggy Pine coming out of her dress shop to stand and look admiringly at her window display . |
| 13 | As the heat of the afternoon penetrated even the cool heavy shutters and stone floors of the farmhouse , the feasting guests gradually reduced their assault on the table , and drowsiness floated in with the warm air , caught them in a soft hug and lulled them to sleep . |
| 14 | Charlie has taken a street sweeper 's job to earn the money to pay off the cruel landlord who would otherwise put a blind girl and her mother out onto the streets . |
| 15 | The pilot light burns continuously on most boilers , and lights the main burners when the programmer switches on the main gas supply . |
| 16 | Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day . |
| 17 | This is a problem from which the ordinary courts are not immune , but it is true that this type of uncertainty is absent from the rival schemes because there the courts lay down the precise meaning which a term should bear . |
| 18 | No clear principles determine the allocation of disputes to these bodies although the greater the element of discretion and the more important the policy considerations , the less likely it is for the courts to take on the new area of responsibility . |
| 19 | 10 Contractual rights The courts adopt substantially the same rules when implying an obligation of confidence into a contract and when finding an equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 20 | The computer understands exactly the same by " Get sword . |
| 21 | Figure 2 shows what happens when you tell the computer to obey exactly the same drawing rule , but going on to various depths of recursion . |
| 22 | If it were possible to store all the different types of primary data in computer-readable form then it would become feasible to use the speed of the computer to carry out the required searches , comparisons , overlays and numerical modelling . |
| 23 | But the chances of Paris opening the decade with a momentous show were always dashed when the Germans held back the three most significant new cars still due this year — the new Audi 100 and BMW 3-series in a matter of weeks and the Mercedes S-Class by months . |
| 24 | COME 1 JANUARY , THE MAN WHO turned GM Europe into a profitable operation and fathered winners such as the Calibra takes over the top spot at Chrysler . |
| 25 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 26 | As a matter of fact , directly after today 's game I will be going into frank discussions with the chairman to search out the real dead wood . |
| 27 | The whole gathering repaired to the gymnasium for the business meeting and during the afternoon a presentation was made to Janet Rogers , the retiring Honorary Treasurer and the Chairman introduced both the new Vice-Chairman , Pauline Kenward and the new Honorary Treasurer , Joan Daniels . |
| 28 | In this regard it can be seen that in order for the catechesis to work effectively the various members of the group have to work as a team — the L.C. is responsible for presenting the symbol well ; having a good story that echoes the goal clearly ; and providing the opportunity for EACH person to share their story . |
| 29 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 30 | Some streets are dimly lit by smoking torches , but the houses have only the shadowy light of candles and oil-lamps . |