Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was too soon in my own development for me to be able to grasp the opportunity and eventually the shop closed down and Mr Farrer moved on . |
| 2 | It is the human being who will be faced with the opportunity and perhaps the temptation to be violent , and who will make the decision as to which path to follow . |
| 3 | Darlington police have been told about the vandalism and yesterday an officer went to interview Miss Golightly . |
| 4 | But it would be wrong , at least at the secondary level , to see the fragmentation as somehow the fault of narrow , self-interested teachers . |
| 5 | You would normally only approach the Ombudsman if neither the pension scheme trustees/managers nor OPAS are able to solve your problem . |
| 6 | It never crossed her mind — that was the bad part of the mistake — that for the prince as well the marriage could not be an end in itself . |
| 7 | It is now possible to study not only the direction but also the rate of shell evolution at an interspecies level over the entire history of the Earth ! |
| 8 | How much is the shirt as well the shirt ? |
| 9 | She urges the excellence and dignity of courage , a glittering idea which has dazzled mankind from age to age and animated sometimes the housebreaker and sometimes the conqueror . ’ |
| 10 | Possibly no one will ever know just how much this particular gang made in ill gotten gains over their evil enterprise , but there was little doubt at the time of the trial that quite a fortune had been amassed and that most of the principals would be rich men when they came out of prison . |
| 11 | I am entering the RAF and then the Navy because I believe I can contribute something to this country by so doing . |
| 12 | They dispose of ‘ all the nice furniture that used to be in the saloon and then the candelabra ’ . |
| 13 | Shiloh was some twenty miles from the camp , but the storyteller does not dwell on the sight of the Israelites ( and the Philistines , too ! ) twiddling their thumbs while the runner and then the ark are on their way . |
| 14 | The cheesemaker has the best control over his cheese if he is able to use the milk from his own flock or herd — he then knows exactly what he is getting and where the animals have been grazed as the type of grass and subsoil contributes much to the flavour of the milk and then the cheese . |
| 15 | Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’ |
| 16 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 17 | Leading dissidents in the ruling United National Party , however , organized public rallies to attack the executive presidency for running a " police state " , marginalizing the parliament and even the Cabinet , and ruling through presidential advisers with no public accountability . |
| 18 | While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just the paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 . |
| 19 | One suggested reason is to protect public bodies from vexatious litigants with no real interest in the outcome of the case but just a desire to make things difficult for the government . |
| 20 | It will rarely be the case that either an animal or a human will be provided with the opportunity to mate with an absolutely ideal member of the opposite sex . |
| 21 | However , when language is used within a specific domain , it is often the case that only a subset of those senses is appropriate . |
| 22 | Articulated syntheses have vectorial qualities — not only a weight within the field but also a direction . |
| 23 | In any event , knowledge within the firm of the identity of the intermediary 's client may not identify him if the salesman or perhaps the dealer concerned did not know either that the intermediary was acting as intermediary or the identity of the client ; this is a Chinese wall-type question . |
| 24 | It is to some extent modelled on the supposed ‘ Obrecht ’ Passion , which he mentions in his preface , though his text is entirely from St. John and he goes on to point out that he has been ‘ diligent so to set the words under the notes that almost every syllable has its note , and the four voices sing the words at the same time so that the listeners may hear the words clearly ’ . |
| 25 | It had taken them ages to get back from the Lock and now the evening was drawing in . |
| 26 | In such cases unemployment is known to be impending at the outset of the contract and therefore the exclusion ‘ unemployment known to be impending at the commencement of insurance ’ will apply with a resultant repudiation of the claim . |
| 27 | He says Mr Kirk is just trying to influence the election and even the school headmaster wants nothing to do with it . |
| 28 | It must be stressed that the courts are not challenging the merits of the decision but rather the power of the body in question to reach that particular decision . |
| 29 | Fine town houses of the eighteenth century , some of them now embassies , give way slowly to the more compact residences of the nineteenth , then to the woods and then the seaside suburb of Scheveningen . |
| 30 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |