Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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1 | Martial law , in force since the Feb. 23 military coup [ see p. 38003-04 ] , was lifted in most areas of the country on May 3 , although the interim government retained it in 21 sensitive border provinces and districts . |
2 | That is why the divine providence revealed himself in story . |
3 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
4 | Labour 's change of policy on the European Community puts it in a strong position to argue that economic and industrial decisions are increasingly likely to be made on a European basis and it is essential that Britain plays a more constructive role . |
5 | The friendly policeman looked him in the eye . |
6 | Thomson 's son poured so much money into The Times in the vain effort to modernize it in the late 1970s that no one could blame him for wanting to sell it . |
7 | We expect the Islamic nation to support us in our latest struggle which we are carrying out in order to preserve the interests of the whole Islamic world . |
8 | What can be asserted is that the benefits are too marginal to warrant the attention the subject has aroused — and the undertaking too complex to be able to withstand the political controversy surrounding it in the West . |
9 | In the explicit limits to their power which they had to accept in some of the areas they ruled ( especially in Hungary and the Basque provinces ) the Habsburgs and the Spanish Bourbons had something in common with the Hanoverians . |
10 | The richest sources exploited today are the mines of Colombia , where the Spanish conquerors encountered them in 1537 . |
11 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
12 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
13 | You must assail it with Bassey from one side and Streisand from the other , whereupon the hapless bird rips itself in half , uncertain which escape route to take . |
14 | The Hallidayan approach explains it in terms of the fronting of an element to make it thematic . |
15 | Indeed it has been almost necessary for the agricultural industry to ignore it in order to develop the modern chemical systems of farming . |
16 | If you are not sure about the right way to connect something in a mains power supply circuit , do not resort to trial and error . |
17 | I should n't worry about it in this wind , anyway it 's not the right time to do it in the wind , as cold as this , is it really ? |
18 | Obviously all the planets that we see orbiting the sun must be travelling at exactly the right speed to keep them in their orbits , or we would n't see them there because they would n't be there ! |
19 | And if we look at the planets of our solar system , lo and behold , every single one of them is travelling at exactly the right velocity to keep it in its stable orbit around the Sun . |
20 | Many of the principles which underlay the provision of rural housing in the nineteenth century reasserted themselves in a new institutional framework . |
21 | No-one has the complete freedom to do anything in our modern , regimented society . |
22 | For it is an essential part of the pattern that the complete goddess manifests herself in two antithetical ways — as the Venus of sexual love and the Diana of virginity . |
23 | The alert sergeant catches them in the act , and with the help of the vintners , tries to lead them to prison . |
24 | The Left of the Labour Party found itself in an increasingly unfavourable PoSition . |
25 | As we landed at Cardiff , those in the seats closest to his party heard the Labour leader holding himself in check : ‘ Prime Ministerial . |
26 | A further presumption is that the Scots Reformers indulged themselves in communion but twice a year . |
27 | There I saw men kissing and holding and loving each other ; something that I never thought possible as the mainstream culture manifests itself in overwhelmingly heterosexual and macho terms . |
28 | ‘ There 's an end to an auld sang , ’ said Lord Chancellor Seafield when the Scottish Parliament dissolved itself in 1707 . |
29 | When they stepped into the street the damp warmth hit her in the face and the heat of the pavements struck through the thin soles of her shoes so that every step of the way was like treading on hot cinders . |
30 | The modern-day locator has everything in its favour — provided only that it is fitted with a functioning battery . |