Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [subord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must learn to live without a theological faith in the working class as either a revolutionary or an antiracist agent . |
| 2 | The status of the foreign minister as merely a high-ranking bureaucrat meant that the diplomats whom he directed , and in particular the heads of the more important Russian missions abroad , often looked on him as more or less an equal and hardly as a superior at all . |
| 3 | The theory being propounded here sees the global system as primarily a capitalist global system and the main forces in it as the transnational corporations , transnational capitalist classes and the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 4 | To take the Liberals first , it had been a commonplace of political analysis over previous years to regard the Liberal vote as largely a product of temporary disillusion with the Tories following on periods of Tory government , as a protest vote . |
| 5 | The Black Boy though now a public house was at one time also a farm for when Robert Hearnden ran the public house in 1840 he also farmed a considerable amount of land , where the large pit is now situated and down into the village . |
| 6 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 7 | Paul Taylor 's left-arm pace could be valuable at Calcutta , where the ball tends to swing , but for him to play in the first Test after barely a month of his first trip overseas would be a gamble . |
| 8 | Course , Derek Weintraub just sat there , totally gormless and I-know-it-all at the same time as only a fifth-year O-level repeat can be . |
| 9 | Woman-centred feminists recognize that feminism 's concept of the gendered subject as both a social construct , and an absolute essence , is ambiguous . |
| 10 | Like egalitarian feminist psychology , woman-centred psychology sees the gendered subject as both a product of social relations , and a fixed , essential entity . |
| 11 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |
| 12 | Our company is exchanging greetings with the young soldiers when suddenly a white car refuses to stop at the next checkpoint up the street — braking only slightly and seeking to swerve past the two soldiers . |
| 13 | The LNA saw the new measures as only a beginning . |
| 14 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 15 | So both boys went to the state school in spite of Father Michael at St Oswald 's , but it was a hollow victory because twice a week , once after school , once on Saturdays , they were sent to the Convent to learn catechism off the nuns so they would grow up good Catholics after all . |
| 16 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 17 | Rather , they would prefer to struggle on , in charge of a minority government , in the hope that the economy will recover and they can reap the benefits at a second election after about a year — as Labour did in 1974 . |
| 18 | There is evidence of a Roman settlement as quite a number of coins have been ploughed up relating to this period in history . |
| 19 | Female mammals are better at caring for their young without male assistance and , where it is necessary , there tends to be a larger group than just a single pair . |
| 20 | A common lawyer , as in the 1520s , might seem a better choice than either a noble or a cleric in an office so concerned with the law , but in the early fourteenth century common lawyers were regarded with some suspicion by the king-witness the attempts to get them barred from parliament — and by people whose complaints about the corruption of lay judges were frequent until late in the century . |
| 21 | This eliminates the traditional need to get things re-set — in PageMaker it 's a trivial task although sometimes a little tedious . |
| 22 | But at least since 1984 the major flashpoints of conflict between Britain and her European partners had disappeared , while Mrs Thatcher found , with the departure of Schmidt and Giscard d'Estaing , a greater eminence as both a European and a world statesman . |
| 23 | We walk over to a dusty square where over a hundred women , migrants from the countryside and recently closed state mines , are digging and paving with picks and shovels . |
| 24 | In one sense this presents a misleading picture because only a small fraction of complaints against government is handled through such channels . |
| 25 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |