Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She nestled his mottled face in the curve of her shoulder , stroked his cold hair , felt the awful grating of the bones in his neck . |
| 2 | The British cooperated with the Jews against the Arabs . |
| 3 | MYSTERY SLANG : ‘ Venus Grove ’ ( Virgin ) conjuring up the dark brooding of The Doors and the yarn spinning of Tom Waits from a new , wild-eyed Nick Cave type — out on Monday |
| 4 | ‘ Spurging ’ entailed the general washing of the body with spiced and aromatic water to remove the sweat of the death-bed and generally to clean the corpse ; ‘ cleansing ’ was the euphemism given to the assisted emptying of the bowels and the plugging of the rectum ; the removal of the soft organs , following an incision made from the bottom of the rib cage to the pelvic region , was known as ‘ bowelling ’ ; ‘ searing ’ was the cauterizing of the cavity blood vessels after the removal of the soft organs as a precaution against post-mortem haemorrhaging ; whilst the purification of the inner cavity was the technical ‘ embalming ’ ; the outer surface of the body was ‘ dressed ’ by the application of balms , a mixture of resins in volatile oils ; whilst ‘ furnishing ’ implied nothing more than the positioning of the sudarium ( a linen square covering the face ) and the close wrapping of the corpse in layers of cerecloth and waxed twine . |
| 5 | SCOTLAND 'S Colin Montgomerie shot a second-round 72 in the Australian Open at The Lakes , Sydney , yesterday to trail runaway leader Wayne Grady by eight shots . |
| 6 | These are harsh times for all professional seamen , though , and you 'd be concerned at the cost-cutting implicit in the flags of convenience shown by vessels of all sizes — the only port of registry with a British flavour was Douglas in the Isle of Man . |
| 7 | The claim came from Michael Fallon who is defending the key marginal for the Tories . |
| 8 | Since the Turks ruled the eastern Mediterranean during the days of the Ottoman Empire , pourgouri has been a vital part of the Levantine diet . |
| 9 | Her affair with Miguel ( Antone DiLeo ) , the only hispanic among the soldiers and the only one succumbing to battle fatigue , seems to have petered out into pity on her side , recriminations on his — it is never really established as a physical or emotional reality . |
| 10 | There was a sound of chains rattling , and the fervid snarling of the beasts increased . |
| 11 | The give-away is to watch carefully : chlorosis has the same yellowing between the veins , but it begins and becomes more advanced in the topmost leaflet , and is followed not by a pale green leaf continuing to struggle , but by its total collapse and withering as the iron becomes not just short , but wholly denied . |
| 12 | She is little more than her blue eyes and green shawl , the blue and the green undismayed by the yellows and reds of the book , as the girl is by her father . |
| 13 | The walking wounded from the sports world . |
| 14 | He paused to light the green-brown dirigible of a partagas perfecto with a flickering windproof lighter . |
| 15 | The world champions , having wiped Ireland off their pitch , today settle down in Swansea preparing for the second leg of their tour which culminates in the 16th international between the nations at Cardiff Arms Park on November 21 . |
| 16 | The composition is saved from monotony by the subtle characterisation of these figures , and united by the concentration on them effected by the inward-facing chariot-teams and the looks of some of the seated figures and of the two reclining in the angles who frame the design . |
| 17 | An angular unconformity recognised in the Upper Carboniferous on the flanks of the London-Brabant Massif was of particular interest in this respect . |
| 18 | EN IO PLAY The deliberate dissolving of the senses into sleep |
| 19 | In Vienna , the radical challenge of such a raw aesthetic of the instincts was rather quickly recuperated into an unchallenging baroque and decorative aesthetics . |
| 20 | But the general public does not have a clear understanding of what community care services are trying to achieve , partly because people with mental disorder are the focus of philosophical and ethical disagreements about their care , disagreements which create confusion in the minds of a public unfamiliar with the issues . |
| 21 | Because of these interests she was designated as a dangerous subversive under the terms of the 1927 Public Safety Act . |
| 22 | Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’ |
| 23 | While it would be nice to imagine an alternative history in which either Miss Black or Miss Irwin succeeded in organizing the women compositors , who then ended up with a reading-room full of the encyclopaedias they had themselves typeset , it was not to be . |
| 24 | It meant a three-horse jump-off of the riders on four faults and , when it came to this , Whitaker had no problems going clear with his own Everest Lifestyle to leave Mark Armstrong , Friday night 's Grand Prix winner , as runner-up with Rockall . |
| 25 | While preparing an early draft of the present chapter , the writer heard Bishop Cathal Daly of Down and Connor , a leading moderate among the bishops , respected by all except PIRA , repeat the adage that the Irish constitution was secular , implying that there really was little to be done for the moment . |
| 26 | Two weeks later he wrote to the Petrograd Soviet sketching out his vision of peace from below : ‘ a great International of the democracies , organised as a parliament of the world and strong in the legislatures of every nation … . |
| 27 | His stride shortened ; his legs felt leaden ; his breathing , till now perceptible only in a slight flaring of the nostrils , became harsh and ragged , his mouth wide open , his teeth biting desperately at the intangible air . |
| 28 | Anti-p24 was less common in OMT than in serum , a finding consistent with the results of Soto-Ramirez et al that anti-gag products were less common in OMT when analysed by western blot . |
| 29 | In fact , you are to take a thousand down to the marshes of Kelfazin and leave them there . |
| 30 | A quiet swear word now serves instead of a punch-up with one of her woods , while she had encouraging finishes such as a fourth equal in the Players ' Championship at Tytherington and a fifth place in the recent Gislaved Ladies ' Open in Sweden . |