Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The contracts — $217m for Eteq and $127m for Alaris — are the largest yet for the IBM Charlotte facility , which began contract manufacturing last August . |
2 | On May 20 the government deployed 630 companies of paramilitary troops — the largest ever for an election — to supplement security arrangements . |
3 | The good news is that the surplus of a hundred and ninety three thousand six hundred and eighty seven pounds after tax is the largest ever in the Association 's history . |
4 | As the stories are presented , the timeless Paradise is always placed at the beginning and the time-bound here-and-now at the end , though in some versions , as in Christianity , there is also a vision of an eschatological future when mankind , redeemed , will once again get back to the Paradisal beginning . |
5 | because we have done everything we should of done , we 've defended the right all over the world , we went to the Falklands , we , we defended the right in it |
6 | After the red-hot protests of the retired classes , Clinton will not touch the expensive cost of living adjustments to their social security pensions , although he will make taxable 85 per cent of the benefits paid to the rich instead of the present 50 per cent . |
7 | The US space shuttle Columbia successfully completed a 14-day flight on July 9 , the longest ever by a space shuttle crew , during which the prolonged effects of weightlessness on the human body were further studied . |
8 | Before the National Anthem had finished playing , the first air-raid siren of World War 11 had sounded , a false alarm that sent the British nervously into the shelters , some — like Winston Churchill — defiantly clutching bottles of strong drink . |
9 | Elizabeth chased him back into the wet again with no compunction . |
10 | It would not have surprised me to hear him say that he had advised the Almighty strongly against the Flood and other similar claims , the foolishness of which was self-evident , but not to Him . |
11 | You 're now ready to knock the joint apart with a mallet or hammer and a block of scrap softwood . |
12 | Cover the joint loosely with a tent of foil and leave to rest for 15–20 minutes before carving . |
13 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) has pointed out , Britain 's overseas aid budget last year was not maintained but was the lowest ever as a percentage of this country 's gross domestic product . |
14 | Nykrog , for instance , suggested the morals were a redundant , fossilized feature inherited by the fabliaux from twelfth-century precursors that were fables ; Ménard sees the moral largely as a façade and Charles Muscatine is most inclined to see the moral simply as a convenient , traditional way of closing a text . |
15 | Coun Griffiths said : ‘ D furnace was one of the 10 best in the world . |
16 | If so , this would place the body of the nucleosome just above the molecule of GH5 in Fig. 5 . |
17 | For Engels , by contrast , the possibility revealed by the gentile constitution was a major guarantee that the Marxist vision of the withering away of the State in a future communist society was not a recipe for chaos , as was argued by his opponents . |
18 | Ceauşescu must have amused his colleagues with his remarks ‘ strongly in favour of the acceptance of free will ’ and his thought that ‘ the withering away of the State would be very welcome though he did n't quite see the withering away of the [ Communist ] Party ! ’ |
19 | The Marxist claim that a socialist revolution will inaugurate a classless society , an end to all forms of domination and the withering away of the state is just another myth of popular control , propagated by an emerging counter-elite , the leadership of the new industrial working class . |
20 | The 1986 Programme , similarly , contained no reference to the historic goal of the withering away of the state ( it had long been predicted that the only thing that would wither away was the idea that the state should wither away ) ; its main emphasis was upon practical and short-term objectives , and it struck a disciplinarian rather than utopian note in its references to careerism , nepotism and profiteering . |
21 | The people , exploited economically , socially and politically by capitalism would rise up and seize the state for themselves ( socialism ) and then replace it ( after the withering away of the state ) by a system of communism . |
22 | He prophesied that the triumph of communism would lead to the withering away of the state . |
23 | This is truly what , in another context , has been called the withering away of the state as the state ! |
24 | The present duke has made some additions — as part of the pleaseure gardens , he 's added a maze , the second longest in the world — planted five years ago , it 's yet to grow to its full height of 5 or 6 feet . |
25 | Super Sally joined an exclusive club by becoming only the fifth British girl athlete to strike gold and only the second ever on the track , following Ann Packer in Tokyo 28 years ago . |
26 | Over the long term we can detect three broad tendencies : the conservative , authoritarian often expressed in the actions of social morality campaigns ; the liberal often in the vanguard of reforming activity ; and the radical , libertarian ; the first asserting the importance of absolute moral standards ; the second by and large seeking relaxation within a traditional framework of family values ; and the third advocating a transformation of values . |
27 | Consequently , a person holding property ( as a result , of course , of receiving a benefit by way of succession to the deceased ) could find himself a trustee for another on account of words addressed by the deceased either to the beneficiary or another person . |
28 | The three best in the judges ' opinion will receive two free tickets each to see the show . |
29 | So we we well all I suggest is we get the three together after the meeting , John and our two men and say , well look , who 's done it and if they have n't , see the other man when he comes on . |
30 | Preliminary investigations by Netherlands aviation officials indicated that the disaster , the worst ever in the Netherlands , was probably caused by aircraft metal fatigue stemming from excessive stress and corrosion . |