Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True to the Romantic tradition from which this belief sprang , the imagination was valued more than the analytical intelligence , the specific more than the general , experience more than discourse , connaitre more than savoir . |
| 2 | Her mind stumbled over the new/old certainly that the garden-master she had loved was indeed a puppet . |
| 3 | The drawers slide smoothly in and out without a sound ; one of the perks of picking on the well-off rather than the chipboard classes . |
| 4 | He had been there so long , had been so doubtful — and , until recently , so indifferent — about seeing the outside again that the mention of discharge took him by surprise . |
| 5 | I do n't know if the Guiness is as good at the Imperial anymore as the pub has changed hands ! ! ! . |
| 6 | They were chosen for the award by an independent panel of judges comprising leading local journalists from the print and electronic media and are the sixth award winners from the state of Kedah and the 142nd overall since the scheme was launched in July 1975 . |
| 7 | Similarly , for spatial questions it was predicted that more correct responses would occur in association with eye movement to the left rather than the right . |
| 8 | Mirth is an escape from the humdrum just as the transcendent is an escape from the mundane . |
| 9 | The jury is still out on the Criminal Justice Act , even if it is swinging towards the negative rather than the positive . |
| 10 | He had been eager to start work upon the latter ever since the completion , and relative failure , of The Family Reunion — if only to correct the overt poeticizing and the unbalanced structure which he discerned in that drama . |
| 11 | The latter once provided the power for a series of mills , Lower , Upper and Middle . |
| 12 | The two's there cos the mephile groups |
| 13 | When they were given a choice between a familiar and a novel member of the opposite sex , birds might actually choose the familiar even when the novel really did not look so very different to our eyes ( Miller , 1979 ; Bateson , 1980 ; Slater & Clements , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | It so happened that two different remedies were sought in this case , but the decision on the issue of standing would have been the same even if the applicant had sought two declarations in different terms . |
| 15 | and then pensions are the same again except the guy 's a carpenter , a self-employed carpenter , and then finally erm there 's only one of you doing er so you Robert going for the savings , you 're doing savings are n't you ? |
| 16 | The state of the river and a temperature barely above freezing means it is going to be hard today but I will still feed about a dozen maggots when I cast in , and them the same again when the float is halfway down the swim . |
| 17 | ‘ I weigh exactly the same now as the day I got married ’ |
| 18 | Yes he was , you see and he used to come down , you know , and everybody 's family waiting to go into that tiny tiny little surgery but I do n't know if it 's the same now and the door half open in er well , anyway , still er he , he , he , he used to put something in a bottle and fill it up with water some liquid |
| 19 | The combs hang vertically with the hexagonal cells on them facing outwards and tilted slightly upwards from the horizontal so that the honey , before it is capped off , does not run out . |
| 20 | The issue has bitterly divided the community surrounding the common ever since the complex was first mooted . |
| 21 | Everything was out in the open now and the dream she had had for so long was about to turn into reality . |
| 22 | The connections should be arranged so that the ballvalve is connected to one cistern and the cold feeds to the other so that the water does n't become stagnant . |
| 23 | Add the two together and the answer Trent found most obvious was a coup d'état . |
| 24 | He chose ‘ the dog 's path ’ , and chose it consciously , because it was the crooked rather than the straight , it created difficulties , and those difficulties fed his art . |
| 25 | A stodgy mix of colonial history , racial paranoia , wet hankie sentiment and rough-hewn myth-making , it laid the ground-work for the Western even before the frontier had advanced much beyond the west of New York State . |
| 26 | She was interested in the modern rather than the ancient , preferring Nottingham to York , new country seats and their furniture , paintings , formal gardens , and waterworks to ancient houses , and contemporary manufacturing , mining , and drainage projects to antiquities . |
| 27 | However , I shall certainly consider whether her suggestion could be included and I am sure that she is right to suggest the positive rather than the negative . |
| 28 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 29 | Earn outs were particularly popular in the 1980s especially where the vendor worked as an employee of the purchaser in a service-based business after completion as it is a means of providing an incentive to the vendor where the profits may depend heavily on the skills of the employees . |
| 30 | App says that the next well where the test might soon be applied could be Cusiana-2A , but that decision will be taken as this issue goes to print . |