Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [coord] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued that the bread and wine somehow coexisted with the body and blood , and more importantly that the miracle occurred because of the presence of the faithful and not as a result of the magical powers of the priest . |
| 2 | ‘ Discuss , with reference to at least two plays , how tragedy can be enacted not only upon the individual but also upon a family ’ |
| 3 | Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better . |
| 4 | The Countess was known locally for her frequent visits to the sick and the infirm and never at a loss for a generous word or gesture . |
| 5 | I had told her that Ivy had had luncheon with Olivia Manning , and had written : ‘ She is always the same and always in a circle of the lettered . |
| 6 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 7 | When Graham Smith contracted cancer , she invited him and his wife on holiday to Necker in the Caribbean and also on a Mediterranean cruise on board the yacht owned by Greek tycoon , John Latsis . |
| 8 | They may each act alone and without the agreement of the other but not in a way which is incompatible with the order ( s2(7) ( 8 ) ) . |
| 9 | I have mentioned relative to the ignorance , the immorality , the grossness , the obscenity , the drunkenness , the dirtiness , and depravity of the middling and even of a large portion of the better sort of tradesmen , the artisans , and the journeymen tradesmen of London in the days of my youth , may excite a suspicion that the picture I have drawn is a caricature . |
| 10 | When models are constructed from such premisses , for example , there is a tendency to view government as a restrictive and even as a repressive agency . |
| 11 | To ask a child to get dressed is a reasonable requirement of a seven-year-old but not of a two-year-old . |
| 12 | They may be summarised as follows : if it appears that facts existed from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace , as a real and not as a remote possibility , and the constable did in fact anticipate such a breach , he is under a duty to take steps ( whether by arrest or otherwise ) as he reasonably thinks are necessary to prevent the breach of the peace from occurring or , as it may be , from continuing . |
| 13 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 14 | and what that means that if an organization which has not sponsored something in the arts before decides to do so the government will give a similar amount of money er at a lower ceiling of a thousand and up to a maximum of forty thousand was it ? |
| 15 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 16 | Jack Nicholson copes well with the challenge of playing down a down and out with a drink problem as well as a guilt complex . |
| 17 | Although the largest of the 11 suits called for the immediate repayment of $1,200 million , bankers were reported on March 13 to be viewing the move as a defensive and not as a provocative act . |
| 18 | He added that he would be speaking only as an individual and not as a representative of the Chief Police Officers Association . |
| 19 | I was a late and I changed to an early and back to a late . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The heterogeneous nature of its object had led to a heterogeneous discipline , and it was only by making literariness the object of its enquiry that literary science could exist as an independent and indeed as a coherent and systematic type of study . |