Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 2 | A comparison of the measured and calculated seasonal cycles of peroxide at Cape Grim is shown in Fig. 3 . |
| 3 | End-grain wooden boards , which have a chequered look , are the toughest and allow less knife penetration . |
| 4 | To reward the faithful service of count or young man in the palace , the king granted , out of the extensive and farflung royal estates , beneficia — benefices : the very term , meaning " good deeds " , implied something personal and arbitrary , outwith the normal regulations governing family inheritance . |
| 5 | MI5 decided to do a trace on pretty well everybody who 'd been to Cambridge and Oxford during the thirties and showed communist sympathies . |
| 6 | Sickness and injury , from whatever cause , are frequently the natural method of eliminating the weak and maintaining genetic strength in a population . |
| 7 | She was not smiling now , but her look was full of a benevolent curiosity , and the soft island voice , with the lilt of the Gaelic moving through it like a gentle sea-swell , warmed me as palpably as if the sun had come into the dim and cluttered little shop . |
| 8 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 9 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 10 | Its master stroke was its ‘ double cross system ’ , whereby it turned enemy spies into double agents , working for the British and feeding false information back . |
| 11 | He was paid an annual sum by the British and tried any cases where there was a problem between them and the Portuguese . |
| 12 | These 11 large folio books , designated ‘ The Lawrence Notebooks ’ , were compiled over 30 years from the 1890s and contain detailed notes for a comprehensive history of stage scenery and technical appliances , together with lives of the most prominent scenic artists . |
| 13 | The examples of induced innovation in Japan and USA responding to the different and changing relative factor prices are the best available . |
| 14 | They spent a year painting designs on the walls , finding new designer furniture to replace the old and making modest alterations like removing doors to create space and light . |
| 15 | It 's as if , instead of turning towards metal , early '80s hardcore decided to drop the politics for the personal and pursue some semblance of catchiness . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others . |
| 17 | During the process of ‘ translation ’ , the signifier inevitably intercepts the signified and draws each word into a network of other concepts . |
| 18 | Mrs Tota was duly coy about the private room decorated with a gold , brown and green paper , oil paintings of Italian scenery and gilt candelabra ( " very snug " , pronounced the Colonel ) ; she enjoyed her dinner , chattered nineteen to the dozen and decided that Room A at Kettner 's was almost as glamorous as the dear old Châlet at Simla . |
| 19 | The women 's liberation movement builds on those kind of feelings , the guilts and disappointments of the most passionate relationships , and provides the process in which women can say the unsayable and put personal pain back into politics . |
| 20 | To give a counter-example : in a long line consisting of two-note groups , you may need to do the opposite and emphasise each second note . |
| 21 | He is qualified to think the unthinkable and to pose those questions which in normal circumstances would go unasked . |
| 22 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 23 | But the sensational pile-up re-emphasised that any horse could win the National and revitalised public interest . |
| 24 | It coexists , often uneasily , with the anthropological and extended sociological use to indicate the ‘ whole way of life ’ of a distinct people or other social group . |
| 25 | As for the poor old majority of ordinary rugger buggers playing at club level ( roughly 40,000 of them ) , well they have just bee forgotten , relegated as they are , especially in the ‘ test match ’ unions , to timetables dictated by the 90 and playing any days but Saturdays . |
| 26 | Critical path method ( CPM ) is a network planning system developed by Dupont in the 1940s and provides more information on the progress of the project than does the basic Gantt chart . |
| 27 | Critical path method ( CPM ) is a network planning system developed by Dupont in the 1940s and provides more information on the progress of the project than does the basic Gantt chart . |
| 28 | They also created a mythical patron , a just ruler who rewarded the good and punished evil doers by unleashing massive snowstorms . |
| 29 | Governments begin to slough off some of the wealth in taxes to ameliorate the conditions of the poor and provide public amenities for their citizens . |
| 30 | He came to believe that in order to help the poor and to achieve social harmony both the state and charity should work to improve living and working conditions . |