Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the normal past tense forms in , for example , Belfast vernacular are kep , slep , swep , deletion is categorical for many speakers . |
| 2 | The ball over the top , the low firm crosses driven in so that he can pick up the pieces . |
| 3 | Continuing the conference theme of New developments , pre- and post-16 , organiser Dr Bill Harrison and Dave Sant ( Sheffield Polytechnic ) emphasised the extensive industrial advice incorporated in , respectively , the 20 Chemistry Plus ( KS 3 and 4 ) and the Problem solving with industry ( KS 2 and 3 ) topics , while Diane Stead and Dave Marsden ( York ) engaged the 70 participants in an active learning demonstration of Exciting science and engineering project ( KS 2 and 3 ) . |
| 4 | he here 's a Pat Boone record or something and all of a sudden he started dancing to all this and the old black bloke comes in and says oh my life , he could n't get any of the old blokes . |
| 5 | I 'm not denying people 's right to do it , but politics is about power , and suppose the Social Democratic Party moved in and swept the board , what would we do then ? |
| 6 | Studies of intergovernmental relations , and of inputs and outputs , both failed to consider the actual political processes operating in and around local government . |
| 7 | A heavy wooden desk with a large-scale ordnance survey map of the area pinned out across it , and some papers which Donaldson was trying to read upside-down when the little fat man walked in . |
| 8 | In later years , many of the rural and semi-rural mills went out of business as a result of competition from the large steam-powered mills built in and around Gloucester Docks . |
| 9 | A hasty glance took in the gorgeous antique furniture crammed in as if it had been recently off-loaded by a dealer , the small , pristine cooker and the sink pushed against the soft ochre-washed wall as if it was an after-thought . |
| 10 | Despite the cold wet wind blowing in hard from the street , the cloud of mephitic vapours lingered stupefyingly about our heads . |
| 11 | There were the inevitable late-night nutters ringing in after a beer too many , but many of the questions revolved around the evolution of humans . |
| 12 | The few French privatisations that occurred before the current Socialist government came in — Compagnie Financiere de Suez being a good example - excited heavy demand from French retail investors , rather as British Gas and British Telecom did in the UK . |
| 13 | This was the case even with black and white ( monochrome ) , though the shallow focal planes preferred in much 1930s cinematography , sharp only on the foreground or middle ground , tolerated slightly dim and fuzzy backgrounds which were seen out of focus in the final process shot . |
| 14 | Just as the post-war economic depression set in , so it signalled its own personal tragedy for the Titford family : on 25 February 1816 , Ben the Outrider died , aged barely 29 . |
| 15 | The post-war hexagonal library fits in well enough with the street . |
| 16 | The whole corridor had a black patina that stuck to the soles of her shoes as she walked on it , cigarettes smeared in spilt liquor with the occasional squashed sandwich mashed in . |
| 17 | Yet it remains as a holy sanctuary where birds and green slime mould give it life and only the occasional human passer-by ventures in to discover its cavernous majesty . |
| 18 | All these memories are connected incoherently to my mother : the oozing uterine passage closing in on Superman ; the dead man disclosed by nuns [ so pretty and so erotically close to the nightclub ] ; and the sadness of Limelight where , sitting in the dark with her I knew her pleasure at the tale was different to mine , an adult one , beyond me . |
| 19 | The only English-trained horses pitched in against Mill Reef were Ortis , second in the King George after winning the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot , and the three-year-old Royalty , unbeaten but untried in high-class company . |
| 20 | As we can see , the British parliamentary and the American presidential systems work in very different ways . |
| 21 | ‘ The reason I do n't have a band is that for the longest time I 've been disgusted with the mode that the American independent scene operates in and I do n't want to be associated with that . |
| 22 | Watch in delight as the city 's trendiest inhabitants jetski down Fifth Avenue , or strap on your tanks and check out the exotic undersea life flitting in and out of the ruined buildings where Harlem used to be . |
| 23 | Picking up a hefty cleaver he chopped the green skinned creature clean in half as easily as if it had been a stick of celery . |
| 24 | Its collapse could have had serious roll-on effects on the finances of these airports , and the relevant local authorities stepped in . |
| 25 | Chavez , who was wounded in the jaw , had previously been running the prison and continued his drug business by cellular telephone from an air-conditioned suite of cells , while the other 1,200 inmates remained in severely overcrowded conditions . |
| 26 | Every business transaction will therefore require two entries to be made in our books — one representing value going out , the other representing value coming in . |
| 27 | The reductionism at work in the other three statements moves in exactly the opposite direction . |
| 28 | All four employ the variable narrative voice found in Thru , and Amalgamemnon , Verbivore , and Textermination contain metalepses . |
| 29 | Between keeping up with opera , theatre , art exhibitions and all the other things that the upper middle classes go in for , my playtime was severely limited . |
| 30 | Around the mid century the new complex fashion comes in from East Greece , but later than the first of these is the last of the old , the exquisite ‘ Peplos kore ’ ( 679 , fig. 39 ) . |