Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introductory leaflet did not mince its words : ‘ It was a period when words contradicted deeds , propaganda realities , and when everyday life was full of fear , hypocrisy , and people felt helpless , having been at the mercy of those in power . ’ |
| 2 | They are characterised by the presence of primary intergranular pores and leached intragranular pores ( Fig. 29a ) but the total porosity does not exceed 10% . |
| 3 | A useful feature of such dynamic spectra is the isosbestic point , which is a point where the total absorbance does not change with time , although the absorbances at points on either side do change as the concentrations of reagents and products evolve . |
| 4 | Such a change of tactics in the gilt-edged market did not preclude intervention , but such intervention would be in accordance with the authorities ' own requirements rather than in response to particular market changes . |
| 5 | The narrow boat did n't boast a telephone . |
| 6 | Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it . |
| 7 | The Assistant Commissioner did n't go into details . |
| 8 | The European consortium did not appear to us to be particularly cohesive in their aims and objectives . |
| 9 | In particular , the European Court did not answer the second question posed for its consideration by this House , which was concerned with the criteria to be applied by the national court in deciding whether or not to grant interim protection of the rights claimed . |
| 10 | The House of Lords gave its decision against " The Sunday Times " in July 1973 , and the European Court did not declare that decision a breach of the Convention until April 1979 — a delay of almost six years . |
| 11 | Providing the European Parliament does not delay the proposal 's passage , Commission officials expect the Council of Energy ministers to approve ALTENER at its November 13 meeting . |
| 12 | The Dutch foreign minister , Hans Van den Broek , sees it as a step back to ‘ inter-governmentalism ’ — where the European Parliament does not count and where a weakened commission can not stop little countries getting clobbered by big ones . |
| 13 | One thing is clear : rail privatisation and the European Community do not mix . |
| 14 | Maybe not : Japan and the European Community do n't seem much interested in this business , do they ? |
| 15 | Earlier this year , the Ince based agricultural chemical firm , warned that jobs were under threat if the European Commission did not take action to prevent cheap Russian fertilisers being dumped onto the UK market , making competition virtually impossible . |
| 16 | Earlier this year , the Ince-based agricultural chemical firm , warned that jobs were under threat if the European Commission did not take action to prevent cheap Russian fertilisers being dumped on to the UK market , making competition virtually impossible . |
| 17 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 18 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 19 | However , we have to bear in mind that , because of the complexity of scribal histories and the fact that the provenance ( date and place of writing ) of the text is not usually divulged , the medievalist faces a number of difficulties that the present-day dialectologist does not face ( for discussion see McIntosh , Samuels and Benskin , 1986 I ; J. Milroy , forthcoming ) , but if these can be solved , the general similarity that I have suggested here is still valid . |
| 20 | The uniformed officer did n't appreciate the joke and pushed Robinson out onto the landing where , already , a steady file of men were spilling from their cells , joining the long line on either side of the landing as they made their way to the toilets . |
| 21 | ‘ You should have shut the stable door so the damn horse do n't bolt . ’ |
| 22 | But the depth of respect and affection felt for the late leader of the Islamic revolution does not extend to his successors , who have broken into two loose camps of so-called ‘ radicals ’ and ‘ pragmatists ’ . |
| 23 | The absorption of the heretic Bosnian ( Bogomil ) Church into the Islamic world did not come about as a result of a dramatic act of mass conversion , but , if Ottoman statistics are to be believed , it was a relatively rapid process . |
| 24 | ‘ The triple vow does n't apply ? ’ |
| 25 | Across central France , in the mairies of small towns , there was a tangible feeling that too much was being given to remote and unelected bureaucrats , that the political class did not speak for France . |
| 26 | An important aspect of the successful implementation of these parts of the constitution was that the political opposition did not object to them . |
| 27 | While Eva was at Usher the political situation did not give them too much pause for thought . |
| 28 | Whipped Cream are Scandinavian but even the odd accent does n't drag this version far enough from the original to make it an interpretation rather than a facsimile . |
| 29 | The Israeli army did not fire . ’ |
| 30 | All the Arab delegations were present in Washington on Dec. 4 , but the Israeli delegation did not arrive until Dec. 9 . |