Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next half hour the rehearsals took on a sudden lift and everyone began to dare to try things out without feeling foolish . |
| 2 | The Acts lay down a minimum standard for air quality , and impose pollution emission controls to particular polluters . |
| 3 | ‘ The accounts go out every six months , ’ he reminded her with a frown . |
| 4 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 5 | Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day . |
| 6 | This is a problem from which the ordinary courts are not immune , but it is true that this type of uncertainty is absent from the rival schemes because there the courts lay down the precise meaning which a term should bear . |
| 7 | No clear principles determine the allocation of disputes to these bodies although the greater the element of discretion and the more important the policy considerations , the less likely it is for the courts to take on the new area of responsibility . |
| 8 | But the chances of Paris opening the decade with a momentous show were always dashed when the Germans held back the three most significant new cars still due this year — the new Audi 100 and BMW 3-series in a matter of weeks and the Mercedes S-Class by months . |
| 9 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 10 | Many of these will be unleashed in Britain by Lynmart , a company headed by Mr Raggett , who worked closely with the Russians to set up the British Astronaut Project , JUNO . |
| 11 | The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day . |
| 12 | The controller mistakenly put it in for one hour ( we had n't crossed our seven as they do in French ) , which caused the authorities to send out a search-and-rescue helicopter for us . |
| 13 | Let the vegetables soften over a low heat . |
| 14 | In 1921 the employers won back the 5 per cent concession made in 1920 to the woollen workers and successfully reduced the cost of jiving addition to wages , paid since the First World War , over the next four years . |
| 15 | Alex and Chris were playing poker as I walked in , and after explaining my predicament one of the Frenchmen handed over an old copy of the local paper which he had brought with him when he had joined . |
| 16 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 17 | You can feel the G-force by just watching the cars roar up the famous Prescott Hill . |
| 18 | Swales , the target for much of the fans anger over the past few weeks , is likely to resist Lee 's offer . |
| 19 | The shops took on a new lease of life , the street-sellers , with their lemonade and nougat , ostrich feathers , mummy-beads and scarabs , carnations and roses , and the street-artists , with their boa-constrictors and baboons , took new heart , and the city in general resumed its normal manic rhythm . |
| 20 | As all the voices hammer out the same syllables together , the accentuation is at its sharpest ( Example 64 , overleaf ) . |
| 21 | I kept on down to the river and stood for a while to watch the coal-barges slide along the black , shiny water . |
| 22 | Bend down at the knees to pick up a bulky object , thus avoiding back strain . |
| 23 | The Scots opened up a 20-shot lead over Ireland after just five ends and then pulled away to finish convincing 56-shot winners . |
| 24 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 25 | her compositions are spun from the rhythmical flowing brushwork : this can occasionally veer towards the mannered or illustrational , such as the lines weaving around a central bulbous form in ‘ Conch ’ . |
| 26 | The exiles set up a medical school at Jundishapur , south of modern Teheran , where their arcane and esoteric formulae were stolen by the Arabs during the early conquests of Islam . |
| 27 | In carrying out the balancing exercise Hoffmann J. set out on the one hand the enormous losses caused to a listed public company , the interests of the creditors of B. & C. , the public interest in having the whole matter investigated and the need of the administrators to find out the true financial position of the company and the truth of the representations made concerning it . |
| 28 | Often , however , it is clear that the commissioners took over an existing track between two villages and straightened it a little , without going to the extreme length of drawing entirely new roads . |
| 29 | At first the belts slip round the flat pulleys — they 're meant to — but as soon as I squirt the gum they grab and the shafts pick up speed real fast , and the spokes on the pulleys blur and disappear . |
| 30 | They were n't missed — the visitors put up a great show in an English field that looked forever foreign ! |