Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trees in the park misted over with young green , bright spring yellow flowers crowding front gardens ; embassy lawns starred with daisies ; snowdrop beds , municipal grass studded with crocuses . |
| 2 | The " cooling-off " period in the case where the debtor makes an offer , allows the debtor the opportunity to cancel up to five days from receipt of the second copy of the agreement which must be sent to him ( s68(a) ) . |
| 3 | And literacy is not the end of the road : there is the added incentive that those adults who can read and write now have the opportunity to go on to higher education through a special rural matriculation scheme . |
| 4 | If we could be certain ( as we ought ) that every person of 16 had the opportunity to go on to further education or practical , examinable work , then we could drop the 16+ examination without loss , and with a possible simplification of the school curriculum up to that point . |
| 5 | The 1988 Housing Act , as we have seen , offered tenants the opportunity to opt out of local authority control . |
| 6 | They must naturally be pursued , but always giving counsellees the opportunity to move on to other , more crucial issues . |
| 7 | My staff and I welcome the opportunity to sit down with local exporters and importers to offer not only our own expertise but to provide the link to the truly international help that is available . |
| 8 | Over 40 former staff took the opportunity to catch up with old friends and discuss their pension queries with Beryl Aldridge from Pensions Department , Hammersmith . |
| 9 | IF you have ever wondered whether or not you would enjoy a canal holiday , a Cheshire boat operator is offering the opportunity to find out on short cut-price ‘ taster ’ breaks . |
| 10 | This is always a very popular event , one where you have the opportunity to meet up with old friends and we hope make new ones ; so please obtain your tickets early to avoid disappointment . |
| 11 | The horse that forgot about the tiger that lived in its lair at the bottom of the hill , or at any time disregarded the danger , would very soon become the tiger 's dinner , and so lack the opportunity to pass on to future generations its genes for a poor memory and a low threshold of fear . |
| 12 | Their long carrot-coloured hair had been fought into plaits while the remainder stuck out in frizzy uncontrollable waves . |
| 13 | Around 30% of the current output consists of high-quality West of England cloth , the remainder made up with technical fibres such as nylons , polyesters and polyamides . |
| 14 | All the fins are clear except the dorsal fin which has black at the base moving up into light yellow with a dark black edging to the dorsal fin tipped with yellow . |
| 15 | Previously these costs were charged to the provision set up in prior years for the write-down on the withdrawal from property development . |
| 16 | Many local-government officers experiencing the change brought about by recent legislation , are now beginning to reflect that culture . |
| 17 | You can make the bike move up to 1.5 metres in a corner just by shifting your weight . |
| 18 | Dead on cue the runner hurries over to Eli to answer his question . |
| 19 | How many feet does the tide rise down at this dock ? |
| 20 | But in ( 76 ) with the predicate qualifier the lady and her red hair are intensionally separated ; therefore while it is still possible to use ( 76 ) to the same effect as ( 75 ) , with everything that is constructed with the verb covered by without solid evidence , this notion may also be taken as only related to one of the two extending elements ; that is , Oliver may reliably know her and what she is like — it is her image as red-haired that was constructed without solid evidence . |
| 21 | ‘ I dare say he wo n't have the heart to push on with any changes , ’ said Fishbane . |
| 22 | At birth , the heart races along at 140 beats a minute , but by the time we reach adulthood the rate has dropped to 70 beats a minute . |
| 23 | The afternoon passed by in such a confusion of sights and sounds that she thought she would never remember any of them . |
| 24 | My feet were sore , I was roasted like Sunday pork , and I did n't even have the money to leap on to one of the buses that flashed past me . |
| 25 | But the second half of the lyric moves on from this : the completion of the line looks back to what has gone before in its rhyme , but syntactically and alliteratively it moves forward to convey the perception of that very still mourning symptomatic of the inner spiritual movement of Christ 's coming . |
| 26 | Proast was restored in 1692 , but did not secure arrears of stipend , and the case dragged on until 1698 , in the reign of Archbishop Thomas Tenison [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all . |
| 28 | When the office lifers came the next day and tried to make the computer come up with some figures they wanted , what it printed out was this poet 's poetry instead . |
| 29 | Sky fell fast asleep when the bidding came up for Italian football — that 's ironic , since they had shown it so compulsively themselves . |
| 30 | The archbishop came back under papal orders to avoid giving offence to the king . |