Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the text he puts considerable effort into emphasising that any conclusions we may arrive at about the Universe and the objects within it are only scientific theories . |
| 2 | Is the Minister aware that the cracker he pulls this Christmas will probably have been packaged by a home worker , as will the Christmas cards and gift tags ? |
| 3 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 4 | If it gets into the predator 's nose it can injure the tissues there and if it enters the mouth it causes violent vomiting . |
| 5 | Doris will account for all that in the script and he 'll fall into line the second he sees hard print . |
| 6 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 7 | Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off . |
| 8 | From the outside it looks uninhabited facing on to the icy , wind-ravaged sidewalks as anonymously as any of the disused warehouse and industrial buildings that litter the once-thriving district . |
| 9 | Yet earlier in the article he mentions that car workers ' wages have risen from 40 per cent to 69 per cent of German workers ' wages . |
| 10 | Despite the problems caused by the fall of the wall he says most Germans are still glad reunifaction occurred . |
| 11 | Mustakimzade 's account lies neatly between these two views : on the one hand he places his article on Abdulkerim after that on Molla Gurani , on the other he refutes this placement by his dating of Molla Arab 's Muftilik . |
| 12 | I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 13 | From the top it provides magnificent views of the city 's famous skyline . |
| 14 | During the day he rows 30 miles . |
| 15 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 16 | Gets up in the morning I sees this pair of red shoes , I thought oh you stupid cow . |
| 17 | In his treatise I Will Pray with the Spirit he describes that Church 's Book of Common Prayer as ‘ a mere human invention , which God is so far from owning it that He expressly forbids it , in His most Holy and Blessed Word ’ . |
| 18 | Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children . |
| 19 | Well , you could do , if , particularly if you had one of our meters , but what , what happens , as sound goes through the air it causes small pressure fluctuations , and our meter measures the size of these , and it gives a reading on a scale in units which we call decibels . |
| 20 | Through the gunsight he fills 15 mils on the pipper . |
| 21 | For the importer it provides short-term finance , pending the re-sale of the goods in his domestic market . |
| 22 | In the main it causes few problems , but in recent years there has been a rise in cases that cause conflict for the advice worker . |
| 23 | If there is any money in the account it earns some interest , if it goes into the red you pay some interest . |
| 24 | In corridors and classrooms throughout the county it bears silent witness to the perception of the man who formed it , to his generous breadth of outlook and to his integrity . |
| 25 | For the distinctions a conception draws between legal rights and other forms of rights and between legal arguments and other forms of argument , signal the character and limits of the justification it believes political decisions provide for state coercion . |
| 26 | He is a very fine actor , but only with his face — his body is quite inexpressive , when he turns his back on the audience he loses all meaning . ’ |
| 27 | He runs day classes and in the summer he takes residential students . |
| 28 | And at the end he shows enormous courage |
| 29 | But in the end it shows total respect for the people who fought and died . |
| 30 | Published at the beginning of the century it comprises 10 volumes , although only the first eight have been translated into English . |