Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among book ephemera I must also spare a paragraph for the modest bookmark , much neglected and too little chronicled.2 I do not , of course , refer to improvised examples such as scraps of brown paper and bacon rinds , but to the commercially produced strips of silk , paper and card , some of them elaborately lettered and decorated , deckled , frilled , tassled and ribboned . |
| 2 | Adjustable floodlight with PIR sensor : the economically priced Powerflood from ELEC has a range of 12m |
| 3 | The immaculately conceived Mother of God with the Christ Child is apparently only one of the latest — although , as we shall see later , not the latest — and most idealized versions of this idea . |
| 4 | He may perhaps speculate with me on whether the widely reported drop in standards of literacy among children of school-leaving age can in any way be connected with the massive dispersals and changes which have taken place in these educational libraries . |
| 5 | Worthy of mention in this review of closures and revivals is the widely applauded reprieve by Chris Green , director of Network SouthEast , of London 's Marylebone station on 30 April 1986 . |
| 6 | Some countries are keener on being cleaner than others and it has been left up to the badly affected states of Europe to set the best example . |
| 7 | The skilfully deployed irony in Herbert 's case is enhanced by the Psalm 's announcement of God 's punishment of those who are his people 's enemies , rather than the reverse as Herbert 's poem suggests . |
| 8 | Some plants and animals are becoming scarce in the intensely farmed parts of East Lothian but here is a chance to ensure that you will see them . |
| 9 | Although humans may have the longest lifespan of any mammal , giant tortoises have the longest recorded lives among vertebrates . |
| 10 | AYSGARTH Falls , Ingleton Falls and Hardraw Force are probably the most visited waterfalls in Yorkshire , for like Malham Cove , Bolton Abbey and the show caves of White Scar and Ingleborough , they are amongst the " honeypots " that attract coachloads of trippers to the Dales . |
| 11 | One of the most debated areas of anatomy is the early history of the vertebrate nasal and hypophysial regions already mentioned above . |
| 12 | He designed for others ( costumes for Diaghilev and embroidery for Schiaparelli ) , but he also ‘ designed ’ himself ; his unquenchable desire for fame and his talent for self-publicity made him the most photographed man in Paris . |
| 13 | It is said to be the most photographed village in Norway . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , this lava lake is one of the most photographed features in Hawaii , and the crater has been labelled in suitable post-card terminology ‘ The House of Everlasting Fire ’ . |
| 15 | All that remained was the 18th — and the stone Swilcan Bridge , perhaps the most photographed landmark in golf . |
| 16 | If you feel like a gentle lakeside stroll Grasmere Lake is to hand , or for the more energetic , Helvellyn , the most climbed peak in England , rises Up only a short distance from the village . |
| 17 | In a rip-and-tear piece , the newsletter dismisses as canards all the fondly held notions about RISC and makes an item-by-item case that RISC as faster , cheaper and easier to design is all illusion . |
| 18 | The eagerly awaited titles from Harvey Miller are Marjon van der Meulen 's Rubens ' Copies after the Antique and Elizabeth McGrath 's Rubens ' Subjects from History . |
| 19 | Cleveland 's game with Esh tomorrow night is not the only rearranged match in progress . |
| 20 | The value of a condensing boiler is that it retrieves most of the expensively generated heat from flue gases and puts this heat back into the system . |
| 21 | The streets of the city welcomed her as an old friend as she made her way unerringly towards the brilliantly lit entrance of Tivoli . |
| 22 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 23 | The ultimate defender of this civilised world was not , in Nizan 's eyes , the democratically elected governments of France and Great Britain , but the developing Soviet socialist state . |
| 24 | A four-point agreement laid down that borders could be changed only by democratic and legal procedures , and that the democratically expressed will of nations and republics to self-determination including secession and association should be respected . |
| 25 | In brief , the Suttonian method comprised treatment which was almost painless and relatively mild in its effects , while the greatly decreased number of pustules lessened disfigurement . |
| 26 | In part , this reflected the greatly reduced role of hospital services , which fell from three-quarters to little more than a quarter of all residential places . |
| 27 | Line Of Vision , who finished second to the highly rated Argentum at Nottingham , should do best of the pair , but may fail to hold the impressive Brighton winner , Alysardi ( 3.40 ) , who at $205,000 as a yearling , cost almost 10 times as much . |
| 28 | Above all , it has been unable to bring the highly differentiated elements of strategy and social constituencies together behind a convincing vision of a more deeply democratic and at the same time thoroughly 20th-century , socially just society . |
| 29 | Eliot instances the co-ordination of different types of education in ‘ the highly organized societies of Polynesia ’ . |
| 30 | The young man had the highly charged presence of Jonah Barrington to help him . |