Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [vb pp] [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although humans may have the longest lifespan of any mammal , giant tortoises have the longest recorded lives among vertebrates . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One of the most debated areas of anatomy is the early history of the vertebrate nasal and hypophysial regions already mentioned above . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Eliot instances the co-ordination of different types of education in ‘ the highly organized societies of Polynesia ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Editorial highlights of a busy year included the much praised Answers for Ulster series which provided three viewpoints on ways forward coinciding with the talks by Peter Brooke , ’ said Mr Barrons . |
| 14 | this one is wrong In addition to the generally recognized senses of vision , hearing , touch , smell and taste , human beings are known to have an additional one , called proprioception or kinaesthesia. whereby we are aware of the relative position of our limbs , the tensions in our muscles and so on . |
| 15 | Although it was extensively used to model figures such as the river god at Ham , most of the surviving pieces are smaller decorative items such as the pineapple finials in the south terrace at Ham and the richly ornamented urns at Killerton in Devon . |
| 16 | The Wembley square-go was more of a blot on Keegan 's copy book than on the already soiled jotters of William Bremner . |
| 17 | News from Whitbread that it will make extra provisions of £37m , alongside another £10m considered ‘ normal ’ , to cover bad debts on free-trade loans in the hard-hit south of England knocked 19½p off the already weakened shares to 358½p . |
| 18 | They recruited and trained some of West Africa 's best journalists , building on the already established foundations of newspaper readership and reporting . |
| 19 | In this tradition , before this development , the sociology of culture had significantly been concentrated on the already institutionalized areas of religion and education . |
| 20 | Many farmers are rediscovering the largely abandoned practices of crop rotation and manure spreading . |
| 21 | He failed as a writer and as an actor but then discovered that the easily acquired skills of movie-making would enable him to become the artist and prophet for which his background had prepared him and for which Progressive America was so eagerly waiting . |
| 22 | The flashcard is a simple example of one of the best documented principles of memory ; things that are stored together tend to be recovered together . |
| 23 | SHEILA JORDAN — one of the best kept secrets in jazz , sings without a net . |
| 24 | A dramatization of stories in verse and prose for children from eight to eighty , featuring some of the best loved characters from children 's fiction : the Pied Piper of Hamelin , the Little Prince , Winnie the Pooh , Christopher Robin . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's sod 's law and an example of the best laid plans of mice and men going wrong , ’ said Mr Norris . |
| 26 | CHESTERS ROMAN FORT AND MUSEUM Set in the ancient wooded valleys of Northumberland overlooking the River North Tyne , Chesters is one of the best preserved buildings on Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 27 | One of the best known illustrations of inversion is the model on a Euclidean plane , such as this page , that the French mathematician Henri Poincaré made of the non Euclidean ‘ hyperbolic ’ plane , A Euclidean plane is one that obeys Euclid 's famous fifth postulate : in other words , given a line , and a point not on that line , only one other line in the plane ( a parallel to the first line ) can pass through the point and not meet the given line . |
| 28 | For those who do n't know it , the Haute Route runs from Chamonix to Zermatt in the Alps and is one of the best known routes in Europe . |
| 29 | This phenomenon crossed the Atlantic and reappeared in William Wilson , one of the best known stories of Edgar Allan Poe . |
| 30 | A Comedie Franaise actor , he joined the Underground and found his way to London and the B.B.C. to become one of the best known announcers on Les Franais Parient aux Franais , banned by the Nazis but heard throughout France . |