Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beautifully decorated inside and out , the Maria offers a good standard of accommodation and traditional family hospitality at a reasonable price . |
| 2 | ‘ The death of Marcos offers a momentous opportunity for the Aquino government to rally the people behind the ideals which swept it to power : freedom and democracy , bread and justice . |
| 3 | Ward lights the blue touch-paper at York |
| 4 | The sumptuous Sherborne Missal represents the high point of Siferwas 's art . |
| 5 | Sussex offers the Elizabethan majesty of Parham House , the Edwardian beauty of Parham House , the Edwardian beauty of Preston Manor and the Classical lines of Petworth House . |
| 6 | The Belmore Centre in Stoke Mandeville offers a bewildering combination of alternative treatments for the body , mind and soul . |
| 7 | Shamir receives a frosty reception from US President Bush during a Washington meeting . |
| 8 | Plymouth reader JOHN RUNDLE offers a step-by-step guide to breeding Neon Tetras . |
| 9 | Once the world 's largest woollen mill , now a working museum , Armley Mills offers a realistic glimpse into Yorkshire 's industrial heritage . |
| 10 | Little was known about the products of many of these areas , and much research still needs to be done but Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to redressing the balance . |
| 11 | At one point in Maus II , Vladek 's wife Anja plays a murderous game of hide-and-seek , chased up and down the bunk beds of a vast , empty Auschwitz barracks by a guard reduced in close-up to a pair of vicious piggy eyes above a snarling snout ( Poles are pigs in a world where Jews are mice efficiently exterminated by German cats ) . |
| 12 | ABA involves the scientific application of one of the most robust theories in psychology . |
| 13 | I was particularly taken by Debra Gillett as the likeable innocent who takes some hard knocks before the night is out , while Danny Webb offers a memorable portrait of the sharpest and most driven of the salesmen , cruelly torn between elation at his own success and a growing awareness of just how grubby the whole operation is . |
| 14 | The Krays evokes the brutish power of the notorious underworld twins . |
| 15 | Two organisations have now managed to set up clearing facilities enabling them to dispense hard currency in Moscow : Credobank , a Moscow-based commercial bank , began offering cash advances to Visa card holders from early March and American Express has been offering a limited service to its card holders from its Moscow representative office ; Credobank has an on-line connection to a London clearing centre to check all cards — the connection was organised by Sprint Networks ; the bank also plans to offer cash service in some Moscow hotels . |
| 16 | At present there are almost 15,000 aircraft registered in the UK , and of these the CAA has no valid address for about one per cent of the total . |
| 17 | WCJ 's Pyscho Buttress has a new line between Sunrise and Early One Morning . |
| 18 | The Corrado also has a multi-function computer , while the Calibra has a no-cost option of metallic paint . |
| 19 | The RFP has the potential advantage of a theoretically high plasma pressure relative to the external magnetic field pressure . |
| 20 | Outside politics Aristotle has the usual mixture of odd bits of information — for instance that in certain parts of the Celtic land it is too cold for donkeys to procreate ( De gener. anim. 2.8.748a ) . |
| 21 | Goulding has a wild streak in him which has got him sent off twice and sin-binned four times . |
| 22 | The Middle Temple has the American equivalent of Halsbury , the Corpus Juris Secundum . |
| 23 | Sea-lion Island has a tremendous wealth of wildlife within a comparatively small area ( the island is less than eight kilometres long by three across ) and has all of the five penguin species regularly nesting in the Falklands . |
| 24 | It holds a pool of the securities of each listed company and on dealings on The Exchange each seller transfers to SEPON , thus momentarily augmenting its pool and out of it SEPON transfers the appropriate amount of shares to each purchaser . |
| 25 | ( The field of Waterloo has a special significance for the regiment ) . |
| 26 | Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace . |
| 27 | Louis Armstrong has a good claim to being the most influential popular singer of the century . |
| 28 | He suspects that Ivor has a secret collection of stolen coins . |
| 29 | Fulham has a good atmosphere in the evening , and I think a bookshop is the perfect place for people to meet , ’ says Harriet Currie . |
| 30 | Mr Edmond has the dubious honour of being tried by the District of Columbia 's first anonymous jury . |