Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [adv] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since there is only one opening the base has a simple podium on each side instead of a series of pedestals . |
| 2 | and erm another kitchen instead of a dining room or something and that 's the only difference . |
| 3 | The Doctor and Bernice had reached the boundary of the city some distance ahead of the others , after a long and exhausting run . |
| 4 | The men following up therefore had only to pinion the defender and use their momentum to force him backwards to be given yet another kick instead of a scrum . |
| 5 | I filled in the form with this request instead of a claim for money , although I did n't have much hope that anything would happen . |
| 6 | Never approach the victim of an electric shock until the you 're sure you are not risking a shock yourself — otherwise you could become another casualty instead of a rescuer . |
| 7 | If I want another book instead of the Editor 's Choice ( or if I want no book at all ) , I can say so on the form provided . |
| 8 | At this time much of the history was preserved in oral tradition , and there were long Frankish epic poems or cycles of ballads describing the deeds of his predecessors . |
| 9 | By this time much of the swamp forest of northern America had vanished . |
| 10 | And we now report that the arrangements towards this move are well on track for execution this year , some time ahead of the timescale that we indicated last year . |
| 11 | Initially there had been a substantial market for British films in the US , where demand remained for some time ahead of the production levels achieved by American filmmakers . |
| 12 | There has been much discussion recently of the nature of literary canons ; university teachers of English are seen as both initiators and guardians of the canon ( as , for instance , by Kermode in his essay , ‘ Institutional Control of Interpretation ’ ) . |
| 13 | The 1984 Labour Conference rejected a plan for the choice to be made by individual members of the party in each constituency instead of the decision being made by a meeting of representatives of wards and affiliated organizations . |
| 14 | At the conference held in 1888 by the three compositors " unions , the Typographical Association ( English provinces ) , the London Society of Compositors and the Scottish Typographical Association , specifically to discuss the Edinburgh question , the following resolution was passed : That while strongly of the opinion that women are not physically capable of performing the duties of a compositor , the Conference recommends their admission to membership of the various typographical unions upon the same conditions as journeymen , provided always the females are paid strictly in accordance with the scale . |
| 15 | There was little evidence anywhere of the study of the structure of language . |
| 16 | Story-telling becomes a means of preserving the narrator 's protean fluidity and in that respect both of the novel 's titles are appropriate . |
| 17 | The result of using the mean of each triple instead of the median is shown in columns 4 and 5 of figure 9.7 . |
| 18 | The child receives no interest from the parent and so starts to behave in a way to gain more attention regardless of the fact that it is negative and unpleasant . |
| 19 | Mahathir had rejected this proposal , arguing that East Asian countries should be allowed to establish their own grouping independently of the USA . |
| 20 | But quickly now while Jenny 's upstairs , do you have any knowledge , any suspicion even of the source of this letter ? ’ |
| 21 | It , it 's the same fee regardless of the policy rates . |
| 22 | Ferrari spokesman Franco Liistro said : ‘ It 's the same vice again of the defendant not being given a hearing . |
| 23 | If there had been any chance ever of the rescues ' succeeding , that perception would have destroyed it . |
| 24 | Not based upon any consensus of content , nor the expectation that teachers will do the same thing with all the class , this takes seriously the concept of the teacher as the manager of pupils ' own learning instead of a purveyor of information and ideas . |
| 25 | Class S works on the clear principle that the inputs to A2 must both be driven to the same potential regardless of the input voltage to AL , ie , a virtual earth . |
| 26 | An essential element in the movement was the discovery of the rich vernacular traditions of the submerged nations , and the assertion of the right of people to use their own language instead of the German , Magyar or Latin — or even Old Church Slavonic in Serbia — which were the languages of the cultured classes and the church leaders in the respective occupied territories . |
| 27 | The intention was that the mechanical properties would be thereby improved ; they were , but generally only in proportion to the increase in density , at the same time much of the toughness of wood was lost . |
| 28 | Diesel Cars : There 's little doubt now of a verve for derv |
| 29 | " Too many ill-presented , ill-written and extremely long-winded scripts are seen from candidates who seem to have little idea even of the basics of sentence construction . " |
| 30 | Up until that time much of the work in steel-making had been done by individuals or groups of steel-making master craftsmen on a jobbing or sub-contracting basis . |