Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of each contract the unexpired period is three years . |
| 2 | ‘ Are they causing a stink over what we did at St Denis the other night ? ’ |
| 3 | The word chapel , capella , means literally ‘ a little cloak ’ ; and the cloak from which the word derives was the cloak of St Martin of Tours , after St Denis the chief patron of the Frankish kingdoms . |
| 4 | In grand surroundings like the choir of St Denis the golden cross made around 1140 stood twenty-three feet high . |
| 5 | In these institutions the budding church musician has the opportunity to develop skills in conducting , performing and composing . |
| 6 | In the letter accompanying the document to the Council 's institutions the Chief Officer underlined that ‘ the Council is already engaged in examining possible longer term models ’ .4 |
| 7 | Much of our assistance has been in the form of contributions through the multilateral institutions the European community programmes , the European bank of reconstruction and developing , the world bank . |
| 8 | This was perhaps what was in Temple 's mind when he wrote that ‘ whereas in communities governed by native institutions the white man , qua white man , is regarded with great respect , in those districts where the native administrations have been swept away he is regarded as a person of no very great significance ’ . |
| 9 | Having accepted the fact that good lighting , unworn carpeting ( fitted if possible ) or non-slip vinyl floor-covering and an absence of rugs and odd mats is essential , a check should be made on the positioning and stability of the handrail the elderly person will depend upon for going up and down stairs . |
| 10 | The right hand is laid on the breast , but as with Nikandre the belted waist makes a sharp horizontal accent below which the skirt is a straight pillar , emphasised here by rectilinear incisions , guidelines for paint no doubt also present on the marble though perhaps more discreetly ( see below , p. 28 ) . |
| 11 | Justin held in abhorrence the Gnostic mixing of myths and cults to make an unpalatable bouillabaisse of religions . |
| 12 | Sadly , the spirit of 1992 had not reached the denizens of Elveden Forest ; not one single person played boules the whole time I was there . |
| 13 | Press F10 to pop-up the on-line help |
| 14 | By the time that Henry VII reached the throne the English Parliament had already become established as a powerful force in government , law , and politics . |
| 15 | WALLS The only thing left if your house or flat is still not as warm as you would like is wall insulation . |
| 16 | Well why not try Wolverhampton the golden glow of the amber shirts of Wolves will take on the proudly bar coded Magpies and would n't we like to see Notts wallop Wolves . |
| 17 | In return for this concession the English government obtained a number of crucial episcopal appointments , not least the translation of Sudbury to Canterbury ; moreover , the good offices of the pope were assured in the current peace negotiations ; finally , some of the money would find its way back to the English crown for the ransom of the pope 's brother , Roger Beaufort , who was then an English prisoner of war . |
| 18 | In the Annelida and the Onychophora the internal structure of each segment is very similar to that of the segment preceding or following it . |
| 19 | In the corresponding Republican primary the incumbent governor , Bob Martinez , defeated four opponents to secure his party 's nomination for the second time . |
| 20 | ‘ As there are but few persons who love to meditate upon scenes of death , and too many are only able to view the gloomy side of them , instead of following by the eye of faith the glorious progress of the departing saint , I will hasten to end of my story . ’ |
| 21 | Knowledge pretends it is completely different from faith and makes faith the odd man out by ignoring its own assumptions . |
| 22 | The idea was to see how much faith the blindfolded person had in his so called friends . |
| 23 | Immediately a whirlwind of change ripped through Althorp as the new mistress endeavoured to turn the family home into a paying proposition so that the awesome debts the new Earl had taken on could be paid off . |
| 24 | She entered the convent at the age of eighteen , at the wish of her Parents , and took the veil the following year . |
| 25 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 26 | ‘ About what happened on the yacht the other day . ’ |
| 27 | In my position you soon learn that football has only one certainty , that at the end of ninety minutes the final whistle blows unless there is extra time . |
| 28 | Within two minutes the great galley , packed with every fighting man left in Duart , was heading out of the bay . |
| 29 | After a few minutes the Carabinieri vehicle revved up and screeched off down the road . |
| 30 | NEEDING to unwind the key in my back for 10 minutes the other day I passed a church near Everton 's ground declaring ; ‘ It 's never too late to talk to God . ’ |