Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 2 | The government 's plans effectively met the demands of the African National Congress ( ANC ) and other opposition groups for a transitional constitution to be devised by a constituent assembly chosen on a representative basis . |
| 3 | Since the contributors to the literature on the new classical macroeconomics rarely take the trouble to furnish a fully articulated theory of the firm in which cost shocks are given equal prominence with demand shocks , one is entitled to take what they have to say on short-run supply responses with a large fistful of salt . |
| 4 | By measuring the energy spectrum of the positron , the researchers effectively measure the spectrum of the antineutrinos arriving at the detector . |
| 5 | He said that this could lead to ‘ a non-statutory monopoly ’ and trigger a free-for-all among farmers with the housewife eventually footing the bill . |
| 6 | Eight pairs of sea eagles attempted to breed in Scotland this year , with four pairs successfully rearing a total of five young . |
| 7 | Then in one easy movement his hand slid a little higher , his fingers deftly slipping the bra straps from her shoulders , then freeing her eager breasts from the lacy cups that imprisoned them . |
| 8 | The Australian Board eventually withdrew the stigma of ‘ unsportsmanlike ’ and the tour continued . |
| 9 | Melanie nervously clattered the animals back into the box . |
| 10 | Above : Unidentified regular infantry unit in field dress ; the fact that some enlisted men wear the crossed rifles on the left side of their slouch hats presumably dates the photograph after July 1899 , when the badge was authorized ( though for wear on the front ) . |
| 11 | The youngster of today who comes to grips for the first time with a personal computer little imagines the wealth of mathematical inventiveness invested in the design of the software and in the electronic circuitry itself . |
| 12 | In other words , the information as experienced by the user rarely took the forms in which it was held in the memories of the system or network . |
| 13 | As the name implies you walk towards the back of the board thereby sinking the tail . |
| 14 | If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light . |
| 15 | The Tenant paying the rent hereby reserved and performing and observing the covenants on the Tenant 's part herein contained the Landlord hereby covenants with the Tenant as follows : |
| 16 | Though few investors would believe it , stockmarket indices rarely end a year worth less , in nominal terms , than they began it . |
| 17 | IBM Corp duly announced a whole string of speech recognition products , ranging from basic personal computer applications to leading-edge speech technology , developed at the Thomas J Watson Research Center . |
| 18 | Intel Corp duly launched a new copyright infringement case against Advanced Micro Devices Inc over the latter 's just-announced Am486 parts that include Intel microcode . |
| 19 | Rosalind gladly let the police-sergeant take away the envelope and hurried off , singing , to telephone to Richard . |
| 20 | When I took over , it was evident that the need for new roads vastly outstripped the likely supply . |
| 21 | If contestants successfully remembered the prizes they won them . |
| 22 | Gun battles between rival gangs of inmates had left 18 prisoners dead following an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Olivero Chavez Araujo , a self-styled drug baron serving an eight-year sentence for drug trafficking . |
| 23 | I knew Mum rarely read a newspaper so she would n't hear of the killing that way . |
| 24 | The drawing suggests that an apparently normal decision eventually returns the decider to his starting point . |
| 25 | The wide range of courses in terms of content and timespan presumably reflects the budget and teaching staff available and the demand created by service needs ( notably shortage of staff in specific areas ) , and the needs expressed by interested applicants . |
| 26 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 27 | Reception under conditions of distraction is taken to its extreme in television , which is half watched in the course of pursuing other activities and in which very often , especially among children , entire programmes are not viewed at all ; instead , fingers rarely leave the remote control device as there is a constant change of channels ( Ellis 1982 , p. 137 ) . |
| 28 | Unfortunately these histories are not always clear owing to the limitations of the human body and its inability verbally to state the problems . |
| 29 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 30 | ( Associated Newspapers did the same , and both groups thereby had a useful cushion when the oil price rises and economic crises of the early 1970s saw newsprint prices quadruple . ) |