Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It celebrates black women as dynamic and effective , affirms their ability to survive the grimmest experience , and makes their radiant subjectivity triumph over the normal deeply negative representations of them . |
| 2 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |
| 3 | Nowhere is the balance between the natural and the contrived so hard to attain as in the making of a ‘ domesticated ’ meadow . |
| 4 | They quite often leaped about on national monuments screaming , ripping apart their black pyjamas , and generally behaving as if you were all of the Grateful Dead rolled into one . |
| 5 | Was he taking up the gauntlet against the subtle yet inevitable erosion such wealth would bring to the culture of his people ? |
| 6 | The 15th normally annual session of UNEP 's Governing Council at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi , the Kenyan capital , on May 15-26 , 1989 , was attended by representatives of 103 governments , 26 UN agencies , eight intergovernmental bodies and 29 international non-governmental organizations . |
| 7 | One fact which people often forget is that horses which have passed the acute clinically ill stage of the disease will still remain infectious for up to six weeks or possibly even longer . |
| 8 | Raising herself on one arm , she stared down at his face , absorbing every detail of it , admiring the hard bones , the strong yet soft lines of his mouth , the twin fans of eyelashes resting against his cheekbones as , eyes closed , he waited , as all men must , for his strength to return after such an explosion of passionate need . |
| 9 | Perhaps the slow movement misses out on exploratory shadings , but this is still a performance that can hold its own beside the finest currently available — which is to say Mintz and Bronfman on DG . |
| 10 | The Friendly Societies were indeed the largest exclusively working-class organizations in Britain by 1900 . |
| 11 | IBM has posted the largest ever annual loss in US corporate history — $4.96 billion . |
| 12 | THE largest ever new product offering was on show at the ‘ Wedgwood 1993 ’ annual trade fair at Barlaston . |
| 13 | As a point of interest , the $1.65 billion financing for IBM was the largest ever investment-grade corporate-bond issue . |
| 14 | This scheme would call for 10 hydroelectric plants along a 1,000 km stretch of river and would be one of the largest ever hydro-electric undertakings . |
| 15 | This initiative had the particular support of President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia , who had noted that in most Latin American countries " the indigenous peoples make up the largest seriously poor groups " . |
| 16 | The Wilhelmshaven dockyard had been , in its day , the largest naval yard in Europe , and is likely to go down as the largest purely naval yard in history . |
| 17 | The turning point in our campaign came in 1987 when the Easthall Residents Association ( ERA ) and our allies worked together on two unique initiatives — the Heatfest Housing Project and ‘ Housing makes you Sick ’ — the largest fully independent survey into housing and health ever carried out in Britain . |
| 18 | But the largest readily accessible reservoir of support lay in the French empire , which the Germans did not occupy and where Vichy 's authority was uncertain . |
| 19 | My members were the worst representatives of the then-prevailing largely rotten British management . |
| 20 | The 120 attractively furnished bedrooms , with balcony , are divided among five small buildings , and in the gardens you will find a number of characteristic ‘ Trulli ’ houses . |
| 21 | The sole genuinely non-Conservative and independent element in the government was the Liberals , led by Sir Herbert Samuel . |
| 22 | I believe the magazine was read quite widely even by some of our hierarchy , and sometimes I felt obliged to censor the odd more outspoken word when I considered it might cause trouble . |
| 23 | It 's actually a very fast guitar and after half an hour of chords , runs and the odd quite musical moment , I found myself getting on really well with it . |
| 24 | People had the money or the shops they were on show on the that most expensive dress shop . |
| 25 | ‘ I find the Spanish terribly emotional where music is concerned . |
| 26 | The lower more level land , around Balerno , for example , is good agricultural land . |
| 27 | The incoming immune adults then graze the lower more fibrous echelons of the herbage which contain the majority of the L3 . |
| 28 | The screws , it seemed , had picked out the eight most troublesome in the house , most of which were YCs . |
| 29 | By April 1990 unrest in the eight predominantly Kurdish provinces of south-eastern Turkey appeared to be turning into a mass nationalist uprising . |
| 30 | Which left her free to make mistakes , overdo the set of his features , and she grinned at the strange yet familiar creature , disdainful nose , filll lips and ridiculous chin . |