Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 31 | General Paul Gorman , a friend , actually gave rival briefings explaining how dim the contras ' chances were . |
| 32 | Education : The art of guiding a pupil 's free hand BROAD CANVAS |
| 33 | And er you know , the different er things they can tell you just how l old a thing th And then I think they were the sort of the fashion Er you know they were first in the fashion trade to introduce these sort of things you know . |
| 34 | Rattling through the broken no man 's land between the town and the dam , the dark windows of the train showed only our own reflections . |
| 35 | I 'm afraid a detective 's life is mostly spent chasing up blind alleys and wasting people 's time . ’ |
| 36 | Our reasons for that are that the especially the eight year average used by the County Council , are unduly skewed by the boom of the late eighties , and give in our view , to high a trend t to erm to work from . |
| 37 | Now Sammy was a character in himself he was a bachelor and his wi his sister was Fanny the elocutionist er and , and er there the women used to , to go into old Sammy 's shop on a Friday night simply to be entertained by all the wisecracks and nonsense that used to go on in there , and somebody would say I suppose you 're off this weekend and he 'd say yes I 'm off to my little widow in Wales , he had n't got a little widow in Wales at all now but it would the start of the conversation going . |
| 38 | At this stage of recognition , using the Mothercare catalogue or the Ahlbergs ' witty The baby 's catalogue , the young reader is learning some of the conventions we have mentioned , is finding a relationship between the content of books and outside reality , building up a useful vocabulary , and — if this is happening in a relaxed and loving environment — having a good time . |
| 39 | A government clearly that is split both politically and is totally incompetent the government 's majority is now down to eighteen and all the predictions are that within a few weeks it will be down to seventeen . |
| 40 | How explicit the report 's own model of language should be made to pupils , and when , is a matter for the professional judgement of teachers . |
| 41 | But the officer leading the hunt says he 's convinced the girl 's story is genuine . |
| 42 | On Sept. 23 , repeating his position that the annexation of Kuwait was irreversible ( plans for a census there were announced on Sept. 28 ) , Saddam stated that the only basis for a peace initiative was the inclusion of Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories , and threatened to destroy Israel and set ablaze the region 's oil supplies as part of " Iraq 's strategic plan " if the Iraqi people were " strangled " or subjected to attack . |
| 43 | If , conversely , one used educational and type-of-occupation criteria to classify individuals ( and these are highly relevant to the question of how standard a speaker 's language is ) , it is probable that many wives , especially those of working-class men , would come out above their husbands . |
| 44 | Too ‘ bad ’ for the council and too ‘ good ’ for the NHS is a recurrent problem , and , therefore , a range of services is needed to care for all possible problems , however unusual , complex , worrying or burdensome an individual 's difficulties may appear . |
| 45 | The cloak , in this case , represents a last hold upon life , and however disproportionate the child 's grief may appear , it is still explicable in terms of human psychology . |
| 46 | In the great days of Suleiman the Magnificent the sultan 's armies reached the gates of Vienna in 1529 , having already subdued Hungary at the battle of Mohács three years earlier . |
| 47 | Inevitably , as he visited Modigliani more frequently , Paul Guillaume began to realize how disorderly the artist 's domestic life was , One evening , walking along the street , he heard screams and bangs coming from Beatrice 's cottage . |
| 48 | The editor of the monthly The Child 's Companion concluded one of her homilies , entitled ‘ Do Not Mock ’ , with these minatory words : |
| 49 | Cornelius stretched a long arm to the dashboard and unclipped the driver 's radio mike . |
| 50 | On one side were the Goldsmiths ' Company 's arms , in gold , four yards in diameter , with the legend " Free Grammar School , Stockport " ; on the other the arms again , with " Founded and Endowed by Sir Edmond Shaa , Knight , 1487 ; Re-endowed by the Worshipful the Goldsmiths ' Company , 1832 " in gold letters . |
| 51 | WHEN Derry and Fran Dunnett visited Inchcolm Abbey one day last summer they remarked to each other how lucky the abbey 's custodians were to live on the island . |
| 52 | His remark comes from book 67 of his commentary on the edict , and palingenesia shows that he was discussing an interdict , most likely the interdict quod legatorum which was available to the bonorum possessor to recover property which a possessor was purporting to hold under a legacy . |
| 53 | At the ‘ Parents Chat ’ parents were encouraged to discuss not only what had been recorded but also how valuable the term 's work had been , bearing in mind the relationship of the goals on the recording sheet to general curriculum goals . |
| 54 | The £1,000 fine the Institute 's Disciplinary Committee levied on Michael Jordan , senior partner of Cork Gully , and Richard Stone , head of corporate finance at Coopers & Lybrand , was the maximum allowed under the Committee 's byelaws . |
| 55 | If they did not act in order that the plaintiff should suffer damage they are not liable , however selfish their attitude and however inevitable the plaintiff 's damage may have been . |
| 56 | The path took me under trees in full leaf and out across open fields where below me to the left the river Bain , the shortest river in England , flowed on its two-and-a-half-mile journey from Semer Water to the river Ure . |
| 57 | One of the leading practitioner 's texts on company law , Gore-Browne , argues that while the directors are now required to take employee interests into account , they are never permitted to subordinate the shareholders ' interests to them . |
| 58 | Interrogatories and document requests are staples of international commercial litigation , no less than of other suits , yet a rule of exclusivity would subordinate the court 's supervision of even the most routine of these pre-trial proceedings to the actions or , equally , to the inactions of foreign judicial authorities . |
| 59 | The North rejected Roh 's announcement as " insignificant " as it left unchanged the South 's protection under the US nuclear umbrella [ see p. 38530 ] . |
| 60 | Fancy screws are by and large a manufacturer 's fad ! |