Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The negative views B. S. Johnson expresses above are fairly widely shared : Malcolm Bradbury points to the existence of a general critical assumption that after the work of the modernists , the ‘ experimental tradition ’ in Britain may simply have lapsed ( Bradbury 1973 : 86 ) . |
| 2 | The range of options offered at Napier contributes to the breadth of course curriculum and provides a necessary flexibility in choice of subjects studied . |
| 3 | Mr Niachos belongs to the ‘ art as woman ’ school of collectors . |
| 4 | At the head of Loch Torridon , the main road coming from Kinlochewe turns along the south shore for Shieldaig , first passing through the settlement of Annat . |
| 5 | Botswana goes to the polls on Saturday , when seven parties will contest 34 seats in the country 's single chamber . |
| 6 | Thus the mental horizons of labourism ( by which Nairn refers to the tradition of independent working-class representation ) were severely circumscribed . |
| 7 | Laquer refers to the Reformation because of certain similarities between the problems caused by the Reformation and the Cold War . |
| 8 | Jonathan charts the painful break with union which it seems remains his first love — while Corrigan delves into the psychology of a man who temporarily split up with his wife , Karen , as a result of the grinding pressures of the modern game . |
| 9 | The Venezuelan poet Juan Liscano sits by the sea and tells us that Europeans ‘ tend to classify us as exotic birds-parrots , or toucans … ’ |
| 10 | The attack by Gilbert Wakefield [ q.v. ] there on public worship roused her to its defence in Cursory Remarks on an Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public Worship ( 1792 ) , using the pseudonym ‘ Eusebia ’ . |
| 11 | As well as the frequency spectrum , one can define wave number spectra — Fourier transforms of the space correlations . |
| 12 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 13 | Jenkins refers to the origins of new songs as ‘ cultural mutations ’ . |
| 14 | The floor machine was in the living room , the long black thing that Marcus rubs on the carpet snaking in front of the sofa . |
| 15 | I hope Kelly plays for the RoI . |
| 16 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 17 | In a review of Jean-Richard Bloch 's essay , Naissance d'une culture , Nizan refers to the issue of the " legacy of cultures and the invention of a new culture " as the major problem confronting the contemporary writer , intellectual , artist.38 Nizan signals his agreement with Bloch that bourgeois humanist and individualist culture , optimistic , progressive and outward-looking in its origins , degenerated during the latter part of the nineteenth century into a solitary , self-preoccupied and defensively reactionary activity . |
| 18 | Althea Greenan goes on a walkabout around central London galleries |
| 19 | Neil Cowie goes into the second row , Billy McGinty to loose forward and skipper Dean Bell returns to centre . |
| 20 | Examples are numerous , but Naseby has both extensive earthworks and an early map of 1630 showing the layout of the village at that date ; as Christopher Taylor remarks in the RCHM Volume 111 for Northamptonshire , ‘ the extensive earthworks show clearly that the relatively simple layout of the present village is the result of complex changes which are by no means understood ’ . |
| 21 | Czechoslovakia goes to the polls this month in the first democratic election since 1946 . |
| 22 | The standard form analysed by Professor Tetley refers to the individual carrier 's contract of carriage as follows : |
| 23 | More arresting are readings which note the inescapable presence of the Christian religion in the ambient of the tale , embodied in the church — to which Alison goes on the " " haliday " " and where Absolon " " gooth with a sencer " " , or where the " " freres in the chauncel gonne synge " " — and in the Bible : echoes of the Song of Solomon in the descriptions of Alison and Absolon , and in Absolon 's love song ( 3698 – 707 ) . |
| 24 | BRITISH and Commonwealth lightweight champion Billy Schwer took only three rounds to stop Mexico 's Mauricio Aceves with a badly cut eye at Wembley 's Grand Hall last night . |
| 25 | Morse goes over the water |
| 26 | And John Spalvins , head of Adelaide Steamship sits astride an apparently financially robust company . |
| 27 | In the event , Burnell goes as a dependable foot soldier and Wright as a tight-head who proved his versatility by scrummaging so solidly at loose-head against Jeff Probyn . |
| 28 | Ferguson refers to a pub and club session that Norman Whiteside and I had , and that come Friday I could n't train — even though , he said , I was supposed to be playing against Queens Park Rangers . |
| 29 | Truman points to the fact that the group process excludes a variety of social groups unable to participate in it , a feature of pluralism emphasised by Schattschneider 's discussion of the ‘ mobilisation of bias ’ . |
| 30 | Mr Morse points to the ageing and unpleasant sanitary point where boat users dump their waste next to the town 's bus station . |