Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Reed Smith guitars are acknowledged as some of the finest produced anywhere today , and Guitarist 's Guitar Of The Year will be a classic ! |
| 2 | The history of the mammals in the Tertiary involved not only this one major diversification , but several , with major extinctions between , so that the largest mammals of the earlier parts of the Tertiary are not related to the large mammals of the Recent . |
| 3 | But this had been an attempt to land on the Spanish Main , and the Spanish felt much less concerned about the long string of small islands in the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean . |
| 4 | A further disincentive — although Mr Lawrence did not see it that way — was that the Prudential had never previously had a finance director , let alone strict internal financial controls . |
| 5 | They know that the rich did very nicely during the Thatcher years and believe it is they not the poor who should make any sacrifices necessary to get the country out of recession . |
| 6 | Ilsa accepted coffee , pleased that it was afternoon when the English do n't generally drink coffee . |
| 7 | The overseas struggle had become closer to a world-wide contest ; the fighting outside Europe before 1713 had been confined to North America , but between 1739 and 1763 the British went far enough afield to attack the Philippines and — what was much more important — the struggle had spread to India . |
| 8 | In fact , the British had hardly any ( often fewer than two to a battalion ) but their infantrymen had mastered rapid rifleshooting . |
| 9 | We and the British do n't always agree . |
| 10 | But writing screenplays is something the British do very badly indeed . |
| 11 | They will have seen from the French try how even a moderate French team was able to launch Cabannes and Cécillon at our midfield and , once they had been committed , spread the ball for Saint-André to score a classic try . |
| 12 | However , the arrival of the French did not quite coincide with the national uprising of ‘ 98 . |
| 13 | There are certainly some distinguished vocal groups in Europe and America , including the Ensemble Clement Janequin and the Ensemble Organum ( in France ; the French have also just announced the formation of ‘ le choeur medieval ’ at the Centre de Musique Medievale in Paris ) , together with the Huelgas Ensemble ( Netherlands ) and Anonymous 4 ( America , among other groups ) . |
| 14 | The gap has narrowed because the French have long since accepted EMS disciplines , and cheaper money ( as well as lower inflation ) is their prize . |
| 15 | The French have long ago destroyed the authority of Confucius in our old society . |
| 16 | The French fared very badly , with some 7,000 men killed , wounded or taken prisoner . |
| 17 | Stevenson himself was one of the few to speak out strenuously against the newly received wisdom — ‘ the idea that you can merchandize candidates like breakfast cereal ’ . |
| 18 | These include : the postmodern as a tendency within the modern ; a notion of the ‘ sublime ’ and postmodernism 's related freedom from dependence on the concept of totality ; a distinction between the postmodern conceived in terms of the externalised and impersonal as against a view of the modern as characterised by the internal and ‘ impressionist ’ ; and a claim that it is the characteristic of the postmodern to signify figurally rather than discursively ( ? ) . |
| 19 | In a straight line , admittedly , the Limited does n't quite set your pulse on fire like an Integrale 16v ; subjectively , the Lancia 's 200bhp two-litre unit seems to provide much more firepower . |
| 20 | Serious confrontations with Soviet forces on the Manchuria and Korean borders at Zhanggufeng and Nomonhan in 1938–9 , in both of which the Japanese came off worse , heightened concern at the growing strength of Russian forces . |
| 21 | The Japanese know only too well of the dangers that can be posed by Hong Kong 's ‘ expatriate ’ rugby community in their bid to tread the same path for the next World Cup . |
| 22 | He reminded people that the Japanese had not yet been defeated , but only people like Peggy Burns , whose son was a Japanese prisoner of war , dwelt on that fact . |
| 23 | The initial shock felt by the Japanese wore off quickly enough , once they had read the letters and considered their implications . |
| 24 | Hardly anyone had expected the Japanese to surrender quite so quickly and , when they did and for the moment , as far as the Allies were concerned , hardly anything happened . |
| 25 | To add to the senseless tragedy , the Japanese did n't really know what to do with all the dolphin carcasses once they had killed them . |
| 26 | It 's obvious that in their heart of hearts the Japanese do n't really trust calculators . |
| 27 | In Brooks the Court of Appeal decided that there was no need for the accused to make off stealthily , and that the words " dishonestly makes off " usually required no explanation because they bore their " ordinary natural meaning " . |
| 28 | The second came back safely to reveal that men only just have the lion 's share . |
| 29 | Each concentrates on the means and ends , preparation for , and fulfilment of , spiritual life , the first part dealing with the self-regulation necessary to release the desire for God from all impediment ; the second dealing more directly with contemplative experience . |
| 30 | The second argues more generally that since we have made mistakes , or would make them in imaginary similar circumstances , we do not know now . |