Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The statement and the response were simply a formula , but Rostov still experienced a feeling of satisfaction .
2 John Suhr is so talented , and the guitar is just the last word as far as I 'm concerned .
3 The guitar is still the one that could never be replaced by anything digital because you would never be able to get the same sound and feel on a computer .
4 The softness was still there , but the fur was maybe a little ruffled .
5 The c-drawer is literally a desk drawer .
6 But the vigilante is now a film hero played by Charles Bronson .
7 Well the funding is either the initial funding was a fairly brave thing by the Archaeological Trust from its own funds .
8 The prince , it seems , had not hitherto shown a particular interest in a damsel and Sir Thomas was therefore convinced that the attachment between yourself and the prince was simply a romantic interlude . ’
9 The base is also the home of the pioneers who left here in October in 1990 for the War .
10 It is not unusual to find adult education centres , in the middle of provincial inner cities , for example , in which the majority of the provision is still a testimony to white , petit-bourgeois aspirations and hobbies , peopled by students who travel into classes by car from outside the immediate neighbourhood .
11 The source of the expertise is still a matter for speculation .
12 The test now embodied in the UCTA is thus a hypothetical test , which requires the court to put itself in the position of the parties as they were ( and with the state of knowledge which they had ) at the time when the contract was made .
13 The T-shirt is even the right way round !
14 So the struggle is basically a spiritual one .
15 Evidence suggests it is generally best to tell early ( even while the adoptee is still a baby ) so the child grows up with the knowledge ; it also removes the risk of someone else telling the child .
16 A third possibility that should not be overlooked is that the stereotype is just a stereotype and has no real correlate in women 's behaviour .
17 The award is also a challenge to Her Majesty 's Government .
18 It should be borne in mind , however , that the modules which constitute the award are merely an indication of the expected level of competence to be demonstrated by office workers who hold a qualification at Level I and II .
19 The contrast between the ages of the winners was remarkable enough , but the award was soon the centre of a public scandal as the French press accused the Academy of incompetence and the younger man of plagiarism .
20 The chairman of the board is usually the parish priest or his curate .
21 If the cinema is right the film need hardly matter .
22 After all , there are lots of people for whom the cinema is just a place to go , to get away from the children for a few hours , to be together perhaps , for a courting couple .
23 The runner is now a Tory candidate .
24 Moreover , they had no problems in explaining away any unusual cataphoric references as the " it " in the sentence is simply a dummy subject , an item which has no reference value and is purely a formal requirement of the grammar of English .
25 The grammatical structure of the sentence is thus a series of nested constructions forming a hierarchy .
26 The verb is equally the semantic head in a verb-object construction .
27 If a boat heeled right over it 's not good for the boat and it slows you down , it is far better to reef , the technique is just the same afloat as it was ashore .
28 The principle behind the technique is now a familiar one and widely used by vaccine manufacturers to obtain large quantities of virus for the standard killed flu vaccines ( New Scientist , vol 56 , p 630 ) .
29 The technique is now a well established method for measuring M w and M z for both synthetic and biological macromolecules and has the added advantage that measurements require only small quantities of material .
30 Their attempts to lower the age limit to sixty-five failed , but drove Lloyd George to protest that the measure was only an experimental ‘ beginning ’ in a new field of state action and beginnings needs must be cautious .
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