Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put such an effort into perspective , it is necessary first to investigate cross-culturally the various different conceptions of ‘ objectivity ’ and different means of attaining it . |
| 2 | Apart from portraits , arguably the two greatest pictures that Queen Victoria purchased were Frith 's ‘ Ramsgate Sands ’ , an endearing masterpiece which for all I know may still hang in the waiting room at Buckingham Palace for the amusement of visitors , and Leighton 's ‘ Cimabue 's Madonna carried in procession ’ , acquired from the Royal Academy in 1855 and now on permanent loan to the National Gallery . |
| 3 | On one hand you have arguably the best defensive troops in the game — High Elf archers armed with long bows protected by the extremely formidable High Elf infantry . |
| 4 | to explore how courts apply the duty imposed by the Child Care Act 1980 to give the child 's welfare first and paramount consideration ; 2. to examine the practices in use for providing magistrates with impartial information ; 3. to discover whether parents ' solicitors experience difficulties in getting background history of cases from Social Services Departments ; 4. to judge whether parents at are a disadvantage in court ; 5. to monitor how solicitors conduct their cases , and how they emply the various possible lines of argument of the Code of Practice on Access ; 6. to discuss the underlying attitudes of the magistrates and social workers towards access to children in care , the reasons for their viewpoints and whether the publication of the Code caused them to change any of their positions . |
| 5 | To air : are predominantly the volatile organic compounds [ ie , those which evaporate in air at normal temperatures ] . |
| 6 | Thankfully the floating grey pods which occasionally appear contain handy weapon power-ups and extra lives . |
| 7 | My own favourite example of this attack , and the contradictions that came with it , was that as Council members we were asked both to take pride in an NEA-sponsored and adulatory film about the graffiti that were then disfiguring the New York City subway system , and to support lavishly the great American museums whose distinguished collections were ( and remain ) a standing rebuke to the so-called experimental art of which graffiti were then such a beguiling component . |
| 8 | In the absence of our little lepidopterous friends in the Butterflies on a Burning Night it is presumably the two standing figures who are themselves the ( social ) butterflies . |
| 9 | For reasons which are not yet clear — presumably the pre-marketing clinical studies were considered inadequate — Dista was collaborating in a series of research projects to discover how the bodies of elderly patients cope with Opren . |
| 10 | Presumably the major mediating factors are the teachers , and the school , concerned . |
| 11 | Luckily the last few miles are downhill into Barnsley . ’ |
| 12 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 13 | embed sentences in relations to reality in such a way that they can take on the general pragmatic functions of representation , expression and establishing interpersonal relations . |
| 14 | These three carry on the irresponsible practical jokes and illicit enterprises of their seniors , borrowing boats while in harbour and exploring themselves into danger , invariably rescued by improbably patient sailors . |
| 15 | Countries with large commercial-debt problems will get no help from the Brady plan unless , like Mexico , they take on the drastic economic reforms that western governments demand as the price of their support . |
| 16 | A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly . |
| 17 | The declining popularity of bonfire night in the back garden is having two effects : a dramatic cut in the number of people hurt by fireworks , and booming business for the firms that put on the big public displays . |
| 18 | Neville suggested he might write something on the Eye , to take on the ageing young men of Greek Street . |
| 19 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 20 | I 'd rather the fourteen great achievements than |
| 21 | It was to these crucial years , therefore , that I turned attention in an endeavour to understand not the triumphal march of the party as such , but rather the broader cultural structures that laid the foundations for its success . |
| 22 | Sandy played absolutely fantastically the first two days , but the greens were very strange and unkind to him . |
| 23 | Furthermore the 1951 French elections had brought a considerable number of Gaullists into the National Assembly who opposed EDC , not so much because it meant arming German soldiers , but because it would ‘ surrender ’ the command of the French Army to a supranational institution . |
| 24 | Another Oxford graduate , but from the lower middle class , Jones had apparently the right socialist credentials , but his activism centred on his local south-London Labour Party . |
| 25 | A pity he could not have read Alec Wilder 's American Popular Song ( 1972 ) which , using basically the same musical criteria as Adorno — derived from European bourgeois art music — could have been designed as a riposte to his view of this repertory |
| 26 | While Germany spends 40% of her tax revenue on social security , Germans have been dismayed to observe a significant increase in homelessness and destitution on the streets of her cities , especially the rich western cities like Stuttgart and Munich . |
| 27 | From the hundreds of volumes at home , including Shakespeare , Chaucer , Spenser , Shelley , Keats , Byron , Tennyson , and Browning , the boys were encouraged to learn selected poems for recitation ; but Edward does not record where he had found and read Darwin 's Descent of Man and books of travel , sport , and natural history , especially the many copious draughts of Richard Jefferies . |
| 28 | Everything that has gone before is apprenticeship ( especially the thirteen thousand words or uncharacteristically slapdash prose inadvertently handed over to a person whose only chance of later fame lies in the possibility of aspiring to the status of a footnote in the scholarly biography of my life and work which someone , even now , is probably contemplating ) . |
| 29 | Employment patterns , which followed the routes of enforced segregation in favour of protestants — for they controlled the greater part of the job market and especially the major industrial enterprises and the entire government sector of civil servants and police — were even reinforced by the system of job references provided by the parish priests and catholic notables . |
| 30 | It can be seen that problems of this kind are inseparable from major developments in cultural means of production , and especially the major reproductive technologies . |