Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Paul were to challenge successfully the adherents of Tammuz , Jesus would have to be able to match the older god , miracle for miracle . |
| 2 | So it happened that both Polybius and Posidonius were involved in exploring the lands of the West , and more conspicuously the lands of France and Spain — with the consequences which I hope to illustrate in my next lecture . |
| 3 | The aim of this research is to investigate empirically the variations in Britain 's strike activity over time and the variations between Britain and other EEC countries in the post-war period . |
| 4 | We would string together about seven or eight passes , then go backwards for a bit , then sideways , and then eventually the likes of McAllister , Speed , or Dorigo would get fed up , boot the ball in the box for either a ) an easy catch to the goalie , or b ) for Deane to flick it on to an easy catch for the goalie . |
| 5 | The following survey was taken on the streets of Bradford . |
| 6 | Trainer Henry Cecil , however , was satisfied enough to let All At Sea take on the likes of Arazi and Ireland 's Brief Truce . |
| 7 | To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world . |
| 8 | Each year a celebrity is chosen to switch on the Illuminations in Talbot Square , followed for many years by a tour of the Lights by tram . |
| 9 | From now on the companies on UI 's executive committee , currently home to the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , NCR Corp , Unisys Corp and ICL plc and some of the Japanese firms , will select the reference technologies for items such as networking , object orientation and multimedia . |
| 10 | Tomorrow the Parks take on the Provincials at Carrick while at Pickie in Bangor the Private Greens meet the BLI . |
| 11 | It is possible to intensify poetry 's power over time if we take on the implications of Rosenblatt 's transactional theory , which is well described in Benton et al . |
| 12 | Join Axel and Blaze for more gob-smacking action as they again take on the hordes of Mr Big . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the tone in which they are expressed , and the language they are couched in , prevent our taking them in that way , and recall for us rather the heads of Auden 's indictment : ‘ lazy … too easily bored … persuaded beyond argument … ’ |
| 14 | Michael Young , in his paradoxically assumed role , quotes approvingly the strictures of Lord James on misguided attempts to generalize an élite education : |
| 15 | But it 's essentially , therefore , that natural selection is only going to produce adaptations if it can do so gradually , that 's basically the guts of Darwin 's position . |
| 16 | Before long the bells of St. Andrew 's Church rang out for their wedding and Mary was safely ensconced in a corner of Ince , which Killigrew had carefully divided into four equal parts . |
| 17 | It 's not yet known how long the men from Lyneham will stay in Africa . |
| 18 | Introduced in 1875 following seven years of political and social instability , this regime brought a generation of political peace based upon the dominance of big landowners , especially the landlords of Castile and the ‘ latifundists ’ of Andalusia . |
| 19 | ‘ However , ’ Corbett continued , clasping his sword belt around his waist , ‘ one thing I do remember is that the preacher was really a gentle man ; he told my mother that Holy Mother Church merely wished to frighten its children except — ’ Corbett narrowed his eyes and looked through the doorway ‘ — for murderers , those who slay , especially the sons of Cain who plot with ice-cold malice the destruction of someone they hate . ’ |
| 20 | Although the theatre in Paris excited him , especially the plays of Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet , he found the city musically desolate . |
| 21 | Especially the ones with Burgess written through 'em like a stick of rock |
| 22 | The exterior is very like the Greek Byzantine churches , especially the examples in Thessaloniki ( 193 ) . |
| 23 | In his Topographical Account of Cunninghame , compiled about 1600 , Timothy Pont recorded — ‘ This part of the country yields a great deal of excellent butter but especially the parishes of Stewarton and Dunlop . ’ |
| 24 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 25 | Will he reflect on the fact that , if the Bill is passed , redundancy arrangements will be forced on the coalfields , and especially the pits in Nottinghamshire ? |
| 26 | Many of the companies featured in this review would argue that any size of filter is only as good as its media ; while some , ( especially the advocates of Siporax ) might claim that their media makes a smaller-than-usual filter quite sufficient . |
| 27 | Both men were expelled ‘ for gross political mistakes in tackling social tension , especially the events of November 17 , 1989 ’ , when police clamped down on a pro-democracy demonstration . |
| 28 | Naturally the monks of St Denis , who had most to gain by it , were happy to keep Suger 's tradition fresh . |
| 29 | Naturally the Koreans in Yenan were deeply influenced by Mao Tse-tung 's ideas for reorganising a party and for pursuing guerrilla warfare . |
| 30 | When they were asked afterwards , both Owen and North admitted that they had never imagined ‘ a victory march down the streets of Managua ’ . |