Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 2 | The government 's plans effectively met the demands of the African National Congress ( ANC ) and other opposition groups for a transitional constitution to be devised by a constituent assembly chosen on a representative basis . |
| 3 | Since the contributors to the literature on the new classical macroeconomics rarely take the trouble to furnish a fully articulated theory of the firm in which cost shocks are given equal prominence with demand shocks , one is entitled to take what they have to say on short-run supply responses with a large fistful of salt . |
| 4 | By measuring the energy spectrum of the positron , the researchers effectively measure the spectrum of the antineutrinos arriving at the detector . |
| 5 | He said that this could lead to ‘ a non-statutory monopoly ’ and trigger a free-for-all among farmers with the housewife eventually footing the bill . |
| 6 | Eight pairs of sea eagles attempted to breed in Scotland this year , with four pairs successfully rearing a total of five young . |
| 7 | Then in one easy movement his hand slid a little higher , his fingers deftly slipping the bra straps from her shoulders , then freeing her eager breasts from the lacy cups that imprisoned them . |
| 8 | The Australian Board eventually withdrew the stigma of ‘ unsportsmanlike ’ and the tour continued . |
| 9 | Melanie nervously clattered the animals back into the box . |
| 10 | Above : Unidentified regular infantry unit in field dress ; the fact that some enlisted men wear the crossed rifles on the left side of their slouch hats presumably dates the photograph after July 1899 , when the badge was authorized ( though for wear on the front ) . |
| 11 | The youngster of today who comes to grips for the first time with a personal computer little imagines the wealth of mathematical inventiveness invested in the design of the software and in the electronic circuitry itself . |
| 12 | In other words , the information as experienced by the user rarely took the forms in which it was held in the memories of the system or network . |
| 13 | As the name implies you walk towards the back of the board thereby sinking the tail . |
| 14 | If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light . |
| 15 | The Tenant paying the rent hereby reserved and performing and observing the covenants on the Tenant 's part herein contained the Landlord hereby covenants with the Tenant as follows : |
| 16 | Though few investors would believe it , stockmarket indices rarely end a year worth less , in nominal terms , than they began it . |
| 17 | Rosalind gladly let the police-sergeant take away the envelope and hurried off , singing , to telephone to Richard . |
| 18 | If contestants successfully remembered the prizes they won them . |
| 19 | I knew Mum rarely read a newspaper so she would n't hear of the killing that way . |
| 20 | The drawing suggests that an apparently normal decision eventually returns the decider to his starting point . |
| 21 | The wide range of courses in terms of content and timespan presumably reflects the budget and teaching staff available and the demand created by service needs ( notably shortage of staff in specific areas ) , and the needs expressed by interested applicants . |
| 22 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 23 | Unfortunately these histories are not always clear owing to the limitations of the human body and its inability verbally to state the problems . |
| 24 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 25 | Willie picked up a soft brown-paper package and with trembling fingers slowly untied the string . |
| 26 | The fact that this is indeed found to be the case powerfully corroborates the theory of development being advanced in these pages and demonstrates that the apparent absence of the latency phenomenon as we know it among primitive people like the Australian aborigines is no proof of the falsity of the idea of latency as such . |
| 27 | Under the agreement , the institute will receive royalties if Genentech successfully markets the hormone . |
| 28 | Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only ? |
| 29 | This means that in future years the revenue accounts effectively treat the use of these assets as being free . |
| 30 | As each landing became more hazardous , authorities eventually had no alternative but to declare the field completely unserviceable . |