Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rattling through the broken no man 's land between the town and the dam , the dark windows of the train showed only our own reflections . |
| 2 | — Also this week , BR branded as a fake a leaked document which claimed to reveal plans to close vital lines in Cleveland and County Durham . |
| 3 | I can make as a good a vassal out of some faithful man as can any of my counts , and maybe even a better one " . |
| 4 | Yes I know because it 's come from an old an old word an old . |
| 5 | The specific issue which had brought down Syse 's coalition was the insistence by the Centre Party ( SP ) , representing in the main the heavily protected and subsidized agricultural sector and with a long-standing tradition of opposition to the European Communities ( EC ) , that Norway retain its so-called concessionary laws which impeded foreign ownership of property , financial institutions and industrial enterprises . |
| 6 | He now lives in a flat a little further uptown with his Japanese girlfriend . |
| 7 | Indeed , he often felt it expedient to hide from the British the degree to which he was willing to co- operate and listen to their views . |
| 8 | As the broadcast drew to a close a voice proclaimed ‘ a vote cast for any parties which oppose each other is a vote for conflict ’ . |
| 9 | To enter such houses , to know at first hand such interiors , was to give a face to the masses , mitigating on the one hand the terror of revolution , satisfying on the other the promptings of Christian conscience . |
| 10 | This means that one brings to bear on the other the full range of mental associations that the culture attaches to it ; it is important to note that the objective meaning of words includes , for the New Critics , not only their dictionary definition ( sometimes called their ‘ denotation ’ ) , but also their associations ( or ‘ connotations ’ ) . |
| 11 | If the line is sloping to the left the job is in advance of the schedule and if to the right it is slipping behind schedule . |
| 12 | If the line is sloping to the left the job is in advance of the schedule and if to the right it is slipping behind schedule . |
| 13 | The UN World Food Programme , approached by the Sudanese a week earlier , had reportedly already delivered 19,000 tonnes . |
| 14 | Patrick Taylor has visited the 400 places he describes in the pocket-sized The Gardener 's Guide to Britain ( Pavilion , £9.99 ) . |
| 15 | Now what if I support in the main the aims of the Act , there are one or two areas I think that some things are not a good idea . |
| 16 | The result was a desolation of the environment and the spirit ; identikit Gulag estates , ravaged and abandoned inner cities , stifling individuality , deadening the imagination and provoking in the young an instinctive if unarticulated rage against their surroundings . |
| 17 | Seen from the outside the nature , and above all , the neck-breaking speed of achievements over the past two months may seem remarkable . |
| 18 | When a stress is applied to a solid the response can not in reality be instantaneous and , in polymers , in particular , elastic " after-effects ' ( to use the phrase of Weber in 1835 ) are found . |
| 19 | Both exploited to the utmost the greatest telescopic resources of their times , and for both many of their discoveries resulted from massive programmes of systematic investigations . |
| 20 | They would have exploited to the full every real and imagined grievance . |
| 21 | However , as the project came to a close the total budget provided in the grant for support workers began to dwindle and the development officers were instructed to make careful calculations of their expenditure in order not to exceed the total available . |
| 22 | As the decade came to a close the BDDA had one hundred and thirty-nine branches spread across the country — one hundred and eighteen in England , thirteen in Scotland , six in Wales and two in Ireland — and , as we shall see in the next chapter , was poised to make one of the most important decisions of the first century . |
| 23 | Frida Kahlo utilises to the full the fantasy potential of dress , which can improve on the body . |
| 24 | The gruel was served up and a long grace was said over a short the gruel disappeared , the boys looked at each other and went over , while his next neighbours nudged him , tired as he was he was desperately hungry and he rest on the table and the master with his hands he said |
| 25 | ‘ reveal to the illiterate the goodness |
| 26 | The railway stations of Asia , Australasia , and Africa reveal to the full the range of styles , many of them of great elegance , which could be encompassed in station architecture world-wide . |
| 27 | So sorry I 'm looking at the wrong the wr that is the southern bypass . |
| 28 | And obviously each word there each negative word was counteracted by a positive the opposite right . |
| 29 | I thought you were going through the fucking the bollard ! |
| 30 | To begin with , her musical language is loosely , sometime unabashedly , tonal , and shows evidence of her varied background : Spain , Russia and France all peep through the passage-work. the last two Sonatas inhabit a sterner , more chromatic world , but the vigour of the counterpoint ensures that the music maintains the momentum of the previous works . |