Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun coloured the high branches a deep burnt orange . |
| 2 | The May evening was warm and filled with a golden light , and as he passed the Maria-Therese gardens the scent of the lilacs hit him with an almost physical pain . |
| 3 | you you used to go the weekly meetings the Labour Party . |
| 4 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 5 | The very circumstance , however , which made the public schools a perfect vehicle for propaganda — their isolation , through the boarding system , from the outside world and the idiosyncratic influence of families — ensured that Dr Arnold , in his crusade for the personal salvation of his charges , could enjoy no more than a limited success . |
| 6 | This last provision was included in the enabling legislation to allow for representation of minority religious groups , but it made the triennial elections a running denominational sore and made the Boards particularly sensitive to pressure from minority interests . |
| 7 | Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity . |
| 8 | It made the nifty moves a bit difficult . |
| 9 | It will then combine the resulting findings to examine how in using the various techniques the interaction can be directed into one of the options instead of the other . |
| 10 | Given the right conditions the growth of the foliage will be quite fast and as the days get longer the flower buds will start to appear . |
| 11 | We were looking forward to a meal and a quiet evening in Dover when a radio message via Dover Coastguards informed us that another suspect vessel had been spotted heading west through the Straits after sailing from Belgium where she had given the local customs a false destination in Sweden for a large consignment of spirits loaded . |
| 12 | We should make a strenuous and united attempt to incorporate in the management of our own institutions some of the features which have given the American schools the high character they enjoy . |
| 13 | The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year . |
| 14 | For an afternoon 's work , it was hardly going to be Tosca and given the raw materials no one would have minded had they chanted ’ What a Load of Rubbish ’ . |
| 15 | Being surrounded by a supportive network of friends has always given the Happy Mondays the edge in the bullshit world of the music industry . |
| 16 | Gauci had remembered the sale so vividly that , almost ten months later , he had given the Scottish police a probable date for it , 23 November 1988 , and provided a FBI videofit artist with a detailed description of his customer — he believed , a Libyan . |
| 17 | ‘ I have never given the Olympic Games a thought I am just plodding my way through the season , racing here and there , ’ he said . |
| 18 | A story which focuses on those aspects of ‘ family ’ , which family photography has deselected , but transforms the ordinary things every mother has seen — a wet bed ( as above ) , a bloody nose ( ‘ Emmett 's Bloody Nose ’ 1985 ) , candy cigarettes ( ‘ Candy Cigarette ’ 1989 ) into a technically and philosophically complex narrative . |
| 19 | Dead lucky you were getting in free to see the Olympic Games a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 20 | I am sure that the Minister is aware of the widespread concern about the threat to postal services that the Government are determined to impose by bringing in tin-pot competitors who will make the rural services a threatened species . |
| 21 | In completing the ten steps the trainees may come up with different answers from ‘ what happened ’ . |
| 22 | The Winsor & Newton Young Artists ' Award has prizes to the value of £2,500 , and offers the 20 finalists the opportunity to have their work exhibited in The Mall Galleries , during the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition which runs until April 20th . |
| 23 | Whereas natural science works with a basic or datum language of physical behaviour , which , if adopted for social science , would mean that action-descriptions were inferred from descriptions of behaviour , Weber offers the social sciences a datum language of actions . |
| 24 | Television can be a positive influence : it may ( in moderation ) give brighter children a faster start in their pre-school years and make the dull children a little more knowledgeable about the world . |
| 25 | Beautiful ceramic floor tiles make the public rooms a fresh and welcoming cool retreat in summer . |
| 26 | Well I think this war the aim of this war is to achieve erm minimum casualty , and by doing what the allied forces are doing by denying the Iraqui forces the logistics such as transportations and communication system is very vital to reduce the power of the enemy and then you can force him to retreat , or you can weaken the army that will result in minimum casualty for the allied forces . |
| 27 | Every day one hears of more and more calls to ban dogs from parks because owners will not clean up after them — thus denying the responsible owners the pleasure of walking their dogs in pleasant surroundings . |
| 28 | Later instalments disclosed the wondrous sights the astronomer had been privileged to see . |
| 29 | More recently , Mike McFarlane had won the 60 metres the previous year in Athens . |
| 30 | The fluidity of Buid social groupings , and the ease with which the institution of sharing allows individuals to integrate into new groups , provide the best protections a weak society can have against predatory neighbours . |