Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cities are the inverse , containing individual blocks , streets but few voids , lungs : an excessive impression of solid mass and a zero expression of space . |
| 2 | There were footsteps outside the door , and a trilling laugh that Paige recognised the merest instant before the door was thrust open and Drew came in , a giggling Lori attached to his arm . |
| 3 | It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work . |
| 4 | In mid-turn all the weight will be on the inside foot whilst the other remains in the strap . |
| 5 | Choose from solid woods and a range of finishes . |
| 6 | He had the unfinished nocturne and the portrait . |
| 7 | A tea may be paid if overtime is outwith normal hours or a dinner if you have to work up to and after 8.30 pm , on the same basis as the lunch . |
| 8 | Land has both an economic function and a function in terms of personal and social esteem : |
| 9 | So Intelsat 6 is stuck in a uselessly low orbit until a space shuttle can be persuaded to collect it , or until it falls down . |
| 10 | POLICIES for agricultural support and the environment need to work together to the mutual benefit of farming and the countryside . |
| 11 | POLICIES for agricultural support and the environment need to work together to the mutual benefit of farming and the countryside . |
| 12 | Claiming that the landscape was created by farmers and can only be maintained by farming , she added : ‘ Our policies for agricultural support and the environment need to work together , to the mutual benefit of our farming industry and of our countryside . ’ |
| 13 | The power station is also a matter of miles from the Lilstock bombing range in the Bristol Channel , where aircraft can be watched from the coast as they wheel and circle in the sky before a fiery flash and a splash of water shows that they have hit their ‘ target ’ . |
| 14 | Registration can be confidently expected to occur in due course unless the company 's articles impose restrictions on the transferability of its shares . |
| 15 | For example , it has been held that an arrangement void for contravention of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 constitutes unlawful means but this is hard to reconcile with the clear decision in the Mogul case that an agreement in restraint of trade at common law did not . |
| 16 | This means they have been inspected by a team of professional experts and the standard of their work has been approved . |
| 17 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 18 | Thus , the NSC had before it the State Department 's political assessment that the area was , to repeat , ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin' . |
| 19 | In Western cooking such a mixture can add zing to almost anything from scrambled eggs to vegetables , soups , stews and sauces and poached or baked fruits , with the grateful advantage that the result will not taste as though you have succumbed to panic and thrown in a spoonful of curry powder . |
| 20 | That was a case in which the house had a path running to the steps which went up to the road , the house being at a lower level than the road , and the plaintiff met with an accident on those steps … |
| 21 | It was on a lower level than the rest of the works and was lit by windows which ran the length of the wall facing the doorway . |
| 22 | The aisle is roofed at a lower level than the nave and the triforia have the function of masking the lean-to roofs which cover these vaults . |
| 23 | Pots will be attractive here and the pool acts as a real focal point , set within a brick circle at a slightly lower level than the patio . |
| 24 | They took the escalator down to the lower level and the Grillapolis café . |
| 25 | Scheme organiser Dawn Whitton said : ‘ Entries can include written reports or publications , tidying up campaigns , landscaping projects , studies of a species of wildlife , repairs to an historic building or a scheme to enhance a new development . |
| 26 | They were excused few , if any , tasks , Hannah may appear to be a frail pensioner but a lifetime 's exposure to the hard labour of rural life enables her to endure the most extreme elements far better than urban-reared people half her age . |
| 27 | The granules of spinea have broad base and a trifid or slightly rugose crown , those of hamula have a narrower base and the crown is more rugose . |
| 28 | All this reflected a recognition at the highest political level that the country 's foreign relations must include , at least for the time being and probably permanently , an unprecedented effort to shape and direct opinion abroad . |
| 29 | A set of six Louis XV fauteuils attributed to Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot are expected to realize FFr4–6m ( £400–600,000 ; $700,000–1m ) and two Louis XV lacquer commodes , one in European lacquer and the other in Chinese , probably by Jacques Dubois , bear the estimate of FFr2–3m ( £200–300,000 ; $350–530,000 ) . |
| 30 | Collaborative change , with negotiation between professional groups and the state , may be the best way forward , but without strong government control it risks becoming little more than a tinkering with the existing system . |