Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is possible where a target 's management are bargaining on behalf of their shareholders . |
| 2 | Intentionally or not , Sharp 's collection was strong where the museum 's was weak ; among his treasures were an exceedingly rare Adam Elsheimer copper of ‘ The flight into Egypt ’ , Annibale Carracci 's ‘ Boy drinking ’ ( the primary version of the ex-Ellesmere canvas now in a private collection , Zurich ) , Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo 's ‘ Boy with a flute ’ , Guido Reni and G.A . |
| 3 | The rear ends of their wings are elongated into long tendrils which resemble antennae and are , indeed , more conspicuous than the insect 's real antennae . |
| 4 | The Italians want such a group created right away , the British once the region 's disputes are settled ( whenever that may be ) . |
| 5 | A wide document has a typing line broader than the window 's width of nearly 80 characters . |
| 6 | 4.32 If a plaintiff 's loss of wages has resulted in his getting an income tax rebate , the amount of the rebate must be taken into account against his loss of wages ( Hartley v Sandholme Iron Co [ 1975 ] QB 600 ) . |
| 7 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 8 | ‘ Be pretty funny if a gardener 's ladder did n't have earth on it , ’ commented Cook . |
| 9 | IMMATURE BIRTHS — The birth is immature if the child 's birth weight is 2,500 grams or less . |
| 10 | I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 . |
| 11 | It would not be clear whether the child 's low performance was associated with poor linguistic ability in relation to British children , or whether it simply reflected the different experiences available to children in Britain and the USA . |
| 12 | Already small heaps of green faggots were laid about the stool , with dry weeds on top as high as the victim 's groin . |
| 13 | No hedges , and peas as high as an elephant 's eye . ’ |
| 14 | As high as an elephant 's eye ? |
| 15 | And the palm 's high as an elephant 's eye and everything 's growing right up to the sky . |
| 16 | You 're as transparent as a crépe de chine nightie . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ he murmured , his lips brushing hers , a touch as light as a moth 's wing . |
| 18 | I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise . |
| 19 | Scotland 's success rate at Twickenham has been as elusive as the Chancellor 's green shoots of recovery : in 35 visits since 1911 , the Scots have enjoyed a mere four victories , with five matches drawn . |
| 20 | Miller 's End was as claustrophobic as a doll 's house . |
| 21 | She was tall , big-boned and well-covered , with grey hair as coarse as a horse 's tail straying from her mob-cap . |
| 22 | As a result , he gives a slightly different portrait of a more experimental painter , dictated less by logic than intuition , and pursuing a development which was not as rigid as the artist 's admirers would have maintained . |
| 23 | The main findings were that the continuations were judged less acceptable when the pronoun 's antecedent was introduced by the verb ( 54 versus 92% ) and that even when the continuations were judged to be acceptable the judgements were made more slowly ( 2281 versus 1871 ms ) . |
| 24 | Other boyfriends , like Alan , who describes living with Lesley and her baby daughter in the following pages , may be more supportive than the baby 's own father . |
| 25 | SIR ROBIN BUTLER has collected a fair number of accolades during his academic and Civil Service career , but none stranger than the stag 's head that decorates his Whitehall office , writes David Millward . |
| 26 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 27 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 28 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
| 29 | This taxed enterprise profits at a flat rate of 45 per cent ( 10 per cent lower than the government 's original proposal ) , tax revenue being split almost equally between union and republican budgets . |
| 30 | London Weather Centre said the cold could continue through to next week , with temperatures as much as four degrees lower than the average 5-7C ( 41F-45 ) . |