Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , Bill Pertwee — again a staple member of the cast — remembered for me , Kenneth Horne made him write to the wife of an executive he thought Ken had insulted at a party given by the BBC for the Round The Horne cast . |
| 2 | Leaving the reasonably safe confines of Kharkov town was like quitting E. Zamiatin 's proletarian city for the rough no man 's land of instinctive outsiders as described in his famous anti-Utopian novel My . |
| 3 | For the rich the cost of legal services is not a barrier to the use of lawyers . |
| 4 | For the all the impact it has on the local political climate , it might as well be in Alaska . |
| 5 | Mr Clarke halted trials of the American-style side handled baton saying : ‘ It could fundamentally alter for the worse the style of policing in this country . |
| 6 | Finally , we may return to the fundamental difference between the mediation and differentiation theories of acquired distinctiveness — for the former the associations formed during distinctiveness training play a critical role , whereas for the latter these associations are essentially irrelevant . |
| 7 | For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years . |
| 8 | Nothing of the old building remained and the long extension to the bar , dignified by the name Banqueting Hall , provided for the undiscriminating a venue for weddings and local functions and on other nights served a predictable menu of prawns or soup , steak or chicken , and fruit salad with ice-cream . |
| 9 | For the latter the prosecutor has discretion to invoke a judicial examination but rarely does so . |
| 10 | For the latter the risk was high and he took even more stringent steps to protect himself against default . |
| 11 | The haul , however , is small , and only one of these cases is actually attributable to a jurist ; for the other the emperor is responsible . |
| 12 | But basically they dish out their awards in accordance with strata of society — influential architect Richard Rogers got a knighthood — rather than genuine appreciation for the good the recipients have done their country . |
| 13 | A linguistic sign consists in the union of two elements , a sound-image ( or its written substitute ) and a concept ; for the first the term signifier is used , for the second signified ( signifiant and signifié ) . |
| 14 | For the first the sender is given a sheet of paper with a diagram drawn on it similar to that shown in Figure 11.1 and the following instructions : |
| 15 | Looking back towards his study of Cornford and Harrison , he approves of Johnson 's view that for the modern the distinctions between tragedy and comedy were superficial . |
| 16 | The bust , bosom or cleavage was for the Fifties the apotheosis of erogenous zones . |
| 17 | For the homeless the right to buy and the provisions of the 1988 Act are an irrelevance . |
| 18 | I 'll deliver when you for the half an hour when you come back . |
| 19 | For the Christian the source of human values is neither the result of genetics nor the product of human reason nor even as Hayek would have it a process of cultural selection by which certain rules of conduct become accepted and others rejected , but the revelation by God through his Word in history . |
| 20 | Derek Hallworth , industrial organiser for the north is pictured aboard one of the touring drays , ready for the worst the seaside weather can throw at him . |
| 21 | Bone transport causes problems for palaeoecological reconstruction , for the larger the catchment area for a fossil assemblage the greater the possibilities of mixture of habitat and the less precise is the interpretation of the palaeoecology . |
| 22 | Belfast Harbour Commissioners are confident that during the 1990's the Port will respond to the challenges presented by changing trading patterns within an economically unified Europe with the ability to satisfy its customers ' needs and demands for an efficient , cost effective service . |
| 23 | The Belfast Harbour Commissioners are confident that during the 1990's the Port of Belfast will remain Ireland 's premier port , largely due to its ability to respond to the challenges presented by changing trading patterns within an economically unified Europe and by its ability to satisfy its customers ' need and demands for an efficient , cost effective service . |
| 24 | Many were also given lockable doors to preserve privacy , and curtains to prevent draughts ; indeed , some became so elaborate that during the 1630s the Bishop of Norwich , Richard Corbett , was led to remark wryly that they lacked ‘ nothing but beds to hear the word of God on ’ . |
| 25 | During the 1920s the LNU steered a careful non-partisan path , involving leading members of all three political parties — though Liberals outnumbered the others : the League had become the favourite cause of Liberalism in decline . |
| 26 | During the 1920s the Japan Communist Party attempted to organize opposition in a movement which asserted the primacy of individual democratic rights . |
| 27 | During the 1920s the discovery of hormones led to a new variant in the theory of sexual difference based on emotional instability . |
| 28 | During the 1920s the loss of population from rural parts of England and Wales was relatively gradual , only exceeding 5 per cent in upland Wales , northern England , and parts of Wiltshire and Suffolk . |
| 29 | During the 1920s the party line was far from monolithic . |
| 30 | During the 1920s the milking potential was encouraged , to the detriment of the beef , but in the 1950s the efforts of the breed society ( formed in 1891 ) concentrated on beef conformation and the dual-purpose image was discarded when the South Devon was classified as a beef breed in 1972 . |