Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When President Nixon put all US forces on a heightened state of alert during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 , it ‘ meant ’ that he was worried and ready to intervene . |
| 2 | Third , and most important , the quinte part in the ballet is not playable by a late 17th-century oboe band : it lies too high for the bassoon and too low for the taille de hautbois , the tenor oboe that plays the third line . |
| 3 | I was asleep after the crême brulée g . |
| 4 | ( ‘ A classic dish — and you ca n't really ever go wrong with the plat du jour . ’ ) |
| 5 | This sensibility for integrating aspects of contemplative with active life is also manifest in the Livre de Seyntz Medecines written by Henry Duke of Lancaster ; in it he writes about his own sense of that mortal sin for which Christ the healer supplies remedies , having beaten death in that tournament where he " turned our sorrow into joy and overcame death with death " . |
| 6 | Still interested in the sinfonia concertante , he turned his attention to a double piano concerto — K.365 — possibly written for himself and his sister , and one of his first real masterpieces , the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola ( a medium already used successfully by the Mannheim composer Carl Stamitz ) . |
| 7 | The first two galleries have beautiful Christian stained glass windows dating from the medieval to the Art Nouveau . |
| 8 | It is often possible to see three month interbank outside the ¼ per cent band with regard to base rate . |
| 9 | As the activation mechanism by CRP-cAMP appears to be different at the lac P1 and gal P1 promoters , we have decided to test the binding of the reconstituted polymerases to lac and gal up promoter variants in the presence and in the absence of the CRP-cAMP complex . |
| 10 | He is chairman of Business in the Community both in Scotland and England , and is joint-chairman of the Per Cent Club , a group of companies that pledge a proportion of their income to the community . |
| 11 | And Murphy 's Law invariably applies : if you do n't want anybody to knock on your door — because you 're putting the kids to bed/washing your hair/making love/cooking something impossible like a souffl é/late; for just about anything/working to a deadline/just secretly reclining on the sofa with a packet of your favourite chocolate biscuits , watching Coronation Street — somebody always will . |
| 12 | Does n't he seem to be content with the status quo ? |
| 13 | He has a strong responsibility not to be content with the status quo , but to exert himself to try to find an answer , community to community , to settle the dispute . |
| 14 | It has been central to the nouveau roman 's poetics to establish a literary-historical metanarrative as a legitimizing strategy . |
| 15 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 16 | On the Scottish cruise I distinguished myself by bending our port propeller on a rock in the Caledonian Canal whilst negotiating a shallow bend , and although we could still use the bent prop I was very conscious of the faux pas with our Chairman on board . |
| 17 | These properties are characteristic of a Na + /H + exchange mechanism . |
| 18 | These properties are characteristic of a Na + -HCO 3 - co-transport system . |
| 19 | Of the 90-odd writers and politicians billed to speak , most hailed from the soft and hard left , and were hostile to the status quo , or abolitionist . |
| 20 | But , as a sign that some things do not change , Lord McAlpine , former Conservative Party treasurer , is expected to host a small party for friends , many connected with the ancien regime around Mrs Thatcher . |
| 21 | ‘ . Theory emerges as and when texts or issues are theorized , usually by academics who are dissatisfied with the status quo . |
| 22 | While in Clermont he emerged as the focus for those who were dissatisfied with the status quo — just as Childebert I had earlier appeared as an ally for Arcadius . |
| 23 | from a legal point of view all services must derive their existence from statute or else fall foul of the ultra vires rule ( see Ch. 1 ) . |
| 24 | They do n't realize it 's an investment in our economy , in individuals and developing erm our ability to create wealth , so twelve billion cost in their mind , I could tell you from someone who 's directly involved in a s er obtained training for my er staff members at work . |
| 25 | He does n't , he 's not concerned about the individuality of the body but concerned about the surv in individuality of our personality as it was before we ca we went on this journey to the one . |
| 26 | In more severe situations there 's uncontrolled continent acto activation and uncontrolled clotting factor , activation and it 's really that last feature that 's particularly responsible for the er er ghastly skin disease you saw i in the last sla , in the previous slide ! |
| 27 | Jeu de Cartes , in particular , is nothing short of a tour de force or orchestral wizardry , superb engineering , and interpretative control . |
| 28 | ‘ The achievement of the uprising , ’ says the journalist Nahum Barnea , ‘ is that the vast majority of Israelis who were happy with the status quo are now much more unhappy with it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The achievement of the uprising , ’ says the journalist Nahum Barnea , ‘ is that the vast majority of Israelis who were happy with the status quo are now much more unhappy with it . ’ |
| 30 | This would be preferable to the ad hoc provisions available under Section 11 of the Competition Act 1980 , whereby the Secretary of State for Trade can direct the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to investigate efficiency , costs , the level of quality of the service provided and possible misuse of monopoly power within nationalized industries . |