Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 2 | At the broadest level , the Course contributes in a major way to the achievement of the Polytechnic 's overall aims . |
| 3 | Passion offers schools , colleges and community venues the opportunity to invest in a vast wealth of information about our work during the 80 's and then draw from that information in a more creative and challenging way . |
| 4 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |
| 5 | Tonics , restoratives and health remedies provide an opportunity to invest in the non-toxic remedies of the future . |
| 6 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 7 | Lawyers and a shorthand writer gathered in the front room of his home in Beith , Strathclyde , to take his evidence before a court-appointed Commissioner . |
| 8 | Privet and yew combine in an effective two-tone design |
| 9 | Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit . |
| 10 | The most sophisticated method of tying up land in strict settlement developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 11 | It is likely that if five other tokens were considered from a different section of text gathered in a comparable social context the score would turn out to be very different say 80 per cent . |
| 12 | We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple . |
| 13 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 14 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 15 | One imagines that not a few may actually have seized the opportunity to indulge in a quiet sleep in preparation for the evening stint , for the dinner was formal and the occasion for full ceremonial . |
| 16 | If so , it could be that the impact of that experience parallels in a sharpened and intensified form the impact on women of the experience of child-bearing — a potent , personal experience that , however sanitised , brings a woman face-to-face with these three realities . |
| 17 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 18 | The larger processor fits in the main processor slot the smaller in the coprocessor slot . |
| 19 | The enthusiasm aroused in the other four members by the time of the Hague Congress was one indication that Britain was in danger of becoming rather isolated . |
| 20 | Special finishes are of course completed in the time-honoured fashion ; sunbursts and other fancy finishes are carried out by hand . |
| 21 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 22 | A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association . |
| 23 | Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field . |
| 24 | That was fine , but I had not reckoned with the excitement the case aroused in the popular press . |
| 25 | Services at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury have been saved by a decision to invest in a new maternity unit . |
| 26 | But at the same time , if there is a God , it is perfectly plausible to argue that He would desire the discussion of His existence to proceed in the argumentative , confused and doubting way in which it currently does . |
| 27 | In the present context of the nine archetypes , a description given in a Gnostic text is particularly interesting . |
| 28 | J. D. North has succeeded in reconstructing the St Albans escapement from the purely verbal description given in the surviving manuscript . |
| 29 | The lawn to the south of the house , shown on a plan by Bourginion , the French surveyor employed to redesign the garden , corresponds almost exactly with the description given in the second edition ( 1733 ) of the Dictionary , where Miller insists on frequent mowing and rolling to keep the grass in good order . |
| 30 | Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution . |