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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The haul , however , is small , and only one of these cases is actually attributable to a jurist ; for the other the emperor is responsible . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For the homeless the right to buy and the provisions of the 1988 Act are an irrelevance . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A new and successful innovation was the evolution of stemless crinoids — some of these acquired pelagic habits , and during the Cretaceous the genera Marsupites and Uintacrinus ( see p.79 ) were widespread enough to be useful marker fossils . |
| 11 | During the fair the appointment of Hans König as Chairman of the European Fine Arts Foundation ( the Fair 's organisers ) was announced . |
| 12 | These examples are relevant in the present context as the equitable no conflict rule is formulated in terms of a " reasonable man looking at the relevant facts and circumstances of the particular case " thinking that " there was a real sensible possibility of conflict " . |
| 13 | Did you tell Ann about the noisy the television , no ? you did n't did you ? |
| 14 | If anybody does want further information on A B Cs erm in the booklet in the information pack , the Your Pension booklet , it 's it 's actually handled through the Prudential the office in Reading but there is the address is given in booklet . |
| 15 | Between 260 and 300 million tons of crude oil are transported through the Mediterranean every year , and of this an estimated 635,000 tons are spilled . |
| 16 | I thought you were going through the fucking the bollard ! |
| 17 | Contact your local bell-ringing group via the nearest reference library or bell tower , or through the weekly The Ringing World , ( editor , David Thorne , Penmark House , Woodbridge Meadows , Guildford GU1 1BL , 0483 69535 ) . |
| 18 | Rattling through the broken no man 's land between the town and the dam , the dark windows of the train showed only our own reflections . |
| 19 | After the timid The Maggie ( 1953 , High and Dry in US ) , Mackendrick 's Ealing oeuvre culminates in The Ladykillers ( 1955 ) where a gang of bank robbers , masquerading as an unlikely string quartet , engages in a battle of wills with an unutterably sweet and totally irritating landlady , symbol of Ealing 's ( and England 's ) determination not to think about the modern world , smothering the horrors and the nightmares in gentility . |
| 20 | One after the other the pallets with the self-inflating assault boats disappeared , tipping forward out into the night , static lines ripping and jerking , the snap of the opening canopies clearly audible above the roar of the engine , the wind and the ocean . |
| 21 | One after the other the towers of prestige and glamour were falling to him . |
| 22 | Alfredo Vera Arrata , the Education and Culture Minister , accused of alleged irregularities in the purchase of school construction materials , was dismissed on June 22 after a congressional no confidence vote . |
| 23 | It was extremely upsetting and the generously exposed support of the Honourable the Colonel Alexander Augustus Hope , M. P. , when they went to the site of Allan Bank was very warmly appreciated . |
| 24 | We are not in the business of putting on the backs of the poor the cost of the 50 per cent . |
| 25 | Finally , in the second half of the eighteenth-century the palazzo was returned to the city and used as an extension of the town hall . |
| 26 | With the urbanisation and expansion of the middle-class the pattern began to change . |
| 27 | the other question , how seriously do you view the likely impact of the new the budget er change come coming into force in the spring on purchases of consumer durables such as yours bearing in mind your and your customer profile ? |
| 28 | Certainly it had a freshness and credibility about it which was in stark contrast to some of the other end-of-the year events which , however exciting or impressive some individual performances and achievements may have been , still involved direct or incidental features which do little for the public perception of the sport . |
| 29 | A few peaks due to the excitation of overtones of vibrations of lower symmetry ( e.g. 2ν 9 ) can also be seen , but the main feature of the spectrum is a set of progressions in ν 1 , with or without excitation of one of the other a 1g modes . |
| 30 | Taken by surprise and fear of the other the boy lost his balance and tumbled down the grassy bank towards the stranger but to the boy 's incredulous gaze the figure melted into thin air . |