Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is still the definitive cinematic story of the attack and , for all the commercial flaws of the film , it stands alone in technical accuracy and the actual attack scenes are among the finest put together for an aviation film . |
| 2 | Tom , who worked for the British Caprotti poppet valve-gear manufacturers , Associated Locomotive Equipment Ltd , was instrumental , not only in the original design of 71000 , but also in the rebuilt carried out by the Trust . |
| 3 | But the multinational pulled out after deciding prospects were not good enough . |
| 4 | It was the sense of dread , the awful dropping away with fear of her stomach , that was worst . |
| 5 | And the deaf suffered along with the rest . |
| 6 | The home team , well filled with credited Wallabies , led 24–4 before Sole roused the Scots to fight back to a 24-all draw . |
| 7 | I mean , it can turn gold into copper while at the same time it is still gold , it makes men rich by destroying their possessions , it allows the weak to walk fearlessly among thieves , it passes through the strongest doors to leach the most protected treasuries . |
| 8 | The usual sail up in the " Columba. " the story is absurdly long already . " |
| 9 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 10 | But the inherent political weaknesses of the struggles , the chronic inability to attract support from other sections of labour , and the social composition of the unemployed led directly to a collapse of militancy after state intervention . |
| 11 | Some church leaders ( and lay people ) are already doing it regularly — guiding individuals in their praying , Bible reading , daily living — others , already over-busy , might well groan at the thought of the faithful queueing up for individual direction . |
| 12 | As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three . |
| 13 | While the English waited patiently for a fetch to appear , as a summons for mortals to proceed to the grave , it is interesting to note that the word was adapted by the Portuguese as fetisso ( magician or oracle ) , and involved a concentrated worship of idols to determine the future , including the time of death . |
| 14 | The English stuck together against those Alex called the ‘ fucking frogs ’ , and Marius , the Scandinavian , attached himself to us . |
| 15 | And the Dutch and the English put up with this for about fifteen seconds . |
| 16 | As the English moved southwards into Maine and Anjou , so French prospects grew bleaker . |
| 17 | I am quite pleased to see Norwich , Villa , even the Arse do well in Europe , because , I like to see the English do well against foreign sides . |
| 18 | Until the English clamped down on the custom my forefathers all used the prefix ‘ ap ’ in front of their names — the last king of South Wales , for instance , was Rhys ap Tewdwr . |
| 19 | Still more are the public fed up with escapes which succeed , and they will be appalled to hear from my right hon. Friend that the cost of damage to our prisons last year exceeded £100 million . |
| 20 | Crack delivers a high within seconds , but the high wears off after ten or fifteen minutes . |
| 21 | The shock of the change of circumstances was sufficiently numbing to dampen any inclination to run riot , particularly after the painful build up of events which led to the final arrest . |
| 22 | He 's wirily built , not tall : large feet in huge old leather boots , and here , as later on the steep pull up onto the Crazy Pinnacle , he climbs with a deft , urgent economy . |
| 23 | As a supposedly general-purpose chip , he said , the 80860 falls down on programmability , no thought seemingly having been given to the compiler and operating environment . |
| 24 | Thus it seems to be not so much the articulation of words per se that engages the right hemisphere in these patients but the spontaneous putting together of meaningful speech . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the British edged closer to the Triple Alliance and might still be persuaded to take the strain of direct opposition to Russia , if Russia moved . |
| 26 | It was in meeting him on this ground that the British came closest to responding to him as a worthy adversary . |
| 27 | The British got there in their usual resourceful way . |
| 28 | These pictures function as rituals of reassurance , demonstrating that when there was a job to be done , the British got down to it . |
| 29 | The British built grandly in many places in India , partly to celebrate their own power , but also because the scale of the population , the high degree of urbanization , and the economic potential of the railways demanded it . |
| 30 | ‘ And if the British know enough about you , as they probably do , they will begin to police you . |