Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb base] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have details from CENTRA Examinations and Assessments Services about revisions in the 789 Machine Knitting scheme which will be introduced from September of this year . |
| 2 | In 1894 the Ladies ' National Association , veterans of the repeal movement , mounted a campaign to amend the 1885 act to criminalize incest . |
| 3 | Since the release of ‘ Somewhere Soon ’ , The High have shared stages with the likes of BB King and Robert Cray . |
| 4 | This may seem surprising in view of the fact that the British tend to move house less frequently than people in some other countries like the USA and , more particularly , in view of the wide range of government measures that aim to support the existing patterns and restrict the scale of new urban expansion , such as regional policy , green belts and the urban programme . |
| 5 | From Skywings ! the British Hang Gliding Association 's journal , this incident report : ‘ Householder reported dual flight over his house . |
| 6 | THE British Hang Gliding Association is to investigate an accident in which a Wirral man 's hang glider crashed into an 11,000 volt cable on the Great Orme , at Llandudno . |
| 7 | It is hard to understand why the RIBA has to promote the idea of employing architects to design individual homes — only the British seem to resist architect involvement . |
| 8 | While most of the 32 member states have sent very senior ministers to Frankfurt , the British have despatched Roger Freeman . |
| 9 | The French have made use of Directive 72/160 which encourages farmer retirement and the transfer of land to enlarge units . |
| 10 | In the past the French have defied logic and answered their critics , but a second defeat by Dwyer 's emerging Wallabies could well summon a black-hooded anonymous henchman . |
| 11 | The old have to accept changes in patterns of living and cultural standards that they can not understand , and cope with rejection by the younger generations , as well as a good deal of sentimentality and shallow stereotyping in private and public references to themselves . |
| 12 | Ventilation is good with mesh netting at both ends on the flysheet allowing air to pass through easily and both vents on the outside have stiffened weather flaps . |
| 13 | If approval is denied , the DCs which are active through the package are returned to state ACTIVE in order to allow the appropriate rework to take place on the modules . |
| 14 | It ca n't be long before they cross the Atlantic as the children of the 90s start replacing designer bodies with designer minds . |
| 15 | The three hope to raise £2,000 for charity to be shared between the Colchester Hospice and the British Heart Foundation . |
| 16 | When the Left want to take control of a particular constituency , they look at its controlling group and note that over a six-month period the maximum number of people attending the decision-making meetings is never more than ( say ) twenty-seven . |
| 17 | Critics on the left have attacked Roosevelt for not doing enough , and have seen the New Deal as a " missed opportunity " . |
| 18 | In deciding the case of legitimization , Innocent claimed the authority of the apostolic see to pass judgment on the legitimacy of heirs and in the decretal " Per venerabilem " he outlined this right and duty in rejecting the petition of count William of Montpellier . |
| 19 | historically , the powerful have encouraged hagiography , not critical investigation … . |
| 20 | One of the many design changes Mickie originated was in the exhaust valve , where many production batches had resulted in 100% scrap . |
| 21 | As Charlie approached the Whitechapel Road , he stopped and stared at the frantic bustle taking place all around him . |
| 22 | The oil price rises of the 1970s have created conditions in many Third World countries similar to those of a wartime siege economy . |
| 23 | Eighteen of the 57 have faced challenges . |
| 24 | Although the land mass is huge — stretching from Korea to Pakistan , the USSR to Vietnam — only a small proportion of the land can be farmed , which is why over centuries the Chinese have become experts at using scarce resources . |
| 25 | The Chinese have known ginseng as ‘ the elixir of life ’ for more than 5,000 years . |
| 26 | Although the Chinese have held jade in the highest regard for a matter of five thousand years and carried its symbolic use to levels of sophistication far beyond that of other peoples , no natural deposits are yet known from within the ancient limits of their country . |
| 27 | The Chinese want to put pressure on Vietnam , and Peking has made clear that it will continue sending arms until the Vietnamese-installed government of Hun Sen agrees to some form of power-sharing that includes the Khmer Rouge . |
| 28 | The conditions of life for the powerless created by the powerful are simply ignored by those who explain crime as a manifestation of individual pathology or local neighbourhood friendship and cultural patterns — yet in many respects the unrecognized victimization of the powerless by the powerful constitutes a part of those conditions under which the powerless choose to commit crimes ; |
| 29 | The Dutch have abolished turnover tax and fixed minimum commissions on securities transactions . |
| 30 | The former tend to have homologies , that is be the relevant consumers of ( or have an elective affinity with ) the productions of ‘ consecrated artists ’ ( priests ) , while the intellectuals have homologies with the avant-garde or ‘ artistes maudits ’ . |