Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flowing blood was the symbol and proof that life had been taken in payment for the sins of the guilty and as a substitute for his own guilt-stained life . |
| 2 | The Wedding Present are seen by many as a victory for the ordinary and in a perverse way , their lack of image has become their image . |
| 3 | Barrow grew from a single house into a fishing village of some 300 people by the 1840s and into a town of 40,000 people a generation later . |
| 4 | This relatively weak coalification is obviously due to an early ‘ Pre-Permian updoming ’ of the Westphalian and to a late subsidence in very recent times which caused a very young re-coalification that is not yet in equilibrium with the present depth and temperature . |
| 5 | The Mildenhall aircraft veered away to the left and into a flying club canvas hangar full of light aircraft and churned the lot into kindling . |
| 6 | It is also true that there were moments , like the 1720s , the 1780s and to a lesser extent the 1750s , when their establishment was especially noticeable , but even where they existed , large numbers of claimants were still relieved at home . |
| 7 | Interchanges are being arranged with the Chinese and with a group in Paris also pursuing microsimulation . |
| 8 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 9 | Those who were now beginning to pay lay subsidies might think about that wealth and this statute , particularly about its words contrasting the defence of the realm with the endowment of the church — words which were to be echoed by Wyclif in the 1370s and in a royal grant as late as the 1440s . |
| 10 | But Novacek kept up the pressure throughout the fourth and in a nail-biting final game he unleashed a pair of winning service returns to set up victory . |
| 11 | The Act occasioned a considerable debate about the needs of the disabled and as a result much publicity was given to their cause and many of their problems received greater critical attention . |
| 12 | His father , who sat in nine Parliaments for Dorset or Weymouth , was prominent as an opponent of the court in the 1620s and as a Royalist in the civil war . |
| 13 | When the ball was let out Northern 's backs looked the sharper and after a scoreless first half , centre Paul Collins burst on to a short pass from Johnson and sent the speedy Casado racing over . |
| 14 | Our consciousness merge , one with the other and for a fleeting moment in time , it touches the unmanifested half in the other , creating an inner union of perfection . |
| 15 | The state of goth — as catch-all historical movement for the too-ugly and the too-grim and as a modern phenom — is given little credence by UK Decay , the ridiculous Virgin Prunes , the talentless and misguided Christian Death , The Neff 's rubbish psychobilly and the new blood 's slavering adherence to the Sisters Of Mercy songbook ( eg Rosetta Stone , James Ray , Nosferatu ) . |
| 16 | The introduction of Japanese plants to South Wales , and later to north-east England ( led by Nissan ) , was widely seen chiefly as a spur to UK firms to ‘ improve ’ their working practices and productivity , although Dunning ( 1986 ) estimated that Japanese employment in the UK could increase to 22,000 by the end of the 1980s and to a possible 250,000 by the year 2000 . |
| 17 | Glycollic acid could be a precursor for the petrochemical feedstock , ethylene glycol but it is also a useful chemical in its own right , serving as a descalent and as a mordant in the dyeing industry . |
| 18 | In other cases too , the ability of Jun/Fos containing factors to act both in a negative and in a positive fashion has been proposed ( 33 ) . |
| 19 | MARK DIGNAM was one of England 's foremost actors , both as a juvenile and as a character actor , ready to tackle anything going , from cameo to leading roles , an expert in the classics , above all Shakespeare , and a keen student of modern drama . |
| 20 | DDT was followed by other organo-chlorides , including aldrin , isodrin , entrin , and dieldrin , which was widely used in Britain as a sheep-dip and as a seed dressing . |
| 21 | The Companies Act 1989 has changed the definition of a subsidiary and as a result A. Layout ( Leisurewear ) Ltd has been treated as a subsidiary for the first time . |
| 22 | Most specifically , which types of specialist focus demand a particular team structure ; which alternatives can function on both an individual and on a team basis ? |
| 23 | Both the major definitions of poverty — as an absolute and as a relative condition — turn on the question of individual health . |
| 24 | In other words , individual children have very different educational experiences , both at an ideological and at a resource level . |
| 25 | ‘ My guy 's an impulsive-obsessive and through a chain of events gets amnesia . |