Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the leaner ore was left unworked . |
| 2 | The house itself was 1914 or a bit earlier , steeply pitched slate roofs and high chimneys : bijou Lutyens for the leaner purse . |
| 3 | Speaking at the annual general meeting of the British Association of Mountain Guides at the Ulswater Hotel , Collister lamented the way guides in the alps had over equipped routes for their own convenience at the expense of the clients share in the adventure . |
| 4 | ‘ Besides , you 'll probably have to face a full interrogation on the Monpazier bastide on Saturday . |
| 5 | And tomorrow she was supposed to be visiting the Monpazier bastide with him . |
| 6 | The riskier loan was disappearing from the market . |
| 7 | The German middle classes and the German Catholics in particular knew that the Prussian Poles were no great threat to the state , yet in spite of their protests , the Junker-dominated Government found it essential to work through crude Völkisch opinion to maintain itself and divert the impending revolution . |
| 8 | Congressman Solarz also beavers away on the duller stuff that most of his colleagues see little point in pursuing . |
| 9 | So , without a Great Detective , or even a lesser detective of the fictional breed , you will find that the clearing up of the mystery , which still must be presented with an air of progress , will be carried out not largely by the processes of ratiocination ( that word invented by Edgar Allan Poe ) but by the duller process of the accumulation of facts , as in real life . |
| 10 | The seed corn left to accompany the dead could sprout again — as a boy , he had heard reports of successful experiments on damp rags in the dark — the coins for the ferryman , fallen among the collapsed lips and tongueless jawbones of the discovered dead , could be buffed and brightened until the curls in the hair of Demeter , caught up in rich ropes under a garland of corn floating with ribbons , gleamed glossily again , and the Cupid on Riba 's emblematic ship , facing out to sea with his drawn bow over the whorl of the prow , stood out in silver against the duller ground . |
| 11 | Molloy learned it from me at the Imperial Hotel , Blackpool , during one of the duller party conferences . |
| 12 | He heard the hollow thudding of hooves and the duller sound of feet constantly tramping the timbers of the drawbridge . |
| 13 | After hibernating through the winter months , a male sand lizard wakes up and sheds his old brown skin for a new green one which the duller female finds attractive . |
| 14 | The calibration is carried out by mounting the magnetometer core centrally in the coils and adjusting the peak-to-peak output while reversing the coil current , set to a constant value appropriate to the range being calibrated . |
| 15 | His actions had triggered full-scale rebellion by the hybrids and by the vaster Stealer brood of true-seeming humans . |
| 16 | For card subjects there are three independent variables — area , exposure and the radiometer reading — and one dependent variable — the A- measure . |
| 17 | An attempt to determine the relationship was described in Chapter 4 , and it was found that the A-measure varies roughly linearly with the radiometer reading over a wide range of exposures . |
| 18 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |
| 19 | The API will enable users to access the CodeCenter engine and import and export data structures and class hierarchies . |
| 20 | The clarification of water by means of sedimentation becomes more complex with the use of dosing methods and upward-flow tanks , but , with analytical checks on the treatment the results can be much more consistent than with the simpler settlement in mill lodges , and there need be no interruption in supply caused by variations in the raw water or the need for cleaning out tanks . |
| 21 | The end of the decade saw more comfortable , functional footwear , reflecting the simpler silhouette of clothes — shoe heels became chunkier and wide-strapped sandals complemented the ubiquitous kaftan imported from the East . |
| 22 | By the latter half of the twelfth century , when the crusades were in full swing , chain mail replaced the simpler scale armour to a great extent , and the pot helmet was increasingly used by the wealthier warriors . |
| 23 | On more complex analyses , the concept was to retrieve the information meeting the simpler selection criteria , thus significantly reducing the volume of data to be examined subsequently , then , to extract manually the information meeting the more complicated selection criteria . |
| 24 | They still used the simpler armour found from the preceding century , with conical helmets padded or plated hauberks or jerkins , and fought with unprotected legs . |
| 25 | The new rule would have allowed 85 per cent of the 365 permits issued for field tests and 724 sites to have gone forward under the simpler notification . |
| 26 | The simpler level is a search for the correct output for some particular instance . |
| 27 | In a logical net , at the simpler level of search , there is no notion of approximation to a correct answer from given inputs . |
| 28 | Also , although the simpler level of search has no metric and involves random jumps , there is a notion of proximity at the higher level : Two states are close if the proportion of RAM chip cells with different entries is small . |
| 29 | We make relatively little use of the simpler DTP systems because they tend to obscure the logical/physical distinction and encourage students to invent design elements on a case-by-case basis as they create a document , leading to incoherent and inflexible document structures . |
| 30 | Slowly , as geography became a more refined and philosophical diversion , so this way of subdividing the sea evolved into the simpler concept of just Five Oceans : the northerly and southerly subdivisions of the Atlantic and Pacific dropped , we were left with the uncomplicated vastnesses of the Oceans Arctic , Antarctic , Atlantic , Pacific and Indian . |