Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] and [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although walls can be initially quite expensive , they require very little maintenance , little or no staffing and draw in many user visits ( 10,000 per year in Glasgow , 6,000 per year in Fort William ) thus paying for themselves after only a few years . |
| 2 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 3 | Clustering is easier when every function and predicate which we might consider applies to every conceivable training instance . |
| 4 | As the tensile strength of rocks is lower than the compression and shear strengths it is most likely that rock will be shattered during cooling and contraction . |
| 5 | Dig a hole bigger than the container and make sure you plant them with the graft union just below the surface . |
| 6 | Roll out the remaining red fondant to a circle a little larger than the cake and use to cover the top of the postbox , overlapping the fondant ‘ collar ’ slightly all the way round . |
| 7 | The breed was recognised under the Montbéliard name in 1870 and the herdbook and breed society were established in 1889 . |
| 8 | They do this because they are not as quick as the opposition and want to give themselves as much time as possible to play the ball , no matter that they also give the other player more time . |
| 9 | Will my right hon. Friend take no lectures from the Labour party on short-termism , as its short-term policies will last only as long as the election and change for every by-election — |
| 10 | They seemed to smell the air and if a lone bird hove in sight , they 'd pick it up when it was no more than a speck and watch it till it disappeared , and everything about it would be important to them — the direction of its flight , the way it flew , its height above the water , and so on . |
| 11 | The importance of ensuring a high turnout amongst E C nationals surely warrants something more than the complacency and drift that has come to characterise this government 's whole policy towards the European community . |
| 12 | I 'm stiff as a board and want to stretch my legs . ’ |
| 13 | " We then proceeded with the examination of the boys in the presence of the Mayor and several Ladies and Gentlemen of the Town , Mr. Prescott [ sic ] the Rector of Stockport being the Examiner ; and considering the recent re-endowment and establishment of the School , and that many of the children when first admitted were unable to read , and the majority very backward in their learning , we have much pleasure in reporting that the result of this first public examination was very satisfactory and that it was apparent that the Master and Usher had faithfully discharged their duties . " |
| 14 | However , making a synthetic equivalent to the cornea is difficult because the surface and bulk properties are governed separately by the epithelium and stroma ( the supportive tissue of an organ ) , and their natures are quite different . |
| 15 | It is possible , of course , to use summation schemes other than the Voigt and Reuss ones to provide better bounds on the elastic constants of composite materials . |
| 16 | Select a straight board which is wider than the base and use it to tamp down the concrete … |
| 17 | Divisions of social class were less sharp than the size and format differences of the quality and popular papers . |
| 18 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |
| 19 | To hang the quilt , tack a hooked side of Velcro tape to a batten slightly narrower than the quilt and fix to the wall . |