Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun pl] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a plaintiff had brought an action in rem , however , his primary interest was in recovering his property , and in recognition of this the jurists devised the clausula arbitraria to assist him . |
| 2 | Their report , ‘ Quality in Traditional Housing ’ , indicated that half the faults concerned the external walls , roofs , windows and doors and related to durability and performance . |
| 3 | One new size has replaced two old ones , making it impossible for half the customers to get a correct fit . |
| 4 | Approximately half the respondents described the first stage of the process : how interest in attending courses arose . |
| 5 | inserting common paragraphs , for example if half the students make the same mistake , it is useful for the marker to prepare a paragraph explaining the error , and to paste this into each of the documents he is returning to the errant students . |
| 6 | WC apps : 2 The Colombians delighted a small Wembley crowd 18 months ago with the spontaneity and ingenuity of their football . |
| 7 | New statistics show that from 1988–89 to 1989–90 the universities gained an extra £100m through research council grants and research contracts . |
| 8 | Then , in 1979 the Conservatives won a clear majority . |
| 9 | For instance , in December 1991 the seers made an average forecast for America 's GDP growth in 1992 of 2% ; this was almost spot on the actual growth of 2.1% . |
| 10 | And in 1963 The Times carried the cheerful news that a Mr Cock had married a Miss Prick . |
| 11 | And by er nineteen twenty six the engineers suffered a calamitous drop from about er four pound odd down to this two pound sixteen . |
| 12 | On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 . |
| 13 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
| 14 | By this time , according to the findings of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey , more than three-quarters of the German people regarded the war as lost , and for a large proportion of these the raids played a major part in their loss of hope . |
| 15 | In October 1917 the Turks held an entrenched front from Gaza to Beersheba . |
| 16 | And when it came out I gave it a puff in my little rag , and made sure the others did the same . |
| 17 | Likewise , the PFA is fighting its corner to make sure the players get a fair deal . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sure the inspectors did the best job they could , ’ says Mr Reed , choosing his words carefully , ‘ but the whole process is very undesirable , very unsatisfactory . |
| 19 | It was pointed out earlier that one difficulty in using inverted files is the need to deal with all the records possessing a given attribute at the same time , so that a great deal of working space is required in main storage . |
| 20 | This would take the form of one department being responsible for all the services affecting a particular client group . |
| 21 | The really weird thing is that when all the strings have an equal tension , they do n't feel like they 're equally tensioned . |
| 22 | Without any hesitation all the girls chose the correct shirts belonging to , respectively , Jim Foster , Stewart Ayres , Dave Jolly , Gavin Davies , James Burt and Matthew John . |
| 23 | The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is the most far reaching of all the statutes having the widest impact on working conditions , its aim being to secure the health , safety and welfare of all at work wherever they may be employed . |
| 24 | The ‘ Load of Old Rubbish ’ team and ‘ Medau Bunnies ’ won prizes , and all the teams completed the 20 minute hard-working session . |
| 25 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 26 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 27 | We have been working towards establishing a group where all the members have an equal say . |
| 28 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 29 | Immediately you touched those bones , and all the others did the same , laughing and jostling to get at the coffin . |
| 30 | But all the others demonstrated the unshakeable freemasonry of actors in a crisis . |