Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Referrals to private clinics decreased among the fundholders , also contrary to expectations . |
| 2 | The former are haphazard non-deliberate operations conducted at the shelves and the latter is a structured intentional activity carried out with the assistance of a bibliographic tool . |
| 3 | It looks green and comforting , scattered with small stone towns and grazing sheep , the gently hilly horizons punctuated by the towers of village churches . |
| 4 | The second kind of data consists of the attributes or properties of the spatial entities shown on the maps . |
| 5 | So make definite plans to deal with the fears that you can control . |
| 6 | This intensive investigation of simple , solid forms culminates in the paintings of the late summer and autumn of 1908 , although by this time Picasso 's work was becoming less specifically Negroid . |
| 7 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 8 | What we do find , as with the few collective farms in Roslavl' , is an obsession with possible growth-points admired by the Bolsheviks . |
| 9 | We need a successor operator of some sort that matches the current state against the possible states described by the rules in order to decide which of these should be extended . |
| 10 | Thus in the UK the Natural Environment Research Council had initiated a series of working groups to advise on the needs for future research . |
| 11 | In the Southern Band the number of cattle-stealing cases reported to the courts failed to keep pace with the increase in population , but there was no general decline at this time . |
| 12 | The first was in March , when eight bombs fell on the outskirts of the village , killing one person and wounding fourteen others , and damaging the convent in which the Dominican nuns lived . |
| 13 | The areas of meaning of the Tamil words overlap with the areas of meaning of the English words , but they do not completely coincide . |
| 14 | Applied to the artists showing at Brussels , the term could have no very definite meaning , and Apollinaire found it hard to identify many specific characteristics shared by the painters , or even to distinguish Cubism from Fauvism : ‘ One feature unites them , for if the principal merit of the painters who have been called the Fauves was the return to fundamental principles as far as colour and composition are concerned , the Cubists , in order to extend yet further the province of an art thus renewed , have sought to return to basic principles of drawing and inspiration . |
| 15 | His old eyes behind smudged spectacles talked to the seagulls and the North Sea as much as to me . |
| 16 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 17 | These include : commercial records ; broadcasts recorded off-air ; private recordings donated over the years ; oral history interviews ; tapes of some of Britain 's leading theatre companies ; railway , wildlife , and ethnic sounds collected by experts in their fields ; and so on . |
| 18 | The intense political debate on whether and how to amend Germany 's liberal asylum law , which had allowed the influx of hundreds of thousands of mainly economic migrants since 1990 , was resolved on Dec. 6 when leaders of the main political parties agreed on the terms of a constitutional amendment [ see also pp. 38544-55 ; 39066 ; 39206 ] , subsequently approved ( on Dec. 15 ) by the parliamentary party of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) . |
| 19 | Few illustrations survive of the interiors of funeral furnishing establishments prior to the introduction of the camera . |
| 20 | The Fijian traditional communal system of livelihood has a tendency to restrict initiative for commercial expansion and development so that there is a need to modify commercial values to meet with the demands of modern commercialism , This , in a nutshell , is what the Yalavou project sets out 10 do . |
| 21 | The Girls used a combination of numbers five and nine ; a few streaks painted on the cheeks , chin , nose and forehead were blended with the fingertips . |
| 22 | TWO old stagers return to the boards on video this month . |
| 23 | He believed that reality was best approached through work or its cessation , whether in the shape of miners in the Borinage , labourers digging streets in The Hague , the poor waiting submissively in long lines in soup kitchens , or old men in broken top hats walking through the gates of almshouses . |
| 24 | Men teachers in particular find the various feminine strategies used by the girls difficult to cope with ; both sexes of teacher deem the boys to ‘ take their punishment better ’ and hence teachers prefer the immediate thrust and counter-thrust of the predictable encounters with boys to the longer drawn out ‘ deviousness ’ of the girls . |
| 25 | this was a test case with 300 cases waiting in the wings , related to a whooping cough vaccine . |
| 26 | His data showed clear peaks caused by the gammas from potassium and thallium ( or so he thought , see Chapter 15 ) and gave a hint of another peak between the potassium and thallium peaks . |
| 27 | Once in the park , Joyce 's mother had stopped to talk to another young woman while Joyce herself sat watching some birds pecking at the remains of a sandwich that someone had dropped on the path . |
| 28 | Secondly , bent rotors are common , because objects such as spanners , bird scarers and even old bikes get into the choppers ! |
| 29 | If , for example , the stock-index futures fall below the prices of the underlying securities , a sample of shares representing the index are sold , and relatively cheap stock-index futures are bought . |
| 30 | Toll charters were issued for Kentish settlements such as Sarre and Dover in AD 761 and AD 696 X 716 respectively , in keeping with the centralisation of commercial activities demonstrated by the excavations at Hamwic and Ipswich . |