Example sentences of "[adj] be [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the houses bear handwritten notices offering manicure/pedicure , basic literacy , hairdressing ; some are selling a few tins of Coca-Cola , candy , combs and trinkets . |
| 2 | K 1 and K 2 are called the principal curvatures of the surface at O. Their product is an invariant for the surface at O called the Gaussian curvature K ; thus |
| 3 | I now enhance and accentuate this be establishing the light tones of background wall and the luminosity of the foliage created by the back-lighting . |
| 4 | I now enhance and accentuate this be establishing the light tones of background wall and the luminosity of the foliage created by the back-lighting . |
| 5 | As Baddam indicates , the French were translating the Philosophical Transactions simultaneously ( de Brémond , and then Demours , for the 1731–40 period ) . |
| 6 | This time the flood tide of ‘ forward and backward Cs in which the French so much delight ’ was flowing inexplicably at a time when we and the French were fighting the Seven Years War and French fashions , like French bottle makers and garlic , were desperately unpopular . |
| 7 | This is to allow the nearer ones to write by In-filling — over the previously drawn further ones , or by the construction of silhouettes that restrict the construction of ones further from the drawn front facets . |
| 8 | This is changed every 3 years to prevent the lice becoming resistant . |
| 9 | If to this is added the domestic tensions occasioned by Offa 's determination to secure the succession of his son , Ecgfrith , it becomes clear how highly charged the political atmosphere must have been in Offa 's last years . |
| 10 | The Census In the United Kingdom , this is held every ten years ( i.e. 1961 , 1971 , 1981 ) , and involves distributing a questionnaire to every household . |
| 11 | But that particular day she did n't know beforehand , this was planned a few weeks in advance as you can imagine . |
| 12 | In April Elsie Streek and Myrtle Mott entertained elderly and disabled people with a day of movement and display organised by Thameside Institute ; this was followed a few days later by an afternoon with the Woolwich Salvation Army Group . |
| 13 | The easiest and cheapest way of doing this was to excavate an 800 metres long by one metre square trench within a section of the ELR 's former double-track roadbed , now occupied by only a single track . |
| 14 | This was sold a few days later for £8.58 million ! |
| 15 | The under-17s are catching the senior men in terms of strength in depth , as was proved by Jenny Marie who was doubly unlucky to finish as runner-up twice , in the 800m and 1,500m , both times to Hayley Cole . |
| 16 | The second is to develop the promotional materials which can assist in conveying the main , general arguments for teaching history . |
| 17 | The research will use statistical analysis to disentangle the impact of ‘ urban-rural shift ’ from the impact of urban policies and of regional policies in conditions where all three are influencing the major cities simultaneously . |
| 18 | The three are singing the last bars of a song . |
| 19 | Probably the incident to receive the greatest publicity , at least in Britain , involved the shooting-up of two British Warrior armoured personnel carriers by an American A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft while all three were pursuing the retreating Iraqis , resulting in nine British infantrymen being killed . |
| 20 | Just four days after completing a 30-hour journey from Edinburgh to Darwin they were expected to overcome a nine-hour time difference and temperatures in the 90 's to beat a Northern Territories Invitation XV . |
| 21 | Even before the collapse of France in June 1940 was to provide the Vietnamese communists with their golden opportunity , the Sixth Plenum meeting in November 1939 was looking towards national liberation in the foreseeable future as France 's efforts and resources were obviously being diverted to maintain her position in Europe . |
| 22 | While training schoolchildren to deal with threatening situations , they found many were making the wrong decisions . |
| 23 | The Strathcona competition , first staged in 1909. is held every five years , alternatively in Canada or Scotland . |
| 24 | The motive behind much late nineteenth-century visiting was to put the social classes back in touch with one another . |
| 25 | The first is to describe the various forms that acquired language disorders can take — that is , the various different ways in which language processing can be impaired by various forms of brain damage . |
| 26 | A first task accomplished during term 1 is to establish the current FTEs by school and department , fixed by a census on 1 November and to use both this information and the proposed NAB support to fix school and department targets for 1988–89 . |
| 27 | Students learning about distinctive features face two main difficulties : one is understanding the basic principles and the other is learning the meanings of the rather confusing feature labels used by most writers . |
| 28 | One was seen a few miles off Newhaven on 21 September 1936 ; one flew east off Langney Point on 15 October 1948 ; One flew east off Langney Point on 19 November 1950 . |
| 29 | The first was to make the six teachers more acceptable . |
| 30 | The general effect of SOGIT 1973 and the SGSA 1982 is to equate the implied conditions applied to sale in transactions of supply . |