Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are 5 finely rugose and slightly flattened arm spines , of which the dorsalmost is the largest extending about 2 arm segments in length . |
| 2 | IN THE absence of Joel Moore ( Achilles tendon ) and Francis Drake ( retired ) , the Spanish carried too much firepower in this European Championship match . |
| 3 | But whereas the direct mail method is ideal for computer-literates who know what they want , computer superstores allow the undecided or the uninitiated to see under one roof what is on offer and to seek on-the-spot advice . |
| 4 | The rich eat too much meat and suffer from chronic constipation , diseases of the bowel , gout , and bladder stones . |
| 5 | Why are the North York moors not included in the 12 proposed environmentally sensitive areas ? |
| 6 | The equipment for funnelling off the carbon-12 takes up two sides of a workshop the size of a church hall . |
| 7 | In addition , the British brought in large numbers of Indians who settled in Kenya , Tanzania and Uganda . |
| 8 | The French took even stronger measures than did the British to discourage an African press . |
| 9 | And er the French speak very good English |
| 10 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 11 | The French built surprisingly modest stations in North Africa . |
| 12 | This is particularly welcome : the 911 had so much weight concentrated over its tail that it was prone to locking front wheels in the wet . |
| 13 | On 10 August the Japanese bombed most Portuguese towns on the island to discourage support for the Australians . |
| 14 | Until quite recently , the Japanese had very few problems with back pain ; now it is a problem that is getting rapidly more common . |
| 15 | But the very first visitors to Japan assumed , from the local socks , that the Japanese had only two toes . |
| 16 | Adjusting the output of existing products and rapidly expanding the share of new ones , requires flexibility in the labour market and it is here that the Japanese have even bigger advantages . |
| 17 | Although America 's electronics industries are keen for the government to renew the parts of this agreement that call for the Japanese to buy more American chips , their ardour for price-fixing has cooled . |
| 18 | They did kill an estimated 1,500 Japanese for the loss of only 40 of their own men ; a sharp contrast to the 166,500 Allied losses ( mostly prisoners ) in Malaya , Hong Kong , and in the Dutch East Indies , where the Japanese lost only 15,000 men in the campaigns of the 1940–41 winter . |
| 19 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 20 | The second aroused more positive interest , though it is unclear with what precise effect . |
| 21 | The second arrived only two minutes later , and again Meninga was involved , this time with a forceful run up the right wing before crisp passing allowed Chris O'Sullivan a clear path to the posts . |
| 22 | The growth of an overtly moralizing genre of English painting from the 1840s staked out similar representations of female purity and immorality . |
| 23 | Douglas Jay observed that the later 1970s were a time of genuine recovery — ‘ one of the few examples of any Western governments in the seventies reducing both inflationary pressures and unemployment ’ at one and the same time . |
| 24 | The three formed around 18 months ago and released a trio of EPs in a thousand pressings each . |
| 25 | A pipeline network in the 1940s brought about significant growth in usage , and , aided by government restrictions on gas prices to the consumer , consumption increased ninefold between 1945 and 1973 . |
| 26 | The larger had only one arm , and a head which was the wrong size and shape . |
| 27 | While siding with the poor is more rewarding because the poor represent less attractive pickings than the rich , they may be able to ‘ bargain' on the terms on which their support is obtained . |
| 28 | It is undoubtedly the case that poverty and bad housing conditions are still very much in evidence , that the poor have alarmingly inadequate provision of health care and educational opportunity and that homelessness is a very real threat . |
| 29 | During early system evaluation it was found that experts much preferred a simple direct dialogue style that presented basic diagnostic information such as test point values and component values , whereas the inexperienced required more directed problem analysis and advice . |
| 30 | Sponsoring agencies , notably local authorities , have since the 1970s come under increasing pressure to control costs . |