Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [noun] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least in the higher animals , it is more likely that the visual perception of shape and motion have evolved in response to such biologically significant environmental features as the gait or stance of hunter or prey , or the facial grimaces and tail-waving of conspecifics . |
| 2 | As in the case of the early home-grown British firms , many of the Big Four's consultants were of the first two types of headhunter we have identified : either the aristocrat with the old-boy network contacts or the practical selection and management consultant type whose experience was more in personnel than commerce and industry . |
| 3 | When I did spot the kestrel , I would sit down on the ground or the nearest bench and gaze in amazement . |
| 4 | The apparently fragmented organization of the state apparatus represents not polyarchic pressures but rather the outcome of intra-state conflicts or the deliberate fragmentation and disorganisation of policy-making by state officials . |
| 5 | Who but Gibbons has been able to reproduce in wood the precise bloom of a ripening peach , the very texture and mass of a bursting apricot , or the exact weight and trajectory of an ear of corn on its stem ? |
| 6 | Should it be the proud Russian eagle , or the old hammer and sickle ? |
| 7 | Its latest star acquisition is the UK agency for the legendary Mas de Daumas Gassac , where the dry climate and mistral wind makes organic viticulture naturally easier to maintain . |
| 8 | We also have vacancies in specialist departments such as medicine and child care where the appropriate qualifications and experience are essential . |
| 9 | This is especially true of the east tower , where the surviving wall and ceiling paintings are among the earliest and best-preserved of their type to be seen anywhere . |
| 10 | Through a cracked squinting window high up in a cracked squatting tenement , a 25 watt woman is wearily flattening her husband 's future shirt with a nearly-steaming iron in an environment where the purple sweat and aggro must eventually print its feeling on the creamy-browny ever so piled up non dish washy ever so squashy piled up feelings ever so — ironed out onto the stove under the sink beyond the plug-hole of anyone 's conception . |
| 11 | Delay in the completion of one work element which prevents the start of the next where the same plant and labour are used can easily be demonstrated . |
| 12 | It may happen that individuals are taken over by the organisation and by groups within it , particularly where the corporate identity and image is a strong one . |
| 13 | Included in this list are Great Yarmouth , Hyndburn , Slough , Harlow , Ipswich and Thamesdown ( Swindon ) , where the local authority and constituency boundaries are exactly or very nearly contiguous . |
| 14 | There are one or two blemishes in the shorter set of strings ( and therefore lower tensioned ) in the treble , where the down bearing and side draught at the bridge have been compromised by small changes in the instrument 's geometry during the vicissitudes of 250 years . |
| 15 | Rather than lay an etch-resist pattern directly onto the copper foil of a board , it is much more convenient to prepare artwork on a polyester film where the opaque transfers and crepe papers decals can be altered at will . |
| 16 | Microprogramming was first used on a large scale in the IBM System/360 range of computers , where a common architecture and instruction set had to be implemented on a number of different models the range with widely-varying basic hardware . |
| 17 | Areas facing irreparable damage include the Dee estuary in Wales where port , road and recreational development and pollution threaten 105,000 birds ; the Wash , where 260,000 birds are threatened by industrial development , an airport and oil refining ; the Mersey , where a tidal barrage and airport development threaten about 60,000 birds ; and the Thames , including the Medway and Swale , which is facing immediate damage from development and pollution threatening 177,000 birds . |
| 18 | A number of Romanesque structures were built in Cracow on Wawel Hill , where a royal castle and church were erected , surrounded by a walled , fortified town . |
| 19 | One has the sense that everyone now thinks well of Bakhtin , whether a Marxist like Terry Eagleton , a historical scholar such as Jerome J. McGann , or a practising novelist and critic of fiction , David Lodge . |
| 20 | And she would wear something to show that she was a maid , a uniform , or a white collar and apron anyway . |
| 21 | One good example of it is a fabliau called Sire Hain et Dame Anieuse , " Sir Hatred and Lady Obnoxious " , where an antagonistic husband and wife fight a crudely physical and violent battle , literally over who should have the trousers . |
| 22 | It also does n't account for the shattering effect of the great climaxes , nor the invigorating range and quickness of Birtwistle 's motivic thought . |
| 23 | One accepts , of course , that the sheer volume and intractability of the subject matter render resort to delegated legislation to some degree inevitable ; but , by the same token , those very factors of volume and intractability almost necessarily involve a degree of perfunctoriness in parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 24 | Thus it was in the period of the Welsh court poets ( the Gogynfeirdd ) , at a time of severe political crisis under the encroachments of English power in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , that the strictest regulation and formalization ( in most people 's opinion , also , the isolation and specialization ) of the rules of poetic composition can be found . |
| 25 | Indeed it is our intention that the necessary repair and improvement work on the halls and associated offices will largely be carried out by our own team with a view to reducing costs and encouraging the use of practical gifts of time and skills . |
| 26 | A jury 's been told that the former manager and chairman of Swindon Town cheated the taxman in an effort to improve the club 's playing staff . |
| 27 | In these organisations there is a high risk that the self-fulfilling prophecy and expectation syndrome will dominate both the teacher 's and the child 's view . |
| 28 | The main reason for this is that the simple plan and elevation of the original cathedral have become obscured by later work , for the cathedral was being continuously added to , altered and developed from the eleventh to the sixteenth century . |
| 29 | ‘ It was , perhaps , appropriate that the bereaved fiancee and husband should find mutual consolation although no one who has seen the beautiful Barbara Berowne could suppose that the marriage was merely a matter of fraternal duty . ’ |
| 30 | It has been suggested that the cyclic AMP and InsP 3 messenger pathways may interact with each other to enhance odorant discrimination . |