Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [art] [adj] [noun pl] and " in BNC.

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1 As a consequence , although the amount of , say , blue light reflected by the red area may have gone up , so will the amount of blue light reflected by the green area As a consequence , the ratio of blue light in the two areas will remain the same , as will the ratio of green light in the two areas and the ratio of red light .
2 The object of this study is to consider in detail the sources of capital investment that facilitated such a rapid rate of industrialisation , and the consequences of these patterns of investment in the different branches and sectors of the economy .
3 Recent drilling for oil and natural gas has shown that continuous permafrost underlies much of the Arctic , reaching thicknesses of 600–1000m in the coldest regions and extending out under the sea in the Arctic basin ( Figure 3.4 ) .
4 He predicted that his party would pick up a fourth seat in the Lower Falls and hold its three seats in Upper Falls — giving it a total of 10 seats on the council .
5 To assist progress , will my hon. Friend and the EC consider telling Mr. Shamir that they will take economic action unless Israel stops its illegal settlement programme in the occupied territories and abides by the Geneva convention , which is being systematically broken ?
6 With adverse publicity about the failure to establish a development programme in the black townships and a renewal of sanctions from the ANC now inevitable , Botha believes that the time has come for ageing administrators like Danie Craven to step down .
7 Not only was Leslie 's fate unknown , but there appeared to be considerable confusion in the regimental records and in subsequent references to the operations in which he died .
8 It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust .
9 He had his beloved wife Helen by his side in the last days and hours of his life .
10 It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter .
11 France has taken notice of the 15 per cent Green vote in the regional elections and stopped nuclear testing in the Pacific .
12 The book was well received by the Lancet and British Medical Journal , but savagely attacked by an anonymous reviewer in the Medical Times and Gazette of 1859 , who dismissed it , in a ridiculous review for which the most likely reason was personal animosity or jealousy , as ‘ a book which is not wanted [ and ] is not even up to the mark of the existing vade-mecums .
13 I caught a glimpse of the outside world through a gap in the piled-up tins and dishes .
14 The killings had set off widespread rioting in the occupied territories and in Jordan .
15 One guest at the Hotel Bucharest , which saw fierce fighting in the initial stages and now stands deserted , has complained that nobody believed him when he pointed out the leader of the Securitate fighters .
16 There was little spring in the ancient planks and Miss Barnsdale towered beside the box horse , ready to yank at the arms of any child who did n't manage to leap over the rough leather back first time .
17 In these respects there are some similarities between the way in which Kuhn views the paradigm of ‘ normal science ’ operating in the natural sciences and the way in which this dominant tradition has been established in public law .
18 I knew I had arrived in Rugby League the day I walked into a bar in the Australian snowfields and a twelve-year-old boy came up to ask me , ‘ Why did you pick Souths to beat Balmain ? ’
19 The business in the example , it should be pointed out , is likely to be a retailer as there is no manufacturing capacity in the fixed assets and thus an opportunity is provided for the teacher to explore with the students the expected differences in the structure of assets and liabilities between different industries .
20 This new form of settlement ( incorporating the best of town and country ) was seen as a way of relieving congestion in the major cities and of providing a better environment for ordinary people .
21 They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things .
22 A curved arrow tells you to knit first to the left to place a loop in the empty needles and then to the right to knit all the stitches .
23 ‘ If it was n't for that poor bugger , I would be getting as pissed as a bishop 's fart in the Crossed Keys and you would be back in your decrepit church feeding that bloody cat or watching your bloody stars !
24 A special conference on building labour movement support for anti-racist , anti-imperialist feminism is to be organised , as well as a Women for Socialism delegation to Palestine after discussion with the Palestinian Higher Women 's Council in the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Women 's Group in Britain .
25 As an analysis of the nature of the child in the primary years and of the way children learn , the Plowden Report ranks as the most detailed study of the early years of schooling ever produced .
26 His first post , teaching English in Galashiels , enabled him to begin geological work in the Southern Uplands and to discover fossils in rocks thought barren .
27 On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep !
28 Incomer networks were forged out of relationships created at work in the new estates and in the local social club , an institution established to help airport workers obtain some of the urban civilisation .
29 Their educational work in the local parishes and the Catholic campesino organization , FECCAS , proved to be extraordinarily successful .
30 Feminists working on social representations recognize , in addition , that human experience is highly symbol dependent , that the issue of language can usefully link psychology with other work in the social sciences and humanities , and that a greater focus on this area might be useful for psychological investigations of many gender issues ( e.g. Wetherell et al .
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