Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A playground and playhouse keep the tots happy while the teenagers have a ball with a whole host of absorbing activities .
2 You are not authorised to have access to any other areas of the Reserve other than the route to and from the hide .
3 Plan for shorter days and lower temperatures , with the west wetter than the rest — but there 's always hope for an Indian Summer .
4 Slowly bend your arms , lowering the upper body towards the floor and keeping the legs straight until the elbows form right angles , then slowly straighten up .
5 He said : ‘ Things were looking very bad because the lowest estimate we received for putting the club right after the fire was £180,000 .
6 He 's credited with keeping the club afloat after the Maxwell companies collapsed .
7 As was pointed out in the judgment , ‘ In some contractual relationships , for example life assurance and pensions schemes — some aspects of the law regulating conditions of employment , and … various state-run schemes such as national insurance ’ , 35 it is ultimately a matter for the parties concerned whether the individual should be treated as a man or a woman .
8 By contrast , answering some questions about intervals between dates is much more difficult for the bottom third when no calendar is provided than when it is ; the top third are about as successful whether or not a calendar is provided .
9 ( 1 ) " licence " means any licence granted under the Act other than a seamen 's canteen licence ( see 5.139(1) ) .
10 ( 1 ) " licence " is defined in s.139(1) as being any licence granted under the Act other than a seamen 's canteen licence .
11 They better get the spelling right before the hordes arrive in Wester Ross .
12 This committee , like the CNAA , gives the approval necessary before a course can be funded ( and thereby receive students ) .
13 There was no furniture in the room other than a cupboard in the far corner in which were kept special foods such as plates of dates selected from the great storehouse or the enamel pots poured full of the sweet of the area .
14 Mr JAD Gilliland QC ( sitting as a deputy judge ) permitted the defendants to rescind a contract for the sale of land as a result of a misrepresentation made before contract , despite the fact that clause 10 of the sale agreement provided that the agreement contained all the terms of the contract between the vendor and the purchaser and that the purchaser did not enter into the agreement in reliance on any warranty or representation made or purported to have been made by or on behalf of the vendor other than the vendor 's solicitor 's written replies to enquiries raised by the purchaser 's solicitor .
15 The real competition , the old-style conception of the battle for survival , may have taken place , if it took place at all , between the plants that provided the reptiles with their food .
16 Furthermore , the proportion of older men remaining economically active fell by 50 per cent over the period 1975–88 while the rate for older women was relatively stable ) .
17 Nothing gives so bad an impression to the other members of the committee and to the officers present than a member who talks without having read his agenda papers , or who has missed an earlier meeting where the matter was fully discussed or who talks for the sake of talking on every subject .
18 A return to work was negotiated under the conditions prevailing before the strike had begun so the union had prevented a further round of wage reductions ; but this was achieved at such a cost as to convince the leadership of the impossibility of organizing effective strike action in agriculture .
19 Its guidlines state that the bypass would have to be within a hundred yards of the road or the conditions intolerable before the property would be bought , though the Judge Mr Justice Latham said that in his view those guidelines were a shambles .
20 Hector believes that ‘ She is not worth the holding ’ , and , ‘ T is mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god ’ ; But Troilus counters with the statement :
21 If Australians , therefore , feel it is time to cut free from Britain constitutionally it is probably not before time — and who better to set the ball rolling than the man who provoked a diplomatic incident by daring to put his arm round the Queen during her visit last year ?
22 It too , however , would soon make way to allow the changes necessary if the brewery was to take its place in the modern world .
23 So Care Kaleidoscope , Caress , The X Factor … what should we call it when a variety of different ingredients are brought together , blended , and receive a release of energy which makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts ?
24 Examples of other conditions might be to limit the scope and subject matter of the examination , to specify the persons who may be present at the taking of the evidence other than the parties and the witnesses , and to limit the right to enter and inspect real property .
25 Hold it up , now you 're reducing the pressure to the area because the heart 's got to pump harder to get it up there okay , so we hold the hand or the limb higher than the heart and that will reduce the pressure still further , the ends of the blood vessels contract so how can we help them to contract even more ?
26 A better , put a fibrous pad over it , so a pad , pressure directly over the wound initially , that 's the first treatment done , see to casualty put pressure immediately over the wound and raise the limb higher than the heart , then the first aid equipment that you 'll need is a fibrous pad to bind over it , to keep the pressure on .
27 Multiple locks slid into place , sealing the ve-hickle tighter than the Bank of Tokyo .
28 It was the shock impact of the game that provided the reward .
29 the batteries last if the mains are off while you 're away ?
30 ( 12 ) Where the reasons stated in a notice under this rule relate specifically to matters which ( a ) refer to a person identified in the notice other than the member in question ; and ( b ) are in the opinion of the board prejudicial to that person in any office or employment , the board shall , unless they consider it impracticable to do so , serve a copy of the notice on that person .
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