Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | she found that the total numbers show an exponential growth post-war , but a decline from 1970 through 1984 . |
2 | Pesticides kill off the beneficial insects as well as the destructive ones creating an imbalance in nature and wasting valuable assets . |
3 | The application of pressure to nominally dry carbon-free samples reduces the electrical conductivity as a result of a progressive reduction in pore connectivity , whereas the carbon-bearing samples show an increase in conductivity under the same conditions — an effect that we ascribe to reconnection of carbon conduction pathways during compaction . |
4 | On 4th March 1985 , the Fayed brothers made an offer of four pounds a share for House of Fraser . |
5 | If a member State of the European Communities concluded an agreement infringing an obligation under the Treaty of Rome , another member State could bring an action before the European Court of Justice . |
6 | We also invited the manufacturers or distributors of the eight salts to give an account of their particular claims in respect of their various salts . |
7 | During the 1880s the Scandinavian countries sent an average 106,244 head of cattle to Britain every year . |
8 | You should note that neither this letter nor the enclosed documents constitute an offer . |
9 | Kent 's contribution to the development of the high potencies established an extension to remedy preparation based on the guidelines given by Hahnemann in the 5th edition ( published in 1833 ) , namely the centesimal potency scale . |
10 | However , the final resolutions addressed to the Colonial powers and the colonised peoples provided an agenda for action : ‘ We demand for Black Africa autonomy and independence ’ ; ‘ We affirm the right of all colonial peoples to control their own destiny . |
11 | The Foreign Ministers signed an accord granting approximately US$53,000,000 in immediate EC aid ( which was expected to have risen to a total of approximately $147,000,000 by 1993 ) to help reactivate Central American trade as a means to strengthen the region 's current peace initiatives . |
12 | Given these two reservations , some of the detailed criticisms contain an element of truth but others are superficial . |
13 | There was silence as the General-Secretary 's entourage and the assembled workers awaited an explosion . |
14 | She found that 93 per cent of the first-born children showed an increase in naughtiness after the arrival of a new baby . |
15 | It is not the case that social science theories , once their value-components or culture-boundedness have been revealed , are for that reason relegated to the local museum of the social sciences to become an object of quaint curiosity . |
16 | This teacher , therefore , was very pleased with the way the GCSE has broadened the scope of the subject to include critical studies as an integral part of the course , although he was critical of the failure of the examining groups to include an assessment objective to cover this aspect . |
17 | This is probably just as well , as France 's new electoral law imposes strict limits on a candidate 's campaign expenditure ( maximum £60,000 ) and bans all publicity outside the official quotas during the six months preceding an election . |
18 | The Japanese authorities have an interest in playing down the importance of earthquakes but I do n't . |
19 | The central authorities issued an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of the declaration of independence ; when the Lithuanians refused to comply with this an economic blockade was imposed on 18 April . |
20 | If the required standards to keep an anemone healthy can not be met it must be better to keep to captive-bred clowns and forgo the anemone . |
21 | Some simple examples of the system in operation are provided in the following protocols involving an adult ( myself ) and various children from the research nursery of the Edinburgh Cognition Project , directed by Margaret Donaldson . |
22 | Whilst reading the following paragraphs keep an eye on checklist 2 , and also consider the program personality headings together with program style suggestions , as decisions about these will influence the presentation of the content of the lesson and affect the environment finally created in the classroom . |
23 | On Feb. 15 , representatives from the three countries signed an agreement to reactivate and strengthen regional co-operation . |
24 | Afterwards the three leaders spent an hour and a half agreeing upon heads of terms . |
25 | The three novels chart an attempt to develop linguistic techniques which represent the current state of affairs and at the same time challenge it by enlisting subversive laughter as a tool to destabilize fixed systems and tear away their protective layers of discursive convention . |
26 | The quality — or modality — of the experience depends less upon the quality of energy reaching the nervous system than upon which parts of the sensory system are activated : stimulation of the retinal receptors causes an experience of light ; stimulation of the receptors in the inner ear gives rise to the experience of sound ; and so on . |
27 | The stores are then allocated a minimum number of each title , according to their size and market , with the larger stores taking an amount over and above that , to be decided by the Penguin representatives and the stores ' buyers . |
28 | He does n't get immersed in detail but concentrates on the key factors having an impact on his profit . |
29 | The critiques and the alternative policies found an audience because of a number of worrying developments in the mid-1970s ( Chapter 5 ) , independently of the campaigns of Sir Keith Joseph and Mrs Thatcher . |
30 | Knowing that BRM 's 1.5-litre V8 engine had been superior to the Climax , Rudd took the existing proportions to create an engine twice as big and with two crankshafts . |