Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soil acidification impairs the uptake of calcium by trees which results in low calcium levels in the leaves of several tree species ( beech , birch , Scots pine , and oak ) and subsequently in the content of feeding caterpillars which are an important food source for hole-nesting birds in spring and summer . |
| 2 | The British Academy operates a bursary scheme for students taking certain designated full-time postgraduate courses in the Humanities at institutions in the UK . |
| 3 | The finding that even severe depression does not lead to a lowering of blood pressure suggests that the mild depression and decreased wellbeing associated with low blood pressure in the studies referred to above is not due to a causal effect of the former on the latter , which strengthens the case for the existence of a hypotensive syndrome . |
| 4 | As nationalised suppliers , the electricity boards in the past were able to limit their liability for negligence to a trivial sum , but now , Tribick for one wants ‘ them to accept normal commercial negligence clauses in the contracts ’ . |
| 5 | The Government set up a Public Schools Commission to investigate the Direct Grant Schools : this brought together the sixty Heads of Direct Grant schools in the Headmasters ' Conference in much the same way as the Taunton Commission had led to the creation of the Conference itself in 1869 . |
| 6 | Hardly a high protein diet in the terms we have come to relate to . |
| 7 | DEFENDING champions Ajax Amsterdam were knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night when a 1–0 home victory was not enough to claw back a 4–2 first leg deficit to French club Auxerre in the quarter-finals . |
| 8 | ( a ) which sets out the data you assembled during your research in sufficient detail to allow your reader to understand the analysis that is to follow ; and ( b ) which refers your reader to more detailed research data in the appendices to your report . |
| 9 | Furthermore , such short periods of ‘ directed ’ research can be shown favourably as a saving over any extended degree course in the budgets . |
| 10 | Please could you let me know if the old mill chimney in the grounds of one of the houses there is a listed building and if it is not what is the correct procedure for having it listed . |
| 11 | It may mean also that strikes are openly directed against state policy as much as against management 's negotiating position , as with the French public sector strike in the mid-1960s against government fixing of the total wage bill ( Dubois 1975 : 114–15 ) , or the wave of public sector conflicts over the Spanish government 's wage control and restructuring policies in early 1987 . |
| 12 | The first is the comparatively low level of traditional casework initially undertaken by the social work staff in the teams , and the substantial involvement in service development . |
| 13 | These changes have considerable implications for the criteria for social work intervention in the lives of families and for the nature of public child care provision . |
| 14 | They reiterated the old CEB faith in the imperatives of central technical control , and brushed aside potential gains from decentralisation , but themselves maintained a very weak financial control over the divisions . |
| 15 | The Greater London Council ( GLC ) was ruled by the courts and finally by the House of Lords to be acting beyond its powers in lowering its public transport fares in the Fares fair' campaign of the early 1980s . |
| 16 | That fancy feast at the Mamounia was a fitting end to a week spent loitering in hushed palace courtyards and lush palm-tree gardens , staring at the marble mosaic walls and the carved cedarwood ceilings in the palaces and in the Museum of Moroccan Art . |
| 17 | Hygeberht 's archdiocese , therefore , embraced Mercia and its dependent border territories in the midlands and East Anglia . |
| 18 | It took a crew of sixty a week to set up the stage and seating in front of the ruined tithe barn in the grounds of Sudeley Castle for the four day festival . |
| 19 | From the start , however , visits took place in ‘ a campaigning spirit ’ — ; campaigning for better facilities , higher standards , improved staff workloads in the institutions . |
| 20 | Codetermination — the right of workers to help direct the firms they work in was a major preoccupation of German trade unions in the years after the war ( chapter 6 ) . |
| 21 | In recent years the currencies which have been participating within the E.R.M. have been remarkably stable within the system and it appears that the E.R.M. members benefited from enhanced policy creditability in the eyes of the foreign exchange markets . |
| 22 | And if Hasan was just an ordinary little boy , why did he have such an alarmingly high success rate in the prophetic-dreams department ? |
| 23 | Not for nothing did smiling Irish eyes make the fortunes of the bohemian hacks who were just about to create the modern popular music business in the cities of the United States . |
| 24 | The Medical Research Council proposed to erect and maintain a public health laboratory in the grounds of St. Peter 's Hospital and this was approved , the building being leased to the M.R.C. for 25 years . |
| 25 | In theory , issues of definitive debt instruments in the Euromarkets are negotiable instruments . |
| 26 | It is not surprising that Dr L regarded the humanities with some contempt , arguing that students go to sign on for a medieval history course in the arts faculty and |
| 27 | President José Eduardo dos Santos joined an estimated 40,000 people who took part in an ecumenical thanksgiving Mass in a sports stadium in the capital , Luanda , on June 2 , marking the end of 16 years of civil war . |
| 28 | ‘ The placing of adequate purchasing power in the hands of the citizens so that they will spend more ’ , wrote Beveridge in 1944 , ‘ should be the main instrument of a full employment policy . ’ |
| 29 | Dr Jeremy David , assistant specialist scientist in the Fisheries Department , claims that the killing was for commercial purposes . |
| 30 | Engineers were quick to shore up the weakened Botley Road Flyover in Oxford as soon as they found corroded support wires in the spans . |