Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We look forward to a generous settlement in a few weeks ' time when he might deal with the London Regional Transport anomaly which is afflicting us as Members representing outer London . |
| 2 | Er , we need to also think about erm , er , B types , because B types may not be being assertive , and I shall talk about assertive behaviour in a few moments . |
| 3 | By 1764 the estate was held by the fifth Duke of Devonshire , whose wife , Georgina , was Earl Spencer 's daughter , and she became the popular hostess in the many entertainments for which Chiswick House became famous . |
| 4 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 5 | The preparations for an " open-book " examination should rather consist of preparing adequate notes — possibly in swot-card form of all aspects of the work , with , perhaps , the support of marked passages in a few textbooks . |
| 6 | What permitted the concentration of foreign trade in a few ports was the complementing of overseas trade by coastal trade . |
| 7 | I 'm gon na lift a few mint roots Stefan and er plant them in a box of compost and put them in the warm greenhouse so they give me nice sprigs of fresh mint in a few months ' time . |
| 8 | Later the metal destination boxes were replaced by wooden ones in the same positions . |
| 9 | At the same time , the social benefits in the few years since 1979 have been significant . |
| 10 | Firstly , although every Australian has an equal right to be treated in a public hospital , the income that can be derived from treating a privately insured patient is greater than that for treating a public patient in the same facilities . |
| 11 | The horse 's anxiety has to be kept below boiling point to avoid a continual problem in the same circumstances ; and shoeing horses does recur — every six or eight weeks ! |
| 12 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 13 | This month the Peter Tillou gallery ( which opened at 39 Duke Street in 1989 and exhibited at the Grosvenor House Fair in 1992 ) inaugurates an additional gallery in the former premises of Leggatt Bros. ( 17 Duke Street ) . |
| 14 | All the time I am being repeatedly cloned as copies of myself multiply to pursue their separate lives in the many worlds into which my world is continually splitting . |
| 15 | However , is he aware that the Royal Navy is proposing to hold a similar exercise in the same waters on the day immediately following that anniversary ? |
| 16 | This was a small group of people who appointed their own chairman and secretary , and whose task was to see that the signs LADIES and GENTLEMEN were posted at all the appropriate places in the many buildings used by the conference . |
| 17 | One of the deals , being kept under wraps until an official announcement in a few weeks , is believed to be a lucrative shirt sponsorship package — but chairman Wallace Mercer is refusing to say if it involves current sponsor Strongbow . |
| 18 | The way in which credit granters make this decision will affect not just how that individual uses credit but through its effect on similar individuals in the same circumstances may also affect general patterns of credit use . |
| 19 | Alternatively , you could press some similar flowers in the same colourings and use those to decorate the picture . |
| 20 | The plaintiffs disputed the claim on the ground that the defendant did not reside with his deceased brother in the same premises throughout the requisite 12-month period and brought an action in the county court for possession . |
| 21 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |
| 22 | Mrs Padmore , as we know from the memorandum at the front of the file , is going to be transferring to the Economic Secretariat in a few weeks ' time . |
| 23 | Since most of the surplus food was from the lowlands with irrigation water originating in the highlands , widespread deforestation in the latter areas had had very serious effects upon the ability of South Korea to feed itself . |
| 24 | Previous studies in a few patients suggest that carcinoid diarrhoea is , at least temporarily , improved with methysergide , ICS205–930 ( a 5HT 3 antagonist without 5HT 4 effects ) , and ketanserin . |
| 25 | These figures suggest that employers , at least with the present education system , largely feel that basic knowledge in a few subjects is all that they find useful for their purpose . |
| 26 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 27 | On the one hand , cognitive-behavioural interventions with a high turnover and short contact have yielded promising results in the few studies in which they have been attempted . |
| 28 | He absorbed the little gray figures in a few seconds and his face bulged . |
| 29 | The introduction of a financial quota system inevitably placed unprecedented responsibilities on most branches and student groups to make tangible contributions to support their activities , and those of the District , which led to predictable objections from some branches and to genuine difficulty in meeting the allocated quotas in a few instances . |
| 30 | We 'll catch up with her continued efforts in a few weeks time when Zoe Muir reviews the progress of all our healthy lifestylers as they hit the three month mark . |