Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moated sites indicating a former manor or grange are common , as are sites of fishponds , remaining as dry grassy hollows , or linear banks indicating the former dams . |
| 2 | A subsequent pregnancy may re-awaken grief and anger if the birth mother feels she was forced by her parents or social circumstances to have the previous baby adopted . |
| 3 | In the absence of secondary causes including primary lung disease , primary left sided heart and valvular disease or systemic diseases affecting the pulmonary vasculature , PHT is considered primary . |
| 4 | But the incidence of cancer among paranoid schizophrenics in the same or similar institutions eating the same or similar American diet is higher than that of the normal population ( Simonton et al . |
| 5 | For example , in December 1938 Ben Smith , MP , wrote to the Board of Education warning that on the evidence of the evacuation rehearsals of September 1938 there would be a sufficient number of ill-clad or poorly-shod children to hinder the successful operation of the scheme ; but in reply the President of the Board of Education , Earl de la Warr , blandly denied that this would be so . |
| 6 | A number of residential schools therefore converted part of their buildings to , or constructed new , hospital wards or sick bays to combat the poor health of their pupils . |
| 7 | The corporate communiqué can be set out on anything from regulation A4 paper with a staple in the corner , to grandiose box presentations containing ‘ sampler ’ cassettes or compact discs previewing the alleged highlights of a forthcoming release . |
| 8 | There is a road along the glen to its head and , although the sight and sound of motor cars in places of quiet beauty is always a disturbing distraction , the road in Glen Nevis must be accepted because it gives an opportunity to inactive or disabled visitors to see the natural wonders and splendours of this spectacular defile between high mountain ranges . |
| 9 | Grice identifies as guidelines of this sort four basic maxims of conversation or general principles underlying the efficient cooperative use of language , which jointly express a general Co-operative principle . |
| 10 | Upright or semi-upright pieces increase the three dimensional effect of the aquascape . |
| 11 | It is usually employed for dealing with percentages where the whole circle represents 100% and the ‘ slices ’ or proportional segments show the fractional percentages . |
| 12 | It also consciously evolved a policy of fragmentation where possible , supporting distinct ethnic or religious communities to challenge the Arab environment in which they existed , for example with the Kurds in Iraq and the Maronites in Lebanon . |
| 13 | The technology will take advantage of existing phones systems and computer networks and wo n't require wiring or new boards to connect the each phone and micro . |
| 14 | The psalm-settings certainly pointed the way for Lutheran unison congregational singing with organ or other instruments playing the accompanying parts . |
| 15 | If the mortgage is a mortgage of the equitable estate , the priority of successive mortgagees depends upon the order in which they give written notice to the trustees or other persons holding the legal estate . |
| 16 | It is suggested , therefore , that the husband 's solicitors should submit to the wife 's solicitors merely a copy of the last conveyance , together with a copy of any mortgage affecting the property and memoranda of any " sales-off " or other documents affecting the legal title . |
| 17 | Any doubts about the potential or the urban scene are soon diminished as we sense the excitement of stalking streets and alleyways , docklands , terraces or quiet corners discovering the rich contrasts of shapes , textures , skylines and architectural features . |
| 18 | But the swashbuckling approach grew rarer ; and with the disappearance of the Carolingian and Ottonian houses a measure of excitement drained out of the game , for neither Capetian nor Salian brides enjoyed the same cachet as their predecessors . |
| 19 | Of the phocids , ringed , bearded , harp and hooded seals have the northernmost distributions , while ribbon and grey seals penetrate the arctic fringe , respectively in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans . |
| 20 | In contrast , new and expanded towns experienced the greatest declines in growth rate , confirming that the new towns are mostly no longer new nor are they so fertile . |
| 21 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 22 | Intermittent , soft , broken , variable and dotted lines suggest the cylindrical , conical and ellipsoidal forms of living organisms . |
| 23 | The procedure for investigation and possible sanctions follows the same pattern as outlined earlier for matters dealt with under Article 85 . |
| 24 | Social , economic and political developments crushed the eighteenth-century constitution and hence the credibility of the established constitutional theory . |
| 25 | Apparent areas of convergence , such as an ostensible focusing on the ‘ welfare of the child ’ , should not be allowed to disguise what are regarded as real differences stemming from different psychological and political assumptions underlying the two positions . |
| 26 | This is a time period which witnessed rapid change in all spheres of life ; following the migrations ( Arnold 1984a ) rural communities were expanding their social and political networks to form the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms . |
| 27 | This was encouraged by governments and energy agencies , keen for both strategic , economic and political reasons to reduce the heavy dependence on a fuel where the bulk of reserves are concentrated in the Middle East , in the hands of a cartel awaiting only a tightening of supply to raise prices to 1979 levels and possibly above . |
| 28 | Only 80 of the Royal Navy 's 124 ships of 50 guns or more had proved fit for service , fewer than the 40 Spanish and 50 French ships of the line , and both in seaworthiness and weight of gunfire the best French and Spanish ships out-classed the finest English vessels . |
| 29 | Flushed peat and peaty gleys occupy the wetter channels and hollows where snowmelt waters converge in the spring . |
| 30 | The first survey of both private and state-owned forests confirms the apparently-inexorable decline in the red squirrel population . |