Example sentences of "mark the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1993 , 1994 and 1995 will mark the 50th anniversaries of some of the greatest , most notorious battles and victories of this century . |
| 2 | And in fact what marks the two genres off from each other is not so much the nature of the devices , but the nature of the opposition which constructs them as literature . |
| 3 | This remarkable book shows that happy conjunction of the personal and the descriptive which marks the best travelogues . |
| 4 | The visitor might already have known this ; Connie Franks ' better results are probably more the consequence of giving the right amount at the right time , the sign of greater attention to a plant 's needs which marks the best gardeners . |
| 5 | ‘ Meaning ’ , in short , lacks that exciting mixture of generality and precision which marks the explanatory concepts of the ‘ hard ’ sciences like physics . |
| 6 | The Hereford world map marks the main stages of one such — the famous pilgrimage to the shrine of St James of Compostella . |
| 7 | For example , in the solo waltz the dancer marks the three beats of a waltz in roughly every other bar , usually with her feet , but in the third musical phrase she poses in arabesque and marks the beat by gradually lowering her hand three times . |
| 8 | The quest of holists and of individualists , each for a particular type of explanation , marks the social sciences in two ways , one aggressive , one repressive . |
| 9 | Possibly for ceremonies marking the annual seasons but no one can be sure . |
| 10 | The letters , they showed a progress through that summer , marking the enchanted moments , the highlights , where pride and vanity could not now be separated from notions of love . |
| 11 | By 1905 , all makers of prerecorded cylinders were marking the actual cylinders with titles by means of a professional lettering process , though the techniques used varied widely from company to company ( 29 ) . |
| 12 | When New Yorkers first got word that war had started , those not glued to TV sets gravitated to Times Square , where little more than two weeks earlier a cheering crowd had watched the descent of a red , white and blue ball marking the dwindling seconds of 1990 . |
| 13 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |
| 14 | Manley visited the United States on May 2-4 , 1990 , for talks with President Bush and other US officials , the visit marking the improved relations between the USA and the PNP administration . |
| 15 | Marking the completed exercises for large numbers of students can be time-consuming , but this can be overcome by such methods as multiple-choice answering . |
| 16 | It sounds a familiar excuse , marking the darker chapters of recent Germany history . |
| 17 | Christenings , weddings and funerals are the rites most commonly marking the big events in life . |
| 18 | Was it the faint smell of herbs and newly baked dough , the soft ticking of the wall-mounted clock which seemed both to mark the passing seconds and yet to hold time in thrall , the rhythmic moaning of the sea through the half-open door , the sense of well-fed ease conveyed by the two cushioned armchairs , the open hearth ? |
| 19 | Single strokes are often used to mark the principal accents in the lighter forms of music . |
| 20 | ‘ Today we have one problem — you have to mark the other guys or we 'll lose . |
| 21 | There 's a wide range of boxes to mark the various stages of your project , and these can be coloured for extra emphasis . |
| 22 | Tomorrow , along with many other schools in County Durham , Bishopton/Redmarshall will celebrate Kostrama Day to mark the fund-raising efforts for Durham 's twin town . |
| 23 | He is releasing an album of love songs , From Both Sides Now , on Monday to mark the happiest moments of his 12-year marriage to actress Gwen Humble . |
| 24 | If there is no alternative to using a foster mother whose natural litter is the same colour as the mice to be fostered great care must be taken to mark the fostered animals by toe clipping or all the natural young must be removed . |
| 25 | An " unseen " exam paper allows different examiners to mark the same answers independently and to arrive at a fairly consistent and impartial assessment of the candidate 's overall performance and potential . |
| 26 | ‘ I wanted to mark the ten years since the Middlesbrough office opened , ’ he said . |
| 27 | About 150 former squadron members attended the official banquet ( I had earlier been asked to propose the Toast the the Squadron ) , there was a Squadron Parade , the dedication of a cairn to mark the 50 years and a flypast of present day aircraft . |
| 28 | A ceremony at Madrid 's only synagogue marked the 500 years since , on March 31 , 1492 , King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain gave Spanish Jews the choice of conversion to Christianity or expulsion under threat of death . |
| 29 | In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town . |
| 30 | I 've marked the relevant passages . |