Example sentences of "[adj] figures " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most obvious way of laying out this passage would be to give the tune to the trombones ( all three in unison ) , and to distribute the accompanying figures among the rest of the orchestra . |
| 2 | Publishing the old figures compiled from Job Centres , said Mr Hibbert , alongside the new ones might have been a good idea just to show how misleading the old ones had been . |
| 3 | Mediaeval literature has frequent references to insanity , in sermons and saints ' lives , where holy men struggle with the insane and usually cure them , by the power of God , or where the violent against Christians ultimately become mad ; in homiletic literature , where the figures of Nebuchadnezzar and Herod present fearful lessons ; and in Arthurian romances , where Tristram and Lancelot are interesting figures to the modern psychologist . |
| 4 | After lots of very interesting figures at the first big stopper of the Olympic Eiskanal , the winner was Boris Retzlaf . |
| 5 | The Minister is giving extremely persuasive and interesting figures . |
| 6 | There 's some very interesting figures you see about . |
| 7 | It was not a sudden transformation , but by the late eighties there were precious few figures prominent in political life who were anything other than careerists . |
| 8 | The drop down to half-moon Rhossili Bay below me was almost sheer , and the sea was striped with shimmering blue and white as endlessly long parallel lines of surf moved in slow motion towards the expanse of sand , on which I could just make out a few figures as tiny specks . |
| 9 | A few figures may be mentioned for guidance : A Rottweiler , which is 65cm at the withers , should measure about 75cm from the breast bone to the point of rump . |
| 10 | Few figures are available from the 1955 Census and data does not exist in this detail for intervening years . |
| 11 | I could see a few figures strung out across it in the gloom . |
| 12 | A few figures in battle-dress were walking round the perimeter . |
| 13 | The average brood size noted ranged from 3.6 to 7.7 , with a mean of 5.2 , but the number finally reared was often much less ; the few figures available indicate a predation rate of up to 40 per cent. , sometimes more . |
| 14 | A few figures will indicate the scope of this effort . |
| 15 | Costs for water obtained from local natural supplies were difficult to obtain , and few figures were available . |
| 16 | Since the book mostly contains figures , a few figures in describing its contents seem appropriate . |
| 17 | As in previous budget debates , few figures were revealed , but the Middle East Economic Digest of Jan. 18 , 1991 , reported that overall spending was " likely to be considerably less " than under the 1990 deficit budget of ID24,400 million . |
| 18 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |
| 19 | Well let's have a look at a few figures then , as to why we do need to consider it . |
| 20 | The silver-haired Dubcek was one of the few figures of authority in Slovakia . |
| 21 | But any fighter who can convince a man like Futch that he 's championship material does n't need to worry about proving his credentials to lesser figures in boxing . |
| 22 | I sometimes thought that he would enjoy being mistaken for the one rather than the other , because he disliked the idea of poetry as a ‘ profession ’ : an attitude which some lesser figures found puzzling . |
| 23 | They are recalled as somewhat sad , dependent figures : a ‘ poor old fellow ’ who went out to his sister for his meals ; ‘ a right cripple ’ who had been unable to work for over ten years ; ‘ a very old gentleman ’ who scraped together a living by selling vegetables and tomatoes which he grew in his greenhouse , but was ‘ very unhappy ’ because he had quarrelled with his drunken son . |
| 24 | Baron von Richthofen in Sterling silver plated English pewter is the first in a new series of 12 figures entitled Heroes of Aviation from Anthony Slocombe . |
| 25 | The general view of the exhibition shows , on the walls , the artist 's head ( passport photo portraits ) , from which tears flow down the Salomonic columns to feed a pool in which float 12 figures with emblems , and on which float five gold spheres . |
| 26 | His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’ |
| 27 | She saw how the dark room had filled with transparent figures who marched along the walls singing and mocking , who wrapped themselves around her so that she was suffocated in their embrace , then turned to broken bricks and choking mortar dust which cascaded in torrents on to her , flattening her to the bed so that her limbs ached with pain and she could n't move . |
| 28 | The first sign of the impending downturn came in October 1989 , when ICI was surprised by unexpectedly subdued third-quarter figures for that year . |
| 29 | Soaps to detergents giant Unilever lost 28p to 1081p after disappointing third-quarter figures which pushed the nine-month result from £1.3bn to £1.4bn . |
| 30 | These show monthly actual , monthly forecast , cumulative figures and an updated forecast for the current year , and comparative figures for the preceding year . |