Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A generous selection of auxiliary products support the range , including Gloss and Matt Mediums , a Gel Medium , an Acrylic Retarder to increase the working time of the colours , Gloss and Matt Acrylic Gesso Primer .
2 Because the second–class coaches use a common bodyshell with first–class coaches , seats do not always align with the windows .
3 The situational shifts prevent a consistent plot-line from forming , making the novel essentially unpredictable , and Sukenick further complicates our sense of sequence by counterpointing a ‘ count-down ’ sequence of chapters against the ascending page-numbers .
4 ‘ There is a popular perception that the monetary authorities dictate the general level of interest rates , and of course it is true that we are able to exert a very considerable influence on it .
5 If we assume that the monetary authorities set the size of the nominal money supply and that for the moment the price level is fixed at , then the supply of real cash balances can also be illustrated in the figure .
6 persistent fingers play a virtuoso trill
7 A breakdown of the figures shows 14 per cent of women in professional groups exceed the limit , compared with six per cent of female unskilled workers .
8 Such uninformed views do the industry a disservice .
9 Second , regional policies play an ideological role favourable to private capital : they present the economic recession as a problem of geographical distribution of jobs rather than what it is — a problem of simply insufficient jobs on a national level .
10 Comte suggested that a society 's political institutions provide an indication of the stage which has been attained by civilization .
11 Many books written for full-time or professional interviewers advocate a ‘ system ’ for asking questions .
12 Specific plans include the reintroduction of captive-bred brown bears to Austria , and European lynx to the eastern Alps .
13 The tensions in political priorities and prevailing values find an echo in decisions about the appropriate balance between centralised and localised infra-structure for management development .
14 since unknown , unsigned acts have no one to compose such epistles but themselves , there is a great opportunity to bring a little sunshine into a cynical hack 's life .
15 The Minister is aware that those who work for 16 hours or less do not have the right to itemised pay statements unless they have worked for five years and that those who work less than eight hours have no right to them at all .
16 The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal .
17 It is , indeed , difficult to avoid the generalization that while classical tendencies are increasingly becoming the ‘ dominant ’ ( in Jakobson 's sense ) in a commercial system such as that epitomized by US broadcasting , naturalist tendencies remain the dominant in the UK where public-service values retain an increasingly tenuous hold .
18 Such flows approach asymptotically to the self-preserving form , although often very slowly ; for reasons to be seen in Section 21.4 , turbulent flows have a long ‘ memory ’ of upstream conditions .
19 Having established the overall principle that conciliatory attitudes provide a prime dynamic for strengthening relationships , Paul then goes on to spell out how in each case male and female partners are to work this out in practice .
20 Labour authorities have a tendency to disarm tenants .
21 The vivacity and brilliant colours of the mobile forms draw the spectator into the work , also tempting her to identify the shapes with external references .
22 Regional authorities face the chop and a smaller number of new committees will keep an eye on the self-governing trusts .
23 The regional authorities have a major role in resource and curriculum planning for the school and community education sectors .
24 At present , black comedy 's screen coverage is limited to The Real McCoy — whose shaky sets and second-rate scripts hinder the scene 's advancement as much as the very presence of the show helps it .
25 Half-hearted attempts run the risk of being ineffective and antagonistic to assailants .
26 Both upper and lower chains contain a series of methylated guanines being the length of the modified sequence smaller than the footprint obtained with DNaseI , known already to overestimate the length of the binding sequence .
27 The organisational changes that come with white-collar CCT and its attendant activities create an environment where it is all the more imperative for the traditionally federal style of Town Hall management to look very carefully at how it manages its electronic records .
28 Highly cohesive groups display a strong loyalty to their members and a strong adherence to group norms .
29 On the one hand , large-scale capital movements , investments and political strategies create a physical landscape of shopping centres , streets and public buildings .
30 We should note finally a separate strand in Galbraith 's argument , to the effect that advertising and associated activities serve the purpose not only of promoting the products of individual companies , but also of shaping the ‘ attitudes necessary for the performance and prestige of the industrial system ’ .
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