Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time that the effects in 1 . |
| 2 | Last year we went to the West cork Hotel in Skibbereen , the previous year the Imperial Hotel , Cork and previous to that the Gleneagles in Killarney . |
| 3 | The worldwide acceptance of the need for supranational controls on the environment — given that the holes in the ozone layer , the greenhouse effect and tropical deforestation affect the whole planet rather than individual countries — has lent new respect and strength to the United Nations . |
| 4 | Although one should not read too much into this , given that the families in the survey had at least one child in primary ( board ) school by definition , and therefore the oldest were sometimes the only ones of an age to be working , it can safely be said that the openings for girls in the printing trade must have been a godsend for low-income families with several children . |
| 5 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 6 | The uranium series measurements give a slightly older date of 205,000 years BP , but given that the uncertainties in each of these figures are typically 20 per cent , the two techniques can be said to agree with each other . |
| 7 | I was one of the lucky ones because they were having done that the others in fact left it until later and in fact they took , they , they called up for time . |
| 8 | Given that the men in our sample spend an average of more than 43 hours a week at work ( ie half their waking life ) , it 's hardly surprising that job satisfaction is the one factor mentioned by more than half of them as the most important thing in their lives ( see table , opposite page ) . |
| 9 | Second , is n't there an urgent need for a fundamental rethinking of the accounting conventions by which company performance is measured , if would-be ethical investors are to know how environmentally friendly the companies in which they invest really are ? |
| 10 | All 115 boys and girls from Carrisbrooke School , in College Road Even the wheelchair-bound joined in the fun flipping the pancakes in true Shrove Tuesday style . |
| 11 | er the reprographic staff to cover peaks in er sorry the troughs in , in the staffing in the plan printing . |
| 12 | This chapter seeks to examine at a small-scale the variations in deprivation and investment in an urban area of Pittsburgh . |
| 13 | Apart from this the participants in both markets are often the same but not exclusively . |
| 14 | Thus according to 1.7.2 the units in Q[x] are precisely the non-zero constant polynomials — and there are infinitely many of them . |
| 15 | Traditional Burmese culture centred upon the monasteries , found in every village and town , so that in the 1920s more than half the males in Burma were literate in their mother tongue ( compared to a literacy rate of 13. 9 per cent in India ) . |
| 16 | And at least half the cases in the black community may go unreported , warns Padayachee . |
| 17 | At this time he only ran about half the companies in Belfast . |
| 18 | For protection against bad debts , less than half the firms in the survey operated the sales ledger on secured terms and nearly two-thirds did not use credit insurance . |
| 19 | Economic bewilderment in the United States , uninspired government in Britain , unemployment , gloom , insuperable problems everywhere , unspeakable things happening to men and women inside half the countries in the world . |
| 20 | In about half the countries in the world governments had imprisoned people for their beliefs , while more than 100 governments had resorted to torture or the maltreatment of prisoners ; thousands of people had " disappeared " or were extra-judicially executed in 29 countries , most notably in Sri Lanka , Brazil , El Salvador , Guatemala and Peru . |
| 21 | Half the teachers in the school think say me a half-breed so they do n't too bother me . |
| 22 | Progress in further education has been rapid , to the extent that a 1985 national survey undertaken by the National Bureau for Handicapped Students for the DES , and published as Catching Up ? , showed that more than half the colleges in England ran special courses for 16 to 19 year olds with moderate learning difficulties . |
| 23 | Her father could not possibly have owned a house like this , nor could he have owned half the things in it . |
| 24 | The place was called the Eagle like half the taverns in Germany . |
| 25 | About half the tables in the hotel dining-room were occupied but Wycliffe , with Kersey and Lucy Lane , was placed in one of the window embrasures which gave them all the privacy they could have wished . |
| 26 | Fewer than half the responses from each group contained deductive markers , and in the open-ended task fewer than half the responses in each group contained causal connectives . |
| 27 | At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents . |
| 28 | J. V. One night , I was on duty at the Herculaneum Dock when the high winds were blowing in November ( half the windows in Grafton Street were blown in ) . |
| 29 | Seemed to be on kissing terms with half the chaps in the cricket ground , when we got there . |
| 30 | The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others . |