Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandably , the expert systems did not assist the experts a great deal but came into their own when both of the 2 experts were not available and an inexperienced technician had to take over . |
| 2 | It was all very well for countries where uniforms were fashionable — as they certainly were not in Britain and the United States — to encourage among the labourers the soldierly virtues , not the least of which was to be poorly paid . |
| 3 | Until the mid-1970s a great many public relations workers came from the media . |
| 4 | In the mid-1970s a young woman went to a shop to rent a television set and was required to provide a guarantor . |
| 5 | Since the mid-1970s a growing number of privately owned small psychiatric hospitals has been established . |
| 6 | Glasgow , Liverpool , Newcastle and Leeds pressed on with their extensive highway systems , but other cities abandoned them and by the mid-1970s an urban road policy in the context of an explicit town planning framework was stood on its head . |
| 7 | Since the mid-1970s the recessionary shake-out in manufacturing has led to the externalization of various corporate services , previously provided ‘ in-house ’ . |
| 8 | By the mid-1970s the general policy of winning the confidence of the farming organizations and working on the basis of persuasion and advice was being increasingly questioned . |
| 9 | With a hop , skip and neat somersault under the ropes the crew-cut American cop was in the ring , brandishing his sawn-off rifle at Berzerker , as if to say ‘ go ahead , punk , make my day … ‘ . |
| 10 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
| 11 | An item listed as extraordinary effectively writes out of the accounts a twenty three thousand pound loan … given to this man to help buy a house . |
| 12 | An item listed as extraordinary effectively writes out of the accounts a twenty three thousand pound loan … given to this man to help buy a house . |
| 13 | Three more tries to Andy Mullins , Simon Dear and Glenister gave the Quins a 24–3 half-time lead . |
| 14 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 15 | It would be useful to have a general term for elements which fall short of being constituents , but which nonetheless have a semantic function relatable to the meanings the same forms carry when they are semantic constituents . |
| 16 | He 'll overlook the trespass on his lands and the assault on his person — oh , yes , there was an assault , and by all the signs a bitter one , too — if Harry will renounce his feud henceforward , but Harry will die first . |
| 17 | Are the signs the same or different ? |
| 18 | During the reign of the pharaohs a popular contraceptive for Egyptian women was a pessary made of elephant and crocodile dung . |
| 19 | A simple fade-to-black ( a common technique used in the Sixties ) gives the artists a few vital seconds to reposition themselves before the fade-up suggests action happening the following morning . |
| 20 | Despite the dangers the first crew want to return … this time to help the child victims of the conflict . |
| 21 | Gerard Fusil was only too aware of the dangers the 175 racers faced between the Caribbean and the Pacific coasts of a country aptly nicknamed the Switzerland of Central America . |
| 22 | In the cities a nascent proletariat was beginning to flex its muscles , forming short-lived illegal organizations of its own and staging its first major strikes . |
| 23 | In typical instances , in the cities a widowed and formerly more prosperous grandmother might still be living in a larger , now empty house : thus a Liverpool labourer and saltpacker 's family moved in the with grandmother , who kept a secondhand clothes shop . |
| 24 | Between the cities the blue-green jungle was riven with great scars where plasma cannon and barrage bombs had been tested . |
| 25 | The choice of the superb BRNESC green in Melling Road , Aintree , looked capable of giving the Merseysiders a useful home advantage . |
| 26 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 27 | This gives the courts a useful power to separate the wheat from the chaff among the pending cases . |
| 28 | This latter formulation would give the courts a greater scope for substitution of judgment , with the additional risk that they would not have to articulate their rationale as clearly as under the heads of purpose and relevancy . |
| 29 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
| 30 | In the corner of one of the courts a small figure of Queen Nefertari is depicted standing by the feet of a colossus . |