Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] or [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eaves , most of which are round the Mull of Oa and the northeast corner of the island , have been there a long time but are almost unexplored and very little s known about them , There is evidence that those at Port a Chotain , near Bholsa , had been occupied in the 17th or early 18th century . |
| 2 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 3 | They were nearly all altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , then restored to their Medieval appearance in the nineteenth or twentieth . |
| 4 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 5 | The evidence , however , is slim , and the logical conclusion — the two-second or five-second commercial — seems far away ; while so-called ‘ subliminal ’ advertising , using flashes of picture or words lasting only fractions of a second , is not only totally unproven as a technique , but banned in most countries where advertising on film is available . |
| 6 | It includes the present D thirty nine site , near to the sixteenth or seventeenth century Skelton Manor House , and it has important archaeological and nature conservation interests as described in reports . |
| 7 | Old maps help , especially if they go back to the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries , and surveys of earthworks can also show early elements . |
| 8 | It would date to the 1st or 2nd century AD . |
| 9 | In trying to identify future managerial changes and their impact , it is instructive to consider the nature of the changes which accompanied the second or general management wave . |
| 10 | Oddly enough , there had been no similar arrangements about the second or right angle quadrant . |
| 11 | In it Jacobi referred to the theory of the momentariness of all things formulated by the Sautrânkitas , a Buddhist sect which originated in the second or first century BC . |
| 12 | The vessel was probably made in the East Celtic area during the second or first century B.C. The representations give some insight into the deities imagined at the time as well as into some of the rituals involved in their worship . |
| 13 | But towards the end of the second or fourth repeat he made some small alteration in the ports de bras so that the dancer could move easily into the next sentence . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Constant features : each strophe in the poem has an infinitive construction in the second or fourth line , and each line is characterized by the repetition of a sound sequence . |
| 15 | It is after they have lost control for the second or third time that the real difficulties appear . |
| 16 | After the second or third week of starting his course , Leonard asked to speak to Professor Dudek , and showed him some of his own poetry . |
| 17 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations . |
| 18 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ . |
| 19 | Energy efficiency may be the quickest way to abate emissions of carbon dioxide but it is hard to imagine it being applied effectively in Third World countries , whose output of the gas is likely to overtake the developed world 's in the second or third decade of the next century . |
| 20 | From the healthiest plant you have that is not adjacent to a tomato of a different variety , leave two or three fruits on the second or third truss until very ripe . |
| 21 | After the second or third year the principle of choice , concentration , and specialization began to bite into the curriculum . |
| 22 | You will feel clumsy and inept at most of the manual skills for at least a year , ; confidence and speed will only begin to appear the second or third time round . |
| 23 | When a set comes through , which may be anything from every five to every forty minutes , the more experienced surfers will take the second or third wave of the group since these are normally the biggest . |
| 24 | By the time of the second or third assessment , if people are still at home the typical situation involves a mixture of two or more services , such as home help , meals-on-wheels , nursing , day care , and so on . |
| 25 | The economics of producing oil from coal ‘ do not look attractive and will possibly delay its introduction in the UK until the second or third decade in the next century . ’ |
| 26 | If you repeat this a few times , you may well notice more tension on the second or third occasion . |
| 27 | A fixed position allows the use of a tripod and , for the first time in this Christmas video shoot , the use of an extension microphone to enable you to make a good job of recording all those fascinating speeches that tend to be made after the second or third glass of wine . |
| 28 | I mean , is n't the print the same in the second or third or fiftieth edition ? ’ |
| 29 | In addition to their genetic differences they will each have a different nurturing experience within their family , for example being the first born and only child is different from being the second or third child of parents already used to dealing with small babies and the noise , bustle and demands of older siblings . |
| 30 | Most SMP vendors believe an efficient and scalable SMP version of Windows NT wo n't be around until the second or third release , which are reportedly scheduled to be rolled-out mid 1993 . |