Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] a [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 | Until the mid-1970s a great many public relations workers came from the media . |
3 | In the mid-1970s a young woman went to a shop to rent a television set and was required to provide a guarantor . |
4 | Since the mid-1970s a growing number of privately owned small psychiatric hospitals has been established . |
5 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Three more tries to Andy Mullins , Simon Dear and Glenister gave the Quins a 24–3 half-time lead . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | During the reign of the pharaohs a popular contraceptive for Egyptian women was a pessary made of elephant and crocodile dung . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The choice of the superb BRNESC green in Melling Road , Aintree , looked capable of giving the Merseysiders a useful home advantage . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | This gives the courts a useful power to separate the wheat from the chaff among the pending cases . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
20 | In the corner of one of the courts a small figure of Queen Nefertari is depicted standing by the feet of a colossus . |
21 | The question arose after the Ladies ' Directory case in which Frederick Shaw was convicted of ‘ conspiring to corrupt public morals ’ , and in which one of the Appeal Judges , Lord Simons , had stated that ‘ there remains in the courts a residual power to conserve not only the safety , but also the moral welfare of the State ’ . |
22 | While the courts are chary of ‘ trespassing upon the province of Parliament ’ , because of the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament , it appears that Parliament is not so willing to accord to the courts a rightful province upon which Parliament should not trespass . |
23 | The British lost 1,654 officers and men , including Cradock ; the Germans a mere two men wounded . |
24 | This gave the Germans a temporary advantage , but later on was the main cause which brought the US into the war and thus caused German defeat . ’ |
25 | He will then show the riders a thirty second board which indicates that there is approximately thirty seconds before the start . |
26 | Now , today , I 'm going to break away from the notes a little bit , cos I think , there 's so many things you could bring , we could bring in , and I think some of the points made in the notes will naturally come out in our discussion . |
27 | Early on that morning that very same morning in October 1913 , anyone walking or motoring down Westfield Drive , Boston , Massachusetts , would never have given any of the houses a second glance , so ordinary were they , and none more so than number 1015 , a clapboard house like all the others in the street , only one which was in even more urgent need of repainting than most of its neighbours . |
28 | If it afforded the guardians a little light relief , the minutes do not suggest that the complaint was taken anything but seriously . |
29 | Finally , glue a ribbon around the edge of the drum and brush the dragon with a little lustre powder if desired to give the scales a shiny effect . |
30 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |