Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course the conspirators were taken to Edinburgh , subjected to protracted torture , and finally beheaded . |
| 2 | In due course the parents are relieved when he begins to ‘ miss ’ his two o'clock and then his six o'clock feeds . |
| 3 | It reverted to being a draught animal in many places , losing its beef productivity , though in some areas its old milking abilities were encouraged and in due course the dairies of Cheshire came to rely on Longhorn milk for cheese-making ; from 1839 onwards Longhorns were frequently winning major beef prizes too , right through to the 1880s . |
| 4 | We must all hope that in due course the talks will proceed . |
| 5 | In due course the usages of the frontier included regular meetings of Wardens from either side , seeking to control unrulier elements in their own jurisdiction and obtain redress for robberies or killings inflicted from the facing March . |
| 6 | In due course the details of the recovery filtered back and we learned that the tern had been ringed as a fledgling in a colony in southern Sweden only a couple of weeks earlier . |
| 7 | In due course the numbers will be drastically reduced by natural mortalities , disease and predators being the chief causes . |
| 8 | In due course the jigs became fully mechanical , and water powered . |
| 9 | Other surveys in the Power stable measure the opinions of owners three months ( the Initial Quality Survey ) and five years ( the Vehicle Dependability Index ) after purchase . |
| 10 | Although the precise nature of the economic change the railways wrought is still debated , their impact can not be gainsaid . |
| 11 | I crossed carefully-even at low tide the sea-weeds made the stones treacherous — then went to the boat-house window and peered in . |
| 12 | Perhaps not quite a complete conversionbut the campaigns orgainsers say there is still tim e for the new religion to spread . |
| 13 | For technical reasons the values recorded on the ground are for areas measuring 57 m along the scan lines and 79m between scan lines . |
| 14 | Given the limited nature of the regional and social funds relative to the agricultural budget the benefits could not be substantial . |
| 15 | In the Labour camp the issues are more fundamental . |
| 16 | At low frequencies the impedances of the series arms are high on account of series capacitance while the impedances of the parallel arms are low on account of parallel inductance . |
| 17 | At low frequencies the signals do not have much carrying capacity , but go too high and the oxygen and hydrogen molecules in the atmosphere can actually vibrate in sympathy with the radio waves , absorbing the signals . |
| 18 | As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests , however , it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back . |
| 19 | The French replied that the devastation and terrorism that continued was not all the fault of ‘ dissident ’ nationalist Vietnamese or bandits and although it might not have the status of an ‘ official ’ armed struggle the results were indistinguishable . |
| 20 | In any memorable play the characters are scaled . |
| 21 | For administrative reasons the problems we set have to be multiple choice . |
| 22 | The ‘ deadlocks ’ which some public choice theorists think desirable because they will reduce the over supply of public services might well deny needy groups the services on which they depend . |
| 23 | Whereas there is a definite minimum speed for rounding out with full airbrake , once the glider is in level flight close to the ground , with the right technique the airbrakes can be opened fully at much lower speeds . |
| 24 | In oral cultures the meanings of words are ratified in specific concrete situations where they are used , whereas in literate cultures words accumulate ‘ successive layers of historically validated meanings ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 25 | Wilcock , the expatriate in Manhattan , also echoed in his concern with cultural anarchy rather than political action the preoccupations of the American expatriates in London . |
| 26 | Since the spacing patterns are the same for all normal distributions the divisions are carried forward to provide the probability ordinate scaling for the arithmetic probability graph which is used for plotting cumulative size distributions . |
| 27 | For just two-coloured stripes you can still work in regular row sections but if you have the purl side as the right side the stripes blur in a pleasant way and merge toning colours splendidly . |
| 28 | In all professional considerations the interests of clients within their prescribed or legitimate requirements take precedence over all other interests . |
| 29 | In rural districts the banks ' main purpose was the receiving of bills brought in by local traders and farmers . |
| 30 | With whole-word recognition the features of a complete word are extracted and matched against a stored database to find the closest match ( e.g. ( Brown & Granapathy , 1980 ) ) . |