Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [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 | Given the limited nature of the regional and social funds relative to the agricultural budget the benefits could not be substantial . |
| 14 | In the Labour camp the issues are more fundamental . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In any memorable play the characters are scaled . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) ) . |
| 21 | After an introductory chapter the properties of amino acids are described . |
| 22 | In the overhaul of government that accompanied the War of the Spanish Succession the servants of Philip V rejected the system of the Great Councils , less because it gave the grandees too much political power than because it was incurably inefficient and incapable of organizing the monarchy for the defence of the French dynasty . |
| 23 | In this triple partnership the universities could perceive themselves as occupying the middle ground between the LEAs as statutory providers and the voluntary bodies which traditionally existed to articulate and give shape to the aspirations and needs of individuals , groups and communities for liberal adult education . |
| 24 | from their daily experience the masses know perfectly well the value of geographic and economic ties and the advantages of a big market and a big state . |
| 25 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 26 | In an age when lay people did not participate in the celebration of the Latin Mass the mystics writing in the vernacular interpreted their own experience of the reality expressed in both ritual and architecture , that it is only by means of suffering that redemptive love is proved and inherits the kingdom . |
| 27 | Brown Owl the Brownies . |
| 28 | Er trains are all okay say British Rail no problems there no problems at the airport two motorways are all fine as well . |
| 29 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 30 | In the councils where the members are not organised along party lines or where no party has a clear majority the debates and votes in committee and full council retain their significance . |