Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He later extended the line in both directions and continued to plot and photograph tree clumps in the surrounding countryside , gradually discovering several more alignments , including a parallel system extending from the Sevenoaks Range to the High Weald in Sussex . |
| 2 | He has one daughter , married to a well-known Politician — Vivian Carolan , who is Minister of Fine Arts in the present government . |
| 3 | The programme 's aim is to encourage the use of the creative arts in the spiritual and physical development of individuals , communities and society . |
| 4 | Previous journals have been devoted to applied arts in the pre-war years , turn-of-the-century design , artists as educators , aspects of British interior design , and the European connection . |
| 5 | In the early part of the year the Bank was honoured as the winner of the category for Outstanding support of the Arts in the Scottish Awards for Business Sponsorship of the Arts . |
| 6 | Restructured urban space and the visual arts in the modernist city were mirror images of one another . |
| 7 | John Baldessari is one of the crucial figures in the re-direction of approaches to the visual arts in the past two decades . |
| 8 | The latest in a long history of skirmishes in the palaeontological world has blown up into what one particularly bad press release describes as ‘ one of the nastiest personal and professional feuds in all of science ’ . |
| 9 | A few preliminary skirmishes in the early stages of the relationship will make it clear how the man is going to react to tears . |
| 10 | This research examines the importance of both cultural and racial characteristics in the emerging pattern of second generation settlement , and the implications of the findings for the social advancement of the group . |
| 11 | Yet this image , allowing for exaggeration , is not totally removed from the reality of prewar Japanese society , and the persistence of some of the same characteristics in the post-1945 period therefore means that such categorization still contains a measure of truth . |
| 12 | At baseline , the renin component characteristics in the studied subjects were consistent with those depicted in other studies : active renin concentration was normal , but prorenin concentration was raised according to retinopathy . |
| 13 | He of Peter 's Pets in the high street . ’ |
| 14 | The lease contained the usual proviso for forfeiture for non-payment of rent and failure to perform other covenants and concluded with a covenant by the sureties in the normal form . |
| 15 | ‘ So many of the other bands that come over are going to find it hard here because they do n't really sing and they do n't write songs in the traditional sense . ’ |
| 16 | The weeping aloud of the relatives turns to melancholic songs in the local Quechua dialect , Zacarías Ceonocc Huayhua … sings words of grief to his wife whom he has just recognized . ’ |
| 17 | As the days became warmer they would go to the pond to feed the ducks and then along to the terraced rose gardens before making their way to the nearby swings and roundabouts in the small enclosed area . |
| 18 | Houses have weird silhouettes in the soft rain , noises come through open windows , television voices , familiar sound tracks . |
| 19 | During 1989 there were frequent EC denunciations of Israel 's handling of the intifada , and a communiqué issued by EC leaders in Strasbourg in December 1989 condemned the economic restrictions and bureaucratic harassment imposed by Israel on Palestinian farmers and fruit growers in the occupied territories . |
| 20 | Oil palm growers in the Malaysian state of Sabah are taking advantage of a loophole in conservation law to threaten the habitat of proboscis monkeys . |
| 21 | Older brother Helgard won three caps in the early 80s , and Muller found it tough growing up with that comparison . |
| 22 | His early through pass caught Brazil moving up too late for offside and Kieft broke clear before squaring the ball to Berghuis , one of three new caps in the Dutch team , who lifted his shot high over the bar . |
| 23 | Natural moisturising factors are compounds in the middle layers of your skin that attract water from the atmosphere , giving your skin a youthful ‘ dewy ’ appearance . |
| 24 | This early phase of plate interaction was probably marked by the development of a volcanic arc off the north Chile coast and was apparently contemporaneous with minor emplacement of granite intrusions in the Eastern Cordillera . |
| 25 | There were a couple of drinkers in the far corner , but no one noticed me . |
| 26 | And always to areas where the ocean floor dropped dramatically ; great fissures in the rocky crust . |
| 27 | At times he feels that the most he can hope for is to identify some fissures in the accumulating mass of proposals in their formative stages into which he can try to insert something of his own political values . |
| 28 | Sinfield believed that they were often irredeemably tainted by ideology , at best to be read only in historical terms , or subject to symptomatic readings , seeking the fractures and fissures in the mystified surface of the text that showed the ‘ true ’ ideological conditions in which it was produced . |
| 29 | James A. Lake , writing in Nature , says that similar bacteria survive in hot volcanic springs or around vents or fissures in the deep ocean floor . |
| 30 | In the field opposite are fissures in the underlying limestone , entrances to long subterranean passages . |