Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protractors , compasses , rulers , and any other impressive props we could think of — even a film-footage chart , and the monocular ( or half a pair of binoculars ) inherited from our stepfather . |
| 2 | Your head is big business — it weighs about 10lb or 4½kg and your hands weigh about 1lb or half a kg each . |
| 3 | On the roll of a 1 or 2 the staff has run out of energy and will not work for the remainder of the battle . |
| 4 | During 1970 and 1971 a series of articles and editorials appeared in the Times on the poor quality of TVZ transmissions , particularly on the Copperbelt . |
| 5 | As the fish moves , so solid objects in the water nearby create slightly greater pressure in the water and this the fish is able to sense by means of their lateral-line system . |
| 6 | I would like them to know also that this is still first and foremost a people company , and that it will stay that way . |
| 7 | ‘ Go away and let me do my work , or we 'll be running on one staff nurse and half an aspirin . ’ |
| 8 | My first book , When Sixpence Was A Fortune , has reached many corners of the world — a lady told me her sister read some of the poems to an audience of exiled Scots in New Zealand and half the folk there ‘ wiz greetin' ’ ! |
| 9 | And half the people who hired items were given no verbal advice on choosing and using them . |
| 10 | A complaint from George er in the pre-packs this morning , reference er going through the U V A. Apparently , I do n't understand this but he says it 's wearing out erm belts at a cost of a hundred and forty a pair every fortnight . |
| 11 | During the late 1860s and 70s a series of revolutionary underground organizations was formed . |
| 12 | In 1978 and 1979 a series of changes began in Northern Ireland which resulted eventually in the direction and co-ordination of intelligence gathering activities by the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch . |
| 13 | Parliament , in short , can not be trusted ; and the referendum showed that by and large the people do not trust it . |
| 14 | But on the whole once I 've got talking it 's been very successful , and people are always amazed at what they do remember in great detail about how they got things , why they got them , when they got them , and I think by and large the people that I have talked to have found it very interesting to do for themselves as well as for me . |
| 15 | But the most fun this spring is probably in the pages of Sex and the British ( Michael Joseph , February , £18.99 , 0 7181 3141 X ) , Paul Ferris ' sardonic trawl through the 20th century noting the changes in the mores of courtship , sexual activity , eroticism in art , censorship , homosexuality laws , contraception and all the paraphernalia of sexual imagery . |
| 16 | There is the Aarau around the Bahnhofstrasse , a powerful thoroughfare which cries success and prosperity aloud , wide as a Parisian boulevard , fringed with banks , commercial buildings , department stores , and all the paraphernalia of a sophisticated modern city , though , even with its developing environs , it accommodates not much more than 50,000 people . |
| 17 | An electric kettle and all the paraphernalia for making tea and coffee stood on a bedside table alongside a biscuit-barrel and bowl of cream roses . |
| 18 | and all the graffiti 's been masked out |
| 19 | and all the sheep had died and |
| 20 | And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep |
| 21 | Estimates ranged from FFr200–300,000 for the ‘ Portrait de Felix Bonnesoeur ’ to FFr4–6 million for ‘ Portrait presume d'Alfred de Dreux enfant ’ and all the works , from the collections of Duc de Trevise , had faultless provenances . |
| 22 | Moore 's sitting room has been reconstructed on the ground floor complete with his favourite armchair , bookcase , work table and all the works of art it used to contain , shipped over from storage in Britain plus a colour photograph reproducing the view he enjoyed out of his window . |
| 23 | According to documents consigned by Sonnabend to the Supreme Court on 13 May , Halley had already agreed to hold a one-man show with them last May and all the works in it had already been sold to Sonnabend clients , as Halley well knew . |
| 24 | The whole horse militia of Westmorland and northern Lancashire , and all the militia of Cumberland , were drawn up in front of the little Lake District town , under the chief local landowner , Lord Lonsdale , and with 10,000 men they easily outnumbered the rebels , but a mere sight of Forster 's advance guard was enough and the whole body fled in terror , leaving the field littered with horses and arms . |
| 25 | The male did not bother her at all after spawning , so I was able to leave her in the Mbuna colony until she was ‘ near term ’ — and all the fry were this time normal — all 120+ of them . |
| 26 | John Plimmer and all the staff at RPM Photographic , Havant , Hants . |
| 27 | However , the hard work paid off and all the staff can now feel proud of these thriving and beautiful birds . |
| 28 | The stations and stock were in immaculate condition , and all the staff we met were welcoming and more than polite . |
| 29 | Mr. Richardus , the manager , and all the staff will ensure that your stay at the Hotel Ark will be an enjoyable and memorable one . |
| 30 | There was some kind of explosion at the clinic and all the staff got wiped out . |