Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distribution of bilingual children varies widely across the country , but the total numbers and diversity are certainly significant . |
| 2 | Not only have the total numbers and percentage of the population increased , but within this group the economically disadvantaged figure prominently . |
| 3 | Two days earlier , following a special interministerial committee presided over by Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy , Interior Minister Paul Quiles had announced the dispatch to Corsica of an additional two companies of CRS paramilitary riot police , bringing the total police and gendarmerie presence to 2,200 . |
| 4 | Once the momentum of marketing is established the ideas and actions become almost self-generating and weave themselves through the normal contacts and business of the day . |
| 5 | Sir Anthony goes on : ‘ The information I have been given by the joint liquidators of BCGM [ the British fund ] and BCI [ in Gibraltar ] indicates that in the period up to December 1984 there had been frequent movements of money or securities between the United Kingdom funds and the Jersey funds and , most important of all , that at December 1984 the gilt-edged securities and cash held for the Jersey funds were at least some £3.65 million less than the funds ’ obligations to investors . |
| 6 | The Junior boys and Cadet girls are defending champions but much is expected of the Junior girls side , with the U-12 girls having an outside chance of upsetting Leinster . |
| 7 | Combine the broad beans and ham with the mayonnaise , yogurt and lemon juice . |
| 8 | The new home for temporary shows allowed the European paintings and sculpture to reclaim their galleries , which had been emptied to make room for shows like ‘ Bazille ’ . |
| 9 | On Saturday afternoon the RAF Presentation Team , which normally attends one of the Area Conferences each year , gave their presentation to Conference for which they received the grateful thanks and applause of those present . |
| 10 | Go upwards and stand on top of the wall ( above the window ) , go to the left of the wall and paint some ledges , then go onto the wall on the left , go left and shoot the switch , go up on the painted ledges and head right along the wall above you , go up on the trampoline and paint the button , go left along the passage , jump onto the trampoline , and from there onto the ledge on the left wall , jump to collect the painting , fall down and go up on the right of the window ( paint some ledges ) . |
| 11 | The Friendly Societies and insurance companies , who were already involved in the provision of sickness cover for many working people , were allowed to participate as agents for the scheme and providers of additional benefits . |
| 12 | They indicated the acute concerns and feeling of vulnerability preying on each of the smaller independent television companies . |
| 13 | Large wooded areas are rare in Pembrokeshire due to the strong winds and salt spray , but Cwm Gwaun , a few miles east of Fishguard , is one of the notable exceptions to the rule . |
| 14 | Linkages will be made to a wider context--notably the parallel experiences of marshland communities in the Low Countries and North-West Germany . |
| 15 | Older industrial economies , like our own , have two options : they can try to match the low wages and discipline under which workers elsewhere in the world are willing to labor , or they can compete on the basis of how quickly and how well they transform ideas into incrementally better products . |
| 16 | Whether viewed from the high road , or across the low fences and stone ditches and grassy banks of the surrounding farms , the ruin of Slains looks familiar . |
| 17 | At least in the higher animals , it is more likely that the visual perception of shape and motion have evolved in response to such biologically significant environmental features as the gait or stance of hunter or prey , or the facial grimaces and tail-waving of conspecifics . |
| 18 | One minute you 're surrounded by the modern bustle of Egypt 's capital — the next you come face to face with ancient history as a sprawling housing estate is replaced by the stately pyramids and sand as far as the eye can see . |
| 19 | Mrs Gould 's birds are pictured in less adventurous and often more awkward postures , sometimes regressing to the anatomical inaccuracies and stiffness of her previous work . |
| 20 | From these considerations alone the justification of doubt as to the universality of the intra-familial relationships and development postulated by Freud , mentioned on page 64 , will be evident . |
| 21 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
| 22 | It claims the finest hops and barley for ‘ a distinctly French-tasting beer . ’ |
| 23 | It claims the finest hops and barley for ‘ a distinctly French-tasting beer . ’ |
| 24 | Johnson and Douglas ( 1978 : 151 ) point out that the Equity Funding scandal , ‘ perhaps one of the largest securities and investment frauds ever perpetuated on the American public , … involved more losses than the total losses of all street crime in the US for one year ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Dixon and Mr McBirney were two prime targets of federal efforts to uncover the rampant savings and loan fraud in the state . |
| 26 | The possible letters and letter strings had associated probabilities , based on properties of the pattern recognition system . |
| 27 | Thus there are quite wide variations in the political attitudes and involvement of workers ; and the form which these attitudes eventually take , among both white-collar and blue-collar workers , and in which they become embodied in trade union policies , will be crucial for the future development of the existing welfare states . |
| 28 | For the political adventurers and profiteering fat- cats these were palmy days — indeed corruption and political fraud were so rife that the Trinidadian ‘ bobol'or fraud became a byword in the political life of the Caribbean . |
| 29 | Government objectives , we have argued , are transmitted to the railways through bargaining relationships between the political controllers and railway management , rather than being directly and automatically imposed . |
| 30 | The reader knows enough about the political skills and sophistication of the Zuwaya and their rivals to resist the perhaps supercilious stereotype contained in Le Monde 's use of ‘ tribe ’ : the people far from backward or atavistic , the demand for bloodwealth ( whoever made it ) contested rather than misunderstood ; it opposed one particular notion of government with another . |