Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , quantifiable data is the cornerstone of applied clinical research . |
| 2 | The mamluks came out to meet him in battle , but their colourful medieval cavalry was no match for the modern firepower and discipline of the army of France which won a decisive victory at the Battle of the Pyramids . |
| 3 | This l.e.d. is the game 's ‘ Umpire ’ and gives a verdict for or against the batsman . |
| 4 | Upon finding the wreck the FORI hope to be able to identify the serial plates on the engines of the aircraft , proving that this aircraft was the mount of Saint-Exupery , thereby laying to rest the many mysteries and rumours that have over the years surrounded his death . |
| 5 | Predation by man on the bigger fish should , in theory , leave more small fish for the birds , but sadly , ‘ industrial ’ fishing for even the smallest and immature fish is a fact of life which has serious implications for the very existence of our sea-bird communities should it be allowed to go on unchecked . |
| 6 | One interesting thing about this fish is the temperature that it can apparently adapt to . |
| 7 | Along the north side wall , beginning at the eastern end and for some 250ft was the machine row , which consisted of cross-cut and band-saws , mortising machines , planers , two spoke machines , wheel lathe , trimming machine , boring machines etc . |
| 8 | I think it 's just some people are a bit like that and some are |
| 9 | Some people are a bit more fussy , though , they what they are , are n't they . |
| 10 | Not like some people are a bit bored but |
| 11 | Well okay , some people were a bit iffy about that What else do you believe in ? |
| 12 | Some people were a bit more ‘ squeezed ’ than others ! ! |
| 13 | This species is a perennial , growing in water and on land . |
| 14 | The entire form of this species is a kaleidoscope of remarkable colours , from a yellow-patterned purple nose down to the red-banded , yellow tailed edged with royal blue . |
| 15 | The most seriously endangered species is the harbour porpoise , whose total Arctic population may be as perilously low as 15,000 . |
| 16 | Of the various smoked shellfish available , smoked mussels and oysters are the most popular , and smoked squid is the sort of thing that browsers pick up , show their friends and put down again . |
| 17 | Another species is the Mudskipper which until recently seemed to have become less available . |
| 18 | A typical jellyfish is a saucer fringed with stinging tentacles . |
| 19 | An extra £15 is a lot of money for people to find . |
| 20 | My principal concern here , however , is to observe that the phenomenon of the fired word-pair is a contra-indication of the parallelism of greater precision — at least as far as those words are concerned . |
| 21 | Behind the plastic fascia inside a typical aircraft is the metal fuselage , electrical contacts and pipework taking fuel from the wing tanks to the engines , cooling the interior of the aircraft en route . |
| 22 | I packed up and went to follow the scales and 7 lb was the top until it came to Tony who weighed 10 lb dead . |
| 23 | Oily fish is a topic this page has already covered in a previous issue , so you 'll know that a regular meal of oily fish — herring , mackerel , trout and the like — can actually halve your risk of having a heart attack . |
| 24 | The very success of such people was an affront to Ceauşescu 's ‘ golden dream of communism ’ , which left no place for individual initiative . |
| 25 | Surely the terrorists can not believe that killing and maiming ordinary people is an achievement . |
| 26 | Any remaining works are the property of the artist . |
| 27 | Any remaining works are the property of the artist . |
| 28 | No , says a male deer 's a cricket |
| 29 | A male deer 's a stag |
| 30 | Perhaps the only surprise in these data is the lack of association between involvement in the review and attitudes towards it , in the light of the positive association reported earlier between involvement and various aspects of the review process . |