Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early man 's relationship with the birds offers a fairly obvious route to a possible understanding of this . |
| 2 | The thin edged-woodworking cutter blunts very quickly and at times produces a very chipped or chattering surface , so it is modified ( fig.1 ) . |
| 3 | The distinction between the Japanese profiles highlights the very marked tendency to reward length of continuous employment in large firms and is closely related to their much higher rates of union membership . |
| 4 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 5 | None of these pictures constitutes a really important recovery but the list includes work of the calibre of a Honfleur harbour subject which had belonged to Mary Cassatt 's brother and which was sold by one of his descendants at Christies in New York in November 1991 ( Lot 26 ) . |
| 6 | Each of these subjects involves a highly intricate body of law , and it is not to be expected that any one man or even three or four men can master them all . |
| 7 | For slow-moving expressive passages in the tenor register a horn or two added to the cellos produces a very beautiful rich tone-quality in p and mf . |
| 8 | The insectivorous bats are not unique , for another group of animals uses a very similar system — the toothed whales . |
| 9 | While there is always an arbitrary aspect to the choice of such dates , particularly in social history , the dividing point between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries seems a particularly significant one . |
| 10 | Last month 's underlying decline of only $142m in the reserves seems an especially unrealistic guide to the actual level of intervention by the Bank of England — in concert with other central banks — to depress the dollar , and also — on its own account — to defend the weakening pound . |
| 11 | The absolute size of population gains and losses gives a slightly different picture of regional change . |
| 12 | Underlying inflation during the past three months gives a more up-to-date reading . |
| 13 | Recognition of the way in which this rhetoric drew upon previous discourses and defined the nature of authority relationships provides a more secure interpretation of the chronology of chartism 's rise and subsequent demise than can accounts describing it as merely an expression of acute social and economic deprivation . |
| 14 | A report undertaken for the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities says the most common response to the Scottish Office 's consultation paper on single-tier councils questioned the case for local government reorganisation . |
| 15 | He concludes , from this , that ‘ The combination of an anti-union environment and energy-cost advantages offers a most plausible explanation for the increasing appeal of the periphery in the 1970s ’ ( p. 174 ) . |
| 16 | Microlights take a bit of getting used to ( 1,000 feet looks an awfully long way down ) , but they are marvellous viewing platforms . |
| 17 | The KC-400 range of brush pens has a more modest but still comprehensive 60 colours and is fitted with a slim , flexible brush-like tip . |
| 18 | The trace elements in Sassanian silver provide one example , copper from the Hartz mountains has a very distinctive pattern of high concentrations of arsenic , cobalt , nickel and antimony , and there are a significant number of similar studies . |
| 19 | having more applications of computers in academic areas allows a more effective use of time , eg the teaching of the Principles of Network Analysis is backed up by BBC Software ( MITEYSPICE ) thus reducing laborious mathematical calculations . |
| 20 | The case of the flutes and oboes requires a little more judgement , for , if the chord were high-placed , dovetailing would result in the 1st oboe playing in its thinnest and least effective register , e.g. . |
| 21 | Thus such a section placed in front of any number of correctly terminated constant-k or m-derived T-sections presents an almost constant input resistance of over 85% of the pass band . |
| 22 | Breaking the budget down into shorter periods facilitates a more effective control device . |
| 23 | The chart of Tamil phonemes presents a very different sound system . |
| 24 | Erm strictly in those terms by by district , mainly because much of the development across North Yorkshire is on very small sites er within urban areas , within villages , the extent to which you define them as green field or brown field sites becomes a very subjective one and I I think it 's a very difficult line to draw . |
| 25 | The range of programmes includes the very successful ‘ Time for Me ’ which introduces women to a series of career change options . |
| 26 | The only reason for not beginning your diary straight away is if the next seven to ten days covers a really unusual time , for example your annual holiday , or a bout of sickness , or Christmas and New Year . |
| 27 | As the number of counts increases the more fortunate of the continuing candidates are to be observed making their bizarre progress to victory by acquiring , like Ruari Quinn , miscellaneous parcels of votes of anything but first preference . |
| 28 | Hon. Members on both sides have argued that the processing of applications takes an awfully long time . |
| 29 | The guarantee that the material will be available in even 100 years seems the most difficult of these three challenges . |
| 30 | The honouring of our parents through our attitudes and actions plays an enormously important part towards our mental and spiritual health . |