Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly , among the inside players the bureaucracy did not occupy a particularly important role . |
| 2 | Constipation can also encourage cellulite formation — if the waste matter is not leaving the body through the normal channels the body will store it away from the bloodstream and again the islands of fat cells causing cellulite provide the perfect storehouse . |
| 3 | For the full-time units the experience of South Wales was perhaps typical — high stocking rates , small fields , ageing farmers or parents , and old buildings all contributed to the extra work load anticipated in the future . |
| 4 | Short-term benefits derive from crime prevention amongst the young and an improvement in their perception of the police , which it is hoped will have residual effects in the long term when they are adults , but the wider community in Easton is only addressed secondarily as parents or guardians , which limits the short-term effects the programme might have on improving its perception of the police . |
| 5 | In the broad channels the water flows easily and swiftly down very gentle gradients ( e.g. 1 : 2000 ) . |
| 6 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 7 | In the pre-robotised days the job had a number of characteristics which job design experts would have recognised as leading to a reasonably high level of job satisfaction . |
| 8 | The Divisional Court referred to the Court of Justice of the European Communities the question whether Community law affected the conditions which a member state might prescribe for the entry of vessels in its national register and the right of vessels to fly its flag and carry its nationality . |
| 9 | Colombian and other diplomats at the Organisation of American States were furious at the legalistic wranglings the US delegation has been using to buy time at the OAS meetings in Washington . |
| 10 | On the contrary , according to the Middle East International of Feb. 22 , in the occupied territories the supporters of the PLO and those of its rival , the strongly Islamic Hamas , were brought together by a blend of secular nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism similar to that achieved by the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein . |
| 11 | Religion has been , and is , capable of sustaining some of the finest civilizations the world has seen , and it has attracted many of the most brilliant and high-minded people who have ever lived . |
| 12 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 13 | The largest questions the members of a management partnership must answer are whether sharing is practicable , whether its members believe in it and how long — if it is a reality — it takes the outside world to believe that it can provide the promised level of quality . |
| 14 | In the indoor galleries a range of exhibitions and audio visual presentations provide background information about the lives and experiences of the thousands of other Ulster-American emigrants and the part they played in the birth and growth of the United States . |
| 15 | There was an even more temporary grant to ease the political problems the community charge caused — the community charge reduction scheme ( previously ‘ transitional relief ’ ) . |
| 16 | That it is here at all is an act of faith on the part of the Academy 's management , who were well aware of the political overtones the show carried in the States and has inevitably brought with it to London . |
| 17 | Microsoft Corp reiterated its pledge to support the MIPS chip with NT at a meeting of the ACE remnants the week before last : there 's no talk of making NT XPG3-compliant . |
| 18 | Hair apparently benefited : of the 120 volunteers a total of 37 stated that the condition of their hair had actually improved whilst almost all the remainder reported no deterioration whatsoever . |
| 19 | Outside the tall windows the darkness came suddenly , unexpectedly , without any long twilight . |
| 20 | Despite attempts to diminish the drain of people from the depressed areas the flow to the south continued . |
| 21 | In answer to foreign arming of the Spanish Fascists the European Left , led by the Communists , organized voluntary aid and recruited an International Brigade . |
| 22 | For most players in the lower divisions the issue simply did not arise . |
| 23 | Stratification can also weaken social integration by giving members of the lower strata a feeling of being excluded from participation in the larger society . |
| 24 | The London Medical Review wrote in 1862 that : ‘ there can be no doubt that both in the human subject and in the lower animals the female does participate fully in the sexual passion ’ , and many others were sceptical of his claims . |
| 25 | On the lower slopes the ice scraped away much of the surface leaving smooth rounded hills , particularly in the Southern Uplands . |
| 26 | This occurs because of local variations in soil properties ; on the upper part of the slope the soil may be truncated but on the lower slopes the soils are mixed with layers of various depths . |
| 27 | From the turbulent seas the Hosts of Chaos emerged to slaughter the defenceless Elves . |
| 28 | It had originally been intended to include the Independent Women 's Union , which had campaigned jointly with the Green Party , but the two parties split after the Independent Women 's Union unsuccessfully demanded a larger share of the eight seats the list had won . |
| 29 | In the case of the latter , the last straw in Wilson 's continuing agitation and " one of the greatest blunders the union ever made " , thought Walter Runciman , " was the despotic effort to make the officers and engineers join a union . |
| 30 | Well one of the greatest qualities a fisherman can have is of course patience . |