Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mount the tanks side by side on the firm base and stick a length of sheet glass over the inside joints with a smear of silicone sealer . |
| 2 | You can get the total figures from a completed P14 or P32 ( from April 1991 ) . |
| 3 | This may account for the fact that thesis citations in systematic botany accounted for only 5% of the total citations in a recent study ( Delendick ) . |
| 4 | It was the first of the total rejections of a previous régime which sent the supporters of that régime into exile , and the exiles of 1814 were the first representatives of a phenomenon typical of Spanish politics throughout the nineteenth century : ‘ a trans-Pyrenean colony ’ with no alternative but to plot the overthrow of the government by revolution . |
| 5 | As part of the normal processes of a river , the stones in these shoals are neatly sorted and graded by the flowing water into an overlapping fish-scale pattern known as ‘ armouring ’ , which makes them relatively stable . |
| 6 | Most of it , certainly , but — in the way a doctor always judges character as a routine diagnostic procedure — I wondered if she was n't repressing the normal feelings of a woman . |
| 7 | The sale of goods on the other hand is part of the normal operations of a business and making a profit is part of the normal plan whereas in the case of the sale of a fixed asset any profit or loss is purely fortuitous . |
| 8 | It is n't safe to assume that the normal functions of a system are equivalent to what is lost after a lesion because the effects of a lesion may be masked by positive symptoms . |
| 9 | In the relatively simple hand-over of what is in fact , though not constitutionally , a continuing government , the test , given the normal circumstances of a party majority , is whether A or B can in fact command a majority in the House of Commons . |
| 10 | A hyponym , being more specific in sense than its superordinates , might be expected as a result to be more fastidious in respect of its lexical companions ; and thus the normal contexts of a hyponym might reasonably be expected to constitute a sub-set of the normal contexts of a superordinate . |
| 11 | A hyponym , being more specific in sense than its superordinates , might be expected as a result to be more fastidious in respect of its lexical companions ; and thus the normal contexts of a hyponym might reasonably be expected to constitute a sub-set of the normal contexts of a superordinate . |
| 12 | The usage must fulfil all the normal tests of a custom and it will become part of the contract so long as it is reconcilable with the terms of the contract ( Peter Darlington Partners Ltd v Gosho Co Ltd [ 1964 ] 1 LLoyd 's Rep 149 ) . |
| 13 | But Aherne , on his game , has the considerable virtues of gritty defence , stretching far beyond the normal demands on a scrum-half , so often turning up to save situations as the last line in the defensive fortifications . |
| 14 | Almost as though explaining the normal techniques to a med student , he said patiently , ‘ You know , Laddie , that what I want to do is restore the affected joint to its proper position of function . ’ |
| 15 | George Khoury and his colleagues , who recently announced in Science that mutations associated with cancer were to be found in the normal cells of a patient — and were thus probably inherited — turn out to have spoken too soon . |
| 16 | The hotel offers all the normal comforts including a silver service breakfast … but the true train driver gets his meal the old fashioned way . |
| 17 | Plans to expand the Windscale site with a major new development led to the first setpiece confrontation between the burgeoning antinuclear movement and the nuclear industry across the polite tables of a public inquiry . |
| 18 | She will play when she is relaxed , but although she is now seven or eight years old , she still has the exaggerated movements of a young puppy . |
| 19 | But , even when we have made allowance for the exaggerated impressions of a boy of fifteen , recollected many years later , it may be taken as evidence that Lanfranc and his handful of monks from Bec and Caen met not only with hostility , but also with a good deal of successful resistance . |
| 20 | The short-term consequences of a hepatitis B infection include an average 8 to 12 weeks off work and the risk of permanent liver damage . |
| 21 | He signed for Palace on 8 March 1962 and progressed through the Junior ranks for a couple of seasons . |
| 22 | Andrew McMullen completed the scoring for the junior boys with a fourth place in the 1980 freestyle . |
| 23 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 24 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the phrase ‘ office or employment ’ in section 16(2) ( c ) of the Act was not confined to the narrow limits of a contract of service but was to be construed in a wider sense as a matter of ordinary language ; and that , accordingly , the provision of services by the appellant as a self-employed accountant was properly described as employment within the ambit of section 16(2) ( c ) ( post , p. 506B–D , E–G ) . |
| 25 | We have come to the clear conclusion that Parliament , in adopting the phrase ‘ office or employment , ’ intended section 16(1) of the Act of 1968 to have a wider impact than one confined to the narrow limits of a contract of service . |
| 26 | This does not mean that nothing was bought and sold in the independent sector , still less that the agricultural producers in it were self-sufficient , though it is probable that a rather high proportion of peasant agriculture was consumed on the peasant holding , or within the narrow limits of a local system of exchange , if only because the food demands of the small cities in so many areas could be supplied from within a radius of little more than one or two dozen miles . |
| 27 | Interlocking directorships allow the exchange of information between firms , and facilitate the development of policies which take into account more than the narrow interests of a single company . |
| 28 | The nimble pack horses , with a capacity to carry twenty stone , moved on the narrow trails in a train of twenty horses , connected one to another by plaited tail to following halter . |
| 29 | ‘ You have the skills to rise above the narrow confines of a labouring job . ’ |
| 30 | Rock fall and trampling in the narrow confines of a cave are two major factors . |