Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The highest LPF ( recognition score ) of the words having the tag in that position .
2 ‘ We put patriotism and self-sacrifice into them , and there is no doubt that after they have learnt a certain amount of that , ’ he explained as he outlined his strategy to the National Defence Association , ‘ they will feel bound to take up the defence in one form or another , should it be necessary , when the time comes . ’
3 Three of the psychologists reporting for the defence in this case ( Olive Tunstall , Gisli Gudjonsson and Lionel Haward ) , together with Eysenck , whom the court refused to listen to , were understandably piqued by the stance taken by the court .
4 An objection to the use of the defence in this case was that it enabled the court to evade the statutory prohibition on applying volenti non fit injuria .
5 It has been suggested that the President will instruct the Attorney General to appear for the defence in any trial of Dr Proctor , so important is the doctor 's contribution to the administration considered to be .
6 The response in this area was far more positive than it was for simple strumming .
7 The importance of these sources of income has implications for the income in old age of men and women who are now in their fifties and who are faced with long-term unemployment or early retirement .
8 He recognised the opportunity in last year 's East German revolution and grabbed it .
9 The opportunity in Flash memory is spectacular , ’ Sanders said .
10 The majority in other occult areas are no different in outward appearance from the normal person in the street .
11 But the commune also served a major coercive function since the majority in each village stood to lose should an individual either fail to meet his share of the payments due or take to flight .
12 Another is the ease with which it is assumed that in actual democratic politics it should be the majority in each nation-state which has the right to decide on all issues .
13 The majority in this case means the majority in value .
14 However , several women who received no benefits also registered , although the majority in this position did not , because they desired to be self-sufficient and free from official agencies .
15 The function of the majority in any society , like the function of the average , is to be silent or average .
16 The English expectation of life , in the 1880s , was only 43.7 years — by 1940 this had become 60.2 and increasing with the advancement in medical care — and between 1870 and 1900 , the British Empire was increased territorially by a half and its population by a third .
17 Representations of the type shown in table 6.8 , interpreted in conjunction with evidence of change in progress , allow us to compare the embedding in linguistic structure of the change in East and West Belfast communities of roughly equal status .
18 The terminology in this field is not standardised .
19 If you live in a flat , and this is impossible , throw away all those that you do not really need , and store the remainder in large biscuit tins or other airtight containers .
20 This is why the mutation load ( that is , the reduction in mean fitness ) depends on the total mutation rate , U , and not on the strength of selection .
21 Although this is not entirely attributable to the reduction in female school leavers , it is a contributory factor which will continue into the foreseeable future .
22 The reduction in tracheal area , compared with a previous report was due to the necessity of using animals as small as 5g .
23 It is not known from that study , however , whether the reduction in intraduodenal bilirubin output resulted from hyperglycaemia induced alterations in gastric emptying of the meal , alterations in endogenous CCK secretion , or alterations in the responsiveness of the gall bladder to CCK .
24 The reduction in Soviet assistance further increased Vietnam 's budget deficit , already large because of the high level of government subsidies to ailing state concerns , and because of measures to offset threatened increases in inflation and unemployment .
25 This is a crucial oversight as , with the reduction in new building programmes , it is often only by adapting existing property that any significant increase in the supply of housing for disabled people can be achieved .
26 The nature of counterurbanization is examined by Champion ( 1989c ) , while one example of the reduction in big-city population losses in the 1980s is provided by Champion and Congdon ( 1988 ) .
27 In the Swedish trial in old patients with hypertension the reduction in overall mortality was largely due to a reduction in mortality from stroke .
28 The reduction in cross-sectional area is at least two-fold greater than with sumatriptan .
29 Estimates of the reduction in global ozone concentration which may be caused by CFCs have varied from 3 to 20 per cent ( figure 6.4 ) ( Hulm , 1982 ; US National Research Council , 1982a , 1984 ) .
30 The reduction in real transport costs and modern distribution systems result in greater import penetration of the domestic market ( for instance , there is a much wider selection of wines available to British consumers ) , resulting in a highly competitive drinks market .
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