Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandably , the expert systems did not assist the experts a great deal but came into their own when both of the 2 experts were not available and an inexperienced technician had to take over . |
| 2 | It was all very well for countries where uniforms were fashionable — as they certainly were not in Britain and the United States — to encourage among the labourers the soldierly virtues , not the least of which was to be poorly paid . |
| 3 | In the mid-1970s a young woman went to a shop to rent a television set and was required to provide a guarantor . |
| 4 | Since the mid-1970s a growing number of privately owned small psychiatric hospitals has been established . |
| 5 | Glasgow , Liverpool , Newcastle and Leeds pressed on with their extensive highway systems , but other cities abandoned them and by the mid-1970s an urban road policy in the context of an explicit town planning framework was stood on its head . |
| 6 | Since the mid-1970s the recessionary shake-out in manufacturing has led to the externalization of various corporate services , previously provided ‘ in-house ’ . |
| 7 | By the mid-1970s the general policy of winning the confidence of the farming organizations and working on the basis of persuasion and advice was being increasingly questioned . |
| 8 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
| 9 | Three more tries to Andy Mullins , Simon Dear and Glenister gave the Quins a 24–3 half-time lead . |
| 10 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 11 | It would be useful to have a general term for elements which fall short of being constituents , but which nonetheless have a semantic function relatable to the meanings the same forms carry when they are semantic constituents . |
| 12 | During the reign of the pharaohs a popular contraceptive for Egyptian women was a pessary made of elephant and crocodile dung . |
| 13 | Despite the dangers the first crew want to return … this time to help the child victims of the conflict . |
| 14 | Gerard Fusil was only too aware of the dangers the 175 racers faced between the Caribbean and the Pacific coasts of a country aptly nicknamed the Switzerland of Central America . |
| 15 | In the cities a nascent proletariat was beginning to flex its muscles , forming short-lived illegal organizations of its own and staging its first major strikes . |
| 16 | Between the cities the blue-green jungle was riven with great scars where plasma cannon and barrage bombs had been tested . |
| 17 | The choice of the superb BRNESC green in Melling Road , Aintree , looked capable of giving the Merseysiders a useful home advantage . |
| 18 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 19 | This gives the courts a useful power to separate the wheat from the chaff among the pending cases . |
| 20 | This latter formulation would give the courts a greater scope for substitution of judgment , with the additional risk that they would not have to articulate their rationale as clearly as under the heads of purpose and relevancy . |
| 21 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
| 22 | In the corner of one of the courts a small figure of Queen Nefertari is depicted standing by the feet of a colossus . |
| 23 | The question arose after the Ladies ' Directory case in which Frederick Shaw was convicted of ‘ conspiring to corrupt public morals ’ , and in which one of the Appeal Judges , Lord Simons , had stated that ‘ there remains in the courts a residual power to conserve not only the safety , but also the moral welfare of the State ’ . |
| 24 | While the courts are chary of ‘ trespassing upon the province of Parliament ’ , because of the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament , it appears that Parliament is not so willing to accord to the courts a rightful province upon which Parliament should not trespass . |
| 25 | From the Courts The following case was dealt with by Stokesley magistrates : |
| 26 | We will give the courts the statutory power to increase sentences for those who offend while on bail . |
| 27 | At the courts the same function was performed by touts , petition-drawers and proctors . |
| 28 | This gave the Germans a temporary advantage , but later on was the main cause which brought the US into the war and thus caused German defeat . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There is in the political thought of the Germans an old tradition which allows consciousness to escape from complicated political circumstances into the promise of the pure idea ’ . |
| 30 | Now , today , I 'm going to break away from the notes a little bit , cos I think , there 's so many things you could bring , we could bring in , and I think some of the points made in the notes will naturally come out in our discussion . |