Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain types of mental illnesses result in a diminished awareness , so that the sufferers are not able to be completely responsible for carrying out the activities to achieve a safe environment . |
| 2 | In addition , the activities have a variable delay imposed during their execution to minimise the adverse effect on interactive users of LIFESPAN . |
| 3 | Elf astrologers and geomancers studied the portents to divine the best time for the new king to begin his reign , and calculated the best time for him to pass through the flame . |
| 4 | The instrument of war was the national State and it mattered little whether that State was called the beachhead of a world working class or simply an ordinary republic : the disciplines remained the same . |
| 5 | Suggestive crop-marks at the point where the projected line of the defences meets the emerging east-west street have also been photographed from the air , but proof of another gate here will have to wait for excavation . |
| 6 | The very size of the defences emphasizes the local wealth available when compared with other large and small towns in the province . |
| 7 | But the defences have no military significance . |
| 8 | The arrangement of the oceans in relation to the continents plays a decisive role in creating and sustaining life on Earth . |
| 9 | The forms have no definite shape , as they change from round to round , but they are vaguely humanoid and attack with limb-like appendages . |
| 10 | If the essays describe the exciting journey , the postcard gallery , the sandwich lunch and little else , the content analysis of such essays will be quite illuminating ! |
| 11 | The remaining yeast in the casks turns the residual sugars into alcohol while the natural gas produced escapes through a soft porous wooden peg knocked into the shive hole on top of the cask . |
| 12 | But the circulars reflect the changing picture on the ground , revealed in the national monitoring exercises conducted by the SSI and health regions . |
| 13 | Twenty-four hour , 365 days a year fast emergency response is included in the contracts to ensure the maximum convenience to customers and guests |
| 14 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 15 | Within this context the acts represented a high point of sanitary interventionism . |
| 16 | On the one hand , the Acts generated an extensive public resistance amongst the women in their community . |
| 17 | The Acts introduced a whole code of procedure , the Rules of the Supreme Court , which in various ways assimilated the Common Law and the Equity procedure , taking the good points of both . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the apparent acceptance of prostitution in the Acts evoked a strong response from feminists , led by Josephine Butler , and from social moralists , which was directed particularly against the state regulation of vice . |
| 19 | The Acts include a general clause which says that the corporation should keep proper accounting records and should present its accounts in a form laid down by the relevant Secretary of State . |
| 20 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 21 | The experts say a good manmade holt can be better appreciated than a natural one |
| 22 | The experts say a good manmade holt can be better appreciated than a natural one |
| 23 | After the greyness and isolation of winter , the crowds seemed a mad profusion of seething colour , all the time moving , all the time talking . |
| 24 | As well as the Coronation , the crowds lining the rain-soaked streets of London , and at street parties and gathered round the spate of new television sets the Coronation had sparked , were also celebrating some news from the other side of the world . |
| 25 | It was some time after the crowds stormed the Presidential Palace compound in northern Bucharest in the late morning of 22 December 1989 that they found a confused old lady in a bungalow in the grounds . |
| 26 | The Fellowships have a primary end in themselves in providing the route to sustained abstinence from mood-altering substances and behaviours . |
| 27 | At first the mobbers showed the typical agitated response but then , when the stuffed bird failed to retaliate , they dashed in for violent physical assaults on its body . |
| 28 | One of the checks computes the current reference pixel count as a percentage of a previously saved ‘ normal ’ value . |
| 29 | He stresses the ways in which the period from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s saw the effective by-passing of local elites , including councillors , because of the development of other central-local linkages . |
| 30 | There is no universal agreement , for example , that the mid-1970s represented a fundamental break in political attitudes — aspects of the ‘ new ’ capitalism coming from the Conservative party in the mid-1970s can be traced back to Churchill 's administration in the early 1950s ( Raban , 1986 ) . |