Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If programmes aiming to pick up directly beamed contact' messages from other worlds are starved of funding , what possibility is there of anyone picking up the incredibly faint traces of extraterrestrial radio leakage ? |
| 2 | Take into account the incredibly high standards of service in the excellent hotels and you have every possible ingredient for the ultimate holiday experience . |
| 3 | To others , for whom the signals of the year are equally important , progress is marked by that dramatic change in the lifestyle of the jays , the feathered brigands of many splendoured tints who are , for most of the year , the vocally irritable members of the crow family , shrieking at each other and at any intruder in their territory . |
| 4 | Population : 1,566,000 ( 0.5% of USSR total ) ; Registered electorate : 299,681 ( registration was organized in the predominantly Russian towns in the north-east ) ; Turnout : 74.2% ; Yes : 95% ; No : 4.5% . |
| 5 | The Resettlement Administration ( RA ) attempted to aid destitute farmers trying to scratch a living from exhausted land , as well as the predominantly black sharecroppers of the South . |
| 6 | In other parts of Britain such ideas were more difficult to put across except to relatively small minorities or in the predominantly proletarian areas of central Scotland where miners , engineers and shipbuilders also constituted the majority of wage earners . |
| 7 | The greatest cultural division of all , however , is between the Slavs and other European peoples and the predominantly Muslim nationalities of Central Asia . |
| 8 | Substantial increases in unemployment have occurred throughout the industrial areas of South Wales , but the largest proportional increases have taken place in the predominantly rural areas of Dyfed and Gwynedd . |
| 9 | For example , many of the predominantly Hindu women from India would have been vegetarian whereas Muslim women from Pakistan and Bangladesh would have eaten meat and may have been infected while preparing raw meat . |
| 10 | What the homestead enthusiasts regarded as virtues of the Basque countryside were more confined to the predominantly Basque-speaking districts in Guipúzcoa and Biscay where rainfall favours an intensive agriculture . |
| 11 | An appreciation of strong as well as subtle contrast is important , however : the brilliant effects of the predominantly geometric mosaics at Silchester , Hants. , or the famous millefiori effects at the neck and around the bodies of canthari ( e.g. Neal 1981 , no. 16 ) are notable . |
| 12 | Despite the extent of union influence and the predominantly co-operative patterns of industrial relations , collective bargaining has not brought BR and RENFE workers great financial rewards , even as a quid pro quo for job loss and changing working practices . |
| 13 | In the predominantly German districts of northwest Pomerania , however , 14 of the 34 districts recorded a decline in their population in the same period . |
| 14 | The predominantly transparent colours of the gouache gave my washes a strong tint , and so allowed me to apply the broad washed demanded by a large watercolour . |
| 15 | The predominantly formal gardens of this period , influenced by France and the Netherlands , made much use of statuary , as the early eighteenth-century engravings of Kip copiously show . |
| 16 | In a backyard shack in a Dallas suburb , and outside of normal working hours , he was turning out custom-built metal detectors that were of such advanced design for their day , that they wee superior to many of the commercially available machines of the time . |
| 17 | In addition to the commercially available collections of precedents , many solicitors ' offices have their own in-house standard precedent , and the terms of other businesses in the same line as the client may also serve as a source of ideas . |
| 18 | It is often advisable to use the commercially prepared seasonings for tacos and chilli as many of the varieties of red and chilli peppers that are abundant in Mexico can not be obtained easily in other countries . |
| 19 | This is really not satisfactory , particularly as substantial and reasonable doubts surround the costs that the board will incur after the fuel has left the reactor , especially in the commercially untried areas of oxide-fuel reprocessing and waste management . |
| 20 | Simple laboratory tests were able to show the acutely toxic effects of large doses of organochlorines , but it took years for high concentrations to accumulate in belugas that had consumed large quantities of lightly-contaminated food . |
| 21 | This is to certify that … has successfully completed an advanced training course in the following subjects : Information Management , Plant Information Systems , Database Design and Construction , Word Processing , and Personal Computer Operating Systems ; and that he has demonstrated his abilities in these subjects by constructing a database of the Economically Useful Plants of India . |
| 22 | The economically equitable assumptions behind changes in the property law often , for instance , came into conflict with inherited beliefs about the proper division of labour in the family and ideologies of femininity — and the latter usually won . |
| 23 | But the group is convinced that it is only a matter of time before someone discovers superconducting semiconductors that will work at the economically viable temperatures of liquid nitrogen . |
| 24 | In taking refuge with a submerged class , which by its toil serviced the spotlessly clean houses of Dutch society , he was laying down a challenge to his privileged friends and relatives . |
| 25 | Passenger pleasure comes from the outstandingly comfortable seats in a beautifully crafted cabin while the driver enjoys excellent control , great visibility and a superb instrument layout . |
| 26 | The limited excitements of training on Putney Heath were paradisal to someone faced with patrolling the altogether frigid wastes of Willesden . |
| 27 | The unity of the ending is a fairy tale happy-ever-after that provides a jolting contrast to the grimly realistic descriptions of misogyny and racial hatred . |
| 28 | At home ex-prisoners of war swelled the population of the labour camps , while abroad the Soviet secret police and Red Army were used to impose Communist regimes on the bitterly hostile peoples of eastern Europe . |
| 29 | It is wonderful to look at , and more fun than it might sound , a sprawling historical and sexual tapestry , whose pleasures range from the tremendously atmospheric locations in Russia and Uzbekistan to the perfect Queen Bess in Quentin Crisp . |
| 30 | Even the duly authorised activities of the Simonova were going to be undertaken at a respectable distance . |