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

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1 The duller reaches of committee work he spent , not in pointless doodling like his colleagues , but in producing elegant little drawings of imaginary but perfectly possible churches .
2 The clarification of water by means of sedimentation becomes more complex with the use of dosing methods and upward-flow tanks , but , with analytical checks on the treatment the results can be much more consistent than with the simpler settlement in mill lodges , and there need be no interruption in supply caused by variations in the raw water or the need for cleaning out tanks .
3 It is therefore related to the simpler definitions of strain , as change in length divided by original length , only when the direction under consideration is one of the coordinate axes .
4 In a logical net , at the simpler level of search , there is no notion of approximation to a correct answer from given inputs .
5 Also , although the simpler level of search has no metric and involves random jumps , there is a notion of proximity at the higher level : Two states are close if the proportion of RAM chip cells with different entries is small .
6 For the simpler tasks of cataloguing , none the less , the computer has a major contribution to make and is already making it .
7 For the simpler forms of drive , however , the cost of additional supply capacity may not be justifiable in terms of the limited increase in performance .
8 Eastlake , in common with the Arts and Crafts Movement , preferred the simpler articles of household furniture — dressers , for example , as distinct from the sideboards of the middle classes — because they were made in traditional ways .
9 And it did quite , but bad Lydia did n't know because she had made up her mind already and was blind to the simpler aspects of reality .
10 Another ‘ scholarship girl ’ was shamefully treated by the rest of us because of her ( very slight ) Cockney accent , her generally ‘ non-U ’ turns of phrase , and her inability to deal with the simpler points of etiquette , whether at table or in the classroom .
11 ‘ Well , damn your eyes , Talbot , you do deprive ageing vice-admirals of the simpler pleasures of life .
12 You may wonder how this rather high-falutin' talk of vector spaces is related to the simpler language of wave mechanics as it was presented in the last chapter .
13 We now come to the first of the simpler tests for irreducibility over Q[x] .
14 Most procaryotes , using oxygen , depend on the simpler process of fermentation for their energy , where chemical food is broken down and burned inside the cell .
15 One of the stranger points about desktop publishing is that the hardware you select to act as the basis of your system is , to a greater or lesser degree , irrelevant .
16 Motorists report long queues for the spaces on the lower deck at peak times .
17 In the Severn Estuary , N. lapillus reaches Sand Point above western-super-Mare ( Boyden et al. , 1977 ) but is confined to the lower shore up channel from Minehead , a distribution pattern that may reduce its exposure to water of reduced salinity .
18 Complete herringbone stitching at the lower part of side seams , above the mitres .
19 The lower substage of barbarism is common and is marked by the discovery of pottery , but the middle substage is marked by agriculture and the domestication of plants in the new world , and by pastoralism and the domestication of animals in the old .
20 This occurred during the lower stages of barbarism .
21 This confirms that the original procyclic line ST3 was not clonal , and that the line originating from the fly transmission , as well as the clone derived from this line , contained 3 copies of the plasmid integrated into an intact beta-tubulin gene , as represented by the lower half of diagram C2 in Fig. 1 .
22 The lower half of Figure 7.5 is a fairly typical example of this second kind of heavily cratered terrain .
23 However , from the transitions shown graphically in figure 3 ( right hand side ) and the energies given in the lower half of table 1 , we can see that these transitions are not notably more difficult than those of the junctions already discussed .
24 The obviously poor condition of the lower half of lot 50 , Hans Memling 's ‘ Virgin and Child enthroned ’ was also forgiven , and the panel sold for £170,000 ( $272,000 , est. £200,000–300,000 ) .
25 Gathered fabric can be fixed at the wall top to a curtain track screwed in place , and at the lower edge around curtain wire screwed to the top edge of the skirting .
26 If the lower cost of funding is reflected in lease payments , leasing can be more attractive for small companies .
27 But the mood did not last long : " rat " labour was soon in town , attracted by the comparatively high wages , combined with the lower cost of living , and the additional inducement of three-month contracts offered by some employers .
28 But what about the lower threshold of manslaughter , where its minimum requirements form the boundary with accidental ( non-criminal ) homicide ?
29 The legal debate in involuntary manslaughter is over the lower threshold of homicide liability — where to draw the line between manslaughter and killings which should be ascribed to mere accident .
30 Collagen , the rough semi-elastic web that keeps the lower layer of skin supple , needs vitamins B6 and C and zinc to keep it healthy .
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