Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coaching stock was six or eight a side compartment type with sliding top lights , it was warm in the carriage by the time the tunnel was reached , so a top light was opened . |
| 2 | If the ballvalve is faulty it is likely that either the washer has worn or that the seating needs replacing ( page 46 ) . |
| 3 | Using a pole , fixed line , size 24 hook and wisp of fish or half a harbour rag it would be possible to catch fish an inch long one after another . |
| 4 | Apart from adding a starter , you can add bacteria and ‘ seed ’ ; the tank by adding water from an already sound tank ; by adding media ( say gravel from the undergravel or half a filter sponge ) to the filter ; and by washing out a mature in-use filter in the new tank . |
| 5 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 6 | With Type I ‘ internal markets ’ , some or all the health care services for an authority 's residents will be purchased on the basis of contracts . |
| 7 | First of all we wanted that product to be totally open , and I 'll qualify in a minute or two a little bit more what I mean by totally open . |
| 8 | At some time or other the twin siren songs of forward and backward integration have led most large companies to do everything for themselves from manufacturing their own plant and spares , sometimes even as far as owning their own retail outlets . |
| 9 | Whereas during the 1670s and 1680s the City Whigs had argued for an extension of democratic rights within the Corporation , they abandoned this position after the Glorious Revolution and instead became increasingly identified as defenders of the oligarchical forces within the City 's government . |
| 10 | Between 1967 and 1980 the Consumer Price Index rose by 67 per cent , whereas during the same period campaign expenditures for House elections rose by 163 per cent and by 150 per cent for elections to the Senate . |
| 11 | He had to be on three hundred and fifty a week minimum , surely ? |
| 12 | Between VR 0.4 and 1.2 the hydrocarbon yield is 50% greater than that for the Palaeozoic coals . |
| 13 | Putting together what we know about girls " apprenticeships — lasting three or four years — and wage rates , it can be deduced that from the age of say 17 until perhaps 25 for those who married , women compositors were doing the equivalent of full-time typesetting for wages that varied between half and two-thirds the adult male wage , depending on whether stab or piece rates are measured . |
| 14 | In both 1978 and 1986 the Library Association 's statements were made in response to censorship in a number of public libraries , largely instigated by local authorities ; and the appeal was directed to the local authorities . |
| 15 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 16 | In 1970 and 1971 the applicant association , representing the interests of the 300 existing licence holders , was assured by the town clerk that there would be consultation if an increase in the number of licensed vehicles was to be contemplated . |
| 17 | Between 1961 and 1971 the population census recorded an increase of 1700000 in the rural population , and although some of this was accounted for by contiguous urban development spilling over the boundaries of surrounding Rural Districts , there is little doubt that the population pressures on most of rural England are now those of increasing demand rather than those resulting from rural depopulation . |
| 18 | It has , they said , ‘ made valuable and acceptable a building type that is usually considered unglamorous . ’ |
| 19 | The PROFITBOSS is first and foremost a welfare officer . |
| 20 | But Radio One will always be first and foremost a pop station . |
| 21 | At a tete-a-tete recently with analysts and the press , Windows NT product manager , Dwayne Walker , said that although it can be used on a server , it was ‘ first and foremost a desktop operating system . ’ |
| 22 | In this sense it is first and foremost the executive agency of the mind and is charged with the fundamental functions of decision-making and surveillance of the input from the senses as well as sensations arising from the instinctual drives of the id . |
| 23 | The proprietor , a young man , even skinnier and shorter than I , with bulging eyes and half a gold tooth , was standing in the doorway wearing an oversized European suit . |
| 24 | The hydraulics gave out their whine as he joined other crew members staring down at the scene below and half a mile back . |
| 25 | When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate . |
| 26 | Not one drop of paint hit the wall he was supposed to be painting , but it had done a marvellous job of covering the path and half a garage door . |
| 27 | Mr. D. B. Cassie , the Head of Chemistry , left after 27 years in the School , having started with a department which comprised one laboratory and half a lecture room ( shared with Physics ) . |
| 28 | One cup of tea and half a custard tart later it dawned on her that she felt a remarkable glow of well-being , for someone in her particular dilemma . |
| 29 | Er maybe half and hour history and half an hour geography and er science er but it were all ele very elementary stuff . |
| 30 | Myself and half the management team piled into a speedboat and had literally to flee for our lives . ’ |