Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If you roll a HIT on the scatter dice then the numbers are ignored — a number simply indicates that the shot has not misfired .
2 If you roll a HIT on the scatter dice then the numbers are ignored : a number simply indicates that the shot has not misfired .
3 ( The floods , incidentally , are increasingly catastrophic because of the poor or non-existent conservation policy in the catchment areas where the forests have been recklessly and wantonly felled .
4 Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines .
5 In the sitting room too the curtains had been drawn against the sun .
6 Modern techniques of communication have intensified the demonstration effect whereby the practices and beliefs of one society are introduced to other societies and have increased the speed with which consumption patterns common to one socio-cultural grouping spread to all corners of the world .
7 If we assume that the DNA bound bleomycin covers three base pairs two of which correspond to the cleavage site then the molecules must protrude by one base pairs in either direction .
8 If you roll a HIT on the scatter dice and numbers on the artillery dice then the numbers are ignored — they have no effect — the Doom Diver has landed smack on target .
9 Specially in the spring time when the azaleas are out and that .
10 The recesses in the pillbox floors where the guns would have fitted are still there today .
11 Major demonstrations , not only outside the council offices where the charges were being debated and fixed but also in some cases involving violence within the council chambers themselves , occurred in particular over the period March 5-12 as councils took their final decisions .
12 By night the bars can get quite lively , although not quite so wild as they get during the winter months when the skiers reenact their greatest runs .
13 In the winter months when the trees are bare I use a pen with a nib to draw the branches with the paint .
14 It was a difficult journey , especially in the winter months when the vagaries of intemperate and often violent weather meant that remote airports could be closed down within minutes .
15 Such operations have the advantage of removing the pollutants entirely from the waste stream ie the compounds do not merely undergo a change of state within the environment — and can exhibit beneficial interactions with microorganisms ( eg the so-called powdered activated carbon ( PACT ) process , in which powdered carbon is added to activated sludge and ‘ biological activated carbon ’ , in which microorganisms extend the life of carbon filters before regeneration is required ) .
16 Tannin increases as the pressing continues , particularly during the rebêche stage when the constituents of the stalks and pips progressively dominate the flow of juice .
17 If one takes the views of the architects explicitly asked this question in the AMERG survey then the reforms seem to have been a mixed blessing ( 42 per cent thinking them to be beneficial and 29 per cent not to be ) .
18 His eyes roved to the perimeter fences where the lights still shone as if in defiance of the coming day .
19 At this point I would like to say how great Steffi Graf is , and how her loyalty to her fans , and genuine great attitude to the game shows up the likes of Monica Seles .
20 From the sowing date onwards the plants remain in a controlled environment , with temperature 20°C , humidity constant and warm-white lighting at an intensity of about 40 Wm -2 for eight hours a day , darkness sixteen hours a day .
21 Like the twelfth floor , glimpsed through the lift doors when the girls had got out , the walls were covered with a pale lemon wash , unlike the twelfth they were hung with pictures , not Old Masters but not Boots the chemists either — prints of hunting scenes and ships and a beautiful soft sunset over a bay that might have been St Ives — pictures deemed suitable for the Executive floor of a great international company .
22 Actually , I do n't think it 's the word Gary just the Letters G.A.R.Y .
23 Erm and and a point was raised in our our evidence given the existing overshoot of structure plan figures , erm the the the county county wide the figures have overshot the agreed structure plan figures , that should focus attention surely on on the need to more closely control the release of the committed land erm er that is currently without planning permission , through the development control process .
24 This is arrived at by taking the selling price prevailing at the end of the year £140 less the costs per bed of advertising , delivery etc. of £10 making a net selling price of £130 , and taking off the cost of beds at the end of the period , i.e. £120 .
25 5.2.2 the Tenant 's Certificate has not been issued by the expiry of the period of immediately following the Possession Date then the provisions of clause 5.4 shall have effect immediately upon the expiry of the relevant period ( or upon the expiry of such extended period as the parties may within the relevant period agree in writing )
26 In 1977 both Science and Scientific American published special issues on the so-called microelectronic revolution and in April 1978 the BBC screened the TV documentary Now the Chips are Down .
27 If the issuer is not incorporated in any of the member states where the securities are to be listed , the issuer must decide which of those member states is to have responsibility for approving the listing particulars ; it must then draw up the listing particulars in accordance with the laws of that member state .
28 So long as the receiver is in the driving seat neither the owners nor the unsecured creditors can do much to remove him .
29 The directors , who claimed they had not been consulted properly about the scheme , agreed to continue to run their buses to the estate for a trial period when the humps are introduced .
30 If the wavelength composition of the light falling on a scene changes then the wavelengths reflected by , say , a red area will change accordingly but so will the wavelengths reflected by an adjacent green area .
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