Example sentences of "[adj] areas " in BNC.

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1 Six of our regular writers reveal their favourite areas and that special something that continues to lure them back year after year
2 Favourite areas for local scepticism are ethics , religion and the future .
3 On his daily visit to the laboratory to look at quality control tests on raw and processed materials , Graham added : ‘ Mills and sliphouses have never been the favourite areas of pottery factories — you either love or hate them — but for the likes of me they are a way of life . ’
4 Each night , officers on foot and in traffic cars , patrol the favourite areas for displays .
5 Seventeen people died in armed clashes in Palestinian-controlled areas east of Sidon on Feb. 15 , when members of Fatah suppressed a rebellion by other Fatah regulars who were refusing to hand over their positions to the Lebanese army .
6 In July the Lebanese government continued with its Syrian-sponsored plan to extend its authority throughout the whole of Lebanon , deploying its army in force in the Palestinian-controlled areas of the south despite having failed to reach an agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) .
7 Israel and the SLA responded on Oct. 26 with heavy shelling of Hezbollah and Palestinian-controlled areas in southern Lebanon , wounding at least five civilians .
8 Indeed , after July there are very few weed-free areas and a good knowledge of the loch is required to find suitable areas to fish .
9 In a number of his soft-ground etchings one can discern the actual texture of the paper the original drawing was made on , which has been transferred to the plate by the pressure of the pencil in the larger tonal areas .
10 Gilman was attuned to France and to the new mood in French painting and at this time , at first through the example of Sickert , patterned coverage of the canvas in the manner of Édouard Vuillard , and intimiste tonal areas in the manner of Bonnard , began to be apparent in his work .
11 It can also be highly chromatic without introducing any well-defined modulations which establish clear tonal areas .
12 They were declared in run-down industrial and/ or commercial areas , and were seen as a means of stabilizing economic activity .
13 The newly designated area incorporates substantial parts of Liverpool 's North Docks and areas of mixed commercial and some residential uses inland , together with industrial and commercial areas adjoining the initial designated area in South Liverpool .
14 but there had been no practical progression to the redevelopment of commercial areas ; there was only a handful of local authorities which seemed capable of making design and environmental advances in planning practice .
15 Their plans were strategic in the sense that an idealized future ( say 20 years hence ) was projected which would accommodate all assumptions as to likely change : there would be no great population growth ( why should there be ? — the 1930s had been a decade of population stagnation , if not decline ) ; inter-war regional drift would be halted ; the housing shortage would be made good ; the necessary population redistributions would be implemented , so reducing densities to an acceptable level in the inner districts ; areas for suburban expansion would be identified and selected against a background of open space and protected countryside ; lines for improved road communication would be safeguarded and the commercial areas , particularly town centres , would be better defined and made architectural show-pieces .
16 Industrial and commercial areas will be subject to certification and control under the Fire Precautions Act , as has been described for type I building and reference should therefore be made to this section for other matters of ancillary accommodation .
17 Similarly in the vast residential and commercial areas of Enderby , Norborough , Homkirk , Cosby , Watchton Croft , parts of Broadstone and Meridian itself the delays have become unacceptable .
18 Importantly they also adversely affect levels of amenity in both residential and commercial areas .
19 Planned comparisons of means of incremental areas were carried out using the multivariate general linear hypothesis to determine the substances that caused a significant increase in PYY and enteroglucagon concentrations from basal .
20 KABUL — Fifteen mujahedin rockets slammed into residential areas of Kabul over the weekend , killing 10 people and wounding 27 , writes Ahmed Rashid .
21 Also in need of special attention are key locations where crime can be expected , especially at might , such at commercial properties and residential areas in the suburbs .
22 What is the use of going to open beaches when we must return to segregated residential areas and schools and suffer under the laws that make the best medical treatment the prerogative of the whites only in our country ?
23 They tell of women murdered by Iraqi soldiers , because husbands or sons had joined the rebellion ; of heavy shelling of residential areas ; of summary executions of anybody suspected of aiding the rebels ; of bodies left lying in the streets .
24 In the middle-class residential areas where most MPs live , law and order may not be a serious worry , but it is of intense concern in poorer districts .
25 Supermarket property developers have been scouring Cornwall , Devon , Somerset , Avon and Dorset for suitable sites in a concerted research drive covering the income potential of every postcode district , the location of residential areas , traffic flow and key road junctions .
26 We will encourage the extension of Neighbourhood Watch to more residential areas .
27 Class background is an important factor in the level of schooling achieved , partly because the higher the level the greater the cost ( if only in terms of opportunity costs ) and partly because educational facilities are best in the well-to-do residential areas .
28 The warehouses are organised in a hierarchical manner with a central one buying from satellite warehouses , which are situated in the poorer residential areas of Cali , so that they are near the homes of the garbage pickers .
29 Dense residential areas ;
30 Ordinary residential areas ;
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