Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the inside surfaces were wood , the fire smoke had blackened them and the heat produced a rich resinous smell of burning pine . |
| 2 | The total fines were £3,500 and C & G also had to pay £356 in costs . ’ |
| 3 | The normal symptoms are pneumonia and bronchitis , but occasionally severe reactions set in , resembling those seen in Spain . |
| 4 | But Adams ' polyester used a peroxide catalyst to harden it , and the peroxide bleached some of the red from the polyester ( the US-finished instruments were cellulose ) . |
| 5 | Two of the nicest varieties are pineapple mint ( Mentha suaveolens ‘ Variegata ’ ) , and ginger mint ( M. x gentilis ‘ Variegata ’ ) but there are also some others to choose from . |
| 6 | The Jesuit missionaries were men dedicated to the reform of the native Church , but their very zeal and intolerance defeated their aim and permanently alienated a people justifiably proud of their own Christian tradition . |
| 7 | In consumer electronics the European leaders were Philips/Grundig and Thomson . |
| 8 | There are villages in Lika , Kordun , Banija and Gorski Kotor , between Zagreb and the northern Adriatic coast , where over 70 per cent of the present-day inhabitants are Serbs . |
| 9 | The following results were obtained for 2,515 pupils in mixed schools : There were more boys in this sample ( 55 per cent ) than girls ( 45 per cent ) ; this imbalance was not present amongst low scoring pupils , half of the low scorers being boys and half girls . |
| 10 | That confiture d'oignons , for instance , for which the recipe appeared in Michel Guérard 's Cuisine Gourmande and which has since made the tour du monde surely derived from Pomiane 's dish of sweet-sour onions in which the sweetening elements were sultanas and pain d " épices , the spiced honey cake of central Europe , and which Pomiane had in turn borrowed from the Jewish cookery of his native Poland . |
| 11 | The combined supernatants were freeze dried and dissolved in radioimmunoassay buffer , and their calcitonin gene related peptide content was assessed by a specific radioimmunoassay . |
| 12 | We have one of the largest contractors are Palestinians . |
| 13 | The largest tools are 200mm long , and the smallest are 120mm long . |
| 14 | The possible operations are walk ; bicycle ; drive by car ; take a train ; fly . |
| 15 | One of the classic instances is Chesterfield , where the town had entered a partnership with a property company to build over the city 's open-air market place , replacing it with a covered market , shops and offices . |
| 16 | They often operate singly , the classic instances being sculpture , which is pure Apolline art , and music , which , |
| 17 | Though this sometimes occurs within musicals , the clearest examples are dream sequences within melodramas , particularly of the 1940s and '50s . |
| 18 | In this case the only predetermined variable is and the exogenous variables are g , v t and . |
| 19 | Only three of the eleven members were peasants . |
| 20 | 8 of the stolen horses were freeze marked and all but one of those have been found . |
| 21 | [ 3 ] The Mexican authorities claimed that tapes of the pilot-to-controller communications were erased. [ 4 ] NTSSB was not invited ( as is customary ) to participate in the accident investigation . |
| 22 | One of the greatest challenges is medicine . |
| 23 | Two of the greatest theorists were Sigmund Freud , born in 1856 , and Carl Jung , born in 1875 . |
| 24 | Niki loses six seconds to the sort of ill manners to which even the greatest drivers are subject . |
| 25 | ‘ We do not have too many Woosnams , ’ said Mr Schofield , ‘ but we do have a lot of Fehertys and Montgomeries and for them to have survived one of the greatest tests is testimony to how strong we are becoming . ’ |
| 26 | Almost all the proprietors of the preserved railways are members of either the Association of Independent Railways or the Association of Railway Preservation Societies , and carried more than 6 million passengers on their railways in 1989 , which is the latest year for which I have the full figures . |
| 27 | Among the surviving examples are Brixworth Church ( where Roman bricks have been re-used but without radiating voussoir construction ) ( 250 and 392 ) , Earl 's Barton , tower ( 251 ) , Sompting Church , eleventh century tower , S. Lawrence , Bradford-on-Avon , tenth century , Worth Church , tenth century ( 386 ) , also those at Greensted , Barton-on-Humber , Escomb , Boarhunt ( 426 ) and Bradwell . |
| 28 | On the storage side , the surviving plants are San Jose , Mainz and Fujisawa , which means that 700 full-time and 1,200 temporary posts go in Rochester , Minnesota . |
| 29 | The surviving pupils are Emma Hartley , 16 , who was last night said to be improving in intensive care in Weymouth General Hospital ; Joanna Willis , 16 , Samantha Stansby , 17 , and Marie Rendle , 17 , all listed as stable and comfortable . |
| 30 | A major development encouraging trade between the advanced countries was tariff cuts . |