Example sentences of "[det] [art] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successful vote on energy policy reflected the broad national consensus which had developed since the issue was last addressed in a referendum in 1983 , when the proposal failed to secure a majority in more than half the cantons as required [ see p. 32643 ] . |
| 2 | The " non-dreamers " reported dreams on less than half the occasions when woken from REM sleep ( 19 out of 42 ) and only 7 times in 43 awakenings from REM sleep . |
| 3 | It was not unusual for reliefs to reach the front with only half the numbers that set out , nor for this nightmare approach march to last ten hours or longer . |
| 4 | Only two or three years before her breakthrough , her anonymous photograph , naked , ripe , glistening and stretched out with parted lips on red velvet , was adorning calendars in half the bars and filling station offices across America . |
| 5 | Unless one of the steps in the review machinery is the service of a counternotice by the person upon whom the review notice is served , it is better not to stipulate for a particular form of notice because the fewer the requirements that have to be complied with the less scope there is for litigation . |
| 6 | So that 's quite a big one so we do n't do n't bother about any of these the ones that have got tenths or decimals in we 'll have a look at that . |
| 7 | Step I List all the behaviours that cause you concern , either because they are disappointing or because you want to encourage them . |
| 8 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 9 | All the teeth that have been extracted from the pellets of these two species have been digested , and so the proportion is probably close to 100 per cent . |
| 10 | Its a strange love affair for the jockeys … they take all the knocks and falls like the pros … but at the end of the race there 's no bounty just the bumps and bruises |
| 11 | If the young aspirant survives all the obstacles and makes a start in practice he may still find himself with serious financial problems . |
| 12 | Cohesion can be described as the sum of all the factors that influence members to remain in the group . |
| 13 | The tables are designed to exclude from comparison all the factors that influence examination results , particularly the social class make-up of a school . |
| 14 | Furthermore , of those explanations that incorporate biotic and microenvironmental as well as disturbance effects , the most balanced account is that of Grubb , who used the term ‘ regeneration niche ’ to cover all the factors that affect a plant during its career from fertilized egg to death . |
| 15 | By environment is meant all the factors that occur around us and potentially influence our internal metabolism , which we have already seen is initially determined by genetic make-up . |
| 16 | The main lesson to be learned from this and certain other studies where soft systems thinking has been used , is that analysts , when making specific proposals for change , must take account of all the factors that determine the acceptability of such changes ; in this way there is a better chance that the so-called pragmademic gap will be successfully bridged ( Fig 14.11 ) |
| 17 | When the crisis is over he 'll sit down with his team and review all the factors and identify what future improvements can be made . |
| 18 | The second fact is that Labour , despite the recession and its junking of almost all the policies that made it unelectable in the '80s , has not made a significant advance . |
| 19 | We will build up all the policies that have reversed that . |
| 20 | All the authorities that refused to indulge were extravagant . |
| 21 | So you deny all the studies that prove that |
| 22 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 23 | About a week later he explained at more length that the committee had seen all the drawings and liked them with this one exception . |
| 24 | Only one event pulls together all the strands that go to make up the complete electronic publishing market , Electronic Publishing&print 1988 . |
| 25 | The second method generally available for synonym handling is to chain together all the records that randomize to the same address . |
| 26 | For some reason though , the evil Krip does n't have the sense to smash all the records and has instead scattered them over the island . |
| 27 | When I got there they moaned about all the clothes and stuff I had , because you have to take everything with you when they move you about . |
| 28 | Comfort tried on all the clothes and decided to wear the black suit . |
| 29 | But Modigliani broke all the taboos and behaved like a modern-day King David . |
| 30 | I 've been attending all the lectures that deal with building up a practice ; I 've learnt a lot and I 'm convinced it 's possible . ’ |