Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introductory remarks found at the beginning of a book , usually by someone who is not the author of the book . |
| 2 | The inside pages used classic 1970s magazine design . |
| 3 | Sometimes the inside ones depend how carefully the the ones on top |
| 4 | Table 1 indicates total Grampian manufactured exports subdivided into industry classes , while Fig.1 illustrates the proportion of the total exports attributed to each of the largest exporting sectors . |
| 5 | In 1984 the total payments made by insurance companies for household thefts was more than £200m . |
| 6 | His strong dialect and ungrammatical turns of phrase often made him unintentionally amusing , but his dark and ruddy complexion , coarse features , and shabby clothes gave him a hold over the type of working man the total abstainers sought to reach . |
| 7 | These are also concentrated in Kent with 65 per cent of the total ( 25 per cent at Faversham alone ) , and there is little change in this pattern through time except that the total quantities fall off during the seventh century . |
| 8 | On the hearing of the petition , the court may : ( i ) make a bankruptcy order ; or ( ii ) make a bankruptcy order and issue a certificate for the summary administration of the bankrupt 's estate ( where the total debts do not exceed the " small bankruptcies level " , currently £20,000 , and the bankrupt has not been adjudicated bankrupt before in the last five years nor has he entered into any composition with his creditors or scheme of arrangement ) ( s 275 ) ; ( iii ) make a bankruptcy order and appoint the former supervisor of a voluntary arrangement as trustee provided that notice of the supervisor 's intention to seek appointment as a trustee was given in the petition and to the creditors ; ( iv ) appoint an insolvency practitioner to prepare a report under s 273 . |
| 9 | The earnings for each tax year are then increased in line with the rise in national average earnings and added together to produce the total earnings figure on which your additional pension depends . |
| 10 | How do the total amounts differ ? |
| 11 | In the Laming list , theses may be listed under more than one heading , and so the total figures represent the total numbers of sub-discipline headings assigned to Scottish theses , rather than the numbers of theses . |
| 12 | We strongly support the aim of ensuring the best use of the total aggregates resource by minimising wastage and avoiding the use of higher quality materials where lower grade ones would suffice ( MPG6 , paragraph 27 ) . |
| 13 | We strongly support the aim of ensuring the best use of the total aggregates resource by minimising wastage and avoiding the use of higher quality materials where lower grade ones would suffice ( MPG6 , paragraph 27 ) . |
| 14 | To take just one example : people still grossly underestimate the size of the language 's vocabulary — the most widely quoted figure is half a million words or so — an estimate based on the total headwords found in either the OED or Webster 's Third New International , which each contains around that number . |
| 15 | The total hours spent on the carriage so far are 226 hours 30 minutes . |
| 16 | After a more detailed and refined analysis of their results , Brown and Levin concluded as follows : ‘ The evidence clearly suggests , therefore , that the aggregate effect of tax on overtime is small ; it may perhaps add about 1% to the total hours worked , since , on balance , tax has made people work more rather than less overtime . ’ |
| 17 | The surveyor can easily assess the relationship between earnings on measured work and daywork , in order to verify the daywork hours , provided he is aware of the total hours worked each week . |
| 18 | If two constables spent ten hours each investigating the false report before discovering the truth then the total hours wasted would be twenty . |
| 19 | The total provisions represent nearly 19 p.c. of the brewer 's £250m loan book . |
| 20 | The total innovations counted for each country were 257 in the USA , 45 in the UK , 23 in West Germany and 17 in France . |
| 21 | The total fines levied more than doubled over the previous year , from £428,000 to £1.05 million . |
| 22 | Figure 18.1 shows how the total casualties fell over this period even though the number of vehicles on the road was increasing . |
| 23 | The mean Developmental Sentence Score ( DSS ) is derived by adding the total sentences score for a sample of 50 utterances and dividing the total by 50 . |
| 24 | In an extreme situation , we 've got something like an in situ situation so the interviewer will have much more power , and has the total rights to change the topic and choose the topic , and cut off the topic when it 's finished . |
| 25 | Because of the erm because of the erm of the total times involved , inevitably the stage two's are going to be , it 's it 's going to be in the second year that you 're going to see reasonable output from them , not in first year . |
| 26 | It is impossible to give a meaningful figure of the total personnel employed in social services , as definitions vary too much , but the social services are now an important sector of employment , and many of the personnel involved require training . |
| 27 | The size of these deficits has meant , nevertheless , that the normal financial facilities available from the IMF have proved inadequate even though the total quotas have been increased substantially : between 1964 and 1988 quotas were raised from SDR14 billion to SDR89.9 billion . |
| 28 | Unless the total values stored in one risk are limited and highly hazardous commodities such as flammable liquids are isolated from them , and unless they are adequately protected by sprinklers , it will become increasingly difficult to obtain insurance cover . |
| 29 | ( c ) The motor is unable to reach its maximum speed if the number of steps to be executed is less than the total steps required for acceleration and deceleration , i.e. the initial value of COUNT is less than ACCVAL + DECVAL . |
| 30 | The total man-hours required to construct such a building is impossible to estimate . |