Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cities are the inverse , containing individual blocks , streets but few voids , lungs : an excessive impression of solid mass and a zero expression of space . |
| 2 | Yet , despite this relativistic view of both private passions and the common good , the inevitability of a tension between them — of the problematic nature of conformity to the common good rather than deviation — is retained . |
| 3 | In mid-turn all the weight will be on the inside foot whilst the other remains in the strap . |
| 4 | I packed the Scandinavian jersey I 'd worn at Woodbine into the suitcase just in case it jogged anyone 's memory , and got dressed in dark trousers , open-necked shirt and a short zipped navy jacket with lighter blue bands round waist and wrists . |
| 5 | Choose from solid woods and a range of finishes . |
| 6 | He had the unfinished nocturne and the portrait . |
| 7 | This interdepartmental Committee on the Medical Inspection and Feeding of Children Attending Public Elementary Schools was appointed in March 1905 and was , in the words of the minister responsible , Lord Londonderry , ( President of the Board of Education ) not to be ‘ at liberty to make far-reaching proposals that the Unionist party would decline to support ’ . |
| 8 | A tea may be paid if overtime is outwith normal hours or a dinner if you have to work up to and after 8.30 pm , on the same basis as the lunch . |
| 9 | Land has both an economic function and a function in terms of personal and social esteem : |
| 10 | So Intelsat 6 is stuck in a uselessly low orbit until a space shuttle can be persuaded to collect it , or until it falls down . |
| 11 | A consequence of this decision could have been the creation of evidence that the project was merely an exercise in ‘ façadism ’ — the policy of retaining only the external skin of a building as a ‘ screen wall ’ to new accommodation , which often creates a disagreeable distinction between the ‘ stage set ’ of the preserved shell and the entirely rebuilt interior . |
| 12 | To obtain additional internal volume and a satisfactory relationship between new floor levels and existing or modified window openings , the original ground floor , which consisted of two panels of suspended timber construction under the areas formerly accommodating pews , separated and flanked by strips of tiled floor on a solid base where the gangways ran , was removed to give a further 400mm ( 16in ) of height . |
| 13 | An embryological study of Carausius by Scholl ( 1969 ) confirms this , suggesting that the neck includes a dorsal labial component and a ventral prothoracic part , though Wada ( 1966 ) regards the neck of Tachycines as entirely labial in origin . |
| 14 | POLICIES for agricultural support and the environment need to work together to the mutual benefit of farming and the countryside . |
| 15 | POLICIES for agricultural support and the environment need to work together to the mutual benefit of farming and the countryside . |
| 16 | Claiming that the landscape was created by farmers and can only be maintained by farming , she added : ‘ Our policies for agricultural support and the environment need to work together , to the mutual benefit of our farming industry and of our countryside . ’ |
| 17 | The power station is also a matter of miles from the Lilstock bombing range in the Bristol Channel , where aircraft can be watched from the coast as they wheel and circle in the sky before a fiery flash and a splash of water shows that they have hit their ‘ target ’ . |
| 18 | Registration can be confidently expected to occur in due course unless the company 's articles impose restrictions on the transferability of its shares . |
| 19 | This situation will change in due course as the younger generation becomes less and less involved in traditional family businesses and educational standards continue to improve , but for the foreseeable future job opportunities will exist for most nationalities in those parts of the Middle East where local populations are insufficient to meet the labour requirements of commerce and industry . |
| 20 | It is hoped to submit a formal planning application in due course when a further public exhibition will be held showing the final layout of the road and the public will again have an opportunity to comment on the scheme at this time . |
| 21 | She had n't needed to offer such a weak plea as a scratched finger after all , Isabel remembered . |
| 22 | For example , it has been held that an arrangement void for contravention of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 constitutes unlawful means but this is hard to reconcile with the clear decision in the Mogul case that an agreement in restraint of trade at common law did not . |
| 23 | In so doing we will be addressing a major research issue — that of determination of possible relationships between spatial objects and the operations which act upon them . |
| 24 | Under the terms of the deal , which marked the first direct trading contact between the two Korean states since the Korean War of 1950-53 , the North would supply 30,000 tonnes of anthracite and 11,000 tonnes of cement in exchange for the rice . |
| 25 | This means they have been inspected by a team of professional experts and the standard of their work has been approved . |
| 26 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 27 | There was very little if any social distinction between the subsidized private estates and the 1920s council housing . |
| 28 | Thus , the NSC had before it the State Department 's political assessment that the area was , to repeat , ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin' . |
| 29 | In Western cooking such a mixture can add zing to almost anything from scrambled eggs to vegetables , soups , stews and sauces and poached or baked fruits , with the grateful advantage that the result will not taste as though you have succumbed to panic and thrown in a spoonful of curry powder . |
| 30 | Often recipes are only a succession of technical operations and no explanations as to why , or how , or why not . ’ |