Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anxiety over global environmental change has perhaps made us more aware of the converse idea : that the activities of microbes largely determine the state of the biosphere , and in particular the evolution of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 2 | Acute illness episodes were also significant , restricting the activities of men over 75 for an average 47 days each year , and of women for an average 61 days each year — compared with 23 days and 29 days respectively for men and women of all ages . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal , with its considerable case-load of appeals in personal injury actions and the relatively recent experience of many of its members in trying such cases themselves is , generally speaking , the tribunal best qualified to set the guide-lines for judges currently trying such actions . |
| 4 | This privileged position of an individual 's wishes over the wishes of others also finds its expression in the concept of segat . |
| 5 | Not only are the meanings of terms often in dispute , but there exist more profound questions as to what economics is all about . |
| 6 | It is important to understand that language is used , in fiction , to project a world " beyond language " , in that we use not only our knowledge of language , the meanings of words etc , but also our general knowledge of the real world , to furnish it . |
| 7 | Just as our Grand Master thinks about the manipulation of further , and suggests that skilled readers recognise the meanings of words ahead of fixation . |
| 8 | Second , why are the meanings of words often felt to change from context to context , and how is successful communication possible if such instability exists ? |
| 9 | It predicts that , despite tougher standards for new cars , the problem is likely to increase for some years to come , largely as a result of a lack of any controls over the emissions of vehicles already on the road . |
| 10 | As long serving employees they will be able to bring a wealth of company experience and represent the views of members more effectively than outsiders . |
| 11 | Consequently , it is often impossible for lone appointees to represent the views of users effectively and authorities must become more seriously committed to listening to service user 's opinions and providing opportunities for them to exercise real influence . |
| 12 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 13 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 14 | The last archaic temple on the Acropolis , built by the sons of Peisistratos perhaps around 520 , had marble pediments , one a group of lions and bull , the other a battle of Gods and Giants ; fine work but horribly ruined . |
| 15 | Among the groups of invertebrates worst affected were those that prey on others , the grazers on plants such as algae , and the so-called detritus collectors . |
| 16 | Often , the groups of fans most dedicated to hooligan behaviour are organised into hard-core ‘ fighting crews ’ ( e.g. the Leeds United ‘ Service Crew ’ , Manchester United 's ‘ Red Devils ’ , West Ham 's ‘ Inter City Crew ’ , Chelsea 's ‘ Anti-Personnel Firm ’ , Arsenal 's ‘ Gooners ’ , Millwall 's ‘ Bushwackers ’ , Tottenham 's ‘ The Spurs Yids ’ and , in Scotland , Aberdeen 's ‘ Soccer Casuals ’ ) . |
| 17 | Breaks in ‘ sleeping ’ probe coverage , most clear for YAC probes , correspond to the groups of clones probably belonging to other regions of the genome and are usually hit by only one cosmid probe . |
| 18 | Sainsbury 's , only occasional users of search , would make exceptions in the cases of jobs currently hard to fill , such as top accountants and systems analysts . |
| 19 | The way to secure future prosperity is by embracing change not resisting it and as my honourable friend er indicates , by using our skills to best effect and competitively in a global market place were we to embrace the policies of members opposite in the European community we would shut the job , the door to the jobs which will come from that inward investment because we have opted out of the social chapter we do indeed have the opportunity that comes from being , if I may qui may quote er President Delors a pa a paradise for inward investment . |
| 20 | But because exploration costs represent barely a fifth the total North Sea spending of about £10 billion , this may not be considered too heavy a price to pay for an attempt to switch activity towards developing some of the finds already made or maximising the returns from fields already in production . |
| 21 | Sitting in a traffic jam with such a car alongside is a contemporary purgatory that produces reactions in me that bode no good for the future of the human race and make me a menace on the roads for minutes afterwards . |
| 22 | It was dangerous on the roads for bairns as usually the horses with running with the carts . |
| 23 | I have tried to identify biochemical , morphological and physiological changes occurring in specific regions of the chick brain in the minutes to hours following training on a simple task , to show that the changes are not the results of other aspects of training than memory , to show that blocking the changes prevents the memory , and vice versa , and , finally , to examine the consequences of removing the brain sites of change , either before or after the chick has been trained . |
| 24 | If Marie Gibbs ' time course was right , I should expect to find a sequence of cellular changes in left and perhaps right IMHV and/ or LPO , associated with the several phases of memory formation , in the minutes to hours following the bird 's pecking at the bitter bead . |
| 25 | rubbing the undersides of chins together or a toast ? |
| 26 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
| 27 | This will make the operations of poachers that much more difficult , or even force them to pack it in altogether . |
| 28 | They maintain that the values of sociologists directly influence every aspect of their research . |
| 29 | The upshot of all this is more problems for hard-stretched environmental departments — and more court cases that are decided unsatisfactorily , more on the whims of magistrates rather than on concise technical criteria . |
| 30 | We shall look at the characteristics of bills more carefully in a moment . |