Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a national hero , he had been Supreme Commander in South East Asia during the Second World War , the last Viceroy and first Governor General of India , first Sea Lord , and finally Chief of the Defence Staff . |
| 2 | A superior brand of knighthood , the KBE , goes to the former Liberal leader , Mr David Steel , while Sir John Fieldhouse , ex-chief of the Defence Staff and First Sea Lord during the Falklands War , becomes one of three new life peers . |
| 3 | The granting of peerages to former politicians , chiefs of the defence staff and so on has the effect of enhancing the status of those whose only achievement in life is having been engendered by a privileged set of loins . |
| 4 | Field Marshal Sir Richard Vincent , Chief of the Defence Staff , becomes chairman of the military committee . |
| 5 | The assessments made by the defence staff establish the right shape for our defences for the 1990s . |
| 6 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 7 | Sir Woodrow Wyatt , chairman of the Tote , and Field Marshall Sir Edwin Bramall , the former Chief of the Defence Staff , were made life peers in the New Year 's honours list , while the principal actors in the television series Yes Minister , Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne , were made CBEs . |
| 8 | The artist Alexander Goudie , from Paisley , whose commissions in the past have included Lord Mackay of Clashfern , the climber Christian Bonington , former Chief of the Defence Staff Lord Bramall , and Billy Connolly , painted her in the robes of the Order of the Thistle on a raised foreground above Holyroodhouse to mark the centenary of the club . |
| 9 | The uranium series measurements give a slightly older date of 205,000 years BP , but given that the uncertainties in each of these figures are typically 20 per cent , the two techniques can be said to agree with each other . |
| 10 | To manufacture the aircraft the Harlow Aircraft Co was incorporated in 1939 , at Alhambra Airport in California , with some financial support from Howard Hughes . |
| 11 | The other time I remember was when William the chromium platers in Street ye got bombed , with a high explosive bomb , but there was , there was no one hurt that I remember , and then the Halleys the tent people had an incendiary bombs and got burnt out , at the same night that they dropped some incendiary bombs on the bus depot in Road , they , they were a lot of work for the fire brigade , but comparatively speaking with , with Birmingham I think Walsall got off very lightly as regards the bombing , as there was no heavy industry around here . |
| 12 | The climbers later recorded the route in the park headquarters , naming the peak Point Nora Batty , to the disdain of the Park Ranger who suggested the Americans did n't want their mountains named after British politicians ! |
| 13 | Since w and c can be expressed in the forms ua + vb and unc respectively , where unc we see that r = |
| 14 | ‘ Since VJ day , the majority people of the area , the Vietnamese , have stubbornly resisted the re-establishment of French authority , a struggle in which we have tried to maintain so far as possible the position of non-support of either party ’ . |
| 15 | In the past , the Falkland sheep farmers looked on birds of prey as their enemies , but more enlightened attitudes are nowadays evident — at least in areas frequented by the few tourists visiting the islands . |
| 16 | Communist ministers in the West Bengal state government had protested over Bhutanese army cross-border raids aimed at capturing members of the Bhutan People 's Party and other pro-democracy and human rights groups . |
| 17 | Illegal parties include : the Bhutan People 's Party ( R. K. Budathoki pres. , D. K. Rai gen. sec. ) ; the United Liberation People 's Front ( Balaram Poudyal l. ) ; the People 's Forum for Human Rights ( Gopal Sharma , Vikay Thapa ls . ) . |
| 18 | The most influential of these groups was the Bhutan People 's Party ( BPP ) , which organized a series of large demonstrations in southern Bhutan in September 1990 to protest against Drukpa domination and to demand political reforms [ see p. 37711 ] . |
| 19 | To determine the effect of c-Jun DNA binding sites on c-Jun phosphorylation by the DNA-PK , two FSE sites were cloned into the plasmid pLSO.CAT ( 26 ) . |
| 20 | In addition , Tetley will give the Pakistanis £2,000 for each three-day match they win , with a county collecting £4,000 should it beat the tourists . |
| 21 | No one , of course , has asked to read it , for — if my argument is correct — the service has no need of any reminder of how the ideology works or how to implement the paradigms which support their cultural norms . |
| 22 | If the ideology provides.a new point of view , it also defines favourably the identity of those who occupy this new vantage position . |
| 23 | The carbomer 934P is a synthetic polyacrylate characterised by multiple side chains of carboxyl groups . |
| 24 | The carbomer 934P may also have an effect , however , because it inhibits faecal protease activity and facilitates the formation of a viscous gel in vitro . |
| 25 | That situation lent itself to a kind of reverse patronage if the town annoyed the Administration , and the advice sent to Lord Milton in 1734 when the Stirling people were ‘ very insolent ’ and ‘ were Drinking at the Cross disappointment to L[ord] I[lay] and all his Designs ’ was that the bulk of the troops should be removed , together with much of the community 's business , as a preliminary to an attack on the town council . |
| 26 | Personality and temperament play a part in the attitudes people hold about maintaining a safe environment and affect their efficiency in carrying out the activities involved . |
| 27 | The chairmen could not help but note , for example , that on tariff policy the headquarters staff were less expert than the former regulatory body , the Electricity Commissioners . |
| 28 | Mosley , genu-inely puzzled by growing Jewish hostility to the BUF , asked A.K. Chesterton who was now on the Headquarters staff to examine the influence of Jews in British Society . |
| 29 | Between 1922 and 1927 he was on the headquarters staff of the League of Nations Union . |
| 30 | At this point various drugs or vehicles were added to the incubation media . |