Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 I have to be the voice of industry within the Government , arguing the case for the needs of business , and I do .
32 The predictable seasonal changes are anticipated by birds through the changes of day length .
33 Provision for the effects of transfers of employees and liabilities in respect of them under the Transfer of Undertakings ( Protection of Employment ) Regulations 1981 and transfers of pension rights .
34 That figure contains substantial provision for the needs of Lanarkshire .
35 The National Curriculum , whilst being consistent with the other government sponsored programmes in its instrumental-vocationalist view , has made provision for the arts through music and art as second tier essential subjects with drama mentioned for possible inclusion with art , music and design in a joint arts option for older pupils .
36 As the two treatment groups were not identical in severity of disease at the start of the trial , an analysis of covariance , with corresponding confidence intervals , was used to compare each measure between the groups after treatment , making adjustments for the differences in severity of disease before treatment as measured by the corresponding baseline measurement .
37 These differences amongst institutions , and amongst their environments and perceptions of direction and identity , were to account in part for the differences of speed and conviction with which they raised the question of independence or autonomy — or , in the terminology of the time , academic freedom .
38 His career epitomizes the interactions between the obligations of patron and client and the public service under the old administrative system .
39 One finds in this approach a judgement about the effects of trade union and state interventions in labour markets with regard to resource allocation .
40 One of a great flurry of plans being prepared in the Pentagon as the politicians on Capitol Hill sharpen their knives to carve the ‘ peace dividend ’ from the budget , the plan will arouse great controversy , since it invades the functional territory of the US Marine Corps .
41 Her clashes with other European heads of state over Britain 's budgetary contribution to the Community aroused all her basic emotions : here , indeed , she had strong support in Britain itself where sympathy for the bureaucrats of Brussels , with their butter mountains and wine lakes , was distinctly muted .
42 Dexter was unable to decide whether her wistfulness was caused by sympathy for the victims of adultery or knowledge that the majority of murders were committed by close relatives of the dead .
43 Lloyd George spent large sums of his private fortune ( acquired in rather dubious circumstances as a treasure chest for the Coalition Liberals between 1917 and 1922 ) , in research activity which recommended radical policies for the Liberals in areas such as land reform and unemployment policy in the 1920s .
44 Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion .
45 But while they are determined to make hay while the sun shines , farmers are still watching the monetary horizons for the clouds of revaluation and are ready to scamper for figurative shelter if the rains of realignment fall .
46 preferences for more focused or salient entities as the referents of pronouns and other anaphors ( e.g. Sidner 1979a ; Alshawi 1987 ) .
47 Provided we give a narrow meaning to ‘ intention ’ the law may well for practical purposes come close to the proposition that it is tortious intentionally to cause damage by any unlawful act , but it has developed by way of distinct , nominate torts and it is necessary to retain that division for the purposes of exposition .
48 No doubt she encouraged Mr Macmillan at a time when he needed some encouragement ; and there seemed little danger to the Constitution in this fact being revealed in 1973 to those readers of Sir Harold 's memoirs who had stayed the course through the Winds of Change , the Blast of War , and the Tides of Fortune to the End of the Day .
49 Ockleton sprang from his chair , steered an unerring course through the piles of books and papers that littered his apartment and shook Harry clammily by the hand .
50 To produce a further copy , albeit for the purposes of obtaining advice , was closely parallel to obtaining further copies for the purposes of litigation when the original was not privileged , so that Chadwick v Bowman ( 1886 ) 16 QBD 561 was closely in point .
51 ANIMAL rights campaigner Vicki Moore was so upset by cruelty to cows and bulls during the festivities at Candelada , near Avila , Spain , that she wrote to the Prime Minister about it .
52 It would be quite another to imagine it sanctioning full-blooded mergers between the likes of BAe and GEC , which is what Professor Smith 's script implies .
53 Our results demonstrate that the clusters of basic amino acids are more important than the zinc fingers for the interactions of NC protein with DNA in vitro , although a role for the zinc fingers in specificity of interaction or in facilitating its many functions can not be excluded .
54 Yet a UK importer would still prefer to send the payment for the goods to America , either in US dollars or sterling ( or in any other agreed currency for that matter ) .
55 The merger of Mills and Boon and the Harlequin imprint acts as a paradigm for the sequences of company mergers and takeovers that took place in the sixties and seventies in publishing in Britain and America , a period in which the ownership structures of publishing underwent a profound shift away from specialist producers and distributors of books , towards groups of publishing houses owned largely by corporate organizations whose primary interests were not in publishing .
56 The office of collector of supply was one which held its value over time , for the salary appears to have increased at a rate which more than compensated the holder for the ravages of inflation .
57 Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ .
58 As I understood the submission , the Attorney-General was not contending that the use of Parliamentary material by the courts for the purposes of construction would constitute an ‘ impeachment ’ of freedom of speech since impeachment is limited to cases where a Member of Parliament is sought to be made liable , either in criminal or civil proceeding , for what he has said in Parliament , e.g. , by criminal prosecution , by action for libel or by seeking to prove malice on the basis of such words .
59 Nor did his Lordship draw any demarcation between administrative institutions and inferior courts for the purposes of review .
60 Much of the functionality of GIS lies with their ability to overlay one or more digital maps for the purposes of Boolean or network analyses .
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