Example sentences of "[noun] in [art] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a battle in the Menai Straits the Norwegians defeated a Norman force and slew one of its leaders , Hugh of Montgomery , second Earl of Shrewsbury and Arundel [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | Prior to the controversy over the settlement of the immigrants in the occupied territories the then Minister of Agriculture , Avraham Katz-Oz , paid a semi-official visit to Moscow on Nov. 27 , 1989 , the first by an Israeli minister since diplomatic relations were severed by the Soviet Union during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 3 | They point to the structural changes in business groups , relationships and so on — and foresee that , as women take their place in the senior ranks a profound change will take place in the nature of work , childcare and maternity.What Naisbitt and Aburdene forecast is effectively a new work ethic . |
| 4 | Little research has yet been carried out on controls of brittle fracture within the subsurface , although Bj rlykke ( 1983 ) attributed cement dissolution ( and consequent secondary porosity generation ) to overpressuring , with subsequent cementation in the overlying strata a consequence of pressure release . |
| 5 | He also emphasised in an article in the Financial Times the cost of politicians meddling in art and referred to President Bush 's ditching of John Frohnmayer , Chairman of the US National Endowment for the Arts . |
| 6 | To keep it solvent in the early days the office sold travel goods such as baggage , guidebooks and walking-sticks in addition to the tours and other travel arrangements , which were the main source of income . |
| 7 | ( Even with the economy-wide agreements in Sweden in the 1983 negotiations no settlement could be arrived at with the union side which insisted upon separate industry level negotiations being conducted . ) |
| 8 | There is no doubt that with closer spacing and dissonances in the lower parts the same note-groups could produce ugly results . |
| 9 | Compared with most other shingle features in the British Isles the beach is a simple though large ridge , reaching its maximum size at the Portland end , where it is 60 m ( 200 yd ) wide and just over 12 m ( 40 ft ) high . |
| 10 | To most people in the rural areas a car and a radio , and even electric power , remained luxuries they could not afford . |
| 11 | By relaunching into the qualifying cauldron nations who had hardly made an impact in the earlier stages the organisers ran the risk of altering the natural hierarchy of the event and , therefore , the result . |
| 12 | She was speaking quietly but fast , and pausing for breath in the wrong places the way politicians do when they fear interruption . |
| 13 | There were to accompany the army corps a number of shipwrights , caulkers , sailmakers and six hundred seamen , who [ would ] have settled at Cowes and Yarmouth for the winter , and built with the timber in the local yards a large quantity of gun-sloops … |
| 14 | Like Svidrigailov , Kirillov comes to the fore very late and very fast in the process of composition , but unlike Crime and Punishment 's self-slaughterer the man in The Possessed parades an entire philosophy and theology of suicide . |
| 15 | For most players in the lower divisions the issue simply did not arise . |
| 16 | In the chief centres of Europe in the Middle Ages the cities , the universities and the monasteries were being established . |
| 17 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 18 | My Lords in a few minutes the House will have to vote on this issue . |
| 19 | If an item is coached carefully step by step in the early stages the performers are more likely to remember it for future use . |
| 20 | As a result of bargaining between these two main parties the PRI secured the preservation of the " governability " clauses which granted the party winning most votes in the legislative elections an absolute majority , even with a vote of less than 50 per cent ; the PAN ensured that the threshold at which these clauses became applicable was raised from 17 per cent to 35 per cent of the vote . |
| 21 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 22 | For example , whereas land rights were inherited through the mother in the matrilineal systems a father could leave economic trees to his sons , thereby providing them with a small independent base . |