Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its characteristics are personal acquisitiveness , set free by generous tax cuts for the rich and a licensed pursuit of the fast buck ; markets , including foreign exchange , left unfettered to bestow their dynamism on the economy ; a state rolled as far back as is electorally tenable ; and a participatory capitalism , based on profit rather than ownership , where almost anything is a commodity to be traded . |
| 2 | As well as the youth club the church boasts a mother and toddler group , a club for the elderly and a popular meeting point for young people who have regular gatherings at the church 's brand new hall . |
| 3 | There has , for example , been a marked reduction in direct council provision of homes for the elderly and a concomitant increase in privately run homes . |
| 4 | The other displays painterly ‘ high art ’ tendencies such as a desire for sensual enjoyment through the visual and a positive weighting of compositional ‘ idea ’ over the notion of documentation . |
| 5 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 6 | On 1st August 1705 the system was changed , so that the interest on these sums should be received by the overseers of the poor and a fixed amount of £7 10 0d be paid annually to the Master . |
| 7 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 8 | This ‘ embarrassment ’ already identified by Christopher Ricks in connection with Keats ' poetic references to women , was not an evasion of the sensual but a deliberate avoidance of direct reference , a coyness that actually intensified erotic readings and one which may be said to dominate British sculpture during the period 1880–1910 , particularly in its representations of women . |
| 9 | The summer timetable saw very little change at the Western end of the Cambrian but a notable addition was an 07:00 Newtown to Birmingham service each weekday using stock and crews brought out a a passenger service from Salop . |
| 10 | In every State the mass of the uneducated and a large fraction of the educated were deeply hostile to change , quite untouched by the intellectual currents of the Enlightenment and intensely suspicious of any government-inspired innovation . |
| 11 | Is it a stylishly cute picture of a rhinocerous or a clever way of pushing young people into smoking . |
| 12 | So the demise of a flat or a particular floor of a building will include a roof space accessible only from that flat where there is no reservation to the landlord of any rights relating to the roof space ( Hatfield v Moss [ 1988 ] 40 EG 122 ) . |
| 13 | Such combinations of a religious and a scientific approach to biology are particularly obvious in impressionistic work of this kind . |
| 14 | The broad-minded opinions and solid common sense of this robust story-teller are expressed sometimes in dialogue in which officers ( and , interestingly , sometimes officers and men ) exchange views on slave-trading , naval punishments , privateering , or discuss the attributes of a good or a bad captain . |
| 15 | Usually , the claim that a randomised trial ( whether of a preventive or a therapeutic regimen ) is unethical presumes that the answer to the question that the trial is designed to answer is already known . |
| 16 | It is possible to express any square matrix as the sum of a symmetric and a skew-symmetric matrix ; this is shown by the identity |
| 17 | If each family was to have the services of a senior and a junior counsel , the costs would be enormous , and at that stage no one knew what the position would be regarding the question of Legal Aid . |
| 18 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 19 | Loss of a clear or a bloodstained , watery fluid from the nose or ear . |
| 20 | Their concept of support was also very broad , and their assessment more of a quantitive than a qualitive one . |
| 21 | SUMMARY : The thermal histories of a Palaeozoic and a Tertiary coal have been investigated by laboratory simulation experiments in which a suite of samples , with natural maturities ranging from 0.4–3.0% vitrinite reflectance ( VR ) , were heated under identical conditions of time and temperature . |
| 22 | By any description , the National Socialist League sounds more like the germ of a situation-comedy than a serious political movement . |
| 23 | However , the potential political pitfalls involved in any attempt to confront the contradictions of a socialist and a Catholic Nicaragua were clearly demonstrated by the events of the pope 's 1982 visit . |
| 24 | It is plain that the notions of a superior and a supreme criterion merely refer to a relative place on a scale and do not import any notion of legally unlimited legislative power . |
| 25 | The sight of such an expanse of tiny squares , flowing up and around his massive elevation , produced more of an architectural than a sartorial impression . |
| 26 | In the early scenes she sometimes seems less like a human than a terrified wild animal , and she is in extraordinary form in her first public apppearance at Mrs Higgins 's tea party , moving with the stiffness of an automaton and speaking in a voice that sounds like a Martian after a course at the Berlitz . |
| 27 | ‘ they make no outcries and exclamations in the departure of the soul ; and that they make no judgement concerning the dying person by his dying quietly or violently , with comfort or without , with great fears or a cheerful confidence , with sense or without , like a lion or like a lamb , with convulsions or semblances of great pain or like an expiring and a spent candle ; for these happen to all men without rule … ‘ |
| 28 | This fury can look like an onanistic or a solipsistic fury . |
| 29 | It provided for a Supreme and a Constitutional Court , a High Court of Justice , an Economic and Social Council and a National Assembly elected under a multiparty system . |
| 30 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |