Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When darkness fell and cavortings could be heard round the edge of the pond within the wall , and on top of and within the hollow shell of the Stocks Tree , my father worried , as old people will . |
| 2 | The residual , that part of the earnings gap not explained by personal attributes , is conventionally taken as an indicator of discrimination . |
| 3 | Labour Party say they want to tackle crime in and we have , and I hope we will debate later on this agenda , the situation where a Labour Chairman of the Police Complaints Committee turns up a public meeting urging er law- breaking and support for people who are not actually gone to trial an a the circumstances of the events really does not concern us but it 's the fact that leaflets are now circularising this city , printed by our old friends , the resource centre , urging people to join the Defence Committee , which is supported by the University Labour Party , is supported by the West Labour Party and is supported by the Police Complaints Committee no less . |
| 4 | If extended , this means that talk of a citizens charter is utter nonsense . |
| 5 | That happened that happens with all staff changes where you need a degree of skill its compounded by the fact that all nine will be changed at the same time and as I said before is a total loss of the skills base . |
| 6 | After the strange indifference of the police investigators to the results of the polygraph examinations of Tuzcu and O'Neill in Frankfurt , and the even stranger attempt by the FBI to intimidate the ex-Army polygraph expert who had carried them out , Juval Aviv had played no further part in the preparation of Pan Am 's defence . |
| 7 | Alongside a parliamentary enquiry , journalists and specialists are conducting their own : it turns out that the issue of claims and the possible division of the cultural heritage of the CIS member states was first raised in December 1991 . |
| 8 | Another advantage of the gens system was that you could keep the fortune you had amassed in one incarnation and use it in the next . |
| 9 | pointed out ) an effective police force requires a margin of reserve strength in order to deal with emergencies , and to employ that margin of reserve , when not otherwise required , on special police service for payment is to the advantage both of the persons utilising their services and of the public who are thereby relieved from some part of the police charges . |
| 10 | These were made possible by the faith and industry of Gurney 's friend , the musicologist Marion Scott , who had preserved his manuscripts , and the editorial expertise of the composers Gerald Finzi [ q.v. ] and Howard Ferguson . |
| 11 | ‘ The historical resistance of the expectations gap , ’ it says , ‘ points to something more than just an ‘ ignorance' ’ gap and suggests there exists scope for the profession to respond more actively to the views and demands of those relying on the audit function . ’ |
| 12 | The register itself is a specialized department of the companies court , which again is a section of the high court ( organized separately in each county ) . |
| 13 | A high proportion of the rewards package is linked to performance , via a share in the profits on successful investments . |
| 14 | The grand old lady of the Arts Theatre was finding retirement almost unbearably tedious . |
| 15 | No student can , however , be in Stage I and Stage II at the same time and no student is allowed to proceed into Stage II unless he or she has fully satisfied Stage I requirements or with the express approval of the Examinations Committee . |
| 16 | The second Guinness trial arising out of fraudulent share support operations in connection with the 1985-86 takeover of the Distillers Company by Guinness was ended by the judge on Feb. 11 in view of the deteriorating physical and mental health of one of the two defendants , Roger Seelig , a financial adviser to Guinness . |
| 17 | He was plunged into the commercial side of the business , first as deputy regional sales manager for ICI 's Southern Region and later — in 1963 — as commercial director of the Plastics Division . |
| 18 | He then joined ICI on Teesside where he became commercial director of the petrochemicals division . |
| 19 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 20 | It also follows that , although offenders do forfeit some portion of the rights citizens should normally enjoy , they still retain the status of human beings and therefore retain important human rights ( Richardson , 1995 ) — a point on which we are closer to some retributivist thinkers than to classical utilitarianism . |
| 21 | She 's a top Top Of The Pops presenter and the regular voice on Radio One 's Drivetime . |
| 22 | Brushes with the law : Pretty clean so far but what was in the ciggy in that old News of The Screws photo ? |
| 23 | THE whole back page of the Dominions newspaper in Wellington on the morning of the Second Test between Ireland and the All Blacks was taken over by Steinlager , the ‘ official sponsors of the All Blacks ’ . |
| 24 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 25 | They are irrelevant to the battle against crime , and the improved efficiency of the police service which we all support . |
| 26 | Another concern of the Sports Council is the length of time and expense of training teachers — and this subject will be a matter of priority during our own Trainers ' Conference Weekend . |
| 27 | This experience of combining special make-up with puppets or models , unusual in Smith 's career , nonetheless illustrates the peculiar calling of a special-effects make-up artist , and the variety of skills he ( occasionally she ) needs or has to call on to do the job . |
| 28 | TODAY we 're giving you the chance to sample the carefree life of a pools winner — in the fabulous West Indies . |
| 29 | To the outsider , a priori , it might seem positively unreasonable , or to use a favourite word of the women compositors , unfair , to pay the fat the same as the lean . |
| 30 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |