Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have [be] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) .
2 PRO — proposed : Other users likely to be affected by the change have been shown the DC and may agree or reject it , with an optional comment .
3 PRO — proposed Other users likely to be affected by the change have been shown the DC and may agree or reject it , with an optional comment .
4 Other users likely to be affected by the change have been shown the DC and may agree or reject it , with an appropriate comment .
5 OVER the past few days , The Scotsman has been examining the evidence for a so-called ‘ moral crisis ’ in Britain .
6 One of the key developments for the Board has been to prioritise the role of marketing .
7 And Kaas had soon learnt that part of his duties in the criminal division of the Stasi had been to supply the hierarchy with whatever was needed by way of eroticism and perversion .
8 In the light of paragraph ( b ) the seller having a monopoly will be more likely to succeed if the buyer had been offered the chance of buying the goods , perhaps at a slightly higher price , on terms not including the exemption clause .
9 It is believed that the gang had been watching the property from a nearby field .
10 In each of these cases , once the entitlement had been established the court would have power under paragraph ( a ) to order the register to be rectified so as to reflect the entitlement .
11 The statue has been named The Yomper , but the photograph was taken after the Battles of Mount Harriet and Two Sisters which followed the yomp across the island .
12 This was a backward step , since one of the goals of the Ministry had been to increase the proportion of trained teachers through in-service training to upgrade ‘ empirical ’ teachers , as well as by initial teacher training .
13 Up to this time Jones had been concentrating on his muon work for which the DOE had been providing the funding .
14 Unfortunately yet again the servicer has been denied the adequate resources available to implement decent care .
15 The University has been pursuing the details of its IT strategy and in 1992–3 , following extensive consultation , it has settled on the framework for the technical elements of this , the principle of which is distributed computing using a client-server model .
16 Plus this means that the strike committee can go public with it 's grievances , and in the past few days , the farmers and the authorities have been debating the issues on local television .
17 After the cottage had been bought the Canadian 's wife had heard graphic accounts of spilt brains and blood-spattered walls and had declared that she had no intention of living there in summer or at any other time .
18 7 After the employee has been issued the final letter wait a further 5 working days .
19 ‘ Do n't you fucking well know that the enemy have been mortaring the village green for the past four or five minutes while you have been playing those fucking bagpipes ? ’
20 Once the appraisal has been evaluated the project should be selected and submitted for approval .
21 After a dress rehearsal for a Symphony Hour show , I suggested , as producer , that in the adagio movement of the main symphonic item the violins had been taking the tempo slightly too fast .
22 The intention had been to give the premiere of Sea Change at Sadler 's Wells to open the Theatre Ballet 's new season there , but it was thought that by then John would already have left for New York to take part in the Sadler 's Wells Ballet 's first American tour , so the decision was made to present the ballet first on 18 July 1949 at the Gaiety Theatre , Dublin , where the company concluded its summer tour .
23 Ever since 1986 , when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department took the last black-footed ferret from the wild and placed it in a captive-breeding programme , the intention has been to reintroduce the species to the prairies of Wyoming as soon as enough individuals had been bred .
24 First , the Velikovskians have been given the chance to make a superficially plausible claim that there is some kind of ‘ orthodox-science ’ vendetta against them and against their master' : they have been able to portray themselves as persecuted martyrs .
25 In the three published surveys of research performance , the department has been given the top ( grade 5 ) rating .
26 Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction .
27 The result has been to subject the legislative framework to piecemeal reforms leading in some instances , to incoherence within the present labour relations system .
28 The result has been to reward the biggest airlines , which incidentally go to the most attractive places for leisure travel , and to destroy the small carriers which go to a limited number of places .
29 Since few hereditary peers take their seats anyway , the result has been to tilt the balance in the House gradually from heredity to merit .
30 The aim of the programme had been to divide the big farms into smaller plots and to redistribute the land to the workers , but it had bred uncertainty among landowners and entrepreneurs many of whom , unwilling to part with their property , had delayed investment .
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