Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently , Televisa is the largest communications corporation in the developing world . |
| 2 | It reminds me of the time I went to a school in Clevedon to interview one of the masters , David Bryant , who was the greatest bowls player in the world and a star in his own right . |
| 3 | Gainza had resigned claiming that agents from the United States Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) were intent on supplanting the Venezuelan police force in the fight against illegal drugs . |
| 4 | Of the 318 clergy jobs in the diocese , ten have already gone with 26 yet to be found . |
| 5 | So he had to stand there , in the office of the Roadworking Operatives Supervisor in the Islington Council Seven Sisters Road Highways Department Depot , sweating like a pig and wondering why they did n't just get on with it and sack him as he listened to Mr Smith and his eyes hurt and he could smell his own body-odour again . |
| 6 | A third contrasting example of collectivity can be found in the Scottish Trades Councils in the latter part of the 19th Century , which formed a much stronger focus for working class politics than national trades unions at that time . |
| 7 | The report will be handed to the Public Accounts Committee in the New Year . |
| 8 | The government tends to keep its deposits in the-Bank of England ( the public deposits item in the balance sheet ) to a minimum . |
| 9 | Mr Howard has pledged to consult landlords before going any further , but members of the Licensed Victuallers Associations in the region greeted his ideas with scepticism . |
| 10 | There are detailed provisions which , following the precedent set by the 1985 Companies Act in the same context , attribute voting rights held by one person to another . |
| 11 | Consult your boss and the top personnel person in the organization . |
| 12 | Arran 's Bill again went through the Lords without too much trouble but , by this time , a sponsor had been found , and Leo Abse introduced the Sexual Offences Bill in the Commons in July 1966 , although its second reading was delayed until 19 December . |
| 13 | Sitting in the airless games room in the basement of the St James ' Club , he stares out of the window , dreamily tracing the pattern in the glass , then stops , vaguely embarrassed at what he 's doing , and turns round to face yet another tape recorder . |
| 14 | There are many more than ten but I would certainly say they include my grandmother Sarah Howells , and Rosa Parks , the black American woman whose protest sparked off the civil rights movement in the United States during the Sixties when she refused to move from a whites-only seat on a bus . |
| 15 | This means that the civil rights movement in the North will have to involve Catholics on the issue of the local government election register which is weighted against them by property qualifications . |
| 16 | The events discredited the Government and fuelled the discontent that had created the civil rights movement in the first place . |
| 17 | The civil rights movement in the early Seventies was an honourable non-sectarian movement peopled by pacifist idealists in pursuit of justice . |
| 18 | I really did n't intend to join this regiment , in fact I was making efforts to rejoin the Yeomanry , who are out here [ his former regiment had landed in Algeria as part of the 6th Armoured Division in the First Army and had supported the 1st Guards Brigade in the battle for Tunis ] , but the C.O. of this regiment chose me by interview and I had to go , being only a very small cog in the wheels of war . |
| 19 | It will be interesting to see if the same thing will happen in Japan ; the Japanese manufacturers belief in the preference of the client for service over a cheaper product is already being tested in the marketplace — to their chagrin , according to contacts within the Japanese manufacturers . |
| 20 | The club relies solely on the support of members and friends for its funds , although sponsorship has been obtained from Sa Nostra , the premier Savings Bank in the Balearics . |
| 21 | It is an analysis of the actual communications practices in the global system in terms of traffic . |
| 22 | Caribbean interest in athletics has been enlivened by the Olympic success in 1976 of Don Quarrie of Jamaica in the 200 metres and Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago who dominated the 100 metres event in the mid-1970s . |
| 23 | For example the classified ads column in the Nottingham Evening Post . |
| 24 | The unpopularity of the V A T increase was a key factor in the Liberal Democrats victory in the Christchurch by-election . |
| 25 | Former Central Intelligence Agency officer Thomas Clines , the chief arms broker in the Iran-contra operation , was indicted by a grand jury in Baltimore on Feb. 22 on four charges arising from false income tax returns for 1985 and 1986 and his failure to report the existence of foreign bank accounts . |
| 26 | Around mid-afternoon , I had a report from Ballymena that the large police station in the town had been ordered to clear its cells of ordinary prisoners in preparation for a large number of arrests . |
| 27 | The hostile rocks cape in the midst and partly on top of which Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin has been built also made me wonder whether skiers ever think about what might be underneath the snow they are skiing on . |
| 28 | The limits of this approach were cruelly exposed by intellectual as well as political responses to the Satanic Verses affair in the late 1980s . |
| 29 | Coinciding with the 19th session of the OAS General Assembly , the human rights organization Amnesty International issued a statement on Nov. 14 , 1989 , drawing attention to the " spectacular deterioration " of the human rights situation in the region over the last year . |
| 30 | It is not allowed to engage in securities trading or insurance , which would make the merger difficult as NMB is one of the leading options traders in the Netherlands . |