Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This was still the case when subjects with atrophy were excluded from this analysis .
2 despite no implied obligation on a landlord to maintain land over which a right of way had been given to a third party there was an obligation in the case where use of property would be impossible in the absence or without that obligation .
3 What principle determines whether a case falls within the category where adequacy of consideration is relevant ?
4 After fourteen dry nights the child has to drink two pints of fluid during the hour before bed in order to stress their bladders and test the children 's ability to wake up during the night .
5 I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage .
6 Luke , the writer of the gospel and the book of Acts , is at pains to expose prejudice , especially religious prejudice , and to show the difference the transforming work of Christ makes on the mind where issues of prejudice are at stake .
7 The notion that clerical wealth was at the disposal of the realm when need arose was echoed and supported by some other developments of the reign : the practice whereby donations of land to the church first required royal licence ( and at a price ) ; the growing , though still limited , legal procedure and principle whereby endowments whose purposes were neglected by the receiving clergy could be recovered by the donor ; the practice of founders and patrons ‘ resuming ’ possession of the lands of religious houses embarrassed by debts ( not least debts resulting from taxation ) until they could again operate effectively ; the seizure of alien priories ; and lastly , the widening definition of temporalities at the expense of spiritualities .
8 The magnitude of manoeuvre-induced instrument errors is dependent upon the rate-of-change of aircraft attitude during the manoeuvres producing the error ie rate-of-change of pitch , roll or yaw , and rate-of-change of height and airspeed .
9 There are no relations of power without resistances ; the latter are all the more real and effective because they are formed right at the point where relations of power are exercised ; resistance to power does not have to come from elsewhere to be real , nor is it inexorably frustrated through being the compatriot of power .
10 Bukharin was making clear the distinction between the period when means of production were gathered into the hands of certain groups , who then used them as capital and thereby began the process of the accumulation of capital , and reproduction o f capitalist relations of production .
11 Tactical ideas and formations , set-piece plays , team weaknesses are all exposed to the globe beforehand thanks to satellite television and video cassettes , leaving little room for surprises .
12 The arrangement whereby builders in competition with each other were invited to quote a price for which they would carry out all the work indicated on drawings and a specification , and to sign a contract to that effect , was introduced as a standard procedure by Hunt into the Office of Works as a means of controlling expenditure .
13 The Anglo-Saxons felt the full force of both influences , which made English Christianity from the start strongly missionary in character .
14 You you could take it a step further and with seeing that on the paper yesterday morning in service , we read the twenty third psalm .
15 He said that the long-distance part of the network has been costing the government around £11m per year to run : ‘ It has been found by a continued process of review that it is no longer cost-effective for the government to continue running it itself , ’ he said .
16 They closed on the knife blade , twisted it out of the man 's hand , and then he was using the whole false arm as a metal club slamming down on the upraised arms , jabbing for the face , forcing the man back step by step until the edge of the track was only one more step away .
17 If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed .
18 According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates .
19 question , issue three C two and three er we say that in relation to two as a matter of have categorize this as a question of law we say it probably categories a question of fact because if they 're right in there analysis of law and article eighty directive , all it means is , is that there is no market outside and that the restriction is insignificant if that being so one would answer the question , is not capable as a matter of pure law of infringing article eighty five , but in the light of the discussion yesterday afternoon of course when my learned friend comes to apply for this strike out , we may have difficulty in contesting that provision it 's not , not er , a , a major part of our case that we , we would have to re-consider it and , and I did ask your Lordship erm if your Lordship would minded to find otherwise not to block out at least the possibility of application for leave to amend and of course we 'd have to make , have to consider whether we could make a proper case out of it on what we do
20 Sharpe placed a filthy finger on the map just north of Charleroi .
21 It 's the time when thoughts of suicide can be very common and this again is particularly distressing for people of strong faith .
22 ‘ It is the time when attention to detail must be absolutely remorseless .
23 Leave the shelter taking a course slightly north of east .
24 The establishment of the Foundation for Paper Research last August initiated a programme whereby certificates of authenticity , under the control of a board of trustees , are issued with every Rembrandt print passing through the Foundation .
25 The two vehicles came to a halt virtually bumper to bumper , with no room to pass each other between the dry stone walls .
26 The alluvium passes down a sluice where particles of gold , because they 're heavier , are retained behind wooden ripples , and up on the carpet that lines the sluice .
27 Irrespective of which view a person takes concerning Purgatory , whether it is found in this life before death or is arrived at in the next life after death there is agreement as to the purpose of Purgatory namely that it is a place where cleansing from sin takes place .
28 This was a period when work in semantics as a component of linguistics was developing extremely quickly : it was the era of the dispute between generative semantics ( , , , etc. ) and interpretive semantics ( , , etc . )
29 Such caution is prudent in a business where errors of judgement can be extremely expensive ; at least the reader of an auction catalogue knows clearly what view has been taken by the cataloguer on a number of questions .
30 Further , there is a general westward drift of material along this section of the coast , so that the shingle formations exhibit a wide variety of features due both to straightforward wave action and to longshore drift .
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