Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] considerable " in BNC.

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1 I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography .
2 Field Chairs are not paid for their additional responsibilities , nor do they automatically receive any remission of teaching ( though most fields have developed arrangements which partially compensate for the considerable demands of the post ) .
3 When the Ottoman empire declared war on a foreign state its unfortunate representative in Constantinople was very often immediately thrown into the Seven Towers prison there , where he might stay for a considerable time .
4 In Romania the legacy of the late President Ceausescu 's National Stalinism' will persist for a considerable time and the directions of change can not easily be predicted .
5 The outcome was widely regarded as a considerable rebuff for Rhee and a weakening of his position , underlined by the number of successful independents .
6 That will act as a considerable encouragment to greater parental responsibility .
7 ‘ Therefore the problem that had emerged in 1985 has come as a considerable shock to us and I would say that the present directors of Mogul Ireland — ourselves — have acted promptly , decisively and responsibly since it came to our attention .
8 My hon. Friend will know of the considerable worry in the Radcliffe part of my constituency about the prospect of an opencast coal mine being developed there .
9 Elite theorists argue more generally than pluralists that where elites can not act with a considerable degree of autonomy in deeply divided societies , centrifugal tendencies are much more likely than centripetal ones ( Nordlinger , 1972 ) .
10 State agencies do act with a considerable degree of autonomy , and take limited account of their interaction with other branches of the government .
11 A fox earth can be located from a considerable distance downwind by the pungent smell given off .
12 In looking for the means to undermine Chomsky 's position , generative semanticists were then attracted to a considerable body of philosophical thought devoted to showing the importance of the uses of language to an understanding of its nature ( work by Austin , Strawson , Grice and Searle in particular ) .
13 The unorganised relationship of one enterprise with another , through buying and selling , has to a considerable extent been replaced by an organised relationship through the ‘ controlled holding ’ of shares , ‘ participation ’ and ‘ financing ’ , which find personal expression in the ‘ Dirigenten ’ of the banks , industry , the enterprises and trusts .
14 The second type : considerably fewer relics of serfdom , the landowner has to a considerable extent already become a capitalist , the peasants are better off and the peasant market has a greater capacity , etc .
15 The growing central controls on the curriculum , and other aspects of state schooling , has to a considerable extent been grounded on a concern with the quality of teaching , and the associated view that improving the quality of education is dependent on improving the quality of teaching .
16 We shall see later that the power of the occupiers to exclude or restrict their liability towards visitors has to a considerable extent been eroded by s. 2 Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 .
17 The wholesale slaughter of these magnificent animals by poachers has been averted to a considerable degree since embargoes have been placed on the exportation of their skins and on products manufactured locally for the Indian tourist industry , such as briefcases , wallets , belts and handbags .
18 The ideology of the enterprise culture through society has penetrated to a considerable degree to the young who grew up under Thatcher — ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ .
19 While it would be churlish to pass over the considerable tree planting effort already wrought in the central belt by the trust , the results of a three-year research project undertaken at the University of Edinburgh reveal little evidence that the needs and wants of local people have provided the vehicle for environmental change .
20 The operator told us that rubbish is smouldering at a considerable depth and it would take a lot of work to put it out .
21 Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market .
22 You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . "
23 by using a selection of published material , that Islay has been occupied by a considerable number of people for a very long time , I decided to go ahead and hope that my errors were not too many and not too serious .
24 Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time .
25 And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit .
26 It was widely reported that the Republican party placed considerable pressure upon Thornburgh to contest the Senate vacancy — his Pennsylvanian background was seen as a considerable advantage — which was seen as crucial to the party 's hopes of recapturing control of the upper chamber in 1992 .
27 Considering that Russia had not engaged in naval warfare for some 50 years and that its industrial economy had been almost totally destroyed during the war , it came as a considerable shock to discover that it was capable of building such a strikingly graceful , and powerful , class of warship .
28 It came as a considerable shock , therefore , when , on 24 January 1977 , the Chief Executive of the Mid-Glamorgan County Council received a letter from the Welsh Education Office of the DES stating the government 's intention of removing courses of teacher-training from the Polytechnic as part of the overall plan to reduce the number of teacher-training places in the Principality to 2,850 by 1981 .
29 The retrograde rotation of Venus came as a considerable surprise .
30 Iraq subsequently claimed that the attack was in error , but the news came as a considerable surprise both to the inhabitants of the Gulf and to professional ‘ Gulf-watchers ’ from outside the area .
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