Example sentences of "[art] [adj] block [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union , which has the largest block vote ( 1.3m ) , is abstaining . |
| 2 | We can all watch for the Labour block vote at the end of this debate as a matter of principle , I could never vote in support of the Labour whip . |
| 3 | For example , consider the scooping block response to the front kick . |
| 4 | An agreement between two or more competing manufacturers whose combined market share exceeds 20 per cent of the market for the appropriate products in the EC or a substantial part of it would not however be exempted under the 1985 block exemption ( though it might benefit from an individual exemption ) . |
| 5 | In response to councillor Elizabeth Cartwright 's comment that the parish council would have difficulties , should the stage be removed , as the wooden block floor does not continue under the stage , resident , Kevin Johnson , said : ‘ There would be no problem . |
| 6 | They came straight back down in 1969 , and on a record 14 occasions have owed continued League status to the old block vote system of re-election . |
| 7 | Transport does not appear as a separate item , but as part of the overall block grant to regional authorities . |
| 8 | The 1940 block grant also helped to support the organisation of the Essex Federation of WEA branches which was formally established in the summer of that year . |
| 9 | Use proper connectors such as the screwed block type as all the alternator output is through this pint . |
| 10 | She finishes with a chapter on pattern calculation using a calculator for the basic block shape . |
| 11 | When updating the block size for any media type , you should note that any media items already registered will not be updated ; only new media items will have the updated block size for that media type . |
| 12 | However , the same block grant system was retained , and the GREA formulae tightened to produce at the local level deductions of grant for all levels of expenditure . |
| 13 | In practical terms the 2-cell block phenomenon means that studies of the 1-cell to 2-cell transition including in vitro fertilization are best undertaken using eggs from a non-blocking strain [ although the main features of development at this stage do not differ qualitatively between eggs from blocking and non-blocking strains ( 18 ) ] . |
| 14 | carried out an experiment in which four- , eight- , and twelve-year-olds were asked to indicate which member of a pair of blocks had made the other block move . |
| 15 | The concrete block shell was in place by early 1992 ready for the 25-week facing brickwork stage to begin . |
| 16 | The introduction of the new block grant system for local authorities under the Local Government , Planning and Land Act 1980 resulted in one hiccough for the minister when the Divisional Court held that he had not listened to further representations when he should have done . |
| 17 | Attempts in the Court of Appeal to set aside ministerial decisions on other aspects of the new block grant on more technical and precise grounds failed . |
| 18 | The attacker adopts the forward stance , with a clenched fist held above the thigh in a low block position ( gedan barai ) . |
| 19 | A strong block can of itself inflict sufficient pain to deter an attacker . |
| 20 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 21 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 22 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 23 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
| 24 | Cooper Union is a few blocks west . |
| 25 | He left the corner and trekked a few blocks east until he found a bar , where he put two bourbons down his throat , and wished to his core that alcohol and not the opposite sex had been his addiction . |
| 26 | The UltraNet RS/6000 Network Processor is claimed to deliver effective application performance in excess of four times that of a standard block multiplexer mainframe channel , and an order of magnitude faster than other RS/6000 network connections such as Ethernet , Token Ring and FDDI — in other words it runs at 1Gbps or over 100Mbytes per second , coming close to matching network bandwidth with computer bandwidth . |
| 27 | The company will take up to 25 youngsters on courses ranging from up-skilling and cross-skilling to a 36-week block course for gaining a basic engineering training certificate . |
| 28 | What would be best — a small block Chevy , Ford or Chrysler ? |
| 29 | Within this , the Soviet of the Union ( elected by the whole population from constituencies of equal population size ) would be subordinate to the Soviet of the Republics : the latter would be elected from the republican parliaments retaining the same number of seats as in the current Soviet of Nationalities but with a single block vote for each republic . |
| 30 | A single block borrowing approval now applies for expenditure on all local authority services , except the police , probation and magistrates ' courts services . |