Example sentences of "[art] foreign [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's annual meeting of the Foreign & Colonial heard how Fiona decided to invest in shares through a savings scheme because they will provide inflation-proofing without her having to worry about investment timing . |
| 2 | Michael Adams , at 18 Britain 's youngest national champion , shares the lead with a win and a draw after two rounds of the Foreign and Colonial International at Hastings , writes Leonard Barden . |
| 3 | This , Burton 's fourth scheme , proposed a block housing the Foreign and Colonial Offices immediately to the west of the existing houses in Downing Street , and although it did not involve buying any more land , it necessitated building on the park . |
| 4 | It stated that the private houses , which formed the Foreign and Colonial Offices , were ‘ inadequate to the present extent of public business , in parts unsafe , and generally in such a state of dilapidation as to render it inexpedient to expend any large sum in their substantial repair ’ . |
| 5 | Settlement had also occurred elsewhere , and the Foreign and Colonial Offices were so badly weakened by alterations and were so inconvenient that an entirely new building would be the only way to provide suitable accommodation . |
| 6 | In short , while the Foreign and Colonial Affairs Ministries discussed with the PTT how to develop broadcast propaganda overseas and counteract that of non-Parliamentary democracies , within France , governments allowed the emergence of a private , alongside the public , broadcasting sector . |
| 7 | The first idea on which the report was based was that the home civil service ( the foreign and colonial services were not included ) should be organized as a single body of men with a common system of recruitment based on academic ability . |
| 8 | William Waldegrave , a UK Minister of State at the Foreign and Colonial Office , meets with Yassir Arafat in Tunis . |
| 9 | Former students have found jobs in management , banking , the foreign and civil services , academic research , teaching , publishing and journalism . |
| 10 | If demand reaches the 2.25 oversubscription level , and both the foreign and institutional clawbacks are triggered , UK personal investors would qualify for nearly 44 per cent of the entire float — around 1,000 million shares . |
| 11 | Peres refused to commit the government and on Feb. 2 , 1990 , the foreign and domestic creditor banks reached a compromise agreement to write off nearly US$257,000,000 of Koor 's debts , in return for which foreign creditors were paid US$87,000,000 . |
| 12 | He spent most of his professional life outside his native Poland , working as a foreign and diplomatic correspondent for the Polish media . |
| 13 | With regard to the War Department , I quite agree with Panmure , that the best course will be to lodge that Department in an unpretending but suitable manner in Pall Mall , and to carry that arrangement into effect at the same time that a Foreign and Colonial Office are building in Downing and Fludyer Street . |
| 14 | Some merchants there maintained that the old gods had served them well and would not be pleased by the withdrawal of sacrifices in favour of a foreign and untried god . |
| 15 | The district court of the district in which a person resides or is found may order him to give his testimony or statement or to produce a document or other thing for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal . |
| 16 | The order may be made pursuant to a letter rogatory issued , or request made , by a foreign or international tribunal or upon the application of any interested person and may direct that the testimony or statement be given , or the document or other thing be produced , before a person appointed by the court . |
| 17 | The establishment of a locally-based subsidiary company will commonly be regarded by a foreign or multinational holding company as a sensible and effective way of carrying out the business of the latter company ; but the English courts will see it differently . |
| 18 | It was a wonderful politico-Freudian slip : London has indeed treated Northern Ireland as a foreign or colonial problem , looking for almost every ‘ solution ’ along the lines proconsuls and diplomatists have practised across the globe these past decades . |
| 19 | Sometimes , as in the case of a foreign or inter-state trip , the youngster may just not be old enough or experienced enough to cope , but at other times they may not be showing enough sense of responsibility to be safely granted privileges . |