Example sentences of "[noun sg] and especially [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also there were major repairs to property to decide on , as well as seasonal considerations , and orders to transmit , with regard to land use of many thousands of acres , the annual survey of cattle and horse stock and especially the great sheep-hirsels in the Lammermuir Hills , the wool from which , largely exported to Flanders and the Low Countries from Berwick-on-Tweed , constituted the lordship 's principal source of wealth . |
| 2 | It is true that cats often nibble an irritation , rather than scratch it , but unfortunately some of the most urgent scratching requirements are in the region of the head , mouth , neck and especially the ears . |
| 3 | But Marian says she enjoyed the stimulus offered by the Department and especially the ‘ fantastic ’ staff . |
| 4 | If the movies were to give their stories a realistic social setting and especially a contemporary setting , and if they were to draw on what had always been some of the major preoccupations of popular fiction , then they would have to define their position carefully with regard to some of the major issues of the day . |
| 5 | They are also involved in extending links with industry and especially the recognition of membership by employers . |
| 6 | ‘ The manufacture and especially the disposal of primary batteries containing mercury , and rechargeable batteries containing cadmium , have a major impact on the environment . ’ |
| 7 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 8 | The third stage included provisions for : ( i ) direct elections to the Flemish and Walloon regional assemblies ; ( ii ) reform of the national parliament and especially the Senate which effectively duplicated the work of the Chamber of Deputies without acting as counterweight to it ; and ( iii ) defining the foreign policy prerogatives of the regions of Brussels , Flanders and Wallonia . |
| 9 | Gwili tried to interpret for him the power of Welsh literature and especially the ‘ renaissance ’ of modern Welsh poetry of which he was himself a part , but Edward had only a smattering of Welsh and , judging from rough translations of folksongs and simple lyrics , he was disinclined to carry his studies further . |
| 10 | Scotland and Wales , and the North , North West , Yorkshire and Humberside , West Midlands , East Midlands and East Anglia regions of England have a lower percentage of their population in classes I , II and III(N) and a higher percentage in III(M) , IV and V than Great Britain as a whole , whereas the South West and especially the South East have a higher percentage in I , II and III(N) and a lower percentage in III(M) , IV and V than the British average . |
| 11 | On the plus side the harness and especially the hip belt is extremely comfortable , its extra wide shape wrapping round the hips with more than a hint of luxury . |
| 12 | Korea 's choice of shipbuilding shortly before the shipbuilding and especially the tanker market virtually collapsed in the mid-1970s could have been disastrous . |
| 13 | So erm you ca n't even see the things you 're looking at , I do n't think in a group for the , for the reason Heather said , because what will happen is , you will see reflecting individual , the values and aspirations of the group and especially the , the disturbing effects of the other members and the leader . |
| 14 | At the start only 14 per cent of our panel reported Labour stressing these issues , but the figure rose to 20 per cent in the fourth week and 32 per cent in the fifth as Labour sought to divert attention away from defence and to move on from unemployment , which directly affected only a small minority , to education and especially the National Health Service , which directly affected the vast majority of the electorate . |
| 15 | The first concerns the general control exercised over development and especially the resolution of land use conflicts in the countryside . |
| 16 | For at this time in the west Marx was taken seriously only within the international labour movement and especially the growing socialist movement of his own country , and his intellectual influence even there was as yet slight . |
| 17 | It 's been fairly blustery the odd day but there 's frost and especially the snow that they 've had down further south it seems to be helping us up here I would say and it 's with the with the land work especially got the slurry and stuff of that kind . |
| 18 | In the second century the medical writer Galen was impressed by Christian continence and especially the fact that many were celibate . |
| 19 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 20 | And of his views in the 1840s he wrote : " We were now much less democrats than I had been , because so long as education continues to be so wretchedly imperfect , we dreaded the ignorance and especially the selfishness and brutality of the mass … " ( p. 138 ) |
| 21 | This time in modernizing Berlin , the now much more greatly expanded needs of the state for public space , together with the rapid commercialization of the centre and especially the Friedrichstrasse-Leipziger Strasse axis , largely evicted the working class altogether from the Mitte . |
| 22 | The study analyses the stunted growth of this form of schooling and especially the complex reasons for its failure which is seen as a major defect in the formation of a skilled labour face in England , The research is based on the analysis of documentation in the Pro Kew and elsewhere . |
| 23 | I will uphold my church and especially the leaders in my daily prayers . |
| 24 | Frequent intoxication damages the mouth , oesophagus , stomach and especially the liver , where overloading of the metabolising process can cause hepatitis and cirrhosis . |
| 25 | For the most part , however , the legacy of the movement remained less obviously political , and restricted in its appeal to fairly specific audiences in the cultural milieu and especially the visual arts . |
| 26 | Apple of my eye derives from the Bible and means ‘ child of the eye ’ , child being the eyeball and especially the pupil which is the organ of vision . |
| 27 | admitting things like losing fifty billion quid on fluttering on foreign exchanges er Mr did or flittering away the north sea oil revenue in tax cuts for higher earners rather than er keeping that er once in a life time er bonus that this country had for the north sea oil and also you could mention the increased pension for but it did n't match billions that have been wasted on defence expenditure especially defence expenditure and especially the trident programme . |
| 28 | This should be regarded as a reductio ad absurdum of the presupposition of Rawls ' theory of justice and especially the assumption of the overriding goal to reach a doctrine of justice at whatever cost to one 's conception of the good . |
| 29 | Through the Earthwatch expedition I hope to benefit greatly by assisting to improve the quality of life on earth and especially the life of the poverty-stricken people of my continent , whose lot in life is always disease , environmental degradation and poor living standards . |
| 30 | Successive Foreign Secretaries , the ambassadorial input , the input of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and especially the input of those who beaver away at the top of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in dim Victorian rooms have made a tremendous contribution to the unique catalytic role which my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary mentioned . |