Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] [that] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she for instance dictated that the partner should offer resistance this would have been a relatively crude way of ‘ tightening ’ the structure compared with instructing the listener to be in a ‘ counsellor ’ role . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance . |
| 3 | Even when the problem has been identified as having a legal perspective it is by no means certain that the client will conclude that a solicitor is the most appropriate source of advice . |
| 4 | So it is by no means impossible that the kraken and the other legendary sea monsters that are said to be able to rise from the deep and wrap ships in their tentacles , really exist . |
| 5 | But it is by no means true that an ad which everyone notices is necessarily good — it may be noticed for reasons which are totally irrelevant to the strategy . |
| 6 | But many pieces commonly thought of as ‘ art ’ ( Handel 's ‘ Hallelujah Chorus ’ , many Schubert songs , many Verdi arias ) have qualities of simplicity ; conversely , it is by no means obvious that the Sex Pistols ' records were ‘ accessible ’ , Frank Zappa 's work ‘ simple ’ or Billie Holiday 's ‘ facile ’ . |
| 7 | However , Sharon said in an interview with the Jerusalem Post of March 22 that the Housing Ministry planned to build 13,000 new homes in the West Bank over the next two years . |
| 8 | It is of course well-known that a customer 's overall impression of a hotel often depends on small details such as the speed at which a light bulb is replaced or a television repaired . |
| 9 | It is of course true that the work they carried out may or may not be done by a small part of some other organization but this in itself is a startling example of fragility . |
| 10 | It is of course true that the coming of Jesus did bring a fire upon the earth , a fire of judgment ; men judged themselves by their response to him . |
| 11 | A line can be the contour , the silhouette , of a series of magnitudes such that the mind may run over them , as Descartes required , until they are entirely memorable . |
| 12 | or a child C of N such that every path to any better state begins through C |
| 13 | There is a potency in his warning at the end of chapter fourteen that the world is dependent on time which will end , and man 's most urgent and natural work , therefore , should be to find the means by which he can pass beyond it . |
| 14 | It was firmly established from the time of Gregory VII that the pope had the exclusive power to issue new law in case of necessity ( Dictatus Pape c.7 ) — to put forward new decrees and remedies against new excesses and to dispense from or mitigate the law in some cases . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , it was reported in the Middle East Economic Digest of Sept. 28 that the Local Government Minister , Ali Hasan al-Majid , a cousin of President Saddam Hussein and formerly chief of security with special responsibility for the Kurds ( reported on Aug. 20 as in control of Kuwait 's security and administration — see p. 37635 ) , was named governor of Kuwait . |
| 16 | At a meeting in Bath ( UK ) on Sept. 5 , EC Economy and Finance Ministers and central bank governors reaffirmed their agreement of Aug. 28 that a change in the present structure of central rates " would not be the appropriate response to the current tensions in the EMS " , declared that they stood ready to intervene to counter tensions in the exchange markets , and also welcomed the fact that the Bundesbank ( the German central bank ) in present circumstances had no intention to increase German interest rates . |
| 17 | Finally , it was towards the end of January 1938 that the visit took place . |
| 18 | That reduction does not take account of further savings of £19.6 million that the council has to make if it is to avoid having its expenditure capped by the Scottish Secretary . |
| 19 | It is clear from the terms of Form 2 of Schedule 1 that a requirement for the receipt is that it should be signed by the superior or his agent . |
| 20 | The judgment effectively absolved it of criminal and civil liability for causing approximately 3,500 deaths and injuries to thousands , and the final settlement was only a percentage of the orginial sum of $3.5 billion that the government was going to sue them for . |
| 21 | This theory brings in the element of comparison such that an individual will compare his/her ratio of input ( effort ) to output ( pay ) with a similar ratio for some other relevant person . |
| 22 | In that case , the House of Lords concluded that a bank giving information as to the liquidity of one of its own customers to another bank so that the latter could show the information to one of its customers could be liable to that customer , even though the first bank did not know the identity of the second bank 's customer , the ultimate recipient of the information . |
| 23 | In Re Vandervell 's Trusts , 46 TC 341 , the House of Lords concluded that the Court had no jurisdiction ‘ to adjudicate between the taxpayer and the Crown on the correctness of the assessment or upon any underlying issue of fact on which the correctness of the assessment depends ’ . |
| 24 | In Helby v Matthews [ 1895 ] AC 471 , the House of Lords decided that a hirer under a hire purchase agreement who was entitled to terminate the hiring agreement at any time , was not a person who had agreed to buy the goods within the meaning of s9 of FA 1889 , so confirming the nemo dat rule ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 25 | B.B.C. the House of Lords decided that a valuation court was not a court of law , the proceedings of which might be protected from outside influence by the law of contempt . |
| 26 | The recent Caparo judgment reasserted this definition , when the House of Lords decided that the purpose of the financial statements was to allow shareholders to hold directors to account . |
| 27 | The House of Lords decided that the lorry driver , as Romford 's employee , owed his employer a duty to drive with reasonable care and skill . |
| 28 | In practice , the difference between procedure and substance can be very narrow ; for example , in Bromley v. Greater London Council ( 1981 ) the House of Lords decided that the council 's ‘ Fares fair ’ policy for public transport was in breach of its ‘ fiduciary duty ’ to ratepayers and London Transport 's duty to run its operations on ordinary business principles . |
| 29 | The House of Lords decided that the affidavit was not conclusive and that , where appropriate , it had the power to inspect the documents in private and decide whether to accept the claim . |
| 30 | In that case the House of Lords stated that the Minister had a duty to give genuine consideration to a report of an inspector concerning the siting of a new town at Stevenage and to consider objections to that position . |