Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [Wh det] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what discussions he has had with London arts organisations about provision of arts facilities and entertainments for children ; and if he will make a statement . |
2 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what support he gives or plans to give to the design museum . |
3 | He lacked all feeling for the men whose lives he destroyed . |
4 | Similarly , his work for St Augustine 's Canterbury was assisted by a lengthy stay there , while his Life of St Edith of Wilton , written for the nuns whose testimony he cites as an authority , contains details which suggest that he was familiar with their house , its traditions , and possibly records in Anglo-Saxon . |
5 | Many of the documents whose recovery we owe to Hall 's industry ( notably the ‘ Chemical ’ notebook and the tract known as De gravitatione ) , and much other evidence that finds a place in his own narrative ( the Cambridge Platonist attitude to the mechanical philosophy , for example ) , would then form part of a different story . |
6 | At eleven , they split up into small groups and assembled in the rooms of the lecturers whose courses they had chosen . |
7 | Traders at securities houses have long argued to the SEC that they need access to information about the current credits of the companies whose debt they are trading . |
8 | A fragile alliance between them had crumbled in February 1989 , and fighting ensued when the LF were forced to relinquish control of the ports whose operations they had hitherto controlled [ see pp. 36476 ; 36538 ] . |
9 | I assure my hon. Friend that I very much look forward to visiting his constituency and to meeting some of the industrialists whose interests he energetically represents . |
10 | Such metalwork and fabric may have been decorated in a way which conveyed meaning to the wearer and the viewer , but all of the artefacts whose technology we have considered had , first and foremost a function to their owners . |
11 | One of the intellectuals whose company I greatly enjoyed was Albert Rhys Williams , an erudite Russophile of the first order . |
12 | However , none of the scaled-up versions of the models on test could survive the strength of the waves whose energy they sought to exploit and the conclusion reached was that the modifications needed to make them sufficiently strong would render them cost uncompetitive . |
13 | He passed on his concern in a letter to Prince , who , as the ever-nervous and expectant recipient , was clearly in a state of anguish about it : ‘ I regret you should have determined upon embarking any portion of your Property in V.D.L. because from the ignorance of the parties whose names you mention , I fear least they should turn out Sharks and it would be a source of deep mortification to me were you by these means to lose any portion of the advantages you have obtained by years of anxiety and deep mental study . ’ |
14 | Perhaps the most admirable characteristics of the Masai in the eyes of the men whose job it was to administer them were their honesty , directness , and highly developed sense of justice . |
15 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
16 | I also visited the Sadlers Wells Ballet , sitting up in the gallery with friends for one shilling and sixpence in old money and watching the Corps open up before us like the flowers whose waltz they were dancing , and that talented new ballerina Miss Margot Fonteyn taking her first curtain calls . |
17 | A neat bit of rewriting there ; the real Richard was one of the leaders of the Second Crusade which laid waste to Palestine , before ending up with a score-draw against the Arabs whose land he was invading . |
18 | An enzyme works by combining reversibly with the substances whose reaction it is catalysing , and by so doing lowering the activation energy ( Figure 8 , a2 and b2 ) . |
19 | Even Maxton could not have worked for long with the Communists whose infiltration he had done so much to resist . |
20 | It also came from the clergy , who disliked the White Revolution generally , and from the liberals whose thunder he had to some extent stolen . |
21 | Their significance was enhanced by the fact that they were often far from the towns whose names they bore . |
22 | In this capacity he was entitled to obedience from the subjects whose welfare he served . |
23 | The ore mixed with waste to such an extent that it could not be improved by hand was mixed with other low grade stuff and barrowed to the buckers whose job it was to reduce it to walnut size for delivery to Cornish roll-crushers and then to the stamps . |
24 | This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit . |
25 | The Exhibitors Film Exchange recommends a ‘ Neighbourhood Advertising Plan ’ , the essence of which was that every manager would define ‘ the radius or zone ’ from which his ‘ logical business ’ was secured and that he should then proceed to go directly to the individuals whose patronage he could reasonably expect . |
26 | The idea seems self-evident : a local authority occupies a position of trust , or a fiduciary duty , in relation to the ratepayers whose money it is using , and who are the beneficiaries of the services being provided . |
27 | Both speakers are trying to establish their own power by appealing to the plebeians whose support they totally depend on . |
28 | Creggan 's arrival among his own kind in Scotland coincided with the breeding season and he was not welcome by the pairs whose territory he crossed . |
29 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
30 | — Chinese traders when asked by the Romans what country they came from should really have replied ‘ Chung-kuo ’ ( Middle Kingdom ) . |