Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [art] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The last Country Houses , a book which documents the death of the old tradition of hospitality , Clive Aslett records the response of a nouveau riche lady when told that some pleasant people lived near the rural seat her husband had just acquired . |
| 2 | Over the erm four years th the last four years , er on aggregate , the income from the erm erm the draw has been one a hundred and thirty thousand pounds , er of which ninety five thousand pounds has benefited the Party , and most of that is at constituency level |
| 3 | And of course with the reduction in the erm er interest rates , then those have come down quite steeply . |
| 4 | The support for the status quo in these two areas had been ‘ soft ’ , with the public acquiescing because there appeared to be no politically workable alternative . |
| 5 | It was 20 years after the formation of the World Championship , however , before Brazil could celebrate the winner of a Grand Prix when Emerson Fittipaldi won the 1970 US Grand Prix in a Lotus . |
| 6 | As we shall see later in this chapter , the case for the status quo is perhaps too general and too romantic in its assessment of the value of the existing structures . |
| 7 | As was always the case in the ballet de cour , the cast included both professional and aristocratic performers approximately 30 of each in 76 different roles . |
| 8 | David Calvert-Smith , prosecuting , had alleged that Bartman attacked Lady Cross in the basement of the Anno Domini shop , beating her repeatedly over the head with two heavy fire irons . |
| 9 | The Sinn Fein successes in the 1985 local government elections were dramatically symbolized in the election of a Sinn Fein councillor as chairman of Omagh District Council . |
| 10 | He appends to his article on Molla Husrev a brief notice of the life of Hizir Bey , introduced by the phrase ( " one thing calls to mind another " ) , a phrase with which he later introduces his account of Seyh Abdulkerim , the holder of an ad hominem muftilik in the reign of Suleyman . |
| 11 | Such a seismic event was the removal of the Sinn Féin president , Gerry Adams , from the republican movement 's citadel , West Belfast . |
| 12 | While Europe in general , and West Germany in particular , rejoice at the removal of the grand prix finals from Madison Square Garden to Frankfurt 's Festhalle next year under the banner of the Association of Tennis Professionals , others are already rummaging through fond memories . |
| 13 | AROUND 50 demonstrators gathered at Edinburgh 's City Chambers yesterday to protest at the presence of a Sinn Fein speaker at a meeting inside . |
| 14 | The presence of the P3A + variant was further verified in non-muscle tissues by utilizing a 5' exon specific primer and partial sequencing of amplified product ( data not shown ) . |
| 15 | She went home to her windowless attic , sweltered and turned , remembering Ford 's red-stone Virgin with intense pleasure , plotting The Yellow Chair , remembering the yellow triangle of Alexander 's trunks on the prow of the Stella Maris . |
| 16 | Years ago when nobody went abroad because nobody could , a tanned face was seen as the preserve of the hoi polloi , the grafters who had to work outside . |
| 17 | Indeed , the slogan of the Partido por la Democracia ( PPD ) — the party she helped found after the demise of the Pinochet regime — is ‘ Democracy in the Country and at Home ’ . |
| 18 | This provision permitted the payment of an ex gratia supplement in cases of this kind . |
| 19 | The noise at a Grand Prix is deafening ( even with ear plugs in ) . |
| 20 | I 'd like to erm just say a few words about erm the three erm reductions in the budget of the erm er the erm community services erm the erm deletion of the arts budgets , you probably have heard this before , but I I do think it 's a great pity that erm when it was on the basis and I think very little knowledge of un and understanding with erm er of what arts is about which is to delete one of the , was one of the erm the the erm things in this council which we actually do best , it 's one of the things which has attracted attention from way beyond Cambridge erm and which is undoubt has undoubtedly to communities in which it takes place , erm as far as the erm erm oh the erm community , staffing of community centres erm this looks like erm in calculations involved handing over the r the management to the community centres to erm volunteers . |
| 21 | Whilst not all the nouveaux romanciers would embrace this perspective with the enthusiasm of the Tel Quel group ( whose combination of Marxism , psychoanalysis and radical semiotics made it particularly receptive to this positivistic role for avant-garde writing ) , Robbe-Grillet has always upheld the validity of this critical function . |
| 22 | The cooperativity threshold follows from the need for depolarization to reduce the level of the Mg 2+ block of the NMDA channel . |
| 23 | The reduction in inhibition allows greater expression of the NMDA receptor system which in turn contributes to the depolarization and thus further reduces the level of the Mg 2+ block . |
| 24 | And I was just squeezin maself into a five and a half when Moira McVitie round the crescent in the cul de sac comes by and shouts out ‘ Hiya there Verena is that you trying on some fuck-me shoes for yer man gettin back . ’ |
| 25 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 26 | The tension between the status quo and change is an inherent part of transformation . |
| 27 | All this conduces powerfully to the maintenance of the status quo . |
| 28 | The real issues are never discussed , nor do they have to be , for established patterns of family behaviour eventually ensure the maintenance of the status quo , albeit an uncomfortable and unhappy one . |
| 29 | Their philosophical idealism was at once a retreat from the material world of unruly mobs and declining privilege and a programme for maintaining their position while accommodating some change : ‘ Socratic political thought was an intellectually sophisticated and ingenious justification for counter-revolution in democracy and the maintenance of the status quo in oligarchy ’ ( ibid. p. 4 ) . |
| 30 | By this we mean the maintenance of the status quo as a conscious policy based upon a set of values which are promoted by or embodied in the status quo . |