Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | One could argue that such a strong assumption of underlying mechanism is only the normal situation in the sciences : one that allows experimental , as opposed to philosophical , work to proceed . |
2 | However , the Henniker-Heaton emphasis of " the progressive development in the fields of human relations , of judgment " is one which the history teacher could accept as having a high priority in history teaching . |
3 | It could therefore be argued that it was in the interests of the Soviet Union to see the Korean peninsula in the hands of a friendly regime and American-Japanese interests pushed out of the Asian continent . |
4 | There has been ( and there may still be ) a tendency to run down the role of the European nobility in the wars so characteristic of the late Middle Ages . |
5 | I 'll grantcha if you 're a citizen of the union living in South America , the West Indies or the Pacific and you happen to be a member of the French colonies , you 'll have a vote in the European parliament in the elections . |
6 | While much of the European attention in the Masters has centred on Nick Faldo , Seve Ballesteros and Jose-Maria Olazabal , who is keeping very much to himself , Bernhard Langer has been going quietly on his way . |
7 | The Interior Minister , Julio César Sánchez , resigned on Dec. 21 after being held responsible in the press for the low turnout in the elections . |
8 | Since the low point in the mid-1970s , the Chiefs ' influence has begun to wax once more . |
9 | It was very much a local affair with the town 's voluntary groups playing the largest part in the proceedings . |
10 | The tall rye in the fields either side of the road was untrampled , and the road 's crude paving of cobbles on impacted chalk and flint had no deep ruts like those made by the passage of heavy guns . |
11 | She had not the least interest in the fortunes of Italy , did not care that once more liberty and unity were the watchwords , and it astonished her that Mrs Browning could seem as anxious about war as she did about her sister 's health . |
12 | Fishing families left the 300-acre island in the mid-1980s because of dangerous landing conditions . |
13 | If you worked out a table of the economic prosperity in the towns which have Football League clubs , Hartlepool would probably be in the bottom three . ’ |
14 | There must be doubt whether Dickens himself held any firm belief in the afterlife ; but he knew how to strike the right chord in the hearts of his readers . |
15 | This is reflected in Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act in the procedures laid down for dealing with the exclusion of pupils from school and with the appeals which might arise from exclusion . |
16 | they cease to hold their employment with the Regional Council in the interests of the efficient exercise of the Council 's functions . |
17 | It was first recorded in the nineteenth century in the inventories of the Corsini collection , Florence , where it is last noted in 1880 , leaving Italy ‘ well before the current laws went into effect ’ , as Getty paintings curator George Goldner points out . |
18 | Meanwhile , IBM Corp shares plunged $5.50 to $72.50 on the day the company reported a stunning net loss after charges for the third quarter of $2,778m last week and scepticism rose over the prompt promise in the analysts ' call after the announcement that the dividend is safe . |
19 | This is not the place to review housing policy since the war , except to note that market criteria asserted themselves again during the 1950s under the Conservative governments and were accepted by the Labour government in the mid-1960s . |
20 | On retiring from the post he became a life peer and was appointed deputy leader of the Labour Party in the Lords in 1982 , an office he relinquished only two years ago , |
21 | He became a life peer when he retired from that post and was appointed deputy leader of the Labour Party in the Lords in 1982 , an office he relinquished only two years ago . |
22 | Dick had been assistant editor of the New Statesman from 1938 to 1955 and , as has already been explained , was no friend of the leading men of the Labour party in the years after the War . |
23 | The book was influential in the abolition of the tied cottage in the years following the war . |
24 | In 1971 ‘ Justice ’ , a group of liberal lawyers , published a booklet entitled The Unrepresented Defendant in the Magistrates ' Courts . |
25 | The weak point in the Democrats ' control of Washington is the Senate . |
26 | It seems this sort of thing 's been going on ever since the Romans colonized Sardinia and drove the indigenous population off the rich pasture in the lowlands up into the Barbagia . ’ |
27 | He relished the usual kick in the shins . |
28 | The marked improvement in the terms of trade for Britain over the early '50s permitted a rise in real wages despite a decline in Britain 's exports , while a substantial inflow of American direct private investment helped to boost capital accumulation . |
29 | Further tests of GR are described in Chapter 8 : one involves the anomalous precession in the orbits of Mercury and of the binary pulsar 1913+16 , another concerns delays of planetary radar reflections passing near the Sun , and finally there is the gravitational lensing of a quasar image by galactic matter . |
30 | First there was a vague lightening of the sky ahead , then the drumming of the rain was less persistent , the lesser darkness in the heavens spread until it was over them , they could distinguish the greater irregularities of the ground , the last few drops of rain splashed down and a blissful silence spread around them broken only by the sibillations of the water draining away among the rocks and the splash of their sodden feet . |