Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most practitioners undertake reviews of procedures at some time or other , whether they are procedures in the commonly accepted sense of the term , ie low-level processes or activities with a set order of steps ( Collins Standard Reference Dictionary ) , or the total activities of an organisation that combine to achieve the purpose of the business as a whole . |
| 2 | It was just that she knew that there was something seriously wrong with her — something far more dramatic than a grumbling appendix or the normal after-effects of an operation . |
| 3 | The two sides have given different interpretations of the accord , but officials on both sides have confirmed the broad terms of an agreement to a transitional government of national unity . |
| 4 | As we saw earlier , the fact that the producing units of an industry increase in size over a number of years may be explained by the functional relation between their size and the cost of production . |
| 5 | His eyes are like the over-tired eyes of an engraver |
| 6 | There under a wagon was the body of Uncle Albert and clutched in his hand was a plastic bag containing the splintered remains of an animal 's skull … |
| 7 | The Classic Signs Of An Attack |
| 8 | After an abortive attempt to force Shamil into the open in 1845 , Vorontsov combined a policy of gradually strangling the rebellious highlanders with an approach to civil administration which allowed natives a little room for manoeuvre . |
| 9 | However , too much is made of the distinction between official policies and the lower levels of an organization , and the rotten-apple argument largely misses the point . |
| 10 | I am prepared to argue that doing business involves , even at the lower levels in an organization but especially at the higher levels of management , semantic problem-solving ; for example , agreeing on boundaries , identifying individuals , establishing and maintaining classifications , conjecturing ways of doing things that belong in no existing formal schema . |
| 11 | The spatial association is checked by searching through the hierarchical spaces for an intersection between the geometric domains of the parts . |
| 12 | Industry-wide wage bargaining between national trade unions and employers ' associations , whether conducted across an entire industry or , as in West Germany , more partially for the regional sub-divisions of an industry , has been the prevailing practice in most Western European countries . |
| 13 | Thus battle has been joined between RAI and the private channels for an audience which Italian advertisers regard as pre-eminently desirable . |
| 14 | It is essential , though , to ensure that the reconstructed parts of an object are easily distinguishable , as in this restored anthropomorphic jar from Lachish , Israel , dating to around 1200–1000 BC . |
| 15 | A true feminist morality would strive to root the abstract principles of right and wrong in the firm ground of our tangible day-to-day existence : because one of the inherent limitations of an ethic based solely on rights — whether it be the fetus 's right to life or women 's right to control our bodies — is that it is one-dimensional . |
| 16 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
| 17 | Bishop was collecting the shattered fragments of an observation drone for later analysis when the klaxons began . |
| 18 | It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between . |
| 19 | Thirdly , in order eventually to control the pollutant emissions in an area so as to achieve the air quality standards , an inventory of current emissions from the various sources is needed . |
| 20 | Edges that ought to be significant are either absent from an image or almost so and the strongest changes in an image are often changes in illumination and have nothing to do with meaningful relations in a scene . ’ |
| 21 | properly will depend on either the specific instructions given to him or arguments about the implied duties of an expert conducting a reference : for three possible examples , see 14.8 , 14.9 and 14.10. a breach of the implied duty under s14 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 , unless there is a specific time provision or the duty has been expressly excluded by agreement with the parties . |
| 22 | In effect his agenda of constructing a theory of the state appropriate to the modern world is transformed by the public lawyers into an agenda for building a modern theory of public law . |
| 23 | The sort of shade I mean is the dappled shade cast by mature apple trees and maples or by the high branches of an oak . |
| 24 | Member States may assume the validity of such extended powers through the implied powers doctrine , which allows competency to be implied from the express purposes of an organisation in order that it may function effectively . |
| 25 | So no piece of information is too trivial for consideration : monster otaku may collect the names of the various actors who wore the rubber suits in an episode of Ultraman ( a trashy humanoid vs monster Japanese TV show , still watched on endless reruns ) and who were conspicuously shorter than in other shows ; ‘ idol ’ otaku may discover what university the father of Seventies teenybop star Hikaru Nishida attended . |
| 26 | Three-Five Systems Inc has turned in first quarter net profits up 537.4% at $1.5m , after $924,000 gains due to the cumulative effects of an accounting change , on turnover that rose 60.1% to $7.2m . |
| 27 | But the general thrust of the above discussion is relevant to all such cases : whatever the alternative to Ord. 53 procedure for dealing with a particular issue , the question is whether the peculiar features of an Ord. 53 make it inappropriate to use the alternative in the particular case in question . |
| 28 | Reasons for organising an individual exhibition will vary from artist , as well as being influenced by the different stages of an artist 's career . |
| 29 | The production of a group of related species on the different islands of an archipelago provided a model for divergent evolution , suggesting that , when a species was divided into separate breeding populations , each of those populations had the ability to change as it adapted to its new environment . |
| 30 | This chapter seeks to distinguish arbitration from references to experts by considering : ( 1 ) confusion between whether references have been to experts or arbitrators ( 15.2 ) ; ( 2 ) how the court interprets express words in the contract about a referee 's status ( 15.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the guidelines for assessing the referee 's status ( 15.4 – 15.9 ) ; ( 4 ) the procedural differences between arbitrations and references to experts ( 15.10 ) ; ( 5 ) the different consequences of an expert 's decision and an arbitration award ( 15.11 ) . |