Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] in an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The final phase in the procedure involved giving parents advice about prospective job opportunities for their children , and this was considered to be the most difficult part of the work as it meant balancing all the different factors in an attempt to situate the best applicant in the best position . |
| 7 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 8 | What were the personal motives of the chief participants in an event ? |
| 9 | In an action based upon the breach of such a duty to take care , the ordinary rules in an action of negligence apply . |
| 10 | 3 The surrounding words in an utterance that give a word or structure its particular meaning . |
| 11 | A dome-over-square church where each of the four sides of the square ends in an apse . |
| 12 | The stained seats in an aeroplane , the cassette tape that jams , the hotel room service that arrives thirty minutes late , the bad apple in the pack . |
| 13 | I can not help thinking , on broad principles , that the staying proceedings in an action brought without any cause is no good consideration for a promise such as is relied on here . |
| 14 | The term ‘ Palestine ’ was coined over 1,000 years later by the Romans who renamed the country after the ancient Philistines in an attempt to de-Judaise the Holy Land and expunge all Jewish references . |
| 15 | The federal government has spent $2–8 million drilling 1635 holes , injecting 122 556 tons of fly ash , and flushing 117 220 yards of sand into the burning tunnels in an attempt to put out the fire . |
| 16 | One of the significant features of the examination was the high degree of agreement achieved between the metallurgical experts in an activity where they were concerned with the most advanced aspects of fracture mechanics . |
| 17 | We eventually went to the Austrian Police in an effort to get some assistance and , as good fortune would have it , we met it young Austrian called Thomas who worked at one of the Shipping Offices on the border . |
| 18 | We argue therefore , now as in our sixth report , that among the critical requirements in an INSET programme are the following : the diversity of teachers ' needs must be acknowledged and addressed ; teachers themselves must be central to the process of defining their needs ; and to meet diverse needs there must be diverse INSET programmes : not just as to their content and level , but also in their style and venue . |
| 19 | We argued that the critical requirements in an INSET programme are that the very diverse needs of different teachers be recognized and addressed , that teachers themselves be central to the process of defining their needs , and that diverse needs be met by diverse provision , in respect of not just content and level but also style and venue . |
| 20 | Those interested in Provençal paintings should move on after seeing this show to the newly reopened Musée national des Monuments français in Paris , which is showing some of the same artists in an exhibition on Marseille until 5 July ( see p. 8 ) . |
| 21 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 22 | I mention this only because it is one of the dominant features in an inspector 's life , the shadow of which he feels at all times . |
| 23 | For example , a group norm for the young men in an engineering workshop could be to follow a fashion of wearing long hair . |
| 24 | Even if the two sides in an argument have the same value system and the same objective there can still be a fierce argument because the perceptions of the same situation are different . |
| 25 | According to President Daniel arap Moi , initial findings suggested a possible murder , and at the request of the Kenyan government two UK Scotland Yard detectives and a pathologist were sent to assist the Kenyan police in an investigation . |
| 26 | He became unbeatable over the middle distances in an era before training became scientific . |
| 27 | A sudden upsurge to 3,500 on Dec. 31-Jan. 1 was reportedly prompted by a rumour that the Greek authorities were going to seal the border , and on Jan. 2 a Greek government spokesman alleged that the rumour had been deliberately put about by the Albanian authorities in an attempt to rid the country of the Greek minority , which numbered nearly 59,000 according to the 1989 census . |
| 28 | The main functions in an engineering manufacturing company are commercial , R&D , manufacturing , financial control and top management . |
| 29 | THE BRITTONIONI BROTHERS in AN EXPERIMENT IN CONTRAPROJECTION |
| 30 | It was replaced by contribution agreements by which the local authorities in an area occupied by a foreign army undertook , often with the consent of their own ruler , to pay the occupying force a fixed sum in return for a promise that it would not pillage . |