Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much for the experts and their fuckin' theories , the driver thought bitterly . |
| 2 | It would work through the current pooling arrangements and would maintain basically unaltered existing relationships between the institutions and their local authorities . |
| 3 | Significant powers are being delegated to schools and colleges and there is a general belief in the need to switch the day-to-day management of educational resources from county hall to the institutions and their governing bodies to achieve better value for money and sharpen the focus for accountability . |
| 4 | Most of them include complete lists of the members of all the institutions and their senior staff , with addresses and telephone numbers . |
| 5 | Normally MAS would act for the shareholders or their appointed representatives . |
| 6 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |
| 7 | For some months this Commando , with their small arms , a few petrol bombs , and an old 4.7 inch gun , stood between the Germans and their possible foothold on the Kent coast near New Romney . |
| 8 | Stephen paid little attention — he had already dismissed the plans and his only response was a shrug . |
| 9 | The King 's Cross development may draw money away from the projects that my hon. Friend has listed . |
| 10 | A Buryat tale relates how one of their groups decided to link itself with the Russians because their own khan chopped off heads for crimes which merited mere birching in Muscovite territory . |
| 11 | Its page size was bigger than The Times and its front-page message summoned up , with a tinge of pomposity , a degree of wishful thinking , the hope of the month , and indeed the year : ‘ We Shall Fight We Will Win Paris London Rome Berlin . ’ |
| 12 | ( I am reminded of a passage in a book by Doris Lessing , where she says : ‘ I want this court to condemn Volyen utterly , root and branch , for failing to instruct its young in the rules that its own psychologists and anthropologists have extracted from research and study : for failing to arm its youth with information that would enable it — the youth — to resist being swept away with any system of ideas that happens to be available ’ . ) |
| 13 | It is important to note that if the pledge that the Labour party made at the last election had been carried through , dramatically less money would have been spent on health , for the reasons that my hon. Friend gave . |
| 14 | The idea is that Penang will provide the skills and its poorer neighbours will provide the labour , although Mr Koh is too polite to put it that bluntly . |
| 15 | As we have seen , the formal liberal democratic theory of bureaucracies was that officials ( sometimes called bureaucrats or civil servants ) simply implement the policies that their political masters — the representatives of the people — present to them in the form of laws and regulations . |
| 16 | As it happens , I do not share the investments that my good friends the Labour party candidates happen to have made . |
| 17 | The emancipation of the plebs and its progressive participation in the government seem to have no parallel in Etruria but are easily comprehensible in Greek terms . |
| 18 | In the later development of Barthes ' work , and in the work of others who followed similar trajectories ( e.g. Coward and Ellis 1977 ) , this analysis moves further from the specific contents of the objects and their social impact , to address the problem of the media itself , and the nature of the sign . |
| 19 | In fact , a shower of dust , cobwebs , bat droppings and laths had indeed begun to splatter down upon the musicians and their small audience . |
| 20 | Many changes are not viewed as fundamental in today 's economic climate , so in theory we may seem to have the backing of the legal scheme , where in practice we have to cope with the interpretation which is weighed towards the employers and their economic arguments . |
| 21 | An employment contract not only individualises what is essentially a class relation , but it individualises it in such a way that it expresses the dominance of the employers and their ideological grasp of the apparent relations between individuals . |
| 22 | Percy the park-keeper rescues the animals when their old oak tree is blown down in a storm , and the new house he builds for them is presented in a fold-away poster at the end of the book . |
| 23 | The last month almost spent on a series of farewell visits to the branches and his many business friends in Melbourne and Sydney . |
| 24 | Down Route 6 , south of the river , over the tracks , beyond the stockyards and their rusty corsetry , their arthritic suspenders , their spinal supports . |
| 25 | Then on the stairs , she turned to say to Xanthe , who was behind her , going more slowly , unfamiliar with the shallowness of the treads and their tight twist , unlike Miranda who 'd had weeks of running up and down them , ‘ But do n't let on to your pa . |
| 26 | The poor weather , with many fog patches restricting visibility to less than two miles , prevented the warships and their respective convoys from being discovered , although another ‘ snooper ’ , this time a Ju88 from 1(F)/121 was intercepted by a pair of Fulmars from ‘ Formidable 's ’ 806 Squadron flown by Lts . |
| 27 | The future of teacher education in the polytechnics is uncertain and much will depend on national decisions concerning the size of the teacher training machinery , made by the DES on or against the advice of the Advisory Committee on the Supply and Education of Teachers , as well as local decisions concerning staff and resources made by the polytechnics and their local authorities in their search for economies . |
| 28 | The main difference between the sociobiologists and their ethological predecessors is that , whereas the latter were preoccupied with demonstrating the adaptive value of certain kinds of signalling behaviour in non-human animals , the former are much more dogmatic about the actual evolutionary mechanisms which have brought these ( and many other ) behavioural adaptations into existence . |
| 29 | Compulsory primary education had not yet been introduced by the state , and the educational system , from church school to university , was still dominated by the clergy and their middle-class values . |
| 30 | Nor was it the traditional and risible gaps between the spiritual duties of the clergy and their worldly preoccupations . |