Example sentences of "strong [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is obviously a marked difference between the strategic and finance approaches , but they are not mutually exclusive : the one is strong where the other is weak . |
| 2 | Intentionally or not , Sharp 's collection was strong where the museum 's was weak ; among his treasures were an exceedingly rare Adam Elsheimer copper of ‘ The flight into Egypt ’ , Annibale Carracci 's ‘ Boy drinking ’ ( the primary version of the ex-Ellesmere canvas now in a private collection , Zurich ) , Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo 's ‘ Boy with a flute ’ , Guido Reni and G.A . |
| 3 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 4 | To this day , public fascination with the disaster remains so strong that a flourishinhg market has developed for Titanic memorabilia . |
| 5 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 6 | The concentration of the cast was so strong that the mood was well maintained . |
| 7 | The resistance to devolution was so strong that the government was forced to accept that the bills should be ratified by referenda . |
| 8 | But when the Central Policy Review Staff ( the ‘ Think Tank ’ ) had suggested in the early eighties that they mount a full-scale investigation into the practices and abuses of the professions , they discovered that the influence of the lawyers upon Number 10 was so strong that the proposal was sat upon and then returned , with a suggestion they confine themselves to teachers and social workers . |
| 9 | The schoolboy tight-head fancied himself as a hard man and was intent on working Elliot who , in fact , was so immensely strong that the lad can have been no more than the most minor of irritants . |
| 10 | Siemens Nixdorf 's biggest problem is that it is a combination of a company that was just about to go ex-growth with one that was already failing , so it very much needs any partner to be a firm seen to be strong and a winner : Hewlett-Packard and ICL presently best fit that profile . |
| 11 | I only wish that the House had listened to the present Minister of State , the right hon. Member for Plymouth , Sutton ( Mr. Clark ) 10 years ago when , in March 1981 , in a highly prophetic speech against the views of his Tory colleagues , he said that far from being strong and a threat to the world , the Soviet Union was in the process of retreat and disintegration . |
| 12 | Mainz was a see where Staufen interests were strong and a majority of the princes elected Lupold , bishop of Worms , a strong adherent of Philip , and a man of few scruples . |
| 13 | At that time the old doctrines of the need for democratic control were still strong and an argument arose between those , such as Mr Aneurin Bevan , who favoured total subordination to Parliament ( with a minister for each industry on the lines of the Post Office ) , and those led by Mr Herbert Morrison , who wanted to leave the industries a measure of independence to operate as fully commercial undertakings . |
| 14 | and it was and you could n't get near it because the heat of the fire was so strong and the smell of the of the smoke was overpow you literally could n't get near it and everyone had to come away . |
| 15 | The market for high quality , innovative plastic tubes is strong and the company is now well placed to seize the opportunity . |
| 16 | Most of the work will concentrate on reducing his associated reactions , if these are strong and the patient 's balance is poor . |
| 17 | Like the friction consonants one of each pair is strong and the other is weak . |
| 18 | I to you young men because you are strong and the word of God lives in you and you have overcome the evil one . |
| 19 | Even if Catholicism had lost its grip on middle-class intellectuals like himself , and on the majority of urban and rural working-class Spaniards , Azaña 's statement reflected a serious — and dangerous — misreading of the situation throughout much of provincial and particularly rural Spain , where religious devotion remained strong and the Church itself popular . |
| 20 | West Indies had had their triumphs before , of course , but now things were different ; they were no longer inferior to whites , they were unified , they were strong and the future was theirs . |
| 21 | Yet in a country where the pull of the past is so strong and the future so tantalising , it is best when you are travelling to live exclusively in the present . |
| 22 | However , if the opponent is strong and the program is weak , the opponent may realise that his best move from HisPos is not the one leading to MyNewPos . |
| 23 | The slump in the housing market has certainly dented the view of house purchase as an investment , but the desire to buy remains strong and the quality and availability of private rental stock continues to be limited . |
| 24 | If the dramatic starting point is strong and the situation is clear , children will usually find roles for themselves . |
| 25 | The anticipated sense of loss can be so strong and the wish to feel you have done everything the dying person wanted so real that the people involved will often comply no matter how outrageous the request . |
| 26 | But the wood was strong and the lock was well made . |
| 27 | Obviously such methods are far from sufficient ( an apocryphal example of the problems that arose involves the translation of the sentence ‘ The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ’ into Russian and then back-translated to English as ‘ The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten ’ ) . |
| 28 | Supernaturally strong though the monster was , I could not visualize its being able to scale the sheer outside wall of the tower . |
| 29 | This trowel is every bit as strong as a knife or bayonet , and will easily prize up any large stones ( I have done this often , even in rock-hard clay ) . |
| 30 | The African is as strong as a ploughox , each man can do the work in this clime of two or three of men like us . |