Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun sg] or a " in BNC.
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| 1 | C4 says that the options being considered include an extension of the existing service or a ‘ complete change of focus ’ to target children or young families . |
| 2 | If an inspector discovers a contravention of one of the provisions of the existing legislation or a contravention of a provision of the Order he can : |
| 3 | In practice , the result might well have been either a collapse of the new procedure or a perfunctory and rapid processing which would deny the public participation which Dobry wished to increase . |
| 4 | Instead of your call drowning or being drowned by another , it is intercepted by Contran and you hear either an amplified version of the other call or a brief squelch-like sound in your headset . |
| 5 | The operators can , of they have a mind to question the systems ' automatic decisions , run through the status of the entire building or a single valve . |
| 6 | Frequently a crisis is precipitated by some sudden change in health or behaviour , of the elderly person or a carer . |
| 7 | The principle of " guilt by association " was introduced ; people who had once been members of the Communist Party or a group sympathetic to that party , however long before , were smeared as security risks and their careers ruined . |
| 8 | They urged the closure of the Turkish fishery or a substantial reduction in the catch . |
| 9 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 10 | Indeed , according to Beatrice Webb , ‘ So far as I know , no member of the Labour Party , certainly not any Front Bench man , foresaw the possibility of a Labour Government arising out of the election ’ , and most expected either a continuation of the Conservative government or a renewal of Conservative/Liberal coalition . |
| 11 | Alternatively , some types of incident on the field of play — notably the scoring of a goal , foul play by a member of the opposing team or a bad refereeing decision — may also serve as instigatory cues . |
| 12 | Chaired by a judge of the High Court or a higher court , it has 16 members , a majority of whom must be persons other than practising or academic lawyers . |
| 13 | One of the questions the committee considered was whether an ‘ author of a literary or artistic work should have exclusive right to authorise the public display of the original work or a copy thereof , that is to say to display the work directly ( exhibition ) or indirectly , that is to say by means of a device ( example : a screen ) ’ . |
| 14 | This conclusion should not be affected by any view we take about whether the use of memory constitutes a re-examination of the original sensation or a mere inspection of how that sensation now seems to us to have been . |
| 15 | The same pH may be given by a very small quantity of a strong acid or by a much larger quantity of a weak acid or a mixture of such an acid with its salts . |
| 16 | In seconds police officers can obtain details of a stolen car or a wanted person , and establish whether an offender has previous convictions for serious crimes . |
| 17 | These departments will needless to say be answerable direct to the main body of partners but , for administrative convenience an additional tier will usually be introduced in the form of a managing partner or a partners ' management committee as a more efficient method of control and a useful filter to ensure that the partners as a whole are spared the necessity of dealing with anything other than matters of real importance . |
| 18 | Companies make statutory returns to Companies House ; their annual accounts must by law be fuller and more complicated than those of a sole trader or a partnership and must be laid out in a statutory format . |
| 19 | Arguments based on deference to the judgment of corporate managers or those based on the finding of a personal interest or a non-corporate purpose on the part of the directors have the appearance of mere slogans to justify either judicial restraint or intervention . |
| 20 | Point out that in the case of a married couple or a permanent relationship ( especially between a man and woman living together and with the possibility of children , planned or unexpected ) , the joint tenancy is the surest guarantee that on the death of either there will at least be a roof over the heads of the surviving family , particularly if there is to be a mortgage supported by a life endowment policy . |
| 21 | In practice , the vast majority of reported offences of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl of 16 involve young men of a similar age or a few years older , and the general trend is to administer a formal caution to such persons rather than to prosecute them . |
| 22 | The transaction may also take the form of a reverse takeover or a rights issue underwritten by a third party who expects to acquire a controlling interest pursuant to the underwriting . |
| 23 | That flexibility might involve the offer of a short-term agreement or a long-term lease with an appropriate break clause . |
| 24 | All efforts to communicate , whether in the context of a scholarly debate or a love-letter , are reduced to propaganda and rhetorical gimmicks designed to co-opt the truth in the name of patriotism , love , or science . |
| 25 | The second song was rather a sad one with the refrain of a forsaken lover or a widower : |
| 26 | The terror of a lost shoe or a missed train are as great here as those of guerrilla attack or nuclear war . ) |
| 27 | This was not the operations room of a naval warship or a secret room in the White House but my modest office above a restaurant in north London . |
| 28 | In your own minds , now , I want you to think of a famous building or a famous site or perhaps a famous street or avenue yes a a statue would be fine , erm or something that 's famous , like an animal perhaps , or a park erm or a zoo , although that might be a bit difficult . |
| 29 | Most of these courses are too short , merely providing the beginnings of a new competence or a new viewpoint that is often swept away when people return to their hectic routines . |
| 30 | Looking back into the past from the security of the present it is possible to pinpoint those elements which led to a change of viewpoint , the emergence of a new approach or a hasty retreat into well tried ways . |