Example sentences of "an [noun] [to-vb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sunday there is an additional train for grown ups who perhaps want an opportunity to celebrate in a seasonal way but without the children . |
| 2 | An opportunity to live in a smaller community is afforded by the University 's 18 warden-supervised Student Houses . |
| 3 | Tonics , restoratives and health remedies provide an opportunity to invest in the non-toxic remedies of the future . |
| 4 | It also put pressure on Mr Sherwood to call the company 's long-delayed annual meeting to consider the bid by saying it would demand an extraordinary meeting in an attempt to vote in a new board of directors . |
| 5 | De Gaulle reacted sharply , not just because the evidence against Muselier appeared flimsy , but because he interpreted the British action as an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of his organization . |
| 6 | Looking at the top-level outline of two chapters in the book one sees an attempt to model in a consistent fashion concerns in the real world . |
| 7 | Public outcry over what was widely seen as an attempt to intervene in the judicial process , however , caused the party to withdraw this threat almost immediately . |
| 8 | ‘ A Whiter Shade of Pale ’ , launched during Art Cologne in November and on show until 19 December , is Kittelman 's challenge to the ‘ over organised audience ’ attracted by the art fair , an attempt to present in a commercial gallery the type of exhibition more usually seen in a Kunsthalle . |
| 9 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 10 | In our imaginary case , Walkertronic needs no further information and indicates an intention to defend in the following terms . |
| 11 | In effect the duty is merely an amalgam of fiduciary duties at common law requiring an agent to act in the best interests of his principal . |
| 12 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 13 | After that , I 'm going to appear with Jack on the Today show in New York , and I have an offer to star in a new Tarzan movie . ’ |
| 14 | One can waive one 's rights by consenting , but not by promising ( except in the special case in which the very undertaking of an obligation to act in a certain way terminates one 's right not to do so ) . |
| 15 | It is difficult to believe that a religion so strongly anti-idolatory would allow such an image to exist in the holiest of shrines . |
| 16 | Apart from the shared snaking keyboards , in Tom Hingley , the Inspiral Carpets have a frontman who , like Hugh Cornwell , actually makes an effort to sing in the old-fashioned sense . |
| 17 | She seemed to be making an effort to speak in a dispassionate practical tone . |
| 18 | such an ability to engage in a comprehensive review of policy options presupposes a greater concentration of political power in the hands of a single policy-maker or group of policy-makers than can be found within the American political system . |
| 19 | Indeed , some ( Bhatt and Wasserman 1989 ) have argued that the ability of an animal to respond in the same way to a range of different stimuli should be ascribed to the operation of a conceptual category only when mediated generalization can be demonstrated among these stimuli . |
| 20 | Sam Ramsamy , the chairman of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa ( NOCSA ) announced on Nov. 6 that South Africa had accepted an invitation to participate in the Olympic Games in Barcelona in June 1992 [ see p. 38318 readmission to International Olympic Committee ] . |