Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun sg] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was only too well aware of the Talmudic dictum that a handful does not satisfy a lion , but he was neither apologetic nor guilty over it . |
| 2 | Along with this has often gone a general rejection of the idea of a First Philosophy , more secure than , or prior to , the sciences , and an acceptance of the naturalistic doctrine that a philosophical account of knowledge should be permitted to use empirical information drawn from the sciences . |
| 3 | As the Director of Leeds Polytechnic put it in 1971 : ‘ the very existence of the new polytechnics must signify the end of the general assumption that a liberal education is the only peak to which a higher education can aspire ’ . |
| 4 | Thus it was at London , Bristol , Liverpool , Hull and Glasgow in the last years of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century that a " lagged response " to the great increase in trade was concentrated . |
| 5 | None of this , of course , is to be confused with the idea that all of the causal laws of science , or even many , are in the given way analogues in form of the ordinary belief that a particular causal circumstance necessitated a particular effect . |
| 6 | Ruth wanted to leave but was so panic-stricken at the thought of the latter happening that a decision to go or stay was out of her reasoning . |
| 7 | These are questions which history departments must pose for themselves but it should be borne in mind that it is at the end of the key stage that a final assessment will be required . |
| 8 | But their findings have been widely disseminated by Kelly in an interview on the BBC World Service programme Science in Action , where he stressed the significance of the new insight that a large-scale disruption of hemisphere-wide circulation mechanisms could be produced by events in the tropics . |
| 9 | The European Commission believes that it is of great importance for the completion of the internal market that a further protocol including the right of artists to claim an exhibition royalty be attached to the Berne Convention . |
| 10 | It is characteristic of the inner-city vernacular that a noticeably clear ( palatal ) [ l ] is pre-vocalic but that a noticeably dark ( velar ) [ l ] is post-vocalic . |
| 11 | In Protogeometric an occasional animal is seen , haphazardly placed , but it is first in Attic Geometric of the eighth century that a figure-style is incorporated in the decorative scheme . |
| 12 | It may have been heralded as a strategic disaster , but the Manchester-Sheffield electric route via Woodhead tunnel slipped quietly into oblivion , due ceremony avoided because of the public puzzlement that a heavy freight route should be axed only twenty-five years after complete modernisation . |
| 13 | We accepted the recommendation of the select committee that a subsidy would be made available . |
| 14 | Word went out to the people of the surrounding area that a conventicle would be held on the muir early on the Sunday morning . |
| 15 | That he could even think of illustrating that perversity with purveyors of a contrary cosmology suggests that his opposition was born of the common conviction that a moving earth violated common sense . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the indecent haste with which regulation 64A was brought forward in the recess , and then — it must be unprecedented — replaced by another identical regulation 64A , designed to come into operation immediately the next day , in the middle of the 21-day period that a regulation is supposed to lie on the Table before being implemented shows not only the willingness but the eagerness of Ministers to block or restrict those entitlements . |
| 17 | The suggestion of the 1977 Review that a comprehensive system of periodic review , analysis and assessment of regional policy should be instigated was upheld , leading to the First Periodic Report . |
| 18 | Will the Minister tell us whether he agrees with the chairman of the Tory party that a citywide administration is needed for London ? |
| 19 | As weak springs can only stored a fraction of the potential energy that a strong spring can hold , the remainder is lost as heat and if the change from a strong to a weak spring takes place over a period of time , equivalent to the observation time , then the energy loss is detected as mechanical damping . |
| 20 | I merely wish to draw attention to the long chain of wrongly dated groups of pottery , each in turn dependent on the other , all the result of the false assumption that a few coins were contemporary with this deposit , whereas they were either residual or still in circulation , and in neither case have a relevance in establishing a terminus post quem . |
| 21 | While as early as Elizabethan times crime chap-books were published to give news about recent crimes , Wagner suggests that it was only toward the end of the seventeenth century that a diverse crime literature appeared . |
| 22 | This is a forceful if limited restatement of the pluralist argument that a crucial condition ‘ for peripheral development is the appropriate political culture fostering the activities of capitalist elites . |
| 23 | The report was first published on 13th July , with only the Proceedings , and it was not until after the close of the Parliamentary session that a full document with minutes of evidence , appendices , a map and an index appeared . |
| 24 | Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos said in Spain on April 5 at the start of a European tour that a peace agreement might be signed on April 30 . |
| 25 | It felt quite good to get them returned covered with diagrams and comments , I know of no better sign that a project has the attention and support of the personnel involved . |