Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Archbishop should be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the failure of the efforts of the Church to create a better society . |
| 2 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 3 | It might be thought that the clerk of the council has a nobler sound than director-general , for example . |
| 4 | Others keep pouring into Lima from the rest of the country seeking a better life . |
| 5 | At last he said to himself , " Even the birds of the air and the fish of the sea have a better life than I , for at least they have companions . |
| 6 | ‘ Once , long ago , ’ began Tom , and Willie leaned forward to listen until finally he stood up and leaned on the arm of the armchair to get a closer look at the pictures . |
| 7 | It may well have been the intention of the petitioner to seek a broader interpretation by pleading the existence of the trust and presuming that a more generous standard of interpretation should be used . |
| 8 | The prestige of the government suffered a further blow , however , when it was revealed on April 9 that a second rebel had escaped from custody . |
| 9 | Philip ran to the scree at the bottom of the cliff to get a better view . |
| 10 | It is worth carrying out this simple exercise to disprove the common fallacy that the shape derived from chopping off the top of the cone at an angle is egg shaped ( the assumption is that the end closest to the base of the cone has a larger radius because the cone is larger there ) , in fact both ends have the same radius , it 's an ellipse — try it . |
| 11 | The cones are concentrated in the fovea , and the rest of the retina has a higher proportion of rods which only provide monochrome vision . |
| 12 | In addition the conquest of the land required a stronger skeleton once the buoyant support of the sea was finally abandoned . |
| 13 | The rocks of the land have a smaller specific heat than water does , which means that any given amount of heat that falls upon them will raise their temperature more than that of water . |
| 14 | Second , s 13(1) of the UCTA prevents a further possibility of evasion by creating an extended definition of exemption clauses . |
| 15 | In each case the jurist decides that the beneficiary of the trust has a better claim to the object than the creditor . |
| 16 | National economic policy does not explain the whole of urban decline , but the attitudes and policies of the Treasury have a greater influence on the cities than probably all urban projects combined . |
| 17 | If the table of the guitar has ‘ bellied out ’ you may also have to shave a few millimetres off the bottom of the saddle to achieve a lower playing action . |
| 18 | Liberal improvers , progressive Conservatives and socialists found themselves sharing some common ground in this assumption that it was the duty of the State to provide a better life for its citizens and which found expression in support for comprehensive social welfare , a national health service and a more humane treatment of those in need . |
| 19 | This doctrine appears in an altered form in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads where Wordsworth tells us that he had written about ‘ low and rustic life … because in that situation the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity ’ . |
| 20 | This is supported by Wordsworth 's defence of his choice of the common people as subject matter — ‘ Low and rustic life was generally chosen , because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity … ’ |
| 21 | Cutting off the supply of nutrition to tissues in any part of the body has a further consequence — new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit . |
| 22 | There have , of course , been many developments and improvements in the cell-casting method over the years and , while details are not disclosed , ICI has no doubt that its latest version of the process gives a better product than any other . |
| 23 | In the light of W. McCready 's findings in another study that the religious behaviour of the father had a greater impact on children , Greeley considered the fact that catholic schools were having an increasing influence on men to be of significant importance for the future of Roman catholicism in the USA ( 1976 : 173–5 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ You take off to the other side of the world to get a clearer perspective on what 's happening here , right ? |
| 25 | Yet , as in Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock , the fallen Catholic is in the end somehow right , and the virtuous atheist less so , for if Gael 's concept of the soul represents a higher spiritual plane and poetic vision , it also is coupled with neurosis , prescience , and telepathic powers which verge on the absurd . |
| 26 | A positive result may also lead to a great consciousness of the need to lead a healthier life and to seek medical advice where there is any indication of illness . |
| 27 | The NHS is very conscious of the potential for an increased incidence of hypothermia in the winter months and health board plans take account of the need to provide a higher level of services in winter . |
| 28 | However , we became aware in the late 1980s of the need to address a wider definition of publishing beyond the print-based expectation that has held sway since Gutenberg . |
| 29 | A cruise along the more poular southern edge of the region reveals a greater variety of environments . |
| 30 | These jobs on the generation side of the industry had a larger engineering content than the Area Board jobs in distribution , and , in terms of assets and capital expenditure , were a weightier responsibility . |