Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] [vb -s] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The purchase price has been agreed at £5000 , and the form of the conveyance follows a conventional pattern . |
| 2 | The bidirectional reflectance of the soil has a considerable effect on that of the canopy ( , ) , see Table . |
| 3 | The extent of the problem varies a great deal from one species to another . |
| 4 | It might be thought that the clerk of the council has a nobler sound than director-general , for example . |
| 5 | The publication of land registers for the greater part of the country represents a major opportunity to secure the better use of massive acreages of underused land . |
| 6 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 7 | In his Topographical Account of Cunninghame , compiled about 1600 , Timothy Pont recorded — ‘ This part of the country yields a great deal of excellent butter but especially the parishes of Stewarton and Dunlop . ’ |
| 8 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 9 | The first scene of the novel involves a paradigmatic ‘ crossing ’ of characters from different fictional worlds . |
| 10 | The occurrence of such constructions in later parts of the novel maintains a stylistic unity , though other features of the style are very different . |
| 11 | The difference of the other becomes a displaced and intensified facet of the same , the object of desire and disgust . |
| 12 | After passing the stage of infancy the education of the child takes a different shape , the child is taught how to sit and walk properly to avoid having bow legs , for a straight figure is admired by Gikuyu , especially amongst the warriors it is one of the qualities of handsomeness . |
| 13 | If the final syllable of the stem contains a long vowel or diphthong , or if it ends with more than one consonant , that syllable receives the stress . |
| 14 | Since the inference sense of the verbs of perception implies that the conclusion inferred is actually reached , this use of the infinitive involves a final interception of to . |
| 15 | The configuration of the shore has a large bearing on tide heights and range , tending to increase in bays and funnel-shape inlets like the Bristol Channel and St Malo , near the Channel Islands , in France . |
| 16 | The addition of the ribber offers a wide range of double bed fabrics and textures which can not be produced on the single bed — one of which is double jacquard . |
| 17 | Every teacher at whatever level of the hierarchy has a certain reservoir of skill , experience , aptitude and common sense , sufficient to enable some jobs to be accomplished swiftly , easily and confidently , but not others . |
| 18 | The documentation division of the Centre publishes a quarterly journal Tropical Animal Health and Production . |
| 19 | In this way the students become aware that each movement of the kata has a specific purpose , and knowing that makes it easier to remember the kata sequences . |
| 20 | The wall of the artery has a normal architecture without signs of vasculitis , atherosclerosis or aneurysm formation . |
| 21 | Stone 's analysis of the legislation provides a valuable corrective to those who have argued that it represented a revolutionary change . |
| 22 | From the insides of the wood comes a piercing screech . |
| 23 | The application of the patina produces a thin black film . |
| 24 | The scatterplot of the chronic sickness rate by the death rate is shown in figure 10.3 ; the pattern is not terribly tight , but inspection of the plot suggests a monotonic , positive relationship . |
| 25 | The title of the module provides a concise one-line description of the module . |
| 26 | Assuming that the government of the day has a comfortable majority in the House of Commons , executive dominance over the legislature and control over the processes of decision making becomes possible . |
| 27 | The nature of the work encourages a scientific , technical orientation and the changing character of the technology results in opportunities for learning and personal development for a considerable section of the blue-collar force . |
| 28 | The basic rule is that if the second syllable of the verb contains a long vowel or diphthong , or if it ends with more than one consonant , that second syllable is stressed . |
| 29 | Freedom of the press has a long history , but it is only since 1980 that the right to communicate and the freedom that it entails has been seen as the very centre of human rights , and indeed as a precondition for a meaningful implementation of other human rights . |
| 30 | Its length is approximately 100 metres and whilst if the axis had run through any part of its length I would have shrugged it off as coincidence again , the fact that it intersects the relatively tiny west end of the barrow suggests a high degree of precision alignment . |