Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the family were exiled from France there could be no question of the Prince having a political role within the country , even though there was no lack of latent Bonapartist feeling among all sections of society . |
| 2 | The bidirectional reflectance of the soil has a considerable effect on that of the canopy ( , ) , see Table . |
| 3 | It might be thought that the clerk of the council has a nobler sound than director-general , for example . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Both judges decided in favour of the child having a possible cause of action so that each action will proceed to trial . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We 'll be discussing it this afternoon and Labour members told us and no doubt they 'll tell us again that the users of the centre have a democratic right to be consulted about how it was run Do n't tenant farmers have the right to be consulted ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The wall of the artery has a normal architecture without signs of vasculitis , atherosclerosis or aneurysm formation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At a rally they heard the Labour leader John Smith repeat his criticism of the government having a fatal addiction to V A T. Several Conservative MPs have stepped up the pressure on senior ministers to reverse the plans . |
| 13 | Knowing or not knowing the title of the passage had a significant effect on recall , as did word order . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Here relationships are ordered , certainly ; each person of the Trinity has a differentiated function , but all are equal . |
| 17 | She remarked how each definable function of the household had a special room set aside for it , for example there were dining rooms , parlours and drawing rooms , and serving pantries , pantries and sculleries . |
| 18 | Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history . |
| 19 | The grain size of the sediment has a direct effect on the percolation rate which is the main control of gradient , the coarser the beach sediment the steeper the slope . |
| 20 | The cones are concentrated in the fovea , and the rest of the retina has a higher proportion of rods which only provide monochrome vision . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In each case the jurist decides that the beneficiary of the trust has a better claim to the object than the creditor . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | All those people and organisations who were involved in the accident , such as the operators and the manufacturers of the aircraft , the pilots and other crew members , Air Traffic Control , the Civil Aviation Authority , the passengers and anyone else who in the opinion of the commissioner has a proper interest in the accident , are entitled to be represented ; usually by counsel briefed by solicitors , but laymen are not excluded . |
| 25 | The bodice of the robe has a deep cleavage plunging to the navel . |
| 26 | The poem is too long to quote in its entirety here , but the opening lines should provide a suitable contrast with " The retreate " : Here , a particular incident in the past is being recalled ; so the bulk of the poem has a content time which is separate from the coding time . |
| 27 | They can still sleep in comfort because one half of the bed has a hard mattress , the other soft . |
| 28 | Every division of the army had a prearranged town or village where it would gather and wait for further orders . |
| 29 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 30 | On the other hand , there is a reservation to be entered : that if the verb of the construction has a lexical meaning involving a change of state through time , then the two types of anteriority — constructional/linguistic and external/situational — will naturally tend to march in step . |