Example sentences of "in [art] [noun] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Belgian Government considered that the problem raised in the case arise solely because the institutions of the European Communities fixed the quotas per member state . |
| 2 | I hang my coat up and start to shout and tell those who are hanging around in the corridor to get outside until the bell goes . |
| 3 | Since Mao they 've definitely taken the view that they should stabilize their population numbers as soon as possible , and they now have the most restrictive policies in relation to families , deferral of marriage , penalties for those couples that in the towns have more than one child erm and this is leading to a dramatic reduction in crude birthrate . |
| 4 | ‘ Provision would be made for over sixteen million phantom children in the families containing less than three children , while those in excess of that number , over 1¼ million in all in families containing more than three children would still remain unprovided for . ’ |
| 5 | Thus , the Act has no effect in the internal workings of children 's hearings : there is no question of ‘ rehabilitation ’ as that term is understood in the Act applying so as to prevent a later children 's hearing exploring the circumstances of an earlier offence or hearing or disposal . |
| 6 | The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth . |
| 7 | Perhaps the phosphorus in the bones thrown away after a chicken-based fast-food meal is a more serious resource loss than the petroleum gone with the wrapper . |
| 8 | These final exchanges were to have taken place at the border town of Mundhiriya from March 14 , but did not in the event go ahead as scheduled . |
| 9 | It had been expected to pose a strong challenge to the BNP , but in the event gained less than 30 per cent of the seats . |
| 10 | One of the most important scenes in the play occurs directly before he makes his ‘ prayer ’ for syphilis to overtake the camp . |
| 11 | This can make it difficult for management to exercise control because orders tend to become more distorted as they pass through more layers ; 90 per cent compliance at each stage in the hierarchy implies less than 50 per cent compliance from one end to the other over seven stages ( see Williamson , 1975 , ch. 3 ) . |
| 12 | Attempts have also been made in the past to limit rather than protect the numbers of offers for particular combinations ( e.g. English literature and history of art ) to maintain a good spread of students . |
| 13 | Souces indicated Matshushita Electric Industrial Co , Solbourne 's major stakeholder with investments in the firm totalling more than $50m , has been attempting to exert tighter controls of late . |
| 14 | Rudolf Seiters , head of the West German chancellery , who played a big role in the deals to ship more than 14,000 from Warsaw and Prague to the West in special trains , said he was confident a solution will be found for them too . |
| 15 | I was standing in the bows looking forward when suddenly our gently hissing bow-wave turned into a glowing mass of green fire , which reflected from our hull and bathed us in a ghostly light . |
| 16 | Commenting on storming first quarter figures ( page five ) Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , California says the improvement was primarily due to continued strong worldwide demand for AutoCad Release 12 , especially in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions — revenues in the Far East rose more than 25% compared with the year earlier , while revenues in the Americas rose more than 50% . |
| 17 | THE women 's European golf tour , which in the mid-1980s comprised more than 20 tournaments , may be cut to 11 this year . |
| 18 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 19 | And in the winter time we used to love to linger in the bakehouse coming home cos it was so warm . |
| 20 | White House officials insist this is a misunderstanding ; US interest in the coup evaporated rapidly when the rebels made it clear that they would not hand over Noriega . |
| 21 | Along the way came the rescue of the magazine , History Today , a long walk in the Himalayas collecting more than 2,000 seeds , and making his family self-sufficient in milk , eggs and vegetables on a London plot . |
| 22 | Its presence in the atmosphere has more than doubled since pre-industrial ( mid-eighteenth century ) times . |
| 23 | When Floriade closes , some of the plantings will remain and part of the site will be used for new town expansion Meanwhile in the giant flowerbeds more than 400 varieties of tulips , daffodils and hyacinths will flower , to be followed by annuals , then dahlias and chrysanthemums . |
| 24 | Any spreadsheet can include more than one page and you can use commands and formula between and across pages — for example you can write a sum that adds the contents of the same cell in a number of pages as in the example shown here where the fourth page of the spreadsheet summarises three month 's sales collected on the three previous pages . |
| 25 | Since the Scottish Council 's involvement in April 1989 in the Mini Enterprises in Schools Project ( MESP ) , the number of schools which participated in the project has more than doubled to 168 in the academic year ended 1989/90 . |
| 26 | Skills ( rather than facts ) will be emphasised , and individual engagement in the world prized rather than some one-way transmission . |
| 27 | If they must be resident in the United Kingdom one should seek to reduce their powers so that they stand very much in the background acting only if things are going drastically wrong with the trust or major investment changes or beneficial ownership changes are to be made . |
| 28 | Where a word in a sentence has more than one meaning , dictionary definitions can be used to select the appropriate sense . |
| 29 | We are clearly not yet in a position to state confidently whether a distinctly British variety of West Indian Creole has emerged , whether there is any geographical variation within Britain , or whether the various island differences continue to exert an influence on the language of second and third generation West Indians . |
| 30 | Admiral Hawkins , as the General has just said , is in a position of having to cope with almost impossible circumstances which , as you are in a position to know better than most , involves making almost impossible decisions . |