Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Days later , Fernandez suspended the Queens school board that refused his curriculum , and ten days after that the board of education reinstated them all .
32 That the Inhabitants of Ballulve , Ballighiline , Moalrish .
33 That the Inhabitants of Ballulve , Ballighiline , Moalrish .
34 As will become clear , this claim is crucial to the development of the Report 's strategy , given that the rise of modern industrial society is taken to be a major progenitor of contemporary " accidental and conventional " social and cultural divisions .
35 By chance , the Museum was also acting as host to a large delegation of Mayors and Councillors from the surrounding area and it is hoped that the significance of the presentation rubbed-off on them .
36 Given that the sanctity of the Irish family is rigidly built into the Irish constitution , it was going to take years to break down and change the incredible legislative and political barriers .
37 Last year we went to the West cork Hotel in Skibbereen , the previous year the Imperial Hotel , Cork and previous to that the Gleneagles in Killarney .
38 ‘ It was when the friend of the family , Donald Templeton , the trusted and valued doctor who attended both Farr and his wife , came to call that the plans of the man who came to be known as the Wimbledon poisoner came badly unstuck .
39 Provided that the game is fair and given that the majority of investors hold diversified portfolios , as of course the dominant institutional investors do , then it is debatable whether extensive additional audit work is justified to provide the relatively small numbers of undiversified investors with information about the likely variance of cash flows .
40 However , given that the majority of employees receive earnings which are below the £17,200 threshold , the 29 per cent rate is clearly imposed on a wide range of incomes , from the lowest to the relatively highly paid employee .
41 Given that the majority of people are as rational about their fertility as I am — and God knows we are the ones who have to live with our decisions — it seems that any government which tries to overrule those decisions for the sake of some nebulous ‘ common good ’ , or ‘ future benefit ’ is not to be trusted .
42 It was held in the circumstances that the defendant was negligent in not completely extinguishing the fire and that the Act of 1774 provided no defence .
43 Is that the suitcase for Vancouver ?
44 The worldwide acceptance of the need for supranational controls on the environment — given that the holes in the ozone layer , the greenhouse effect and tropical deforestation affect the whole planet rather than individual countries — has lent new respect and strength to the United Nations .
45 It is integrated in that the activities of each region are seen as part of a global process , i.e. the experiences and insights of each region are fed into , and compared with , those of other regions .
46 Given that the chairman of the Conservative party and the Secretary of State for Energy have accepted , on behalf of the Conservative party , that petrol prices will have to rise , do the Government wish to take action before Europe imposes its own regime on us , or will they wait for Europe ?
47 Prussia 's pre-eminence was institutionalised in that the King of Prussia was ex-officio the chairman of the Bundesrat , but this was only as titular Head of State , not head of government : in all matters Bismarck was keen to stress the federal , decentralised aspects of the constitution , both to reassure the smaller states that they were not being swallowed up and also to convince Prussia that she was not losing sovereignty to the supranational authority either .
48 Given that the origins of semantics are diffuse ( logic , philosophy , linguistics , etc. ) it may be also observed that the boundaries of the subject are equally amorphous .
49 Does he agree that the cut of £19.9 million from £262 million in the 1992-93 budget is a dramatic reduction given that the proposal for the programme of building and house repairs in Northern Ireland agreed by the Government was already the lowest in the history of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive ?
50 ‘ Is that the make-up from Woolworth 's ? ’
51 and as he 's done that the mates behind him have shot him with a real gun , his gone , his gone
52 Although one should not read too much into this , given that the families in the survey had at least one child in primary ( board ) school by definition , and therefore the oldest were sometimes the only ones of an age to be working , it can safely be said that the openings for girls in the printing trade must have been a godsend for low-income families with several children .
53 Simon pulled himself up inside the kiosk : ‘ It looks like a bomb 's hit it ! — Is that the cash-box over there ?
54 ICES recommends that that the size of fishing fleets be reduced by 30 per cent , effectively lowering catches by 20 per cent .
55 It is only when they come together to form a pattern which gets progressively worse that the probability of Chemical Dependency increases .
56 Why do you think it is that erm that the reputation of the flats has been er I suppose gone off and I mean early on back in the early seventies , erm the flats were quite an attractive place to come to , it was n't even that easy to get on the flats .
57 However , being known for measurement does not necessarily help when tendering for consultancy work , but given that the reputation of most of our rivals was built on the interpretive reports prepared by companies such as ours , the transition should simply be one of perception .
58 Given that the proportion of over-75 's in the population will rise by 14 per cent in the 30 years from 1 98 1 , the needs of the traffic vulnerable will inevitably become more insistent .
59 In our view , rural development should be qualitatively different from its urban counterpart , given that the existence of narrow country lanes , agricultural activities and a dispersed settlement pattern make it necessary to develop a smaller scale pattern businesses closely related to existing enterprises .
60 Or is that the lady with
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