Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1942 his committee issued the so-called ‘ Smolensk Manifesto ’ outlining their aims , and early in 1943 the existence of a Russian liberation movement and its Russian Liberation Army ( Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Armiya , ROA ) was proclaimed . |
| 2 | In January 1943 the Ministry of Town and Country Planning Bill was introduced , providing for the appointment of a Minister whose ‘ sole ministerial responsibility is in connection with town and country planning ’ ; the Bill was passed in February and W.S. Morrison was appointed first Minister . |
| 3 | By 1943 the group of three full-time and three part-time workers were dealing with 2,000 requests a year from hospital almoners , social workers and individuals , placing 523 and advising 986 , besides visiting homes to see if they were suitable . |
| 4 | In the Thirties the Archbishop of Canterbury , Cosmo Gordon Lang , had such a powerful hand in the affairs of state that he was instrumental in getting Edward VIII to abdicate . |
| 5 | ‘ In the Thirties the Archbishop of Canterbury had a lot to do with the abdication . |
| 6 | By autumn 1948 the split along the 38th parallel had been formalized . |
| 7 | Leading economic advisers began to press for greater reliance on the price mechanism , and in 1948 the Board of Trade had a ‘ bonfire of economic controls ’ . |
| 8 | We have already seen ( on pp. 33–4 , above ) that in 1948 the conventions of historic-cost , straight-line depreciation of capital led ( if the Boards broke-even on book costs ) to artificially low prices . |
| 9 | In 1799 the shearmen of Wiltshire threatened those who were introducing dressing machinery : " if you follow this practice any longer … we will keep som people to watch you about with loaded Blunderbuss or Pistols And will certainly blow your Brains out it is no use to destroy the Factorys But put you Damn 'd Villions to death " . |
| 10 | Though since the judicature Act came into force in 1875 the rules of Common Law and Equity are recognized and administered in the same court , yet they still remain distinct bodies of law , governed largely by different principles . |
| 11 | Originally under the public Health Act 1875 the trade of fish frying was , in many districts , declared to be an offensive trade . |
| 12 | At the same time that the effects in 1 . |
| 13 | Even if play areas are created off-street , the impression must not be given that the rest of the street is not intended for playing children . |
| 14 | It 's a good , dramatic blend and , given that the rest of the Heineken League is equally topsy-turvy , it makes for an entertaining diversion while Alan Davies , Bob Norster and Gareth Jenkins wrestle with the real problems on the big stage . |
| 15 | How lucky she had been to meet Violet , but was n't that the story of her life ? |
| 16 | Is n't that the heart of it ? |
| 17 | Given that the involvement of genetic factors is no longer in dispute , two questions need to be answered . |
| 18 | All sounds from outside were muffled because of the dock being partly below ground level , set into the slope of the bank , but in a short while I heard the sound of a car door slamming and after that the noise of an engine starting up and being driven away . |
| 19 | ( Was that the noise of other people out on the fringes of unknown perceptions ? ) |
| 20 | The formal proletariat has control over neither the means of production nor labour power , but its members earn regular wages which give them a security that the mass of the poor lack . |
| 21 | Is that the shape of things to come ? |
| 22 | Another consequence of the boom in opposition to nuclear weapons was the eclipse of the campaign against nuclear power , which was a bit odd given that the whole of 1982 was a run up to the inquiry , which begins later this month , into the plans to build Britain 's first pressurised-water reactor . |
| 23 | And then she 'd dose you up with goose grease , oh dear that the thought of that now . |
| 24 | Given that the purpose of the video is to provide a resource for language learning and teaching , any decisions concerning presentation , acting , editing , etc will be taken so as to give precedence to this educative purpose . |
| 25 | Given that the purpose of the video is to provide a resource for language learning and teaching , any decisions concerning presentation , acting , editing , etc will be taken so as to give precedence to this educative purpose . |
| 26 | Given that the purpose of the video is to provide a resource for language learning and teaching , any decisions concerning presentation , acting , editing , etc will be taken so as to give precedence to this educative purpose . |
| 27 | The Gnomes were very interested in this ; as Flaherty said , you could not know too much about these things , although it was a pig 's pity that such a jewel could n't be worn by the King of the day when he went about his reigning , because was n't that the purpose of crowns and jewels anyway ? |
| 28 | Given that the purpose of a general insurance company is to provide a pool of funds from which to meet claims which are by their nature uncertain and given also that their policies are mainly short term — clients can terminate or renew annually — this proportion of long-term assets may be surprising . |
| 29 | Often it is on caring friends and neighbours that the responsibility of looking after such people falls . |
| 30 | He told shareholders the latest sums were £33,000 in settlement of a civil action by the club — £15,000 of that the cost of an audit investigation — and £838 in a case involving credit cards . |