Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the same time that the effects in 1 . |
| 5 | That the Inhabitants of Ballulve , Ballighiline , Moalrish . |
| 6 | That the Inhabitants of Ballulve , Ballighiline , Moalrish . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | and as he 's done that the mates behind him have shot him with a real gun , his gone , his gone |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 15 | Crowe put in that the symbolists of Van Gogh 's time had supposed there was a universal language of colour , a primary language , a divine alphabet of colours and forms . |
| 16 | The uranium series measurements give a slightly older date of 205,000 years BP , but given that the uncertainties in each of these figures are typically 20 per cent , the two techniques can be said to agree with each other . |
| 17 | Given that the rituals of circumcision and menstrual taboo , like the other blood rituals , would appear to have derived at least in their final form from the trauma of the exile to Babylon and the consequent restructuring of the Jewish community , we shall need to start our historical survey some centuries further back in time in order to locate and appreciate the profound changes which occurred in and around the sixth century BC . |
| 18 | I was one of the lucky ones because they were having done that the others in fact left it until later and in fact they took , they , they called up for time . |
| 19 | At this point it is really interesting to note the variety of activities that the members of my class regard as ‘ useful ’ . |
| 20 | Given that the chances of establishing oneself in sport are extremely small regardless of colour , this is a rather dangerous channelling of objectives . |
| 21 | Given that the laws of optics are true ( and for the naive inductivist , this can be established from observation by induction ) , and given that the initial conditions are accurately described , then the explanation of the rainbow necessarily follows . |
| 22 | In due course the original will be registered , and after that the entries on the Register will replace it . |
| 23 | Given that the numbers of eighteen-year-olds will decline sharply in the later years of the decade and assuming that the age participation rate shows no great increase , then there may well be spare capacity in the public sector institutions offering degree-level courses . |
| 24 | is that the names of the different curing stations . |
| 25 | The the other factor is that that the negotiations with the bank erm to pay two pound fifty per quarter erm should have been erm reviewed last December . |
| 26 | Erm and I suppose you could regard the Thirty Years War too er as being a , a total war in this sense in , in that the objectives of the war is the crushing of opposition , unconditional surrender . |
| 27 | Given that the expectations of professionals about what disabled people can actually achieve has always been pathetically low , almost any intervention system which raises expectations is likely to produce similar results . |
| 28 | Simonsen continued , ‘ Given that the impressions from the chemical substances are not obtained from the sensory organs , they do not have a pattern that is correlated with the environment in a logical way . |
| 29 | Given that the men in our sample spend an average of more than 43 hours a week at work ( ie half their waking life ) , it 's hardly surprising that job satisfaction is the one factor mentioned by more than half of them as the most important thing in their lives ( see table , opposite page ) . |
| 30 | Yet it is in this dangerous arrogance , that the politician can know a person 's needs better than the person himself , that the seeds of bureaucratic authoritarianism lie . |