Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun pl] of " 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 | That the Inhabitants of Ballulve , Ballighiline , Moalrish . |
| 5 | That the Inhabitants of Ballulve , Ballighiline , Moalrish . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At this point it is really interesting to note the variety of activities that the members of my class regard as ‘ useful ’ . |
| 12 | Given that the chances of establishing oneself in sport are extremely small regardless of colour , this is a rather dangerous channelling of objectives . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | is that the names of the different curing stations . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Researchers and observers have repeatedly suggested that , on the whole , it is in these variables rather than in the break itself that the seeds of disturbance in the child lie . |
| 20 | A licensing board may disapply the section to premises at any time if they cease to be satisfied that the requirements of the proviso to subs . |
| 21 | Much of the fall , however , is due to the Gulf crisis , rather that the misfortunes of Vestel 's parent . |
| 22 | The letter does not make specific the details of the matter , as one would hardly expect it to do , but Miss Kenton states unambiguously that she has now , in fact , taken the step of moving out of Mr Benn 's house in Helston and is presently lodging with an acquaintance in the nearby village of Little Compton . |
| 23 | Since 1934 the elections of the presidents of Czechoslovakia have taken place here . |
| 24 | Between 1987/88 and 1989/90 the numbers of teachers taking early retirement rose from 7,574 to 12,343 . |
| 25 | Every health minister faces the same central problem : it is not just a matter of putting right the deficiencies of the past ; you also need to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of the present . |
| 26 | In a petition of 1756 the weavers of the West Country pointed out the consequences of wage reductions being imposed by their employers : " insomuch that weavers can not get above fourpence for sixteen hours labour … whereby their families are thrown upon and become burthensome to the parishes " . |
| 27 | ‘ We know that an hour of mirth is enough to lower our adrenalin levels and also lower the levels of the hormones which the body releases during stress . |
| 28 | The National Insurance pension is the most important component of social security provision and so the lower the incomes of pensioners , the greater the proportion the National Insurance pension comprises , and the less is derived from occupational pensions . |
| 29 | To separate as far as possible the concepts of equity and efficiency , economists use the concept of Pareto efficiency . |
| 30 | The aim was to restore as far as was practically possible the conditions of the pre-First World War era . |