Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extend the algorithm to deal with a general dividend and divisor , and include a test for overflow ( i.e. when the quotient can not be represented in n bits ) . |
| 2 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 3 | Full-back , Paul Bodin is back after injury and striker , Dave Mitchell , drops back into the defence to cover for Colin Calderwood , who 's suspended . |
| 4 | The the estate agents were finding that they were using these up very quickly by sending them away , also they were rather expensive to send away in the post and we were not prepared to put , er we were n't getting the income to survive on that . |
| 5 | The total symbolism of the novel shows that it is ‘ about ’ alienation , depression , and the inability to cope with an ever-increasingly impinging world : it is in the details that the references to anorexia are revealed . |
| 6 | However , observers questioned its likely fairness , considering the inability to participate of three leading opposition figures : Daw Aung San Suu Kyi , the secretary-general of the main opposition party , the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , under house arrest since July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] and on Jan. 16 , 1990 , banned from participating in the elections [ see p. 37188 ] ; Gen. ( retd ) Tin U , the NLD chairman , imprisoned in December 1989 [ see p. 37123 ] ; and former Prime Minister U Nu , leader of the League for Democracy and Peace ( LDP ) , in December 1989 placed under a restriction order and banned from participating in the elections [ see pp. 37123-24 ] . |
| 7 | The condition affects the peripheral area of the retina , including the rod cells which help vision in poor light , and can result in progressive ‘ tunnel vision ’ and ‘ night blindness ’ , the inability to see in the dark . |
| 8 | The time limit for submitting the return may be extended by the inspector if it can be shown , to his satisfaction , that there is a reasonable excuse for the inability to submit by the prescribed deadline . |
| 9 | Tolkien had taught him that the inability to believe in Christianity was primarily a failure of the imagination . |
| 10 | Music for entertainment … seems to complement the reduction of people to silence , the dying out of speech as expression , the inability to communicate at all . |
| 11 | The inability to operate with high levels of trust itself implies the use of more complex formal organisational arrangements as a replacement for the more informal co-ordination mechanisms which are possible when there is a higher level of good will . |
| 12 | The inability to enter into an understanding with them is due to our limitations , our lack of perception as to what we are and what this ‘ world ’ really is . |
| 13 | Indecisiveness , insufficient financial resources , a hostile press , the inability to count on sufficient political support , and lack of creative imagination are the negative factors which will bear on his personal decision . |
| 14 | The inability to compete on salary terms , which creates staff shortages for certain organisations , is compounded in many cases by an inability to offer sufficiently satisfying work to attract labour with the skills that are desired . |
| 15 | There are several restaurants and snack bars in the park to choose from , or you could take a picnic and relax in the beautiful gardens . |
| 16 | The Report does not mention any ‘ quid pro quo ’ , so what has the Park to lose by excluding the traffic ? |
| 17 | He slipped his arm around her and they walked through the park to sit on a secluded seat there . |
| 18 | They often went to the park to sit by that lake . ’ |
| 19 | Fremantle 's motion was put to a vote and rejected and it was agreed to recommend that new fire-proof Foreign and Colonial Offices should be built on part of the park to conform with a general plan for rebuilding the area . |
| 20 | The grounds were that the work which the appellant offered to carry out when he presented himself to Mr. Burt and Mr. Hughes as a qualified accountant ( and the remuneration that he gained the opportunity to earn as a result ) were services to be provided by him as a self-employed fee-earning accountant , and therefore were to be provided neither under a contract of employment nor by virtue of his holding of an office within the meaning of section 16(2) ( c ) of the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 21 | Prince Charles was installed as President at a degree congregation in Edinburgh in 1976 , and Sir Michael took the opportunity to underline to him that whatever ‘ the tribulations of our staff , who deal with the paper work of over 80,000 students and over 1000 courses , the Council itself and its committees and subject boards are concerned with one thing only , and that is quality ’ . |
| 22 | The 12 Palestinians were not immediately deported but were given the opportunity to appeal against the order , and on Jan. 23 the government revoked a deportation order against one of five Palestinians from the West Bank . |
| 23 | First , insider dealing is an unpredictable form of reward ; in fact the opportunity to exploit inside information may come only ‘ once every ten years for each listed company . ’ |
| 24 | We hope the council will now take the opportunity to act in accordance with the wishes of the majority of villagers . ’ |
| 25 | Article 15 of the second directive gives cancellation rights to all individual contracts except those of six months or less and is amended to exempt where the policyholder has had , for example , the opportunity to reflect on the policy terms before contacting the insurer . |
| 26 | With the benefit of a later viewpoint , aided not least by the opportunity to reflect on Bolinger 's own work , we would suggest that , in most cases , other answers are more appropriate than the ones which he offered at that time ( nevertheless , we return to this article more than once in the chapters which follow ) . |
| 27 | I am glad to have the opportunity to debate in the House today the White Paper which we published in July this year entitled ’ The Citizen 's Charter ’ . |
| 28 | Mount Charlotte Investments , the hotel group , offers the opportunity to invest in a stockbroker . |
| 29 | Passion offers schools , colleges and community venues the opportunity to invest in a vast wealth of information about our work during the 80 's and then draw from that information in a more creative and challenging way . |
| 30 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |