Example sentences of "[art] ad [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who could resist ‘ One acre of reclaimed wilderness populated by a variety of plants that can withstand ignorant malpractice , all planted by the ad hoc topsy school of garden design ’ ? |
| 2 | In developing the future size and shape of the Royal Navy , the Admiralty had two useful and recent precedents : the successful use of carrier-borne aircraft in interdicting the Chinese supply routes during the Korean War ; and the much more recent use of carriers to provide the lion 's share of tactical air support during the Suez landings , and the ad hoc use of the carriers Theseus and Ocean as Commando-helicopter-carriers in the amphibious assault on Port Said . |
| 3 | Further , there was a clear , emerging imperative to establish an explicit and visible distinction between the functions of the District and those of the Cambridge Board as earlier close , co-operative relationships were being eroded through the operation of the 1932 Adult Education Regulations and the ad hoc agreement between both providers in rural Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire . |
| 4 | The success of the ad hoc collaboration and co-operation between Hickson and Jacques during the war owed little to the elaborate mechanism of the RAC so tortuously constructed and thus led inevitably to its demise . |
| 5 | Again according to Heseltine , it was decided at EA that the ad hoc group should meet again on Friday 13 December , after the Stock Exchange had closed . |
| 6 | And , as for the cancellation of the ad hoc ministerial meeting due on 13 December , Biffen said , ‘ I do n't think there was any question of constitutional impropriety . ’ |
| 7 | The ad hoc collection of topics is saved from nonentity by the stature of the contributors ; especially Daniel C. Dennett , who both contributes the interesting paper ‘ Making sense of ourselves ’ and whose important ideas on intentionality are well described and discussed by Stephen Stich , and by Paul and Patricia Churchland and Colin McGinn . |
| 8 | A significant proportion of the public must have the impression that their library services are regularly prey to the ad hoc , impulsive indulgence of liberal/authoritarian , prurient/puritanical , left-wing/right-wing librarians , rather than guided by a set of selection policies trying to achieve a balance of users ' and nonusers ' educational and leisure needs and preferences , circumscribed by statutory requirements , within the limits of financial reality . |
| 9 | Laurence O'Toole , another member of the ad hoc committee , dismissed the meetings and press conference as a ‘ slick piece of public relations ’ but said he would have believed assurances from the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science ( BSSRS ) . |
| 10 | Although litigation in support of such a claim has by no means been abandoned , the switch to a more overt political campaign raises the possibility of developing a more co-ordinated test-case strategy — in place of the ad hoc response previously resorted to — of the type developed in pursuit of civil right advocacy in the.USA , and welfare rights advocacy both there and in the UK , to try to influence the course of social change . |
| 11 | The opponents of the draft within the ad hoc assembly were primarily on the left . |
| 12 | A major source of charity for the unemployed were the ad hoc funds raised by public subscription , such as the Lord Mayor of London 's Mansion House funds , opened regularly in times of exceptional distress . |
| 13 | Bohr 's work was full of special pleading : the use of circular orbits , the ad hoc imposition of the quantum condition for angular momentum . |
| 14 | The weakness of this approach is the ad hoc introduction of this elusive pilot wave ; it calls to mind the luminiferous aether of nineteenth-century physics . |
| 15 | This would be preferable to the ad hoc provisions available under Section 11 of the Competition Act 1980 , whereby the Secretary of State for Trade can direct the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to investigate efficiency , costs , the level of quality of the service provided and possible misuse of monopoly power within nationalized industries . |
| 16 | The ministries become bogged down in detail when their energies and resources should be concentrated more on overall policy , and the ad hoc commissions grow disillusioned and frustrated because they are not allowed to get on with the job . |
| 17 | The birth prevalence of some moderately common and rare congenital abnormalities not included in the ad hoc epidemiological studies was determined from the database of the Hungarian congenital abnormality register . |
| 18 | Enthusiasm largely fizzled out when the delay in implementation was announced , and the ad hoc , laissez-faire government approach of letting authorities decide for themselves how fast and how enthusiastically to move on the proposals is exacerbated by a lack of ministerial drive and an absence of central government leadership in the mental health field . |
| 19 | There is not so much as even a prima facie case for imagining that the ad hoc domestic forces available for the Latin music and the English devotional settings bore any close resemblance to the stereotyped and institutionalized vocal dispositions ( SAATB , succeeding SATB and SATTB ) supplied by the contemporary church choir ; these several bodies of music need to be addressed separately . |
| 20 | for example , when the Select Committee conducted an inquiry into Economic and Monetary Union and political Union , Dr Kari-Otto pöhl , giving evidence as president of the Bundesbank , found that the ad hoc Committee questioning him contained three former Governors of the Bank of England . |
| 21 | For a later trial lower and upper points were chosen on the ad hoc basis that ‘ an approximation to the subject was visible ’ ( though interfered with by black areas at the lower exposure and white areas at the upper end ) . |
| 22 | However , such an agreement should not prejudice other Network members who are not party to the ad hoc arrangement . |
| 23 | The Ad Hoc Committee on Chemical Weapons of the 40-nation UN Conference on Disarmament ( UNCD ) held its regular 1989 spring and summer sessions in Geneva on Feb. 7-April 27 and on June 13-Aug. 30 ( see p. 36477 for opening of spring session ; p. 36861 for closing of summer session ) . |
| 24 | Replacing the ad hoc Cabinet Mainland Affairs Task Force , the council was composed of the government departmental heads , with Vice-Premier Shih Chi-yang as chairman and up to three vice-chairmen . |
| 25 | Lack of funds is only part of the answer in explaining the ad hoc nature of change and the limited extent of it . |
| 26 | The ad hoc nature of much of the Scottish research is highlighted , and a call is made for further research on the present participation of adults in Scottish higher education . |
| 27 | Instead , he increasingly resorted to the device of the ad hoc Interministerial Council , in which the prime minister and relevant ministers , along with senior military or civilian officials , were invited to the Elysée to consider a specific problem or area of policy . |
| 28 | A call for the adoption of " new environmental ethics " was issued at the close of a meeting in Tokyo of the ad hoc " Eminent Persons Group " , comprised primarily of former statesmen . |
| 29 | There was also a move towards fee-based sales promotional agencies , which implied a longer-term relationship between agency and client , rather than the ad hoc commission structure that had existed before . |
| 30 | To read some of the ad hominem propagandizing directed against him in the post-war years , one might imagine Karajan was a great player in this awesome drama . |