Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be provided by the magic power or words , such as inscribing prohibitions into the nation 's constitution , and by manifestations of the divine in terms of either retribution for failing to uphold the truth , or grace for upholding the truth , with rewards ‘ such as oil finds and victories in the World Championships ’ . |
| 2 | Meditation corrects life 's errors of parallax , for it contrasts the present the eternal against verities of one 's own being . |
| 3 | Amid the build-up to the great birthday extravaganza , North Korea watchers have gone on the alert for signs of the president handing over power to Kim Jong Il . |
| 4 | Even when he was resting the horseman had to be on the alert for incidents like this to see that nothing untoward happened to his team . |
| 5 | Prairie dogs from North America are typical grassland rodents , living in communal burrows , constantly on the alert for hawks , snakes , and ( till recent years ) for black-footed ferrets . |
| 6 | LATE summer sightseers flocking to the famous Antrim Coast Road are warned to be on the alert for stone-throwers . |
| 7 | However , the Working for patients proposals do not appear to envisage such contracts . |
| 8 | This chapter aims to assess the Working for patients White Paper in the light of the changing nature of the finance function . |
| 9 | Figure 3.5 shows the funding structure of the NHS in England after the implementation of the Working for patients proposals . |
| 10 | The Working for Patients White Paper later that year ( Cm 555,1989 ) proposed to abandon the RAWP formula and rely instead on a ‘ simpler ’ weighted formula for regional allocations , moving gradually to apply a similar formula to the cash districts were allocated . |
| 11 | The system also perpetuated the concept of the code of honour , in which the strong defended the weak against oppressors , and the highest rulers were always benevolent towards their vassals . |
| 12 | Whether the arrogance of the rich toward intellectuals of a lower class is considered an economic issue may be argued ; however , the belief that satire was almost always used in the service of the rich is not tenable . |
| 13 | The great virtue or the part-time holding in times of industrial depression is that it leaves the unemployed with things they can do to help themselves . |
| 14 | The second part of the same act established a Public Works Administration ( PWA ) with £3.3 billion to spend on heavy construction projects , in an effort to provide the unemployed with jobs . |
| 15 | The centre is to be built in Berwick Hills and will include a conference hall , 40-bedroom residential centre for management training and an advice base to direct the unemployed into jobs or training . |
| 16 | He read about the unemployed in newspapers and saw films about them on television , pacing across photogenic sections of contemporary Britain and muttering darkly about waste and emptiness . |
| 17 | All the broken down buildings have gone , existing businesses have been hidden from 125mph prying eyes and replaced with pleasant trees and shrubs . |
| 18 | Councillors decided the broken down buildings , smashed fences and forgotten scrubland were giving passengers a bad impression of the town . |
| 19 | They eat their prey at their roosts , littering the cave floor with the broken up remains of their meals . |
| 20 | But at the same time , an enormous sense of responsibility to protect the church , the family , and the minds and hearts of the faithful from incursions by the state was perceived to be the basic duty of the church leaders . |
| 21 | The instrumental approach is one essentially concerned with the impersonal control , the subjugation , of the environment ; the expressive with relationships between one person and another . |
| 22 | Nor were the British without defenders in Washington . |
| 23 | ‘ And you think you can beat the British by ambushes and blowing up police barracks ? ’ |
| 24 | the gas fields sourced by coalification gases from the Carboniferous with reservoirs in the Upper Carboniferous , Permian and lower Triassic ( Bunter ) . |
| 25 | For the rich get richer and the poor get poorer , and no one troubles to hide it any more ; to shut the poor away in poorhouses , the old in almshouses , the mad in madhouses , the orphans in orphanages . |
| 26 | He knew fatigue as a temptress capable of leading the unwary into shortcuts that were fatal . |
| 27 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 28 | Conditions provided plenty of drama on the reach out of the Crouch , with a cold and vicious south-westerly and a lumpy sea which spread-eagled the unwary in broaches both to windward and to leeward , and a variety of spectacular gybes and blow-outs . |
| 29 | His noble gesture appeased those churchmen who had been appalled by his early obstinacy over the archbishopric of Bourges . |
| 30 | These and other indications — the marriage of his daughter Eleanor to Alfonso VIII of Castile , a projected campaign in the Auvergne , a claim that the archbishopric of Bourges rightfully belonged to the duchy of Aquitaine — show that the southern parts of his dominions continued to be very much in his mind in these months . |