Example sentences of "[noun pl] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 This struck me as being not only unfortunate , but also a bit like a quiz show host revealing to losing contestants the prizes they could have won .
2 It has been suggested recently by a press commentator that without the CNAA there would be no polytechnics , and undoubtedly if the Council did not exist some similar body would be necessary to give the new institutions the opportunities they need for their full development .
3 In the Cornish mines the tutworkers who opened up the ground usually worked eight-hour shifts , with three shifts over twenty-four hours known by the mid eighteenth century .
4 Commander Churchill-Coleman said : ‘ As always with the Provisional IRA when they commit these acts the information they gave was erroneous .
5 Could I just conclude Moderator by saying that those who are engaged in ACTS the churches which are participating members of this action of churches together in Scotland are engaged in a journey together .
6 One common conception of democracy is that it means " government by the people " or at least by the people 's elected representatives — since it is generally accepted , rightly or wrongly , that in large modern states the people themselves can not govern .
7 Attitudes represent the way we see things ; preferences the way we like things to be ; prejudices the way we potentially distort what we see .
8 If Superstores own-brands the coffee it sells , it can avoid liability by labelling it with a statement such as ‘ Made for Superstores by Coffee Fellers Inc . ’
9 They argued that although sabotage is usually regarded as irrational or even pathological behaviour , careful investigation shows that ‘ in many cases the meanings which inform sabotage are explicitly intentional ’ .
10 And in some cases the assumptions you have asked us to cost are vulnerable to counter attack from the Opposition .
11 But it must be said that in some cases the DCSL who had overseen the ordering was uncertain as to where in the school the books had ended up , let alone their frequency of use .
12 From September 1990 parents , and in some cases the pupils themselves , have a right to see the record in so far as it is made after 31 August 1989 .
13 In both cases the artisans who made up a high proportion of the arrested do not appear in the rate-books , suggesting that they were not among those tradesmen who could be considered part of the " middling sort " .
14 When , therefore , I say ‘ The colour I saw yesterday was a white colour , , or ‘ The sensation I feel is one of tightness ’ , in both cases the attribute I affirm of the colour or of the other sensation is mere resemblance — simple likeness to sensations I have had before , and which have had those names bestowed upon them .
15 What we are doing is providing information for perhaps clinicians to act on , we also in the future hope to develop the information we have into something useful , and in some cases the information we have already .
16 In both cases the information which led to the discovery of wrongdoing came from outside the UK .
17 In many cases the crime which constitutes the ‘ unlawful act ’ will be a battery or an assault occasioning actual bodily harm , arising from a push , a punch , or a kick .
18 In holding that the ban was not ultra vires , Sir Denys Buckley J. made the points that the order-making authority should put clearly before the courts the considerations which led to the making of the order .
19 But Morley pounced just a minute after the break to give the Hammers the goal their pressure deserved .
20 For administrative reasons the problems we set have to be multiple choice .
21 A whole lot in the council houses the distillery I do n't know them at all .
22 Now orders came from and Sons the printers who were great target printers , and are still today the great target printer .
23 Finally taking a look at traffic in and around Nottingham 's roads the vehicles I can see are moving steadily .
24 It 's time to stop supporting Linfield , John , and give the other clubs the credit they deserve .
25 Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth .
26 At first her father had tried persuasion , but she was intransigent : brute force , but she ran back to the woods the moment she could : custodial restraint , but he could not bear the sight and sound of her pining .
27 Thank you for my copy of the December issue , which as always has a lively and readable quality , with a prestigious appearance that I think well-serves the image our Institute would wish to present to the world .
28 She hates even using the meanings the way he helped design them .
29 We may indeed take the depth of the autobiographer 's image of a grandparent as one measure of the quality of their mutual relationship — and an especially important one , for on such relationships between earlier generations the insights which autobiography offers are unique .
30 Whether as ratepayers or as employers the farmers who ran the majority of rural councils found it more advantageous to provide tied housing for farm workers and build the minimum number of local authority homes .
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