Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other .
2 The forward movement of the boat eventually turns the flies ; and it is generally just as the flies begin to turn that a fish will take .
3 For the new system to be introduced properly involves a change of constitution and a further vote .
4 It works at a warm temperature and vigorously turns the sugars in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide , producing at the same time ripe fruity aromas that add to the pleasure of ale drinking .
5 erm The social man , Proust says , rarely offers a key to the creative personality , and he 's anxious to keep a distinction between these two things , and I shall try to do something the same .
6 Onward goes the pilgrim band … ’
7 The black population , thus , effectively constitutes an underclass , placed in a structurally different location from the white working class .
8 Patients presenting with metastasis of unknown origin have a mean life expectancy of only four months so most diagnostic methods occupy a large proportion of the patient 's remaining life and identification of the primary site only rarely influences the choice of treatment .
9 This section will attempt to demonstrate how the Bank of England operates in the sterling money markets and thereby influences the level of interest rates in those markets .
10 He was granted a second term by Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke in a move that effectively guarantees the existence of the Board for the foreseeable future .
11 Kapil Dev is past his prime , Manoj Prabhakar usually only produces one good spell a Test and leg-spinner Anil Kumble rarely turns the ball past the outside edge .
12 With The Middlemen Christine Brooke-Rose effectively eradicates the London literary scene from her work .
13 It amounts to an agreement by Member States not to employ their veto to prevent a majority decision , and effectively represents a reversal of the Luxembourg Compromise .
14 But making permanent appointments to a group that has the authority to make decisions creates an elite , and effectively transforms the peer group into a hierarchy .
15 The chief stars are Alpha or Acrux ( 0.8 ) , Beta ( 1.2 ) , Gamma ( 1.6 ) , Delta ( 2.8 ) and Epsilon ( 3.6 ) , which rather spoils the symmetry of the pattern .
16 Which rather begs the question why he became an actor .
17 The Sioux warrior who successfully raids the Crow and Pawnee , the traditional enemies of his tribe , captures horses and distributes them to others , may receive a variety of rewards .
18 Driving Me Crazy mercilessly records the squalls , the vibrant performances and the inertia of the production team , who spend most of their time solemnly discussing what black music means to them and jockeying for pole position .
19 Driving Me Crazy mercilessly records the squalls , the vibrant performances and the inertia of the production team , who spend most of their time solemnly discussing what black music means to them and jockeying for pole position .
20 There is also a third form of competition , one which comes neither from the academy , nor from the laity , one by which we are all influenced but which rarely receives the attention it deserves : novelists , journalists , film-makers and dramatists are , at least in part , also professional students of the social world .
21 Ministers remain anxious that the Government could be brought under pressure to provide public funds , even though the Channel Tunnel Act expressly forbids the Government from providing any finance for the tunnel or the infrastructure needed to serve it .
22 The covenant , the breach of which is complained of , expressly forbids the tenant to permit the premises to be used for such a purpose …
23 Perhaps that is why it so effectively renders the thoughts of a people whose analysis of the world differs so radically from our own .
24 This opens the way for staff to use their ‘ professional skills ’ to implement their own ideas rather than those of the users , which effectively renders the notion of user participation meaningless ( Carr , 1987 , personal communication ; Jewell , 1975 ) .
25 In the third , the press faces financial penalties if anyone successfully sues the paper through the civil courts for defamation of character .
26 If the Consortium eventually wins the case it would give other embattled communities and planning authorities fresh confidence to challenge outstanding IDO claims , rather than compromise .
27 The Bavarian position appears untenable , as the matter is surely a civil one and Article 13 expressly prohibits a refusal based on the ground that the internal law of the state of destination would not permit the action on which the application was based .
28 It presumably represents an epoch of geomorphological maturity and plate stability .
29 However , the diversity of the range of information and its potentially extensive scope do require consideration of the methods by which the data may be collected and thereby offers an opportunity for the development of more creative ways of defining and discussing with older people these various areas of their lives .
30 The fact that this is indeed found to be the case powerfully corroborates the theory of development being advanced in these pages and demonstrates that the apparent absence of the latency phenomenon as we know it among primitive people like the Australian aborigines is no proof of the falsity of the idea of latency as such .
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