Example sentences of "[Wh det] [prep] [art] case " in BNC.
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1 | The connoisseur also hopes to have in a drawing an authentic work by an artist 's own hand , which in the case of an oil painting may not be so assured . |
2 | The significant points to note from this passage are firstly the way in which the blood of delivery is unclean ; secondly the way in which in the case of a boy 's birth circumcision intrudes in the text and interrupts both the period of the mother 's pollution and the account of that pollution ; and thirdly , the way in which the woman is finally cleansed of her impurity through the blood of sacrifice as administered by a circumcised male . |
3 | Tests in the plusher environs of Philadelphia showed a distinction between chic and unchic speech which in the case of ‘ toilet ’ ( chic ) and ‘ lavatory ’ ( unchic ) was the precise opposite of Nancy Mitford 's rules for U and Non-U in England . |
4 | They have also rediscovered long-forgotten old ones , such as the Home Secretary 's prerogative to do whatever is ‘ reasonably necessary to preserve the peace of the realm ’ , which in the case in question meant supplying plastic bullets and CS gas to the police without consultation with Parliament and against the wishes of local police committees ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
5 | To these might be added ‘ binding ’ , which in the case of journals is often the most common reason for non-availability . |
6 | Scientific method involves the precise measurement of observable events , which in the case of learning meant studying the measurable changes in behaviour . |
7 | To the extent that activities are spontaneous it appears that they belong to the realm of the caused ( which in the case of biological process is obvious enough ) , and that he is a free agent only to the extent that he learns to direct them . |
8 | By using their monopoly power ( which in the case of the UK is protected by law ) they are able to increase their relative wages , veto industrial change and disrupt production for purely political reasons . |
9 | Units are permitted champions which in the case of Orcs and Goblins are called Bosses . |
10 | EGRET has the conventional components used in high-energy γ -ray telescopes : an anticoincidence system to discriminate against charged particles , a spark chamber system with interspersed pair conversion material to determine the trajectories of the secondary electron-positron pair , a triggering telescope that detects the presence of charged particles with the correct direction of motion , and an energy-measuring device , which in the case of EGRET is a NaI(Tl) crystal . |
11 | There are two key tasks in these areas : first , the regions have to be thoroughly surveyed , which in the case of elephants often involves tracking of tagged animals by VHF radio or even satellite . |
12 | Attending conferences and meetings of women 's organisations or asking to address groups of boys will provide an opportunity for frank discussion which in the case of boys is very inhibited in the presence of their female counterparts . |
13 | These constitute a form of indirect discrimination which in the case of turbans was fought successfully by a Sikh family under the terms of the 1976 Race Relations Act ( porn , 1985 ) . |
14 | Somehow , the châteaux owners have been able to persuade us that it is in our interest to pay for the wine before it has been bottled and to finance its cellar maturation , which in the case of the better wines takes from ten to fifteen or even twenty years . |
15 | Books , and there are so many of them , on Cicero 's political thought might at least note the desperate vagueness of his ideas on the provincials , which in the case of the Gauls amounted to contempt . |
16 | Equity , however , stepped in , and said that if there had been a variation of a deed by a simple contract ( which in the case of a lease required to be in writing would have to be evidenced by writing ) , the courts may give effect to it as is shown in Berry v. Berry [ 1929 ] 2 K.B . |
17 | Each four-vector has an invariant , which in the case of the space–time interval P 1 P 2 is Δs 2 . |
18 | By ‘ structure ’ Brooks meant the organization of meaning in the text , which in the case of good literature ( ‘ poetry ’ ) possessed a different character from that of ordinary discourse . |
19 | The following equations need to be estimated : , where P is the market price ( 310p ) , EX is the exercise or subscription price ( 255p ) , rf is the risk-free rate of interest ( 0.12 per cent ) , is the standard deviation of the security which in the case of Polly Peck is ( O.59 ) , t is the time to expiry as a fraction of a year ( 21/365=0.058 ) , C is the estimated value of the call which in this case is the value of a complete right , and e is the natural logarithm base ( 2.7183 ) . |
20 | That will not just include the admission of new partners and the nature of the partnership business ( which in the case of solicitors can not really changeand see ss24(7) and ( 8 ) above ) but will extend to matters of policysetting up new departments to take on types of work not previously accepted or closing departments which have proved unprofitable , opening and closing branch offices , expelling partners , changes to the name of the firm , raising additional capital from the partners themselves or by way of loan , and other matters which one way or another can significantly affect the liabilities of each partner . |
21 | These include restrictions on a firm dealing ahead of a research publication , dealing with orders fairly and in due turn , prompt execution , best execution ( which in the case of exchange-traded futures is normally ensured by the exchange 's best price rule ) , allocation of transactions , aggregation and allocation of orders and a prohibition against churning . |
22 | There 's one scene of four minutes where every third or fourth sentence is ‘ What about the cases ? ’ , referring to what Rita 's character was going to do with her baggage , and it changes so that each person is saying it with a different meaning . |
23 | But what of the case where Johanna atte Temple 's father was Osberto de Arencon , and her son Edmundo de Loundres ? |
24 | What with the case and everything , and now all this with Lizzy … . ’ |
25 | But what in the case of the academics has simply been misleading , for a reigning queen was to have profound and ultimately disastrous political consequences . |
26 | Although the ceremony itself was a simple one — a private exchange of shared intentions in which the most important formal element was the document which laid down precisely who got what in the case of divorce — it was nevertheless going to be used by both sets of parents as an excuse to throw a party , during which they would vie with each other in largesse , showing off their wealth as well as arranging useful introductions for their unmarried children . |
27 | What in the case of Alfred of Wessex is explicit can be inferred for Charles too : the inculcation of wisdom among the nobility was designed to strengthen their commitment to the king . |