Example sentences of "[det] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if play areas are created off-street , the impression must not be given that the rest of the street is not intended for playing children . |
| 2 | It 's a good , dramatic blend and , given that the rest of the Heineken League is equally topsy-turvy , it makes for an entertaining diversion while Alan Davies , Bob Norster and Gareth Jenkins wrestle with the real problems on the big stage . |
| 3 | How lucky she had been to meet Violet , but was n't that the story of her life ? |
| 4 | Is n't that the heart of it ? |
| 5 | Given that the involvement of genetic factors is no longer in dispute , two questions need to be answered . |
| 6 | All sounds from outside were muffled because of the dock being partly below ground level , set into the slope of the bank , but in a short while I heard the sound of a car door slamming and after that the noise of an engine starting up and being driven away . |
| 7 | ( Was that the noise of other people out on the fringes of unknown perceptions ? ) |
| 8 | The formal proletariat has control over neither the means of production nor labour power , but its members earn regular wages which give them a security that the mass of the poor lack . |
| 9 | Is that the shape of things to come ? |
| 10 | Another consequence of the boom in opposition to nuclear weapons was the eclipse of the campaign against nuclear power , which was a bit odd given that the whole of 1982 was a run up to the inquiry , which begins later this month , into the plans to build Britain 's first pressurised-water reactor . |
| 11 | And then she 'd dose you up with goose grease , oh dear that the thought of that now . |
| 12 | Given that the purpose of the video is to provide a resource for language learning and teaching , any decisions concerning presentation , acting , editing , etc will be taken so as to give precedence to this educative purpose . |
| 13 | Given that the purpose of the video is to provide a resource for language learning and teaching , any decisions concerning presentation , acting , editing , etc will be taken so as to give precedence to this educative purpose . |
| 14 | Given that the purpose of the video is to provide a resource for language learning and teaching , any decisions concerning presentation , acting , editing , etc will be taken so as to give precedence to this educative purpose . |
| 15 | The Gnomes were very interested in this ; as Flaherty said , you could not know too much about these things , although it was a pig 's pity that such a jewel could n't be worn by the King of the day when he went about his reigning , because was n't that the purpose of crowns and jewels anyway ? |
| 16 | Given that the purpose of a general insurance company is to provide a pool of funds from which to meet claims which are by their nature uncertain and given also that their policies are mainly short term — clients can terminate or renew annually — this proportion of long-term assets may be surprising . |
| 17 | Often it is on caring friends and neighbours that the responsibility of looking after such people falls . |
| 18 | He told shareholders the latest sums were £33,000 in settlement of a civil action by the club — £15,000 of that the cost of an audit investigation — and £838 in a case involving credit cards . |
| 19 | Days later , Fernandez suspended the Queens school board that refused his curriculum , and ten days after that the board of education reinstated them all . |
| 20 | As will become clear , this claim is crucial to the development of the Report 's strategy , given that the rise of modern industrial society is taken to be a major progenitor of contemporary " accidental and conventional " social and cultural divisions . |
| 21 | By chance , the Museum was also acting as host to a large delegation of Mayors and Councillors from the surrounding area and it is hoped that the significance of the presentation rubbed-off on them . |
| 22 | Given that the sanctity of the Irish family is rigidly built into the Irish constitution , it was going to take years to break down and change the incredible legislative and political barriers . |
| 23 | Provided that the game is fair and given that the majority of investors hold diversified portfolios , as of course the dominant institutional investors do , then it is debatable whether extensive additional audit work is justified to provide the relatively small numbers of undiversified investors with information about the likely variance of cash flows . |
| 24 | However , given that the majority of employees receive earnings which are below the £17,200 threshold , the 29 per cent rate is clearly imposed on a wide range of incomes , from the lowest to the relatively highly paid employee . |
| 25 | Given that the majority of people are as rational about their fertility as I am — and God knows we are the ones who have to live with our decisions — it seems that any government which tries to overrule those decisions for the sake of some nebulous ‘ common good ’ , or ‘ future benefit ’ is not to be trusted . |
| 26 | It was held in the circumstances that the defendant was negligent in not completely extinguishing the fire and that the Act of 1774 provided no defence . |
| 27 | Is that the suitcase for Vancouver ? |
| 28 | Given that the chairman of the Conservative party and the Secretary of State for Energy have accepted , on behalf of the Conservative party , that petrol prices will have to rise , do the Government wish to take action before Europe imposes its own regime on us , or will they wait for Europe ? |
| 29 | Prussia 's pre-eminence was institutionalised in that the King of Prussia was ex-officio the chairman of the Bundesrat , but this was only as titular Head of State , not head of government : in all matters Bismarck was keen to stress the federal , decentralised aspects of the constitution , both to reassure the smaller states that they were not being swallowed up and also to convince Prussia that she was not losing sovereignty to the supranational authority either . |
| 30 | Does he agree that the cut of £19.9 million from £262 million in the 1992-93 budget is a dramatic reduction given that the proposal for the programme of building and house repairs in Northern Ireland agreed by the Government was already the lowest in the history of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive ? |