Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] minor [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case was heard as a minor offence before a low-level court , the tribunal correctionel in Tours , at which three judges ruled that , although the article exculpated the mayor , the advertisement did smear him , and the newspaper was ordered to pay him Fr10,000 ( £1,000 approx ) . |
| 2 | Why are we so ready to treat as a minor operation an alteration which involves a major transformation in the cat 's lifestyle and personality ? |
| 3 | One of the men was treated for a minor head injury , a statement said . |
| 4 | As you do n't have to go through a minor interval just go one semitone lower and |
| 5 | For example , if they failed to arrange for a minor repair in the science labs and a pupil was hurt as a result , they might be guilty of a safety offence . |
| 6 | ( The Companies House penalties were regarded as a minor inconvenience by the directors . ) |
| 7 | This is often regarded as a minor energy consumer , but it may in fact represent a significant proportion of the total electrical load in a laboratory . |
| 8 | Reg Seekings , who came from No. 7 Commando , remembers an incident right at the beginning when they got fed up with erecting tents , that nearly erupted into a minor mutiny . |
| 9 | It starts with the minor gods working to irrigate the land , then rebelling at their lot , from which they are relieved by the creation of man who is to do the work instead . |
| 10 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 11 | Even Sturge , whom Stephen cast in a minor role in the heroic days , had been ‘ so headstrong in his peculiar notions of right and wrong ’ that he had embarrassed the Young England abolitionists in the 1830s and such ‘ eccentric principles ’ as his pacifism had , in Stephen 's judgement , led the BFASS into error by opposing the continuation of the squadron policy in West African waters in the 1840s . |
| 12 | Some of these problems — for example , study leave — could be solved by a minor increase in resources . |
| 13 | Given the fact that schools selected for a Minor award were being encouraged to develop existing good practice , it is , perhaps , surprising that the formation of a permanent library committee , as in the case of the Major Project , was not made a prerequisite for their participation . |
| 14 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 15 | That could be seen as a minor complaint when the Forestry Commission 's marketing efforts in the past 20 years have attracted investment of more than £1 billion in wood processing . |
| 16 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |
| 17 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 18 | They also cross a railway junction which passes under a minor road just north of track ( H ) . |
| 19 | There were demands for higher wages , for social reform and for wider access to higher education , yet in 1966 the government felt the need to cut back on spending programmes as the economy moved into a minor recession . |
| 20 | Accent Soleil Limpide Rose Frêle Three soft , luxurious lip colours from Chanel 's Intensities range in a Minor Key with co-ordinating nail enamels . |
| 21 | And , along the way , Harry had chanced upon a minor mystery that impinged on his own past . |
| 22 | Earlier , a close friend of Pringle 's , Jason Ward , 20 , was shot in a minor road near Stillington , on the Cleveland-Durham border . |
| 23 | He turned , and I bowed , ever so humbly , an innocuous ( I trusted ) figure receding in the minor dust-storm of their exhaust wake . |
| 24 | Listening to Friends on the album , I was waiting for it to modulate to a minor key in the middle … |
| 25 | Their riders , spearheaded by new signing Richard Van Looy , formerly with Leo CC , littered the top ten and last year 's prolific winners Eddie Page and Barry MacDonald reduced to the minor placings . |
| 26 | Felix thought of Czechoslovakia and then careered into a fantasy of Ho Chi Minh gossiping about the minor members of the English Royal Family . |
| 27 | Masklin tried hard not to look like a minor organism . |
| 28 | An internal squabble amongst the ranks soon grows into a minor riot with fists and curses flying . |
| 29 | It 's a minor , chromatic thing ; it enables you to play in a minor key , which most open tunings do n't . |
| 30 | Readers of Holroyd 's earlier volumes will derive further pleasure , sometimes melancholy , from finding out what happened to the minor players in the Shaw story — his sharp-tempered secretary Blanche Patch , for instance , and poor Dr Lowenstein , the zealous bibliographer with the unfortunate manner . |