Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the daytime our top balcony gave us a grandstand view of the arena in which the final events would take place . |
| 2 | This depends on the judges ' views of the merits of the case before them or ( I would add ) the direction their political inclinations lead them — what I call below their ‘ view of the public interest ’ . |
| 3 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 4 | Firstly because , by giving the EEC its own resources from agricultural levies and customs duties , it would give the Commission greater independence ; and secondly because it proposed to widen the budgetary powers of the European Parliament , again strengthening the supranational element in the EEC to which the General was opposed . |
| 5 | As then Chairman of Bell Line Steamers Ltd and a Director of the Bank of Scotland , he brought to the Board his wide experience of the business and commercial world . |
| 6 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 7 | The benefits that actually count are the benefits to those genes that give the shell its protective properties . |
| 8 | When they gave the measure their final approval , ministers arbitrarily changed the legal basis of the legislation in such a way that unanimous voting would have been required for any further tightening of pollution standards . |
| 9 | In the afternoon Her Royal Highness , President of the National Agricultural Centre Rural Trust , opened a new Housing Development at Mareham Le Fen . |
| 10 | In the afternoon Her Royal Highness , Patron of The Butler Trust , visited HM Prison Leyhill , Wotton under Edge . |
| 11 | In the afternoon Her Royal Highness opened Whitbread Brewery 's new depot at Hedge End , Southampton . |
| 12 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 13 | Instead of completing her college course , she would draw on the money her English grandmother had left her and go straight into business for herself . |
| 14 | He had everything to live for really , he would manage on the money his mean father allowed him . |
| 15 | They report hearing voters who are ‘ ready to sacrifice ’ but are still skeptical of how Mr Clinton will use the money his new taxes raise . |
| 16 | For that reason I suppose when I first heard about the money my first reaction was to say ‘ No . |
| 17 | It may even be that our exceptionally limited use of the sense of smell , and our twentieth-century obsession with eliminating body odours , are a recognition of the chaos our unmasked scents could create in our overcrowded lives . |
| 18 | Palestinian negotiators asserted that the Israelis were at last beginning to appreciate the damage their punitive measures had done to popular support for the peace talks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 19 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 20 | Your Lordship will smile I trust at the progress your loving son is making for the Company ; to whom we are beholden for our wherewithal and our signal progress in this land . |
| 21 | Expressive tools give children opportunity to express on the computer their own ideas about reality , so that they can learn through representing , exploring and reflecting on the consequences of their own models . |
| 22 | At least John Quincy Adams left the clerk his personal details after the ceremony , unlike one couple married there in 1650 , who went away and ‘ … gave not their names ’ . |
| 23 | The Scarlet Ibis comes from forested wetlands of Central America , where it feeds on invertebrate animals containing the pigment carotene , which gives the birds their gorgeous plumage colour . |
| 24 | But for the present my principal interest is in meanings qua explicitly posited topics of discourse . |
| 25 | Now the present British government is very anxious to give the Russians our financial expertise rather than practical help to promote a market economy . |
| 26 | The second would be that arts teachers would not benefit from the experience their fellow teachers were gaining in curriculum building and which would be useful to practices in the arts . |
| 27 | Detailing the design features that gave the Connie its unique shape the film goes on to show the various changes and marks of the Connie that enabled it to become a flying legend in civil and military use . |
| 28 | In the chart your total income is 100% . |
| 29 | ‘ When I went to the Slade my sole intention was to become art master at some comfortable school . |
| 30 | It contains pigments which give the hair its individual colour . |