Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In Nepal she watched groups of men and women in dances depicting the activities of the seasons , and also saw young men performing what seemed very like a Morris Dance , with long and short sticks and a drum-and-rattle accompaniment . |
| 32 | ( b ) The admissibility of illegally obtained evidence As we discussed in Chapter 2 , one way of controlling the activities of the police and of ensuring that they do not act unlawfully is to prevent the admissibility of evidence which is obtained by illegal means . |
| 33 | Whereas the line item approach bears no relation at all to the activities of the police force it is possible to identify various functions carried out by the police and thereby determine suitable programmes . |
| 34 | In the courts political questions may come before the judges because the matter is already in public controversy , like race or industrial relations ; or because it is claimed that a public authority has exceeded its powers ; or because the matter concerns the activities of the police ; or because the matter impinges on the individual rights of citizens , affecting their freedom or their property . |
| 35 | There are studies by organizational sociologists that suggest the limitations upon the formal control of subordinates by means of rules , and the behavioural studies of law enforcements which have emphasized the significance of bargaining and discretion in the activities of the police and other rule-enforcers . |
| 36 | As we shall show in the later sections , a great deal of the activities of the fans can be understood as symbolic activities in the mode of metonymy . |
| 37 | There are those who are identified , more or less , as ‘ religious ’ leaders and who uphold all the abstract things which a vast majority of the human race are agreed on as being good , and there are those who have risen above their fellow men and women in the activities of the arts and sciences , and have therefore made their contributions to goodness by providing human happiness through the material gratification of the senses . |
| 38 | The activities of the societies also ensure that there is something for every branch of the membership . |
| 39 | The upper storey of Meadowbanks was now belching thick , angry , black smoke — foul , choking , desolate , but Greg had the impression from the activities of the firemen that the fire was being brought under control . |
| 40 | In general the activities of the masses were though of as mindless but they were at least non-political and in many cases they even encouraged the acceptance of social norms and new routines necessary to urban and industrial life . |
| 41 | ‘ … to collect appropriate information , as defined by the activities of the Highways and Planning departments , to maintain that information cohesively , such that it is consistent , accurate , up-to-date , complete and easy to manage , and to provide access to that information within the time constraints of the users , … '' |
| 42 | There are no weekends , every day is a potential workday … rains may interrupt the activities of the men … but not of the women . |
| 43 | The nature of public enterprise objectives makes it difficult for political authorities to evaluate and control the activities of the enterprises . |
| 44 | Meanwhile Scotland Yard confirmed that officers from the Obscene Publications Squad have been closely monitoring the activities of the Children of God cult in Britain . |
| 45 | Nevertheless , the social system which integrates the activities of the workers and provides the flexibility for relating separate tasks to the needs of the production system as a whole must be considered . |
| 46 | Thus a detailed criticism in " The Observer " of the activities of the Workers ' Revolutionary Party was justified , despite proof that some allegations were untrue : the jury found that the inaccuracies could not " materially injure " plaintiffs who had been depicted in an otherwise truthful light . |
| 47 | The Bank of England oversees the activities of the banks . |
| 48 | To suggest from within the institution that these influential and powerful units of control are essentially ephemeral and arbitrary constructs , involved in very limited and narrow areas of practice , will almost certainly lead to a rejection of the account ; and the findings are more than likely to be attributed the same metaphorical rejection as the activities of the villains and criminals , as was illustrated in the response to the study undertaken by the Policy Studies Institute outlined above . |
| 49 | In addition to regulating the lives of the Christian subjects of the Merovingian kings — and also to circumscribing the activities of the Jews , the one recognized religious minority in the kingdom — the bishops at least tried to monopolize the local centres and objects of devotion , which might have presented a focus of religious power outside their control . |
| 50 | A century later the French nobility would be among the worst affected victims of the activities of the routiers , often called Companies , whose particular style of war entailed the destruction of a wide variety of noble revenues . |
| 51 | The collapse of imperial power in Gaul and Germany , and the activities of the Visigoths and Burgundians provide a necessary background for early Merovingian history . |
| 52 | The activities of the unions are supervised by the Registrar of Friendly Societies . |
| 53 | To satisfy the court that these conditions have been met , it is necessary to obtain either oral testimony or , in the vast majority of cases , a signed statement from the person that occupies ‘ a responsible position in relation to the management of the activities for the purposes of which the computer was used ’ ( s.5(4) ) . |
| 54 | ’ And all the activities for the children that one can attend — sports days , Christmas parties , the Mod — you can get involved in them along with the children . |
| 55 | This was an advance from the figure of nineteen claimed by the defence on the pleadings . |
| 56 | These witnesses were the main thrust of the defence for the parents . |
| 57 | In preparation for likely positional changes next season , captain Liz Oehlers decided to make some interesting alterations to the side , effectively swapping the defence with the forwards . |
| 58 | In general , many of these inquiries were motivated by the need for what we would now regard as manpower planning , especially to do with the defence of the realms concerned . |
| 59 | A previously unknown organization calling itself the Organization for the Defence of the Rights of Prisoners and Detainees had issued a statement claiming responsibility for Leyraud 's abduction , describing him as a French intelligence officer and threatening that he would be executed if another hostage was released . |
| 60 | To some extent these differing viewpoints may be regarded as ideological positions advanced in the defence of the interests of particular groups , notably the natural parents and the ‘ substitute carers ’ ( foster- and adoptive parents ) . |