Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same goes for The Shamen as a whole . |
| 2 | Under supervision by a bankruptcy court , a firm in chapter 11 draws up a reorganisation plan which it then negotiates with the creditors while a judge arbitrates . |
| 3 | Until its demise , Drexel had not only cornered the market in issuing junk , it had also built a reputation with investors for reorganising the debts if a borrower neared default . |
| 4 | I hope Prince Charles approves the plans before a brick is laid ! |
| 5 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 6 | Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes . |
| 7 | They are setting up the Horsewatch operation in Hampshire to protect the animals after a pony was attacked with a fence post . |
| 8 | You can fiddle with brightness settings , depending on which scanner you use — and WSP supports most — should you need to , but we have found little need to adjust the settings unless a page of text has been particularly light or very dark . |
| 9 | Richardson reduced the arrears before a mistake by Walker allowed Olney to equalise . |
| 10 | In many cases the question will be answered by looking at the terms of the contract between the parties although a description of the parties as " employer " and " employee " is not conclusive . |
| 11 | The objections will be considered without the presence of the parties unless a hearing has been requested . |
| 12 | In the event of an emergency i.e. receptionist delayed , EDT will hold the lines until a member of the reception staff takes over . |
| 13 | Snip , snip , snip went the shears until a head appeared . |
| 14 | Thirty years , more or less , have gone by the boards since a ragtag group of artists converged on a spot in lower Manhattan called Coenties Slip . |
| 15 | And public health inspectors found the kitchen overrun with the insects after a hygiene probe was launched . |
| 16 | Assuming that Sophronia is an upper servant , the poem draws no closer to the owners than a description of the room where Biron sleeps and where , Timon-like , he keeps his unread books . |
| 17 | Racking the brains because a friend had fallen on hard times — the engine of his old VW has dropped a valve . |
| 18 | At " low " speeds ( less than 100 steps per second in the example of Fig. 4.1 ) the current is quickly established in the windings when a phase is turned on and stays near its rated value for a substantial part of the time for which the phase is excited . |
| 19 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that the French had always regarded the Bourequats as a bit different . |
| 21 | Life is a slow , but easy , on the phones until a newcomer breezes in and threatens their jobs , homelife and sanity . |
| 22 | I remember there was a big ; story in one of the newspapers because a guy had got hold of a Telecaster — they made a big feature of it ! |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe not , but I know there was a lot of opposition from the guys when a woman was put in the hot seat . ’ |
| 24 | Any attempt to actually draw the circle is bound to have some kind of imperfection , such as the irregularities if a bit mapped device , or servo non-linearities in an X-Y plotter . |
| 25 | Mr Seeley said Mr Smith had called the police after a friend of Steventon-Rogers had revved a motorcycle outside his home . |
| 26 | Maginnis had been listening to almost two hours of complaints about the police when a woman announced that she would clap her hands if she heard of an RUC constable 's death . |
| 27 | The correlation between the two sets of risk ratings is of comparable magnitude to the correlations when a subset of the data from Studies 2 and 3 was compared with data from a similar rating scales study ( Groeger & Chapman 1992 , in preparation a ) , r(22)=0.66 for risk ratings , r(22)=0.71 for accident estimates and r(22)=0.83 for speed ratings ( though risk and accident estimates are on a 20 point scale in one case and a 7 point scale in the other ) . |
| 28 | ‘ It is routine procedure that there needs to be more than one staff member on the premises when a project is open to the public . |
| 29 | Speaking on Feb. 9 at NATO 's annual Munich Conference on Security , which was attended by leading figures from the 16 member countries , Quayle warned of the consequences if a solution were not found to the deadlock in talks on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT — see p. 38746 ) . |
| 30 | None of the usual muck one finds in the lungs when a man 's fighting for his breath . |