Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm not I like I like the thought of but I prefer the thought of in work and how people can work together using this type of thing and think about it in the context of work rather than in the context that it talks about erm and it 'll be interesting to talk to you tomorrow so if to see what you think have the think about the things we 've talked about . |
| 2 | He feels that art directors often have such set views about the subjects he photographs that his own creativity is suppressed . |
| 3 | Tala-Tala even had its own home-made harbour , a kind of inner lagoon in the outer lagoon , obviously a laboriously built , three-sided breakwater , in which I assumed that every stone must have been carried by hand or on rollers to afford protection for the boats it enclosed . |
| 4 | His defects were that he lacked subtlety , was vehemently anti-communist to the point where any unrest or dissent might be regarded as a sign of communist activity , and that he lacked preparation for the tasks he faced . |
| 5 | I was always impressed by the quality of the students ' preparation for the lessons I observed on my weekly visits to them and by their willing capacity to learn by their mistakes . |
| 6 | The rest of the money that British Rail has available should be spent on projects that are desperately needed to provide jam today , not tomorrow , for the commuters who are paying British Rail for the services it offers today . |
| 7 | There is an important methodological point worth discussing here , for Freud points out that it is not possible simply to take what people themselves say are the reasons for the taboos they practise , for if the reasons are unconscious , they will not be able to do this . |
| 8 | ‘ People do n't always have logical reasons for the things they do ! |
| 9 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 10 | The use of three-dimensional shapes for printing gives opportunity for the shapes themselves to be compared and discussed . |
| 11 | They farmed indulgences for the Popes which , naturally , led them to patronise Luther 's opponents . |
| 12 | It was held that this was no defence for the defendants who should have relied upon the defence of ‘ act or default of another person . ’ |
| 13 | At the last minute the convention 's keynote speaker for Sunday 26 April was taken ill , and her replacement turned out to be Mr John Frohnmayer , the dismissed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who , although not scheduled to leave his post officially until a few days later , had actually worked his last day the previous Friday . |
| 14 | When our Party Secretary General , Salvador Cayetano Carpio. started a hunger strike for a wage rise for the bakers we helped out . |
| 15 | Naturally the male 's reproductive success rises with the number of females on his territory : but this is not the case for the females themselves . |
| 16 | Part IV makes comprehensive and detailed provision for the matters which the court is to take into account in deciding the question of suitability . |
| 17 | Robyn pushed through the stuffy , claustrophobic room , weaving her way with difficulty through the couples who always seem to be dancing , always clinging together . |
| 18 | Official reports into local government administration have in the past been extremely coy about the significance of such Partisanship for the matters they investigated . |
| 19 | A year later there was still a significant advantage for the patients who went home . |
| 20 | While Kittay 's theory has the advantage that it allows metaphor to be seen as operating according to the same basic principles regardless of the size of the discursive unit in question , Brooke-Rose 's own examination of the mechanisms of the verb metaphor suggest a view that minimizes dependence on an implicit ‘ proper ’ term outside the text and emphasizes the metaphoric interactions between the terms themselves . |
| 21 | Georgina chatted for a few minutes about the qualities she considered desirable in a secretary ; she even asked Celia 's opinion . |
| 22 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 23 | Richards asked employers about the factors they took into account when recruiting apprentices . |
| 24 | Even the king was not sorry that Priestley was ‘ the sufferer for the doctrines he and his party have instilled ’ . |
| 25 | He was already owed money by Hope for the times he had taken him fishing . |
| 26 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 27 | He 'd never told Mum about the words he 'd had with the relief officers , which was a blessing really because she would never have shut up about it . |
| 28 | The behavioural specialists are responsible for providing data and attitudes for the policy-makers which should redress the balance . |
| 29 | John White , who writes both as a psychiatrist and as a father , comments in Parents in Pain , ‘ I do not know what destiny whether small or great God plans for the children who most concern you . |
| 30 | Cheshire notes that even so a number of alternating items and structures did not occur frequently enough for a quantitative analysis , and some of the frequencies for the variables which were analysed are very low . |