Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physics and cosmology that provided the framework in which this astronomy was set was basically that developed by Aristotle in the fourth century B.C. In the second century A.D. , Ptolemy devised a detailed astronomical system that specified the orbits of the moon , the sun and all the planets . |
| 2 | I said today to my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook that if the Oliver Twist story were translated from the workhouse to a prison , the person who drew the short straw and was sent to protest about the food would come within the net of the Bill . |
| 3 | It tells us a good deal about the relative values of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that where the Victorians modelled their stations on cathedrals and palaces , Modern Man models his on shopping centres and office blocks . |
| 4 | It has interested me very much to learn from the Air Historical Branch of the Royal Air Force that after the war , since nothing had been heard of Warrant Officer Crane 's Stirling , its crew and S.A.S. passengers , a search was made of the Morvan region . |
| 5 | When the Prime Minister said on Tuesday that if the Conservatives were re-elected they would not increase VAT , was he giving the House and the country a categorical assurance ? |
| 6 | Phar Lap was ridden by Bill ‘ Urn ’ Elliott , who got the gelding smartly into his stride , but Phar Lap drifted right over to the outside rail , with the result that after a quarter of a mile of the ten-furlong race he was well adrift of the field . |
| 7 | By the same token , certain curriculum areas ( notably topic work and art ) might be seen as of tow priority and requiring little more than occasional and cursory monitoring by the teacher , with the result that unless the tasks set have an exceptionally high combination of challenge , motivating power and self-monitoring potential , children may spend excessive amounts of time either off-task or only partially engaged , or undertaking low-level learning . |
| 8 | The cumulative effects of section 3(4) ( which provides that no bystander need be or be likely to be present ) and 3(5) ( which says that affray is capable of commission in both public and private places ) complete the march of logic , with the result that if a person assaults another in private ( for example in a domestic assault ) and uses violence ( of such a degree that the other members of the household would be frightened if they were there ) , he is technically guilty of an affray . |
| 9 | That question was thought to have been partially settled by the House of Lords in United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley BC [ 1978 ] AC 904 where it was held that prima facie time limits are not of the essence , with the result that if a time limit is missed the review can still take place . |
| 10 | Plugs or outlets too , are often fitted in a haphazard way around the room , with the result that when a lamp is placed where it seems most needed , it frequently has to trail a dangerous mess of flex or wire with it . |
| 11 | The corn earworm moth , whose hungry larvae can decimate an otherwise healthy crop , has antennae tuned to these as well as other specific frequencies , with the result that when the female flies about on a clear moonlit night , she ‘ sees ’ — through her antennae — the whole field lit up , like an array of a myriad natural light bulbs . |
| 12 | It is an irony that as the government makes great claims about its job creation record for West Belfast it is at the same time in the process of running down some major sources of employment in the area , most notably the Royal Victoria Hospital . |
| 13 | In fact , if you always bear in mind that once a table is set for dining , lights lowered , candles lit , that table becomes an oasis , complete in itself , you can make a dining room wherever the table is . |
| 14 | Bear in mind that when the chips are down , we tend to revert to what we feel comfortable with and what we think has worked effectively in the past . |
| 15 | He got some kind of perverse pleasure out of this , thinking at the back of his mind that when The Graduate opened in the movie houses around Manhattan , the face would be seen magnified on a big screen and imprinted on audiences ' minds . |
| 16 | It must be borne in mind that when the painter settled in the square at Ambleside , his house was very near to Wordsworth 's stamp office . |
| 17 | But bear in mind that if the person |
| 18 | Before embarking on a management buy-out , the advisers to the management team must read carefully the provisions of the directors ' service contracts , bearing in mind that if the buy-out attempt fails , the members of the team may well wish to continue working for the company as before . |
| 19 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind that if the Pakistan bowlers have transgressed the laws they should be stopped . |
| 20 | Bear in mind that if the situation merits physical self-defence much may depend upon the attitude with which it is attempted . |
| 21 | Bear in mind that where a procedure is approved , the published instructions include the minimum heights to be flown at successive stages in the approach and a final obstacle clearance limit or minimum descent height recommended . |
| 22 | For it remains a curious anomaly that although the marathon has been the classic test of long distance endurance throughout nearly a century of Olympic history , the fastest timings have never enjoyed the status of world records . |
| 23 | Friends of the Earth fear that once the site is full , there 's a risk the expensive process of pumping out leachate might not be continued and that it could then leak through the clay lining and contaminate groundwater . |
| 24 | I wonder if deep down that peppery gentleman 's irritation might perhaps have been due to fear that once the gaff about whisky not being suitable for the kitchen was blown the master 's bottle would no longer be quite sacrosanct . |
| 25 | Mr Carmichael said : ‘ There is a real fear that if the bookies stay open until ten it will hit the greyhound tracks . |
| 26 | The unseemly haste is dictated not merely by the Government 's electoral timetable , but by the fear that if the measure is given proper time for debate there will also be time for the real , but as yet nascent , concerns of Tory Back Benchers and their constituents to grow and mature . |
| 27 | With each of the Picassos conservatively valued at some $10 million , there is a fear that if the family are successful in their claim , the works would no longer be accessible to the public and , worse still , that they might appear on the market . |
| 28 | It was agreed by the parties that if the proviso on its true construction operated as a restraint of trade it could not be justified on the ground of reasonableness . |
| 29 | He told reporters in Zvornik that after a Serb offensive , in some places ‘ it 's only two kilometres to the front line . ’ |
| 30 | It is argued in this study that although the courts did matter , they often failed to operate in the ways intended by British policy-makers . |