Example sentences of "[noun] in [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In answering this criticism Prince Charles would have been of impeccable good manners in employing the seven degrees of retort by Touchstone outlined in Shakespeare 's As You Like It .
2 There were in fact great risks in starting a new town , or at least in investing money in it .
3 The offeror and its financial advisers will therefore have to work to a large extent in isolation in determining the right level of consideration .
4 No less devotion was brought to four songs by Joseph Marx , and although the rather overheated style of Nocturne elicited a few smiles ( Parsons performing prodigies in representing the burgeoning June night ) there was a touching ecstasy in Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt which was delivered absolutely from the heart .
5 What we have is them merely following awful Bunnymen in playing the ridiculous Albert Hall .
6 The issue of technology training is currently under review and the G M B , W E A partnership in establishing the Labour Telematics Training Centre at National College for a pilot project lasting twelve months is proof of how seriously we take this subject .
7 If the police were to use excessive force in exercising an admitted power , they would be acting unlawfully , and their victim would be entitled to use reasonable force preventively .
8 Group identity , as Karl Hufbauer shows in his recent book The Formation of the German Chemical Community ( New Scientist , 17 March , p 744 ) has shown , can be a powerful force in rejecting a new theory , especially if it was a ‘ passing french fad ’ and some thing typical of the ‘ flighty French ’ .
9 In the Habsburg lands Slav nationalism assumed different forms from those it displayed in the Ottoman empire , but it eventually had the same disruptive force in challenging the five-hundred-year-old supremacy of the imperial institutions .
10 The two most likely services to trigger a process of decline are the post office , which often acts as a multiple service facility ( Taylor and Emerson , 1981 ) , and the primary school , which is not only a central feature of the community but also a vital ingredient in retaining a young and active population ( Jones , 1980 ) .
11 It differs from most kouroi in having the right foot forward and the arms raised from the elbow , something ( probably a bow ) grasped in the left fist and something lying on the open right palm .
12 As a case in point , Mr Foulds cites — perhaps optimistically — its £200m , so far unprofitable , investment in building a national chain of estate agents .
13 Statements from both the BCP leadership and the UDF implicated local BCP organizations in provoking the nationalist protests .
14 An NVQ co-ordinator , Gill Murdoch , was appointed in May to carry forward the challenging work of developing assessment strategies for level 4 qualifications and informing and helping potential centresand candidates in implementing the new qualification system .
15 This illustrated the leadership 's caution and carefulness in committing the entire Labour movement to their entry into office in a broad-based coalition headed by a Conservative leader long regarded as the bitter enemy of the movement but recognised as a formidable fighting man — Winston Churchill .
16 Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases .
17 Assessing the effectiveness of a programme in achieving a desired level of results is the newest and most difficult area of work that the auditor has to adapt to .
18 Happily Lyons himself subsequently used the more moderate opposition in making the important suggestion That formulation makes an interesting link between linguistics and phenomenology which more knowledgeable readers might care to pursue .
19 Was it not his father who had been the prime agent in advocating the educational route to success ?
20 Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque .
21 What do we have in mind in taking a causal circumstance to explain an effect in the given sense ?
22 MacArthur 's political intentions must be kept in mind in assessing the various policies and initiatives for which he was responsible in Japan and Korea .
23 In developing the future size and shape of the Royal Navy , the Admiralty had two useful and recent precedents : the successful use of carrier-borne aircraft in interdicting the Chinese supply routes during the Korean War ; and the much more recent use of carriers to provide the lion 's share of tactical air support during the Suez landings , and the ad hoc use of the carriers Theseus and Ocean as Commando-helicopter-carriers in the amphibious assault on Port Said .
24 Finally , because this book seeks to assist users of search in selecting a good headhunting firm for their particular needs , the survey asked how companies had come across the headhunters they had employed .
25 Four — the concentration in using the whole people of God in evangelism and commitment . ’
26 A muddy ball is often a wet ball so the same considerations in playing a wet ball apply when wet mud adheres to the ball .
27 First plant the tree or trees , followed by shrubs carefully selected for their usefulness in supporting a diverse wildlife community .
28 Where , however , the cost of providing a service is balanced or overtopped by amounts received for the service from others to whom it is provided , the man in the street might well , and probably would , say that the provider had incurred no expense in providing the particular benefit under consideration .
29 The difficulties encountered by the QM Department in supplying the similar khaki uniform authorized for enlisted men are described in Part 1 of this article .
30 Trilateralism was certainly an effective antidote to isolationism , even if it did not extinguish the assertiveness shown by the Lord Chancellor 's Department in securing a faster growth in the rate of expenditure on the courts and legal aid than did the Home Office on the police and prisons .
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