Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this case illustrates , it is a common mistake for the Crown Court to overlook the limitations on the permissible aggregate sentence in the magistrates ' court , set out in Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 . |
| 2 | Now that we have a little experience in the joys of simple kite flying , it 's time to look deeper into the whole subject and to understand more about those ‘ Modern Materials ’ which have emerged since the 1970s . |
| 3 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
| 4 | It is in this sense that Marx distinguished , initially in his ‘ Contribution to a Critique of Hegel 's Philosophy of Right ’ ( 1844 ) , between ‘ a partial , merely political revolution which leaves the pillars of the building standing ’ , and a social revolution ; thereby changing the whole concept of revolution , as Max Adler ( 1928 ) later argued , ‘ from the merely political idea of the transformation of the state , into the social concept of an economic change in the bases of society ’ . |
| 5 | To be fully implemented the agreement required confirmation by a two-thirds majority in the Senates of both the USA and the Philippines . |
| 6 | The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London . |
| 7 | These moves have gone down fairly well in most quarters though again political cynics see decentralisation as a long-term ploy by Chevenement to build up personal political support in the provinces . |
| 8 | It points inter alia to the ambivalence of Darren Coulbourn 's racism and the significance of the masculine cult of violence that had a strong presence in the all-boys school . |
| 9 | Fothergill Gudgin , Kitson and Monk ( 1986 ) write : ‘ The industrial city in Britain is the product of nineteenth-century capitalism … ’ , but ‘ all this has changed … there has been a complete turnaround in the fortunes of the industrial city : in the late twentieth century the city is the principal location of deindustrialization ’ . |
| 10 | Two mini Margis in the stalls are the target of most of the ad libs , and they respond as if they grew up with the star . |
| 11 | The design has been created by Kenneth Carroll , who has had extensive experience in the worlds both of books and of newspapers — his clients have included Penguin ( where he designed the King Penguin and reference lists ) , Collins/Fontana , Heinemann and Pan , and he was also responsible for the most recent redesign of the Observer in 1989 and , when a partner of Carroll , Dempsey & Thirkell , co-designed the Independent . |
| 12 | It seems this sort of thing 's been going on ever since the Romans colonized Sardinia and drove the indigenous population off the rich pasture in the lowlands up into the Barbagia . ’ |
| 13 | Professional standards have traditionally played little part in the accounts of central government . |
| 14 | In the 1656–8 Parliament , as a member for Surrey , he was active in committees but took little part in the debates . |
| 15 | In the event my evidence — on the scientific value of clinical ecology — played little part in the proceedings because the charges brought by the GMC touched only peripherally on Dr Mumby 's clinical activities . |
| 16 | Character statistics play very little part in the proceedings , which is unforgivable for a product passing itself off as a roleplaying game . |
| 17 | Apparently , the guru had played little part in the proceedings , confining himself to putting records on the gramophone ; and this , for Eliot , seemed to render him the more sinister . |
| 18 | By contrast to weaning , which represents the loss of a love-object ( the breast ) and which produces a characteristic culturally valued response ( mastery of the ability to postpone oral gratification in the interests of agriculture ) , toilet-training represents a more-or-less voluntary submission to an educative influence and a partial redirection against the self of the sadistic drive which is associated with the anal function . |
| 19 | The book was influential in the abolition of the tied cottage in the years following the war . |
| 20 | The tall rye in the fields either side of the road was untrampled , and the road 's crude paving of cobbles on impacted chalk and flint had no deep ruts like those made by the passage of heavy guns . |
| 21 | An obligation to file an answer to an originating application only arises if there is some specific provision in the rules relating to that particular application , or if the court so orders . |
| 22 | Long-term monitoring of a section across the northern end of the Trough has shown little change in the properties of LSW since 1975 ( D. J. Ellett , manuscript in preparation ) . |
| 23 | After the initial nationalisation programme carried out by the post-war Labour government , there was relatively little change in the frontiers between the state sector and the private sector . |
| 24 | In previous elections there has been little change in the parties ' support between the final Sunday of the campaign and polling day . |
| 25 | Scotland showed superior power in the scrum but could not capitalise on their possession , and Western Samoa , who scored three tries to one , produced flowing play which was backed up by a strong play in the lineouts . |
| 26 | I 'll grantcha if you 're a citizen of the union living in South America , the West Indies or the Pacific and you happen to be a member of the French colonies , you 'll have a vote in the European parliament in the elections . |
| 27 | Despite the mood of despondency that seemed to shroud the whole idea of European unity in the mid-1950s , there was nevertheless a wide array of cooperative bodies in which the European democracies were involved to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 28 | He also began to assert that capitalism would be able to survive class struggles in Europe while it retained its powerful economic base in the colonies . |
| 29 | It was very much a local affair with the town 's voluntary groups playing the largest part in the proceedings . |
| 30 | However , the cautious pragmatism espoused by Sharif in line with Iran 's Rafsanjani , finds little support in the streets of Pakistan . |