Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have already seen ( on pp. 33–4 , above ) that in 1948 the conventions of historic-cost , straight-line depreciation of capital led ( if the Boards broke-even on book costs ) to artificially low prices . |
| 2 | In 1799 the shearmen of Wiltshire threatened those who were introducing dressing machinery : " if you follow this practice any longer … we will keep som people to watch you about with loaded Blunderbuss or Pistols And will certainly blow your Brains out it is no use to destroy the Factorys But put you Damn 'd Villions to death " . |
| 3 | That the Inhabitants of Ballulve , Ballighiline , Moalrish . |
| 4 | That the Inhabitants of Ballulve , Ballighiline , Moalrish . |
| 5 | Last year we went to the West cork Hotel in Skibbereen , the previous year the Imperial Hotel , Cork and previous to that the Gleneagles in Killarney . |
| 6 | Given that the origins of semantics are diffuse ( logic , philosophy , linguistics , etc. ) it may be also observed that the boundaries of the subject are equally amorphous . |
| 7 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 8 | Crowe put in that the symbolists of Van Gogh 's time had supposed there was a universal language of colour , a primary language , a divine alphabet of colours and forms . |
| 9 | Given that the rituals of circumcision and menstrual taboo , like the other blood rituals , would appear to have derived at least in their final form from the trauma of the exile to Babylon and the consequent restructuring of the Jewish community , we shall need to start our historical survey some centuries further back in time in order to locate and appreciate the profound changes which occurred in and around the sixth century BC . |
| 10 | I was one of the lucky ones because they were having done that the others in fact left it until later and in fact they took , they , they called up for time . |
| 11 | Given that the laws of optics are true ( and for the naive inductivist , this can be established from observation by induction ) , and given that the initial conditions are accurately described , then the explanation of the rainbow necessarily follows . |
| 12 | Given that the numbers of eighteen-year-olds will decline sharply in the later years of the decade and assuming that the age participation rate shows no great increase , then there may well be spare capacity in the public sector institutions offering degree-level courses . |
| 13 | Given that the expectations of professionals about what disabled people can actually achieve has always been pathetically low , almost any intervention system which raises expectations is likely to produce similar results . |
| 14 | Researchers and observers have repeatedly suggested that , on the whole , it is in these variables rather than in the break itself that the seeds of disturbance in the child lie . |
| 15 | Given that the remedies under consideration in the present case are primarily of an in personam character , perhaps a closer analogy is to cases concerned with the circumstances in which English courts have granted or refused injunctions to restrain creditors , who have not proved in an English bankruptcy , from taking proceedings abroad or compelling them to refund property obtained abroad . |
| 16 | Much of the fall , however , is due to the Gulf crisis , rather that the misfortunes of Vestel 's parent . |
| 17 | erm local government , and I regret this , is probably going that way in that the demands upon Councillors are getting more and more , and for various reasons it is getting more and more difficult to find now in local government what I would call the amateur who who I think predominated in it , certainly outside the cities , up to nineteen seventy four . |
| 18 | Between 1987/88 and 1989/90 the numbers of teachers taking early retirement rose from 7,574 to 12,343 . |
| 19 | The National Insurance pension is the most important component of social security provision and so the lower the incomes of pensioners , the greater the proportion the National Insurance pension comprises , and the less is derived from occupational pensions . |
| 20 | To separate as far as possible the concepts of equity and efficiency , economists use the concept of Pareto efficiency . |
| 21 | You see , what the angler has to do with his bait is to make it imitate as nearly as possible the conditions of nature . |
| 22 | This chapter seeks to examine at a small-scale the variations in deprivation and investment in an urban area of Pittsburgh . |
| 23 | The organisation took root because the originators of the experiment were shocked at how little the victims of crimes knew about getting assistance , says Helen Reeves , director of Victim Support . |
| 24 | In a sense Spanish clerical conservatives were correct in thinking that there was no such thing as a ‘ safe ’ Enlightenment ; however respectable the proponents of luces appeared , at the root of their creed lay a rationalism that denied Divine Providence and that must lead to an attack on the position of the Church in society , even if they professed to respect dogma . |
| 25 | But one can go on almost endlessly tinker-tailoring the sources of greenness : Nordic nature-loving fascist , Quaker , Zen Buddhist , Taoist , Social Creditist , Marxist , socialist , pacifist , quietist , 1930s Green Shirt . |
| 26 | 1.2 The advantages of planning and forecasting . |
| 27 | In figure 7.6 the capacitances to earth are represented as lumped together from nodes A , B , C and D. Notice that if nothing is done about these capacitances , they act in pairs across the arms of the bridge ; for example , the reactance of C A in series with that of C B is in parallel with the impedance Z 1 . |
| 28 | In most you will find intact the bones of Easter islanders who entered their spirit world centuries past . |
| 29 | When Airfix went bust in 1980 the rights to Filetab for the PDP-11 were sold to filetab Support Services . |
| 30 | 2.3 The proposals for change embodied in the report were accepted and a new arrangement of 35 modules was agreed which may be found in Section 00 of Interdisciplinary Studies in the National Certificate Catalogue under the heading Physical Education and Recreation ( see Annex 2 ) . |