Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The book was influential in the abolition of the tied cottage in the years following the war . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These are discussed in some detail , because the exercise of these powers involves a careful professional judgement in the interests of the client and others in the support network . |
| 20 | He actually bumped into Her Indoors , who peered , looked bewildered and retired ( if the use of this word has caused either [ a ] rejoicing or [ b ] total collapse in the markets , apologies ) . |
| 21 | Computers are an essential feature of modern life , overseeing daily activities in transport , medicine , banking , retailing and advanced research in the Sciences and Humanities . |
| 22 | The government had the right to control private investment in the interests of society , and Courtauld agreed with Beveridge that to surrender this freedom would not necessarily lead to the erosion of others . |
| 23 | Lord Winster , the new Minister of Civil Aviation , wrote in an annex to Addison 's paper that the government should retain at least some private investment in the airlines to profit from their interest and experience . |
| 24 | Otherwise you can only tuck insulating tape in the cracks or fit draught-proofing strips as for doors . |
| 25 | But if the kid from Cardiff is n't too happy at his shunt to starboard — to make way for a revitalised Sharpe — the twin source of young skills looked a devastating force in the victories against both Oldham and Arsenal . |
| 26 | A version of it had been announced by Faber and Faber , as " Mr Eliot 's Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to Him by the Man in White Spats " , in the spring of 1936 ; the blurb , written either by Frank Morley or by Eliot himself , explained that " several of the poems , illustrated by the author , have been in private circulation in the Publishers ' various families for a considerable time … " |
| 27 | Elsewhere , the enthusiasm for protecting everything ‘ natural ’ is too often misplaced and can lead to unnecessary confusion in the minds of a large population of consumers who actually owe their lives , their health and an enviable standard of nutrition to the responsible use of pesticides , medicines , preservatives and other ‘ artificial ’ chemicals . |
| 28 | There was a loud echo in the grounds of Wyvis Hall , Mary 's scream ringing back from off the wood and walls and starry waters , and Rufus , a town dweller who had never spent much time in the countryside , expected alarmed or annoyed people to arrive or the disconnected phone to start shrilling with complaints . |
| 29 | The presence of Egyptian and Jordanian delegations hinted at a possible rift in the ranks of the " front-line " Arab states ; according to some commentators the Jordanian decision to attend had greatly displeased the Syrians . |
| 30 | But , as the name of the Society implies , its object was to form links with a raised artisan political consciousness in the provinces , with towns like Norwich and , especially , Sheffield in the forefront . |