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

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1 To separate as far as possible the concepts of equity and efficiency , economists use the concept of Pareto efficiency .
2 You see , what the angler has to do with his bait is to make it imitate as nearly as possible the conditions of nature .
3 This chapter seeks to examine at a small-scale the variations in deprivation and investment in an urban area of Pittsburgh .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 In most you will find intact the bones of Easter islanders who entered their spirit world centuries past .
7 Elisabeth Inchbald 's A Simple Story ( 1791 ) , Thomas Holcroft 's Anna St Ives ( 1792 ) and Godwin 's Things as They Are ( Caleb Williams ) ( 1794 ) are major examples , and we can associate with these Mary Wollstonecraft 's unfinished The Wrongs of Woman 1798 ) .
8 They argue that goods are used to make ‘ visible and stable the categories of culture ’ ( 1980 : 59 ) .
9 Because the reasons against the acceptance of authority vary it is not possible to discover in advance how strong the reasons for acceptance of the authority need be to be sufficient .
10 While Gloria helped dry the dishes after tea , Mrs Parvis continued to find fault with the people who ran the country .
11 Making clear the benefits of marketing
12 Ironically , according to Silviu Brucan , who briefed the Romanian politburo on the implications of such a step , Ceauşescu was the most prominent member of the Romanian politburo who opposed Dej 's desire to make clear the limits of Khruschev 's influence over Romania .
13 This will make clear the lines of progression and articulation with other modules in that subject area .
14 But at least the conditions made clear the hazards for shipping approaching this coast , the innumerable rocks and reefs and skerries over which the rollers spouted and boiled , many just below the surface , and the greater danger therefore .
15 ‘ It 's clear the decks for action . ’
16 This is partly due to my experiences as a politician , because I know as a politician that when you are doing something naughty , nothing is more effective than to muddy the waters with complication .
17 However , they particularly misrepresent the numbers of women who do not have paid work and want employment or who are underemployed ( Callender , 1985 ) .
18 They misrepresent the prospects to clients .
19 By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied .
20 God , by his unpredictable and uncontainable Spirit , is guiding the destinies of nations and individuals who do not know him , or deny his very existence .
21 The wind has died and now from the brooding world of the floor of the forest there burst from on high the calls of birds that cascade through the dense branches like the chimes of Chinese wind bells .
22 Coleridge required love , as the final lines of the agonizing The Pains of Sleep remind him .
23 Or were we trying to make meagre the devotions of minds which were helped to pray by colour and symbol ?
24 Moreover , the inevitability of pecking orders for children and institutions presupposed by such a market index of comparative performance will render less propitious the circumstances for learning , for those children who , through no fault of their own , are in a school which is perceived by the articulate watchers of the school results index to be failing .
25 Sexism is a term used to refer to a whole range of justifications which supposedly make acceptable the inequalities in income , in job statuses , in promotion chances and in access to power , for example , from which women suffer .
26 During his headmastership eighty-five open scholarships to Oxford and Cambridge were won by boys at the school : the spirit of the place in the 1930s , however different the forms of independence , was very close to that of Cardiff High School at the same time .
27 Again , although the publicity itself is free the costs of sponsorship are not .
28 As long as there is an abundant supply of water high temperatures tend to be associated with high rates of weathering , although this does not necessarily result in deep weathering profiles for , as we have already noted , where slope gradients are steep the products of weathering may be removed almost as soon as they are created .
29 This brings us inevitably to international law : the rules which make agreements between states binding ; the rules which seek to limit from the outside the kinds of actions which states may take in relation to each other and provide a framework within which they may negotiate .
30 This view informs every page of I.A. Richards 's Principles of Literary Criticism , where the critic is seen as making explicit the states of mind produced in the reader by the literary work .
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