Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What seems to the individual to be a free and spontaneous response can be seen from " outside " to be the product of social and ideological conditioning , or even in some instances of a concerted campaign to mould public opinion in such a way as to produce exactly the response which each individual feels and believes to be authentically his or hers alone . |
| 2 | But in the daytime our top balcony gave us a grandstand view of the arena in which the final events would take place . |
| 3 | He charges firstly that the present techniques fail to exploit the opportunity which interactive computing can offer . |
| 4 | Functionality has nothing to do with that ; all that different kinds of functionality do is affect the forms which relative autonomy takes . |
| 5 | It is because of the universality of the threat to freedom contained in homophobia that it becomes highly important that we try to avoid both the language which dissociates us from sexual acts by others in which we do not want to participate , and the attitudes which that language represents . |
| 6 | It does not deal fully with the counter-examples which male parenting presents to its theory ; or with the fact that women , like men , have a large excess of genetic materials , and might do best by searching out new partners for each child . |
| 7 | And one composer in particular , a man called John Dunstable , had a profound influence on the direction which Continental music was going to take . |
| 8 | All these three new developments are in the direction which this book advocates , but they do not go nearly far enough . |
| 9 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 10 | My heart always jumped with fright whenever I saw one of my poems in print , because I was sure it would contain one of the misprints whose steady drizzle has haunted my work all my life . |
| 11 | The accounts which local sign theorists have given of what might loosely be called the ‘ experience ’ of localisation have , in the main , been variations on three themes . |
| 12 | There are some legal arrangements of queens on the board which this representation can not depict . |
| 13 | As then Chairman of Bell Line Steamers Ltd and a Director of the Bank of Scotland , he brought to the Board his wide experience of the business and commercial world . |
| 14 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 15 | When they gave the measure their final approval , ministers arbitrarily changed the legal basis of the legislation in such a way that unanimous voting would have been required for any further tightening of pollution standards . |
| 16 | In the afternoon Her Royal Highness , President of the National Agricultural Centre Rural Trust , opened a new Housing Development at Mareham Le Fen . |
| 17 | In the afternoon Her Royal Highness , Patron of The Butler Trust , visited HM Prison Leyhill , Wotton under Edge . |
| 18 | In the afternoon Her Royal Highness opened Whitbread Brewery 's new depot at Hedge End , Southampton . |
| 19 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 20 | Instead of completing her college course , she would draw on the money her English grandmother had left her and go straight into business for herself . |
| 21 | He had everything to live for really , he would manage on the money his mean father allowed him . |
| 22 | For that reason I suppose when I first heard about the money my first reaction was to say ‘ No . |
| 23 | So the hedges which most interest the historian are those which most fascinate the botanist . |
| 24 | New issues crowd in to join them : environmental management , repairing the damage which socialist concentration on heavy industry has inflicted on Eastern Europe , technological competition in a world where the struggle for economic supremacy is replacing the struggle for military security , migration and refugee flows on an vast scale . |
| 25 | The register of " form " as " template " seems to catch exactly the potentially creative status of the text whose full form will only be realised when it is enacted . |
| 26 | The advantage which this scheme affords is a 25% reduction on normal subscription rates or , in the case of staff between the ages of 18 and 24 years , a reduction of 40% . |
| 27 | Your Lordship will smile I trust at the progress your loving son is making for the Company ; to whom we are beholden for our wherewithal and our signal progress in this land . |
| 28 | Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own programme . |
| 29 | They hauled up their Norwegian colours , forbidden by the Germans whose only presence was an armed trawler , pulling away from a jetty and prepared to fight . |
| 30 | The birds whose selective predation put the finishing touches to their evolution must , at least collectively , have had excellently good vision . |