Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any unusual features should be noted and the response to them should be made by an appropriately qualified and experienced person . |
| 2 | Of course , as with any investment in stocks and shares , the value of units and the income from them can go down as well as up , and an investor may not get back the amount originally invested . |
| 3 | It might be impossible to keep all of the boys happy all of the time , but the majority of them should be " cheerful and quick to smile " , as well as alert . |
| 4 | There are plenty of people who have super-efficient secretaries , but the majority of us can only dream of having someone like that to put our working lives in order . |
| 5 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 6 | No the majority of mine will be finished by May the twenty fourth |
| 7 | By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive . |
| 8 | A preliminary assessment suggests that perhaps three quarters of these specimen clauses would be caught , but that the remainder of them would need specific implementation . |
| 9 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 10 | 1988 , etc. ) , there was a tendency to acquiesce in this conventional wisdom and all that went with it : the reduction of what ought to be a complex and multi-faceted debate to the simple adversarialism of ‘ formal ’ versus ‘ informal ’ , ‘ didactic ’ versus ‘ exploratory ’ , teacher as ‘ instructor ’ versus teacher as ‘ facilitator ’ , rote learning versus ‘ discovery ’ , ‘ subjects ’ versus ‘ integration ’ , class teaching versus group work , ‘ traditional ’ versus ‘ progressive ’ , ‘ bad practice ’ versus ‘ good ’ . |
| 11 | The problem is exacerbated by the fact that consumers pay only about 15% of the world price , due to huge government subsidies , the reduction of which would be politically delicate . |
| 12 | The senders of it must have had misgivings as to whether he would obey as they appear to have decided to back it up with physical intimidation . |
| 13 | Still , I do not wish in what follows to forego the support of what must seem to be the good sense of our natural empiricism , which is independent of philosophy . |
| 14 | In Chapter 2 we embarked on the task of building a house for the writer-self , a beloved abode where the writer in you can live . |
| 15 | This is of course why we , we are proposing the trial in which would er give us an end performance grass cutting contract but we do n't want to do that right across the county because of the projected cost , until we know whether it would work . |
| 16 | This breaking-down of the time barrier could be extremely exciting ; at the same time , the very idea introduces so many paradoxes ( if you communicate with the past you change it ; you therefore change the present ; therefore , in this new present , you never communicated with the past ) that we must think it unlikely that people will ever be able to use tachyons in this way … unless communications were flitting between alternate universes , the existence of which would imply the simultaneous reality of all possibilities . |
| 17 | Unfortunately some of this work was done without a proper appreciation of the fact that the presence of tree growth , and the shade it gave , prevented or at least discouraged the growth of water weeds , the existence of which could form an even greater obstruction than much of the tree growth . |
| 18 | tried to inaugurate a new concept of citizenship which would link men of different social classes , The concept was based upon the notion that there was a good common to members of all classes , a goal the existence of which could be established from German Idealist metaphysics and which could be made visible in actual measures of educational reform and social welfare . |
| 19 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 20 | While smaller ticket ( or lease deal value ) items suffered , some major big ticket deals helped ease the blow of what would have been an even more difficult year . |
| 21 | We have a pair of tickets to give away ( normal price £50 each ) for the gala , plus special entry into the raffle , the winner of which will be announced on the night . |
| 22 | Short now trails 2–1 in the best of 10 match , the winner of which will be only one step away from a contest with world champion Gary Kasparov in 1993 . |
| 23 | Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion . |
| 24 | Incidentally , I listen for my own information and education to the early recordings of the Busch quartet to get the measure of what can be achieved , and what pianissimo and dolce really mean . |
| 25 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 26 | The sharper the boundaries , the more likely the dynamic between them will be articulated through more of less formal , institutionalised modes of mediation : patrons , brokers , interpreters , committees , councils and the like . |
| 27 | Those are important and worthwhile projects , and we must ask the Government where the money for them will come from , especially if £1.4 billion is gobbled up by the proposals for King 's Cross . |
| 28 | Yeah , but if you took the watch off it should stop . |
| 29 | Hopper heads are generally considered unsanitary as they are not self-cleaning ( and can get coated with dried soap ) and the smell from them could enter the bathroom through an open window . |
| 30 | Each Saturday there will be guided tours for two of the churches on the list , while on the first and third Saturday of every month a concert of classical music will be held in one of the churches , the takings from which will go towards restoring a work of art . |