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

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1 Some children are chatting across the desks whilst working unsupervised in their project folders , a few others are constructing a ‘ trolley ’ and making table-tennis bats in the craft room and another group is involved in another classroom in a range of art activities .
2 The Code has been recognised by the courts as establishing objective standards of fairness towards minority shareholders which they will take into account when exercising their own discretion under , for example , CA 1985 , s430C or s459 .
3 Soane concludes , ‘ I have been more anxious to produce utility in the plans than to display expensive architecture in the elevations ; the leading objects were to unite convenience and comfort in the interior distributions , and simplicity and uniformity in the exterior. ,
4 Private customers receive more protection under the Rules than do non-private customers since the latter are deemed , to some extent , to be better able to look after their own interests .
5 He was critical , too , of government sources for changing the position of the goalposts when defining economic recovery .
6 The elasticity of substitution would normally be defined as : which gives a fourth relation between the parameters when set equal to an external estimate of a .
7 However , the integral approach does tend to lead to an emphasis on the similarities of business and non-business financial reporting ; this is in contrast to the differential approach which tends to accept the dissimilarities as having equal importance .
8 Whatever their standards , they were successful , collecting money for the charities whilst making good business contacts .
9 To this I find no difficulty in replying briskly that the human 's consciousness does not have the consciousnesses of the homunculi as parts any more than two Siamese Twins that share digestive organs have the unity and separateness of their respective consciousnesses compromised .
10 is par-boiled to remove the surface starch that causes the problems when cooking other long grain rices .
11 Others criticised the changes as reducing patient choice .
12 It can be seen that by piecemeal legislation great strides have been made towards equality between the sexes as regards legal status , rights and liabilities .
13 As they skirted the wrecked houses , Miss Logan could not help observing to herself that the earthquake had killed all the inhabitants while leaving intact those vines which — if Miss Fergusson should be believed — were the very source of their temptation and their punishment .
14 If they stay they must deliver an emasculated version of their own educational vision , and in such a position it is easier to deny the ideals than to stay open , day after day , to the disappointment and the sense of inauthenticity .
15 To the polite scepticism of orthodox American archaeologists , the expedition 's leaders are interpreting some of the hieroglyphs as containing ancient Hebrew letters and symbols which refer to Ophir , or Beth-Horon , the gold source of ancient Palestine in the times of King Solomon .
16 PRIVATE detectives were more interested in getting between the sheets than working undercover , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday .
17 Mechanical strength , absorption capacity , weight , bulk and lint shed are all adjustable by altering the types and ratios of fibres and the binders although optimising any one feature means reducing others .
18 Church music , he said , was ‘ both apt as well to quicken the spirits as to allay that which is too eager , sovereign against melancholy and despair , forcible to draw forth tears of devotion … able to move and to moderate all affections ’ .
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