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

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1 the activities comprising home-based leisure ;
2 There was virtually no comfort even in the royal apartments ; none of the bathrooms had running water and everyone was forced to rely on servants whose sole duty it was to provide water for washing .
3 With ample historical evidence on their side , the expansionists replied that visibility was a tested means of swelling research budgets .
4 There is nothing new in the experts spreading unwarranted alarm and despondency .
5 Totally relaxed , but never still on their feet , the experts make full use of the wind window from self launch to controlled landing .
6 Generally speaking , one could say that the ‘ sun shone on the righteous ’ as virtually all of the outings enjoyed good weather .
7 The seamen had good reason to suppose that the arguments on the employers ' side for resisting negotiations at national level were weakening .
8 A hurricane in the mid-1970s cause much damage and the fuselage was turned into a superb house-boat by David Drimmer .
9 Borrowing in general , whether by loan stock or from banks , was much more significant before the inflation of the mid-1970s caused nominal interest rates to soar .
10 You can select this to automatically arrange the icons within your new box , Windows will arrange the icons to fit any shape of box .
11 ( 2 ) The solicitors agree that exchange shall take place from that moment and holding solicitors confirm that as from that moment : ( a ) they hold the part signed by their client to the order of the other ; and ( b ) undertake that day to post by first-class post or to deliver their signed part of the contract to the other solicitors , together , in the case of the buyer 's solicitor holding both parts , with a bank draft or a solicitor 's clients ' account cheque for the deposit .
12 A comparison between the accounts shows great similarity of thought between them .
13 They were both periods when the presidency was in the hands of the Democrats and the programmes necessitating large growth in the bureaucracy were social-welfare policies of the type embraced by liberals .
14 Having dealt at length with the management and funding of the institutions providing higher education in the public sector , we shall now turn to an examination of the validation arrangements which appertain to their courses .
15 But getting the institutions to support some sort of restructuring has become difficult if not impossible .
16 Like more orthodox Christians , the alchemists maintained that mankind had suffered a fall ; but this lapse from grace was not seen merely as a matter of original sin .
17 Stock Exchange money brokers finance themselves additionally by short-term borrowing from banks but , in the event that funds are not forthcoming on normal market terms , they like the GEMMs have individual borrowing rights at the Bank of England .
18 That view rested , however , on the assumption that the shareholders exercised ultimate control and responsibility over their property , even if the function of managing the property had been delegated to corporate managers .
19 At last year 's Annual General Meeting the shareholders granted that authority to the Directors .
20 The absence of an effective internal mechanism for regulating the conduct of management means , of course , that the inability , if such it be , of the shareholders to exercise effective control is of increased significance .
21 In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders .
22 Its efficacy in providing adequate controls over the directors therefore depends on the shareholders performing this task .
23 But , after a while , she had to excuse herself from the discussions to express some milk and Laura was furious .
24 As the original inhabitants leave these barracks , the estates become unwanted stock allocated to people in the greatest need with the least choice — usually poor households with small children .
25 Social networks within the estates furnish mutual aid such as babysitting , the companies look after the structural maintenance of the houses , and most residents have common ideas about what counts as enjoyable socialising which are not shared by Shetlanders ; for instance , it was often pointed out by incomers that dinner parties are a novelty to all Shetlanders except young professionals .
26 In the mean time , however , the attempts to introduce Oral Rehydration Therapy to the people of Bangladesh may be regarded as a partial success , from which lessons can be learnt .
27 The basic players in the attempts to produce commercial fusion on Earth are deuterium ( D ) , tritium ( T ) and helium ( He ) ; atoms whose nuclei have two , three or four constituents .
28 Continued interest will reassure the surveyors involved that responsibility is still felt at higher level and this will inevitably produce better quality work .
29 G-LOC in the arcades broke new ground in flashy game cabinets .
30 So it was quite a simple job and of course , as yard inspector at Street , my job was to see that the s platforms were always When one train left you had to put the other train in to get the shunters to shunt another train into the empty platform you see , for the next the next shunt and that and if a train came in from Carstairs you see , you seen that the pilot and phoned the signalman , let the pilot into number five dock .
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