Example sentences of "[Wh det] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compression has caused thrusting on an eastward-dipping plane along which the continental crust of the Pacific Plate is being heaved up ( Fig. 3.30 ) . |
| 2 | A special type of biological cell , being the unit of which the nervous systems of animals are composed . |
| 3 | The Dutch Black Pied , which has many synonyms , is the type from which the Friesian cattle of the world were developed , including the Holstein . |
| 4 | The changing nature of these relationships can tell us much about broader aspects of political change in Mexico , in particular the extent to which the corporatist pact with peasants , labour and popular sectors has been eroded by the impact of the economic crisis and the search for new forms of political representation within civil society . |
| 5 | In the Inca state this process of regression seems not merely to have profoundly compromised the superego and to have replaced it with the person of the Inca and his fellow Children of the Sun , but also to have attacked the ego in general and to have reduced the Indians to an apathetic , dependent and passive state in which the higher ego-functions of decision-making , initiative , and individuality were markedly reduced . |
| 6 | A compromise was being hammered out in which the once-opposed concepts of design and transmutation would be synthesized so that the trends in the fossil record could be accepted as the gradual unfolding of a divine plan . |
| 7 | Charles Manson was not merely a symptom of the drug age ; he was the epitome of a certain sickness that gripped some sections of society , by whom he was exalted as the inspiration for the killing of so-called pigs , the word daubed in blood on the living-room walls of director Roman Polanski 's home , after the so-called Sharon Tate murders , for which the bearded prophet of the drug age is still serving life . |
| 8 | The head of department , for example , depicted the library project as something which had to be seen as a specific development in the context of a GRIDS exercise in which the broad range of curricular provision came under consideration . |
| 9 | They are like Cuvier 's heel-bone , a minute particle of the whole from which the entire anatomy of the terrestrial animal can be reconstructed . |
| 10 | The council called for " an end to the consequences of the Gulf war " , affirmed the " unity and security of Iraqi national soil " and condemned the " intervention to which the fraternal people of Iraq " were being exposed . |
| 11 | Also from Chicago is promised High Renaissance Art in St Peter 's and the Vatican : an interpretive guide by George Hersey in which the papal commissions from such artists as Michelangelo , Raphael and Bramante are placed in their historical context ( £45.50 , $57 ) . |
| 12 | Indeed , he states quite unequivocally , ‘ in such dwellings every labourer ought to live , and any nobleman might live ’ In the following decade , Pugin also enquires why the middle-class dwelling should be regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , for ‘ the smaller detached houses which the present state of society has generated , should possess a peculiar character : they are only objectionable when made to appear diminutive representations of larger structures ’ . |
| 13 | Which the present administration of central government are doing their best to , under the same hammer as it was in those days , so it 's just , this is just a repeat performance of the those days and the government today . |
| 14 | Thus investment or additions to the capital stock will proceed up to the point at which the present value of the future profits equals the initial purchase price of new capital goods . |
| 15 | The need for compromise is illustrated by the way in which the present criterion for appointment to the duty solicitor rota is operated . |
| 16 | To the Great House accordingly they went , to sit the full half hour in the oldfashioned square parlour , with a small carpet and a shining floor , to which the present daughters of the house were gradually giving the proper air of confusion by a grand piano forte and a harp , flower-stands and little tables placed in every direction . |
| 17 | Perhaps one should note the care with which the present leader of the party , John Hume , chooses his words over the future of the North . |
| 18 | Joseph Butler 's ideas were seen in particular as a challenge to Wesley 's ( not unlike the way in which the present Bishop of Durham is seen as a challenge to contemporary evangelical ways of thinking ) . |
| 19 | Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time . |
| 20 | Thus we see in sociology two strikingly different analyses of crimes of violence against women : one in which they are the infrequent consequence of a few mentally deranged men ( which is supported by the low incidence of such crimes in the criminal statistics ) ; and one in which they are an institutionalized set of practices which are part of an overarching system of gender inequality ( in which the low number of convictions for such crimes is merely evidence of the state 's collusion ) . |
| 21 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 22 | The category into which particular losses are put will depend on the value we put on the interests which the governmental action in question has interfered with , weighed against the value we put on the end which the governmental action was designed to serve . |
| 23 | The principal way in which the agricultural production of the crofts has been increased is through the improvement of pasture by fencing , planting shelter-belts , liming ( usually with shell sand ) , fertilizing and surface seeding . |
| 24 | A useful text to have when writing anything is The Complete Plain Words , originally by Sir Ernest Gowers , published by HMSO ( Fraser , 1983 ) , from which the above examples of filler words are taken . |
| 25 | judging by the way in which the discrete skills of listening , speaking , reading and writing are almost invariably discussed separately , it seems likely that the commonly recommended classroom activities will fail to integrate these skills in terms of complete forms of communication |
| 26 | Thus , for example , an account of some episode of social conflict is constructed in which the discrete personalities of the protagonists are regarded as irrelevant to the outcome , and they are treated simply as the bearers or supports of certain political ideologies or economic forces . |
| 27 | It leaves a gap at the very centre of the knowledge which the rational procedures of the sciences are continually expanding , with nothing to fill it except deduction from principles themselves ungrounded , or habit , or religious or political emotion , or the Existentialist 's anguished leap in the dark , or doing as one pleases , or as convention or fashion pleases . |
| 28 | The unfriendly comment of Edgar Wind in Art and Anarchy was : ‘ What has optimistically been called a ‘ museum without walls ' ’ is in fact a museum on paper — a paper-world of art in which the epic oratory of Malraux proclaims , with the voice of a crier in the market place , that all art is composed in a single key , that huge monuments and small coins have the same plastic eloquence if transferred to the scale of the printed page , that a gouache can equal a fresco . ’ |
| 29 | We will examine ways in which the uniform scope of regulation could be eased to safeguard traditional local products or practices . |
| 30 | One important feature of the ground battle for which the Allied forces at all levels were profoundly grateful was the fact that the chemical warfare attacks for which they had prepared the protective equipment described in the San Francisco Chronicle of 19 February 1991 never materialized . |