Example sentences of "[Wh det] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The need for compromise is illustrated by the way in which the present criterion for appointment to the duty solicitor rota is operated . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | We will examine ways in which the uniform scope of regulation could be eased to safeguard traditional local products or practices . |
| 19 | But we are very close now to the critical turning-point after which the political scene in Prague could be as rapidly transformed as among its neighbours . |
| 20 | But we are very close now to the critical turning-point after which the political scene in Prague could be as rapidly transformed as among its neighbours . |
| 21 | PR realistically recognizes that parties provide the only channels through which the political verdict of the electorate can be expressed , that parties are indispensable to the formation of governments , and that what matters most in the outcome of a general election is not which candidates have been elected , but how many of this , that and the other party . |
| 22 | In the post 1987 era this logic has underscored urban policy interventions which incorporate two key themes , one a straightforward exercise in symbolic amelioration and social control of racial injustice , the other the manipulation of the raw social context by which the Thatcherite ideology of privatism can be extended in housing , education and local government finance through the particular representation of contemporary urban life that the term inner city evokes . |
| 23 | It was a splendid opportunity for Douglas Hurd to recall those long-lost Victorian values which the Thatcherite brand of Conservatives so ardently wished to revive . |
| 24 | In Hebrew religion , and in that religion alone , man was joined to God by a quasi-legal covenant , as a result of which the ancient bond between man and nature was destroyed . |
| 25 | We are pleased that a dispute in which the current management of pergamon Press has played no part has now come to an end . |
| 26 | It also feared that a coalition with the anti-fascist forces might create similar problems to those which the Labour government of 1929–3 I faced when relying upon Liberal support to carry out a legislative programme . |
| 27 | This was the beginning of a great revival ; it followed decades during which the legal position of jews had , on the whole , steadily improved . |
| 28 | The fact that Freeman is writing primarily for the social work profession is apparent , for instance , in the extent to which the legal regulation of substitute care is dealt with in depth . |
| 29 | To recall the conclusions of my earlier analysis : we now have a capitalism in which the greater part of the means of production is possessed by impersonal capitalist enterprises — legally distinct subjects employing salaried managerial labour — the majority of whose shares is held by further impersonal enterprises . |
| 30 | It is clear from this that for Rolle prayer was the most important exercise by which the reality of faith is realised , which is why he deals with it first after the section on the necessity for patience in adversity : Prayer is the means by which the transforming dynamic of the love of God is accessed in the innermost marrow ( " inhirliest mergh " ) of our hearts ( 7.118.28 ) and labour becomes light ( 11.123.30 ) . |