Example sentences of "active [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He has been active as a researcher on retirement for more than 15 years .
2 Cripps , at that time President of the Board of Trade , had long had a penchant for machinery-of-government matters and had been active as a minister in the wartime Coalition on reconstruction committees established to consider the issue .
3 One of our elders for example , is active as a governor of two schools ; another recently was elected a JP ; another works for his local Rotary Club ; another elder has just joined the now almost completely secular scout group .
4 We conclude that the South Mountains master detachment fault was active as a low-angle extensional structure , with a dip of 10° .
5 However , the deputy head himself became active as a member of the INSET panel set up by the project , and was involved in the planning and presentation of a number of inservice day-conferences and workshops in the county 's calendar .
6 He was more active as a member of the first Jacobean Parliament , often called upon in his official capacity to supply precedents , but he is best remembered for his diary of the Parliament , which has been described as ‘ indispensable ’ .
7 In Windsor he was active as a man of property and left money , with his wife Agatha , to endow a chantry .
8 She became increasingly active as a speaker and writer on problems facing women workers .
9 Lowther was active as a barrister and , according to his autobiography , the circuit judges nominated him in 1616 as a JP for Westmorland ; he joined his father on a bench which welcomed his legal knowledge .
10 He was one of the six sons of rabbi Moses of London , active as a businessman and in communal affairs from around 1240 onwards and writer of an authoritative work on biblical punctuation , and his wife Antera , the daughter of Jacob .
11 He was also active as a physician and in 1280 went to Flanders to treat the nephew of the count .
12 Helen Bosanquet took no more paid employment , but was active as a theorist and publicist for the COS , as a translator of German philosophy and sociology , and as a collaborator with her husband .
13 During his remaining years here he continued to be active as a Justice of the Peace .
14 Use Extended memory and load smartdrv into Upper Memory Blocks if you 've got EMM386 active as a UMB provider .
15 In televised speeches to the country , President Carlos Andrés Pérez said that the coup attempt had been instigated by rebel officers from the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement ( MBR-200 ) supporting Lt.-Col. Chávez , and by a number of small left-wing groups , including Bandera Roja ( " Red Flag " ) and Tercer Camino ( " Third Way " ) , headed by Douglas Bravo , who had been active as a guerrilla in the 1960s .
16 From the mid-1970s , indeed , comments one of the officers , ‘ the teacher education area of the Council was very active as a focus and sponsor of discussion concerning course development for some seven or eight years ’ .
17 Now Co-Director of the National Children 's Play and Recreation Unit ; still active as a Senior Medau Trainer and Executive Committee member .
18 Although I should warn you that about two hundred of those nine hundred rigs were probably actor active as a result of special tax breaks , which were ended at the end of nineteen ninety two and wo n't be repeated .
19 Lorna has been active as a tenants leader and was elected by tenants to represent them on Haringey Council 's Housing Committee .
20 Well I was there about eighteen months and I was still active as a branch secretary for the N U R , the Portobello Branch .
21 Her repertoire includes lieder and oratorios , though she has been most active as an opera singer .
22 CUC then became increasingly active as an independent body in support of the universities , e.g. in 1983 it made submissions to the UGC on the Swinnerton-Dyer 28 question circular .
23 He spent three afternoons a week , from Tuesday to Thursday , at Russell Square ; although he was still active as an editor , at least with the work of those authors who were now also old friends , age and reputation necessarily meant that he was now much more of a " figurehead " than once he was .
24 By then he was already active as an architect and his subsequent practice , mainly in the midlands but also on occasion further afield , developed immediately ; but his career was cut short by his early death at the age of forty-eight and the total number of his executed works was not large .
25 During the day ‘ Ark Royal 's ’ own fighters were active as the carriers headed back towards Gibraltar .
26 In the absence of calcium , InsP 3 has little effect , but becomes increasingly active as the concentration of calcium rises , reaching a maximum at about 300nM , after which it begins to be inhibitory .
27 In section 4.3 you will see that there is some evidence that Venus is not as geologically active as the Earth , which could indicate a cool interior right down to any iron core , which could largely be solid and thus explain the small dipole moment .
28 But though Venus does not seem to be geologically moribund it seems likely that it has not been as geologically active as the Earth and that no global system of Plate Tectonics has ever developed .
29 The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography .
30 After this remarkable visit , the volcano continued to be active for a week or two , but the explosive activity died down somewhat , and it began to look as though the eruption was going to be just a nine-days ' wonder , and would soon fade away and be forgotten .
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