Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the final analysis a judgement on the political stability of most countries must be highly subjective . |
| 2 | In the final analysis a farmer must make a profit and all the economic pressures on farmers will eventually lead them to place agriculture before environmental conservation . |
| 3 | Whatever one 's view of the literary merits of the Manual ( and humour is in the final analysis a matter of personal taste ) , it is certainly wrong of Mr. Browning to imply that the book is inept , contains irritating mistakes and exhibits poor production values : this is simply not the case . |
| 4 | To be sure , there is evident in the modern world a trend toward collectivism , but this can assume , and has assumed , very diverse forms : among them the fascist corporate state ; the Stalinist autocracy and the highly regulated society , dominated by a single party , which succeeded it ; the ‘ mixed economy ’ of the capitalist welfare states , in which some important sectors of the economy are publicly owned , a vast network of publicly financed and administered social services exists , and the national economy is regulated and partly planned by the state , which now employs a substantial and increasing proportion of the active population ; and the former Yugoslav system of self-management in an economy which was largely publicly owned . |
| 5 | In the normal way a ferret meeting a strange dog would become hostile , would hiss and spit . |
| 6 | In the normal way a fraternity held an annual social function , after its festival mass , to collect the stock which was forthwith paid over to the churchwardens , less any sum retained for guild purposes . |
| 7 | In the nineteenth century a comparatively high proportion of the population was aware of its own mortality ; today this sense has almost vanished from everyday life . |
| 8 | But in fact we can see in process in the nineteenth century a quite clear creation of a series of beliefs about male sexuality , beliefs which were inextricably linked to concepts of male self-expression and power . |
| 9 | As a result , in the nineteenth century a national region which could fairly be called Yakutia extended over 1,6000 kilometres from the Vilyui river to the Kolyma and nearly as far from the middle Lena to the shores of the Arctic Ocean . |
| 10 | In the ninth century a German monk , Walahfrid Strabo wrote : No man can say , no man remember , how many uses there are for Oil of Roses as a cure for mankind 's ailments . ’ |
| 11 | Even in the Ottoman empire a commission was set up in 1885 to examine candidates for entry to Turkish diplomacy . |
| 12 | In 1912 he was a founder of the Independent Labour Party of Ireland , forerunner of the Irish Labour Party , and proposed in the Irish Worker a political programme which included proportional representation and women 's suffrage . |
| 13 | For example , if the entire coding for the strength of the response depended on Kandel 's single synapse , there should be in the intact animal a direct correlation between the frequency or amount of firing of that specific motor neuron and the strength of the withdrawal reflex . |
| 14 | In the eleventh century a particularly entrepreneurial abbot began the exploitation of the curative waters of Cauterets to the south , and the monks built roads and bridges and cleared the woods in their expanding domain . |
| 15 | After Vlastimir 's death internal quarrels and invasions by both Bulgarian and Byzantine forces seriously weakened the Serbs , but in the eleventh century a revived Serbian kingdom emerged , centred on the old Roman town of Doclea , near the present-day site of Titograd . |
| 16 | ( In the Soviet Union a draft law allowing all citizens to obtain a passport quickly had already been given a first reading , and the Soviet delegate estimated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 Soviet citizens could decide to emigrate " in the first two to three years " . ) |
| 17 | However , Trotsky also recognized that to effect the massive social change needed in the Soviet Union a professional , trained and expert apparatus was needed . |
| 18 | In the twentieth century a combination of economic change and government regulations reduced the profitability of cattle stealing , and when the crime revived in the 1930s there was little the authorities could do in face of nationalist feeling and the economic pressures of the depression . |
| 19 | In the twentieth century a miracle is thought of as something extraordinary . |
| 20 | In earlier centuries , excessive child-bearing and its short- and long-term consequences took a great toll among young women , but early in the twentieth century a fall in mortality from tuberculosis , somewhat later in maternal mortality , and the diseases particular to women 's reproductive functions , left males more vulnerable than females . |
| 21 | Wishart and Virden ( 1977 ) also suggest that in the twentieth century a fundamental opposition between ‘ literate ’ music styles ( from concert music to Tin Pan Alley songs ) and ‘ oral ’ styles ( quintessentially Afro-American musics , but also popular styles derived from these ) is associated with the opposition between those who dominate and control the social system and those who are its victims . |
| 22 | Did there emerge in the twentieth century a distinctive network of Asian capital , embracing Chinese , Indian and Japanese capitalists , distinct from the European network which had dominated South East Asia from the middle of the nineteenth century ? |
| 23 | In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority . |
| 24 | Every word from his father , every lesson from his tutor , Pobedonostsev , every symbol he saw , every ceremony he performed was designed to inculcate in the young Tsar a sense of his God-given duty to uphold his supreme office . |
| 25 | But in the general election a year later the Republicans lost ground to more radical reform movements . |
| 26 | In the deciduous wood a pheasant uttered its rattling call . |
| 27 | Sometime in the early evening a bel 1 rang and there was a flurry about Mike Quinn 's bed . |
| 28 | Later in the thirteenth century a Michaelmas Fair was held in the eastern suburbs , a source of perpetual disagreement about jurisdiction and tolls . |
| 29 | In the latter instance a whole timetable was freed for two days , this being in itself an innovation , and two classes , 6 and 7 , combined to work in groups with their teachers and a local inspector . |
| 30 | In the latter case a set of different brochures would be issued by any single firm . |