Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter describes the various roles that the Bank takes on , and puts them in the context of the overall powers that it enjoys , particularly in relation to the supervisory activities carried out and the possibility of the emergence of a European Central Bank . |
| 2 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 3 | Er to come before two o'clock we 've got part three of the strange things that people do around Nottinghamshire to pass the time . |
| 4 | Can the Minister say whether the Government will agree to a Europewide eco-labelling scheme , to try to eliminate some of the misleading claims that are made on behalf of some products , which prejudice products that are environmentally safe ? |
| 5 | The Shropshire parish of Myddle lies some 160 miles away from London but at least fifteen of the ninety-one families that paid the hearth tax there in 1672 had one member or more who had been to the capital city . |
| 6 | Of course , it might still be said on behalf of the 1981 arrangements that making houses bid for bills , when buying or selling , is a genuine step towards market pricing of bills . |
| 7 | They are worth a great deal even today , because of the familiar insinuations that Eliot was as much a political reactionary as a religious bigot . |
| 8 | The Medical Research Council will no doubt consider particular claims on scientific merits to counter the fact that Britain has achieved great success in science because of the increasing sums that the Government have made available for that purpose . |
| 9 | ‘ Advances in telecommunications technology promise to deprive Federal , state and local law enforcement officers and the public of the incalculable benefits that can be obtained only by court-authorised wire-tapping . |
| 10 | one of the nicest things that happened to me since I 've been widowed is having Neil to look after not only is he an exception |
| 11 | One of the curious anomalies that this gave rise to was the difficulty of placing an institution such as the BBC into their scheme of things . |
| 12 | It is , however , the work of the remaining Russians that intrigues even more and most notably the Surrealist Home and the Sky : the Life of Plants , which is a kind of film-set by the Moscow-born Igor Orlov and the Form and Continuity by Nikolai Ovtchinnikov , who welcomes us to the show and is illustrated on the front page . |
| 13 | The lords compelled the peasants to hand over a considerable portion of the agricultural goods that they produced as tenant farmers on small strips of land , and also to perform customary services directly for the benefit of the lord . |
| 14 | Over 550 boreholes have already been drilled and another 18 holes ( funded by a consortium of 13 oil companies ) were drilled in 1990 , concentrated in the area west of the Outer Hebrides Platform and east of the extensive basalts that cover the outer shelf and North Rockall Trough . |
| 15 | Failure to keep their friends in office would rapidly doom the Cunningham interest in these burghs to extinction , as councillors and trades voters started to reconsider their former loyalties and to listen to the argument of the Haldane partisans that the colonel had the ear of government . |
| 16 | The Scottish Constitutional Convention , which I have described in the past as the Labour party at prayer , failed to address any of the substantive issues that would affect Scotland 's representation in the House if its proposals came into effect . |
| 17 | Figure 5.19 in Chapter 5 summarises the main institutions offering further and higher education , and illustrates some of the available routes that schools leavers might follow . |
| 18 | I should n't criticise it as everyone else does , because without the M25 , it would be impossible to get to all of the six clubs that we have built , strung out like pearls , ( or glass beads , my critics would tell you ) around its perimeter . |
| 19 | But in fashioning his movement , Baden-Powell skilfully wove together any number of the political questions that preoccupied his contemporaries , and the movement 's spectacular growth drew on deep funds of social anxiety — anxieties which invariably settled around the excessive liberty allowed to young people and the attendant demoralisation which was , in turn , linked to a newly perceived upsurge in crime and violence among the young . |
| 20 | Johnson ( 1972 ) labelled this gradual ironing out of local characteristics the ‘ nationalization ’ of local politics , and this process was reflected in the confident claim of the political pundits that ‘ to know the swing in Cornwall was to know , within a percentage or two , the swing in the Highlands ’ ( Crewe , 1985 , p. 103 ) . |
| 21 | Yet if many of the toxic chemicals that animals possess have evolved in order to aid survival , either by predation or protection , it may well be that some of these compounds could assist our own survival . |
| 22 | PASS & CO. have over thirty years experience in prevention and preservation work in houses and are a member of the Professional Associations that control and regulate this work . |
| 23 | This has often been achieved because of the professional relationships that have developed by actively working to improve levels of understanding and the quality of leadership . |
| 24 | The novel proves that knowledge is possible , but also that it is in a sense artificial : it does not come from the past , historical knowledge in particular can not simply be uncovered , laid bare and put out to view ( or rather , the novelist can no longer create the illusion that the past is speaking for itself ) ; it is a construction of the past , and the reader is conscious of , and in compliance with , the careful disposition and organization of the disparate elements that go to make up the whole edifice . |
| 25 | The last beach along here before you come to the first of the rocky headlands that are so prettily characteristic of Biarritz 's coastline , is called the Chambre d'Amour or Chamber of Love , after an old depression in the sand where two lovers are said to have put themselves well and truly on the map by being surprised in their amours by the Atlantic tide . |
| 26 | It was after the 1990 England v Ireland game at Twickenham that Paul Ackford casually mentioned to one of the Irish players that his team knew it had only to withstand Ireland 's 20 minutes of blood and guts to win easily . |
| 27 | In that era , so much of the day was spent climbing in and out of the correct clothes that there ca n't have been much time left for recreation . |
| 28 | He therefore had a lively sense of what the Library 's readers expect and require , and of the scholarly standards that the Library must maintain . |
| 29 | Typical of the uneasy compromises that resulted was the Ten Articles of Faith laid down by convocation in 1536 . |
| 30 | Tending the hearth can remind a woman of the sacred mysteries that she serves , and can , in effect , turn a housewife into a priestess . |