Example sentences of "[conj] constitute [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the United Kingdom there is no such positive statement of this right , although at common law an assembly or procession is not unlawful per se , unless , for example , it causes an obstruction or constitutes a public nuisance .
2 In this context it is worth recalling the long-established case law on the judicial review of a Community institution 's discretion where ‘ the evaluation of a complex economic situation ’ is involved : the Court must confine itself to examining whether the exercise of the discretion contains a manifest error , or constitutes a misuse of power or whether the institution did not ‘ clearly ’ exceed the bounds of its discretion .
3 The section deals with transactions prior to an individual bankruptcy that were conducted at an undervalue or constituted a preference .
4 Certain moral considerations are involved in his actions , yet they are not absolute in the sense that they are an infallible guide to conduct , or constitute a rule for which there can be no exception .
5 Employers may be expected to allow reasonable opportunities for their employees to engage in public service , but substantial demands for time off may either be refused or constitute a block to career advancement .
6 But what we find in the resurrection of Jesus is not something that originates from the natural processes of life , but something that constitutes a unique event .
7 According to Robyn ( or , more precisely , according to the writers who have influenced her thinking on these matters ) , there is no such thing as the ‘ self ’ on which capitalism and the classic novel are founded — that is to say , a finite , unique soul or essence that constitutes a person 's identity ; there is only a subject position in an infinite web of discourses — the discourses of power , sex , family , science , religion , poetry , etc .
8 I want to suggest that it is the centrality given to this concept of sexuality that constitutes a problem for historians , for it ignores the great variety of cultural patterns that history reveals , and the very different meanings given to what we blithely label as ‘ sexual activity ’ .
9 Style , then , pertains to parole : it is selection from a total linguistic repertoire that constitutes a style .
10 Nevertheless , failures will be encountered and such failures can eventually attain a degree of seriousness that constitutes a serious crisis for the paradigm and may lead to the rejection of a paradigm and its replacement by an incompatible alternative .
11 The issue for the court to decide is whether or not the constable is doing anything that constitutes a prima facie interference with the person 's liberty , person or property , as by detaining him , searching him or otherwise touching him , or constraining his behaviour in some other way .
12 ‘ The best design strategy is not to program a computer directly with the wealth of descriptive detail that constitutes a natural language but rather to give it the basic set of expectations and abilities that are needed to learn a language . ’
13 ( 7 ) Where an instrument under seal that constitutes a deed is required for the purposes of an Act passed before this section comes into force , this section shall have effect as to signing , sealing or delivery of an instrument by an individual in place of any provision of that Act as to signing , sealing or delivery .
14 It is vicious because , as I have just argued , the external relation that constitutes the meaning of the mental content is not something that the subject himself can apprehend : it can only be constructed from a third-person perspective .
15 The stimulus that the experimenter regards as the CS might interact with features of the context in which training is given to form a unique cue that constitutes the effective CS ( see Rescorla 1972 , 1973 ) .
16 * The aim of the review that constitutes the next two major sections of this chapter is largely methodological .
17 Once again , it is the existence of a state of coherence between field frequencies that constitutes the cause of cancer : nothing can be effectively subjected to any influence whatsoever if the subject is not of the same nature as the influence , and the ancient statement ‘ all is energy ’ is the most meaningful contribution that emphasizes the primary , fundamental nature of all phenomena in the created world and the basis of interaction between all things .
18 Those concepts have not evolved from the old ones , for it is precisely their radical difference that constitutes the new science , the new ‘ positivity ’ , produced by what he termed an ‘ epistemological rupture ’ .
19 The present study shows that substantive uniformity , whether in the message that constitutes the text of the bill , or in the legal consequences attached to the recording , is only attainable when the various participants in the transactions arrive at a consensus with respect to the fairness of their rights and duties .
20 It is precisely this formal disturbance in the texture of Nizan 's fiction that constitutes the very essence of his project as a communist novelist .
21 Furthermore , Larry describes the matter that constitutes the density of his and other people 's psyches as ‘ resistance ’ ( 49/245 ) , and in effect the density and opacity of his mind is also a permanent barrier to a clear understanding of his experiences , both past and present .
22 If it is a customer service that gives advantage , then for the majority of consumers who have minimal communication with branch personnel , it is the personalised quality of the computerised communication systems that constitutes the service quality level .
23 It is the behaviour of E or G as a function of frequency or time , or more usually of temperature that constitutes the relaxation experiment .
24 In the case of poetry ( the first preoccupation in Formalist thinking ) it is ordinary , or what the Formalists call practical language that constitutes the main automatized element made strange by art .
25 The traditional rituals of port drinking are well-known , but it may came as a surprise to many that it is not the crusty British lawyer savouring his even crustier port that constitutes the core market for port shippers , but the trendy young Frenchman , enjoying young ruby .
26 Nothing on the exterior , however , prepared one for the stunning exhibition of color , texture , and mural art in the interior , features that constituted a major step in an architectural revolution that was most fully developed in the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago ( 1933–74 ) .
27 The fact that ‘ in order that training should be effective and consistent it must be planned and implemented systematically ’ was regarded as fundamental , and respondents were asked to provide information on training that constituted a programme , defined as any course of instruction with a predetermined structure .
28 Another serious defect in the previous law , pinpointed by the Law Commission , was that when the section was read literally , liability was seen to turn on the question whether the victim was likely to respond in a way that constituted a breach of the peace in the face of threats , abuses and insults .
29 Here we had a man who we knew had serious problems that constituted a danger to himself and others , and we sat back , simply because we were waiting for him to admit he had a problem . ’
30 The old loon looked puzzled and might have retaliated , but things were defused by a nurse bringing in the trolley of books that constituted the hospital library .
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