Example sentences of "[art] minor [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remote though this area can be , even the minor roads are generally good , although we once had to switch the Citroën 's self-levelling suspension to HIGH to increase ground clearance through a ford . |
| 2 | Remote though this area can be , even the minor roads are generally good , although once we had to switch the Citroën 's self-levelling suspension to ‘ high ’ to increase ground clearance through a ford . |
| 3 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 4 | At best they had a few lectures in coastal pilotage before joining the minor craft — those carried aboard ships . |
| 5 | But this was an A-road and I wanted to keep mainly to the minor routes , so half-way up I turned off behind the Ponderosa Cafe and joined the Old Horseshoe Pass . |
| 6 | Now unc has n — q columns , the minor n — p columns : separately , a total of 2n — ( p + q ) . |
| 7 | At sea the ship can appear enormous , and even minor landing craft travelling at a brisk trot were a hazard to canoes , for the minor LC 's blunt bow pushed out a small wall of water . |
| 8 | Keith Waterhouse 's original novel , Billy Liar , was one of the minor masterpieces of the Sixties [ sic ] . |
| 9 | Readers of Holroyd 's earlier volumes will derive further pleasure , sometimes melancholy , from finding out what happened to the minor players in the Shaw story — his sharp-tempered secretary Blanche Patch , for instance , and poor Dr Lowenstein , the zealous bibliographer with the unfortunate manner . |
| 10 | As soon as he was released , Davey ran to the wagon , and the bedrolls and personal property of the minor players flew out of the back of the Mason 's new accommodation . |
| 11 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 12 | Straight chemical fertilizers are for the most part designed to provide the three major elements nitrogen , phosphate and potash , and seldom if ever contain any of the minor elements . |
| 13 | The measure of that lies as much in the minor elements as in the headline-grabbing reforms of taxation and expenditure policy . |
| 14 | McLeish , sitting on the other side of her , huddled on the uncomfortable bench-seating , could smell the faint perfume she wore and thought , with what detachment he could bring to bear , that one of the minor complications of this case was going to be the reactions of every man involved as suspect , colleague or witness , to this beauty he had managed to import on to his staff . |
| 15 | As far as health goes , we have done pretty well , discounting the minor trials of age , and we are lucky in that they are minor . |
| 16 | How many depended on the minor peculiarities of the learning task or organism involved , and were just another almost random item of knowledge to be added to the burgeoning catalogue of phenomena of memory ? |
| 17 | The Medjay captain had no doubt been forced into the minor act of betrayal which consisted in breaking Huy 's confidence to Kenamun , and there may have been political or strategic reasons for it ; but the act had raised a wall between them . |
| 18 | Nor do they contain a sound historical analysis , for Beatrice 's personal life is set in a matrix of ill-digested sources that show no knowledge of recent 19th-century gender studies , while the minor errors make the reader wince . |
| 19 | The minor mistake she may not even have made — for society 's judgment , not actual guilt , is what counts — is likely to dog her forever . |
| 20 | John Capper , a journalist , contrasted the ambience of Colombo Police Court with the minor courts he had known in Britain : ‘ How different from the vicinity of the law courts at home ! |
| 21 | Chemists will have to keep as narrow a watch on these minor elements as our astronomers do on the minor planets , or we shall not know where we are ’ . |
| 22 | If you 've been self-employed since five minutes after Lucifer 's fall , and can fork out the massive outlay required , you might just find a way to bribe yourself on to the single-ticket waiting list ; if you belong to a small , minor-league organisation , your company will probably club together with several others to rent a cheap and jerry-built booth in one of the minor outbuildings , and argue with its partners over a tiny allocation of entry passes , whose holders will be consigned to overpriced lodgings in distant and inconvenient suburbs . |
| 23 | Already her sailing ability had reached a level where she was able to make the minor corrections to hold the boat on course without even thinking . |
| 24 | A newly discovered work by one of the minor Pre-Raphaelites ? ’ said Robina . |
| 25 | If two different vectors x exist for which Ax = 0 , then not only is zero , but also all the minor determinants of order ( n — 1 ) vanish . |
| 26 | In the minor girls ' 800m , Rachel Hall was third in a season 's best of 2–41.6 . |
| 27 | And the Teessiders rounded off a superb afternoon by claiming another six gold medals in the female section with sisters Leanne and Kerry Matthew winning the minor girls and girls races in faster times than the seniors . |
| 28 | Leanne Matthew won the minor girls championship , while Middlesbrough and Cleveland clubmate Rees Connor , 14 , won the boys ' title . |
| 29 | To know someone to be a gouger gives some policemen and women cause to believe that they have the excuse to ignore the minor requests for assistance that the person may make , and for his or her minor infringements of the law to be taken seriously . |
| 30 | He turned , and I bowed , ever so humbly , an innocuous ( I trusted ) figure receding in the minor dust-storm of their exhaust wake . |