Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introductory remarks found at the beginning of a book , usually by someone who is not the author of the book . |
| 2 | She stretched out on the narrow bench gazing at the ceiling , and he pushed her legs backwards until her knees were touching her shoulders . |
| 3 | A French medic was climbing the grassy bank from the sunken road to look at the Officer as I got the prisoners out of the dug-out and back to their previous positions in the hollow . |
| 4 | For instance , it has been suggested that the prejudiced themes exist at a psychologically deeper level than the denial of prejudice . |
| 5 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |
| 6 | After several European countries had made similar pledges , the European Community declared at the end of February a 1995 ban on production of all five " fully-halogenated " CFCs listed under the Protocol , together with the industrial solvents carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloroform , and halons , used in fire extinguishers . |
| 7 | It is also interesting to note that in the case of A5pC6 and T8pC9 junctions , the transition to B II almost causes the facing phosphate to change at the same time with final ε-ζ values of +18° and +26° respectively . |
| 8 | In agreement with the strong protection observed at the central guanine residue , DNase I footprinting analysis of the same fragment reveals that digestion at the corresponding phosphodiester bond is severely impaired by the bound protein ( Figure 1C , left panel ) . |
| 9 | Chemicals trading results are likely to remain depressed , particularly in the European cracking and polyethylene businesses , as the low margins seen at the end of 1992 persist into 1993 . |
| 10 | The preparation of the foundations and the timbers alone would have required considerable time and although C12 is the largest building excavated at the site , the effort required to build many of the others would not have been much less . |
| 11 | LMS PACIFIC Number 6203 , ‘ Princess Margaret Rose ’ is the largest locomotive based at the Midland Railway Centre at Butterley , near Ripley , Derbyshire . |
| 12 | The commission of inquiry into the political system reported at the beginning of December to a special KANU meeting , which endorsed its recommendations for a continuation of the one-party system [ see p. 37908 ] . |
| 13 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 14 | The main right-wing opposition party , National Renewal ( RN ) , criticized the description of the political circumstances existing at the time of the coup , but otherwise gave the report a favourable reception , as did the parties of Aylwin 's centre-left government and the mainstream left . |
| 15 | The political will came at a critical time when it was very necessary to keep the food costs component of the total wage bill ( including the foreign exchange component ) as low as possible to allow rapid and profitable industrialisation . |
| 16 | Despite several declarations by Djohar that the political timetable detailed at the end of the national conference [ see p. 38855 ] would be respected , the government announced the postponement of the constitutional referendum , scheduled for May 24 , until June 7 . |
| 17 | The church was held back from full-scale episcopal organization by the thought of the expense and the political commitment involved at a time when ‘ a prince of the church ’ was a perfectly reasonable way to describe a bishop . |
| 18 | Whereas influential books like Flint 's Glacial and Pleistocene Geology adopted a structure in which landforms and landscape patterns comprised the early part of the book and then were succeeded by chapters on stratigraphy and chronology in different areas and this was echoed in the structure of research on specific areas ; by the late 1970s books by physical geographers had adopted a structure in which chronology and the classic models appeared at the beginning . |
| 19 | When placing performers be aware of variations in height and build , but it is not always essential that the tall ones go at the back . |
| 20 | Lucy glanced to where the tall man stood at the window , his back turned towards them , apparently deep in thought , because he made no reply . |
| 21 | The tall woman stared at the Doctor , and then closed her eyes . |
| 22 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
| 23 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 24 | If the question depends simply on the oral evidence led at the trial , even a decision of the House of Lords on appeal from one of these cases need not settle the matter . |
| 25 | ‘ We vested at the agricultural prices pertaining at the time — but now this is prime building land . ’ |
| 26 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 27 | Currently the subject of a survey at IVAM , Valencia ( to 22 February ) , which is the most impressive accumulation of his material since the retrospective exhibition held at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in 1990 , Fulton is making three wall texts , a new dot painting created with his fingers on a board , and a new series of photographs documenting the landscape of his journeys . |
| 28 | The Labour dissidents failed at a private meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party , by 112 votes to 46 , to commit Labour to oppose an independent bank during the passage of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill . |
| 29 | The decisions on this were taken in August 1981 before the formal emergence of the Labour Party split at a time when the old guard were in control of the Labour Group . |
| 30 | It is important to note that if the pledge that the Labour party made at the last election had been carried through , dramatically less money would have been spent on health , for the reasons that my hon. Friend gave . |