Example sentences of "of [art] [adv] [verb] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that he chose not to do so was seen as a tacit admission of the widely held view that the foreign policy successes of President George Bush had made his re-election an inevitability . |
| 2 | In Chapter 3 , we examined in some detail Pearson 's review of the history of street crime in Britain , and his criticism of the widely held belief that such crime is a unique feature of present-day society . |
| 3 | The site has no obvious Iron-Age antecedents ; more probably it originated as a civilian vicus outside the fort , which aerial photographs show as a multiple-ditched installation enclosing c. 2 ha ( 5 acres ) on a gravel terrace north-west of the later defended nucleus and the Billing Brook . |
| 4 | This sudden and violent less of the abbey , its Abbot and three of its Brethren is perhaps the cause of the locally reported transmutations and the essence of the profoundly poignant atmosphere commented upon by so many visitors so the site — that overwhelming peace , tinged with a hint of sadness . |
| 5 | No notice should be taken of the frequently reiterated statement that Wordsworth lacked humour : of course he had a sense of humour — ‘ sly humour ’ , Hazlitt called it in 1825 , and added , ‘ he has a peculiar sweetness in his smile ’ . |
| 6 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading , they should learn about some of the frequently occurring words and roots that have been absorbed into English from other languages , so that they become familiar with the common word-building processes and spelling patterns that derive from them . |
| 7 | Thus , for example , inclusion of the frequently occurring item and , which shows high frequency deletion , skews the data considerably ; for this reason , Labov excluded and from his original study of final stop deletion ( Labov 1980 : xvi ) . |
| 8 | Opposite is the Spanish Synagogue , 1868 , the last synagogue to be built in this area , on the site of the earliest known synagogue or Old Shul . |
| 9 | It was , as they saw it , Mrs Thatcher 's abuse of the loosely defined conventions that made such politically conscious people demand constitutional reform , one cardinal feature of which should be a properly articulated status of citizenship . |
| 10 | Even a formerly nomadic group , the Paumari in Amazonia grow 14 cultivars of the easily transported cassava and some other groups there grow up to 400 different types of plants ( cultivars as well as cultigens ) ; some clear fell the forest , others merely ‘ weed ’ it . |
| 11 | This study was intended to explore some of the previously discussed concepts while subjects are actually driving a car in normal urban traffic environment . |
| 12 | This remarkable service makes him one of the longest serving employees and something to be proud of . |
| 13 | One of the best known approaches as to how decisions ought to be made is that of Simon , who developed the behaviour alternative model . |
| 14 | It would also help convince them that politicians have decided not on the basis of the best orchestrated campaign but by seeking to occupy the high moral ground , wherever it might be found . |
| 15 | But he was an odd product of that establishment , having none of the slightly dégagé elegance and ironic detachment which characterised its alumni . |
| 16 | The present study was therefore designed to recruit a large number of patients , all of whom received the same treatment , allowing unequivocal refutation of the prospectively defined hypotheses that a heavy physical workload and a high prior recurrence rate are associated with a decreased healing rate . |
| 17 | Expressed in terms of individual psychology , the danger was one of dissolution of the painfully acquired superego and corresponding regression in the ego . |
| 18 | The plight of the aptly named Victim and hundreds like them was n't enough to deter Steven Morrissey into a search for everyday employment . |
| 19 | Komlanvi Kloutse was appointed Minister of the newly created Trade and Transport Ministry while Ayissah Agbetra was appointed to head the new Public Health Ministry . |
| 20 | They were reading a notice which proclaimed the names of the newly elected Mayor and the officials appointed by him : |
| 21 | Adam 's main work , the Ars Disserendi , was a textbook of logic , novel in its approach and in its use of the newly translated Topics and Sophistical Refutations of Aristotle ; it stressed the importance of the mastery of language as a safeguard against sophisms . |
| 22 | You 'd put your hundred and twenty five thousand pounds down , you 'd also put down half of the jointly owned property because you could have dealt with that while you were alive and you 'll end up paying large amounts of inheritance tax . |
| 23 | It proved impossible to block the jets of spindrift which sought us with every gust of the noisily strengthening wind and settled on our Gore-Tex bivvy-bags , making them ineffective unless constantly shaken clear . |
| 24 | I spun into the spotlight with arms raised , smile flashing , galloped down the stairs , trying not to look down , across the stage , bowing like a courting duck to the boxed panel en route , along the promontory jutting out into the midst of the wildly cheering audience and , as the extravagant applause began at last to subside , heard myself say : |
| 25 | Kashi was directly in point , but the judgments in that case were treated as statements of the then settled practice and not as declaring any restriction upon the powers of the court . |
| 26 | A total of seven political parties contested the general election of October 1989 , but only two obtained representation in the Assembly , the Botswana Democratic Party winning 31 of the directly elected seats and the Botswana National Front three . |
| 27 | The 1,400 sq.m roof of the recently completed research and development building for Rank Xerox in Welwyn Garden city was covered with Sarnafil . |
| 28 | Denis Broderick FHCIMA , former president of HCIMA and chief executive of the recently launched Tourism and Hospitality Training Council in Northern Ireland , has also supported the Hospitality Matters initiative since its inception . |
| 29 | It introduced an attempt to assess the truth of the often reiterated statement that the Great Barbarian Conspiracy of 367 virtually destroyed the villa system in Britain . |
| 30 | Firstly , they found from eight of the better designed studies that ‘ mothers of schizophrenics are more concerned , protective , and possibly more intrusive than control mothers both in the current situation and in their attitudes to the children before they showed signs of schizophrenia ’ . |