Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appeal hearing opened on May 15 , 1990 , with Demjanjuk 's lawyers arguing that he had been the victim of mistaken identity and that evidence presented at the original trial had been forged . |
| 2 | In the Netherlands , however , it appears that for much of the past 30 years , a substantial reduction in levels of imprisonment occurred with no greater rise in crime than occurred in Britain ; and that reduction occurred at a time of rising crime in Holland . |
| 3 | If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew . |
| 4 | The Draft Treaties for Economic and Monetary Union published at the end of 1990 replace references to ‘ co-ordination ’ or ‘ co-operation ’ in economic policy with references to ‘ the institution of a common economic policy … and the implementation of other common policies ; the definition and pursuit of a single monetary policy … to support the common economic policy . ’ |
| 5 | There now exists a plethora of local economic development initiatives being implemented by local authorities and enterprise agencies throughout the UK seeking broadly to provide a range of business support mechanisms , which derive their justification somewhat confusingly from both a welfare and economic rationale pitched at the level of the local economy . |
| 6 | The amount released represented 750 million European currency units ( ECU ) out of a total of ECU1,150 million ( approximately US$1,535 million ) in food and technical assistance approved at the December 1990 EC summit in Rome [ see p. 37906 ] . |
| 7 | Chest x ray showed evidence of previous tuberculosis and some pleural thickening at the left base , which was thought likely to be long standing ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 8 | The gunman , who was jailed for 18 months , fired into the ground when Sgt Forth , then working in CID , and another officer arrived at the scene . |
| 9 | There are few more striking than the slim sergeant major with the dark eyes , pronounced eyebrows and nose , and dark hair rolled at the nape of her neck . |
| 10 | The local authority had provided half the capital for the dual purpose church and the salary for a youth leader , so the church had obligations to maintain the club open despite continuous vandalism and verbal abuse directed at the elderly people , who became understandably reluctant to attend church . |
| 11 | He said that he was still awake when a black and fearful figure appeared at the foot of his bed . |
| 12 | In the neo-classical model , where the price level is assumed to be flexible , the price level falls from OP to OP 1 and real income remains at the full employment level , OY f . |
| 13 | The draft of the new constitution outlining the presidential and multiparty system agreed at the February 1990 conference on reform was presented to the High Council of the Republic on April 12 , 1990 , and its contents announced on May 15 , prior to a referendum in late 1990 . |
| 14 | An analysis of feminine and masculine symbolism delivered at a conference on ‘ archetypology ’ characterizes ‘ inversion by double negation ’ as ‘ typical of the imaginative function in its descending aspect of depth , night , femininity , container which becomes contained , swallower which becomes swallowed ’ as opposed to the ‘ upward masculine aspect ’ ( 109/503 ) . |
| 15 | Other Allemandi titles include a Catalogo della Manifattura Lenci by Alfonso Panzetta , who by studying documentary and photographic material kept at the Turin factory has been able to classify and illustrate the Lenci ceramics workshop 's entire output ( L200,000 ) ; and Ralph Jentsch 's The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy , published for the current exhibition devoted to the Italian livre d'artiste at New York 's MoMA . |
| 16 | The post office has a very interesting sign in the shape of a black and white pig hanging at the entrance . |
| 17 | On physical examination heart rate was 100 per min , respiratory rate 18 per min , and temperature 39.5°C ; she had dullness , egophony , and diminished breath sounds at the base of the left lung . |
| 18 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 19 | In the most colonial species this chase is omitted and all courtship occurs at the nest . |
| 20 | The use of British official records relating to colonial development and decolonisation tends at present to be limited by the lack of an adequate guide to the machinery of government concerned with colonial affairs , and the resultant records , as it evolved from the relative autonomy of the Colonial Office in 1925 to the highly integrated national and international system obtaining at the onset of rapid decolonisation . |
| 21 | Félicité et Perpétue crept up the mellow brickwork , and Gloire de Dijon climbed higher , and there were heavy dark crimson Bourdons and Portland roses in the borders and pink Ce/1leste clumped at the corners with its paler leaves . |
| 22 | One of the tests of the success of this training in " picture reading " will be that pupils will gradually spend more and more time looking at the picture , and " reading " it at various levels ( see Box 4 ) . |
| 23 | Landing the headquarters at the Old Entrance was itself a miracle of seamanship among the blazing wrecks and heavy fire directed at the MGB . |
| 24 | He was tall and thin , a leggy lightweight in a dark-grey suit , with a pleasant , long , cleanshaven face , and short hair greying at the temples and receding slightly from a weathered brown forehead . |
| 25 | He appears to have had one son and one daughter living at the time of his death , which occurred in Cambridge 7 December 1720 . |
| 26 | She made the mischievous eyes look at her and one finger pointed at the ladybird , another drew her gaze downwards to the lake . |
| 27 | The catalogue , preceded by a conventional account of Bazille 's career and development , lists and illustrates just sixty-four surviving original compositions , several of which are clearly unfinished , and one copy made at the beginning of his career and based upon a picture by Veronese in his local museum in Montpellier . |
| 28 | And one study looking at the experiences of black teenage mothers found that although they had begun using contraceptives as much as white girls , some had been persuaded by their boyfriends to stop using them . |
| 29 | Osborne completed a 19-1 three-timer — his first since Flown , Young Pokey and Nomadic Way scored at the National Hunt Festival in March — when 11-4 fav Noble Eyre took the West Midlands Claiming Chase . |
| 30 | The new initiative was launched at a meeting between President Clinton and the chief executives of the three largest US car manufacturers : General Motors , Ford and Chrysler , at which a new 10-year target was established to create a practical and affordable model running at a level of fuel efficiency three times higher than at present . |