Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much the way in which the law approaches the extraction of the truth , and it is different both from the vivid imprecision of ordinary life and the intimacy of a police interrogation . |
| 2 | More persuasively , it has to be borne in mind that these are passages which need to be read in the context not only of the cases in which they were concerned but also of the judgments as a whole . |
| 3 | Evidence of Taiwan 's desire to improve relationships with mainland China was also apparent in the government 's less than enthusiastic support for the activities of a propaganda radio ship Goddess of Democracy , sponsored by a French magazine and supported by a Paris-based group of Chinese exiles . |
| 4 | The issue of child abuse , or child protection as it is often now described ( Parton and Parton , 1989 ) , perhaps more than any other area of child care policy and practice has brought the activities of a variety of health and welfare professionals into considerable public , political and media focus in recent years . |
| 5 | The opening of new offices may take place as part of a general expansion of the activities of a firm to additional locations ( though usually never so far away that they can not benefit from the goodwill attaching to headquarters ) or involve streamlining administration by establishing different departments in separate offices . |
| 6 | Consideration may need to be given to switching partners or departments to achieve this ; ( 3 ) inevitably , where the activities of a firm are spread over a wide area , problems arise in connection with the basic decision making processwhen , for example , partners ' meetings become more difficult to arrange . |
| 7 | When the union publishes a special Notice in its magazine warning members about the activities of a promoter , record company or contact agency , this not only informs members , it also puts off other unscrupulous operators . |
| 8 | The peculiar nature of this journey , that the willed progress is experienced as a divine gift , is a consequence of this theology : In chapter twenty-four Hilton uses the repetitions and cadences of rhetoric to convey this recognition of the activities of a God whose powers are conceived in Trinitarian terms of creating giving and responding in love at the heart of the self : At this point Hilton widens the scope of the metaphor of the journey to Jerusalem — the knowledge of Christ in the soul — by warning that the way from the light of the world to the light of heaven leads through darkness which he describes as " a tymeful space bitwix two daies " ( 24.89v. – 234 ) . |
| 9 | On Steamdays visitors can enjoy rides in the 1930s steam trains and see the activities of a steam locomotive depot . |
| 10 | As I said , I think that this issue is of very considerable constitutional importance , because the effect of the judgment is to separate the activities of a Minister acting under his own name from those carried out while acting as a Minister of the Crown . |
| 11 | The activities of a fan become intelligible if we can interpret them as being instrumental in establishing him in a particular role , or if such activities can be shown to be acceptable demonstrations of character and worth among his peers . |
| 12 | Conflict : Once bankers have a direct/indirect stake in the activities of a securities affiliate , investment advice to customers will no longer be impartial . |
| 13 | Unfortunately many editors feel that this kind of creativity is absent from the activities of a number of PROs . |
| 14 | The intention of the Loyal Standard was overtly to co-ordinate the activities of a number of seamen 's organisations , established about the north-east coast with almost identical rules , and to administer a superannuation fund on the one hand and payments on shipwreck , sickness and death on the other . |
| 15 | For what we should be doing is taking a bit of the real world and imagining it existing while the rest is blocked off , and the activities of a postman in the real world involve this sort of belief . |
| 16 | It is important that planning is carried out by the managers involved in the activities of a business so that they can relate to the plan and feel that the plan is their plan . |
| 17 | She first made an impression in an adaptation of J. B. Priestley 's rambling tale about a group of travelling performers , The Good Companions ( 1933 ) , and followed that with Friday the Thirteenth ( 1933 ) , which recounts the activities of a group of characters immediately before the crash of the bus in which they are riding . |
| 18 | Golding 's The Inheritors ( 1955 ) is concerned , for much of its length , with the activities of a people at the beginning of their linguistic development . |
| 19 | This was attributed to four main factors : the chairperson had been promoted to another school ; the librarian/coordinator had been promoted to a complex and demanding pastoral role ; the reorganisation of secondary schools had imposed strains to which the activities of a library committee were an unwelcome addition ; and finally , the fact that the project purchases were now completed , with the books already finding their way on to the library shelves , appeared to be seen as an indication that the committee 's work had been completed . |
| 20 | Sometimes several goals are combined ; e.g. the pursuit of a neglected interest in sport is linked to a voluntary contribution to the activities of a club . |
| 21 | WHEN the capital development of a country ’ , warned Maynard Keynes , ‘ becomes the by-product of the activities of a casino , the job is likely to be ill-done . ’ |
| 22 | All of a sudden , the activities of a chef who was arranging steaks and kebabs on a barbecue further down the garden caught Margrida 's attention . |
| 23 | The defence as a whole do not deal with the back pass rule well . |
| 24 | For them , they played it on the ground , and so their forwards could get to the ball … or pressure the defence for a back pass , or a throw in . |
| 25 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 26 | The accused , if committed , is given copies of the depositions , but is not provided with copies of the statements taken by the police except when the Crown intends to call a witness who did not give evidence at the preliminary inquiry , in which case the Crown will serve the defence with a notice of intention and a copy of the witness 's statement . |
| 27 | The effectiveness of the castle for the defence of a country was , however , qualified by two circumstances . |
| 28 | Conventional armaments are used for the defence of a country , or small , supported offences on countries . |
| 29 | The defence of a firm accused of predatory pricing is often that it is merely responding to competition : so evidence of its intentions may be quite important in deciding whether a firm 's conduct is predatory or not . |
| 30 | For those preoccupied with culture , the defence of a brand new African culture arose because the British denied the validity of all except British culture . |