Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun sg] have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 25–9–1897 The Session had under consideration the subject of having a half yearly Communion and arranged for a service on 7th November . |
| 2 | At this point there was no conception of ‘ slum clearance ’ of purpose-built council dwellings , although since 1980 the authority has in fact demolished dwellings at Dockwray Square , Killing worth Towers , Hunter 's Close and elsewhere . |
| 3 | 18–1–1915 The Session had under consideration the question of the running of the public motor bus for pleasure on the Sabbath Day on certain occasions last summer , and the probability that such facilities may be increased this year , and instructed the Moderator to bring the matter to the notice of the Presbytery , with a View to the Presbytery taking such action as they may deem advisable to prevent such encroachment of the Lord 's Day . |
| 4 | To do this the bureaucracy had to be a ‘ closed society within the state ’ , simply yet another closed and hierarchical corporation with its own particularistic interests . |
| 5 | In the case of small dogs , half the dose had to be put into each nostril , and with large dogs the full dose was put into one nostril . |
| 6 | Half the class had to be invalided home , and Clive 's name was still mud in Emilia-Romagna . |
| 7 | I readily acknowledge that this is a very difficult request but I am afraid the timescale has to he met . |
| 8 | From this a deduction has to be made for knife sharpening and shields , about 4d a week … the women suffer greatly from chronic asthma … and by the acids with which the Colonial skins are cleaned . |
| 9 | After graduation I worked in London for a couple of years , but in 1985 a decision had to be made : my husband had just finished a sixmonth intensive training course at the Thatching Advisory Service in Berkshire . |
| 10 | Cookham cancelled their match on the river because of poor weather and although the waterway at Maidenhead was fishable the match had to be cancelled because of frozen banks . |
| 11 | Much more controversy has been generated by the question of whether a mistake also qualifies as a reason , and , more particularly , how serious the mistake has to be . |
| 12 | Such a government had to be able to carry a programme of economies through the House of Commons : this immediately ruled out the possibility of a Labour minority government led by Henderson , as suggested by Moodie in an otherwise illuminating article . |
| 13 | Does the course lead to a certificate of completion or competence and if so , what value would such a certificate have on the job market ? |
| 14 | Any company involved in such a scheme has to be brave , Mr Riley says . |
| 15 | Any company involved in such a scheme has to be brave , Mr Riley says . |
| 16 | When extra commitments — particular meetings , examinations , or tutorials , for example — come round then such a life-style has to be modified . |
| 17 | It was the site where such a building had to be , if buildings there were at all . |
| 18 | So , in order to get his views across , such a candidate has to content himself with stuffing letter boxes , distributing tracts , and holding poorly attended public meetings in bare , underheated school assembly halls . |
| 19 | Although litigation in support of such a claim has by no means been abandoned , the switch to a more overt political campaign raises the possibility of developing a more co-ordinated test-case strategy — in place of the ad hoc response previously resorted to — of the type developed in pursuit of civil right advocacy in the.USA , and welfare rights advocacy both there and in the UK , to try to influence the course of social change . |
| 20 | The causes lying behind such a declaration had to be serious ( the denial of rights , the breaking of the feudal bond ) , and every attempt to resolve a possible conflict by negotiation had to be made . |
| 21 | Permitting new supplies , as is suggested in paragraph 55 of draft MPG6 , only postpones the day when such a prospect has to be faced . |
| 22 | Permitting new supplies , as is suggested in paragraph 55 of draft MPG6 , only postpones the day when such a prospect has to be faced . |
| 23 | Such a suggestion has at least the face validity of being consistent with the research done by Labov and others on language variation ( see Hudson 1980 : Chapter 5 for a review ) . |
| 24 | For such a theory has at its heart an object of study completely different to that which theory treats in other genres . |
| 25 | Such a role has to be teacher-driven . |
| 26 | Such a book has to be divided — between hope and fear , improvement and depravity . |
| 27 | If a worshipper were to make a fetish of his stone or metal image , however , then that might correctly be construed as idolatry , but such an attitude has to be distinguished from the element of sacredness that worshippers often attribute to temples , churches and mosques or to books such as the Bible , the Koran or the Gītā . |
| 28 | Such an Order had to be laid before Parliament and was there debated on 6 December 1977 . |
| 29 | The proclamation under which the conviction had been obtained specified that in order to constitute an offence such an action had to be carried out ‘ without the authority of a competent Magistrate ’ . |
| 30 | Such an account has to be a purely naturalistic one ( *a ) ; it has to deny ( *c ) that these experiences are what they purport to be , namely , instances of human awareness ( *b ) of the supernatural . |