Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only the fact that , as Dorothy said , they believed that ‘ wealth entails social responsibility ’ , that made the activities they funded the target of six decades of jeers and sneers . |
| 2 | After his release in the mid-1970s he became a successful businessman and hotelier but later went into exile in Rome , where he helped finance the USC , returning to Somalia in late 1990 . |
| 3 | I deliberately used the phrase ‘ cautious satisfaction ’ because as appears from page 2 of the accounts we achieved a surplus ( before exceptional items ) of £12,004 . |
| 4 | so there you , you get on the accounts you get a , a er , apparently , income er extension of the scheme budget by nearly four thousand pounds , three , eight , then you go back with what Lord was asking you about and I just want you to explain it if you can , if you ca n't tell me , as he drew your attention to surplus per audited account at August ninety nineteen one , a hundred and eight , eighty , so that , in fact the year ending nineteen ninety two , along these accounts we 're dealing with , in fact the expenditure of exceeded budget by nearly four thousand , the previous year er in nineteen ninety one er it had gone the other way that er |
| 5 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 6 | As they rose through the ranks they maintained the association . |
| 7 | From the ramparts I had a view across the bay to green marshes and , far above them , rising above a swathe of cloud , the snow-covered summit of Olympus , infinitely remote . |
| 8 | Moreover , there remains the failure to refer to the lukewarm approach of the House of Lords to the Barras principle , the presumption that when Parliament continues to use a word which has been interpreted by the courts it intends the word to continue to have the judicial meaning , but the author can no doubt contend that the doctrine has been given a new lease of life by the Court of Appeal in EWP Ltd v. Moore , and A-G v. Brotherton . |
| 9 | Underneath the maps she felt the bare concrete of the warehouse , not the thick carpet of the Mayor 's office . |
| 10 | I think when they steal back the houses they make the earth smaller . |
| 11 | When he had gone some distance from the houses he met a mysterious little girl , who suddenly.appeared from behind a rock , and said , " Why are you weeping , my brother ? " |
| 12 | The colonel knew all the right people to approach , and every time Ryan submits the plans they put a stop to them . |
| 13 | As the Frenchman doubled past behind the prisoners he shouted a greeting . |
| 14 | Having entered the fieldnames you use the command /Data , Query , Criteria to specify the range containing them and the row directly below ( to be used to enter the conditions ) as the Criteria range . |
| 15 | Both the Schools Council and Nuffield approaches shared in most of the projects they supported an essentially instrumental view in that they were based upon the managerial assumption that the initiators determined the content and progress of the programme ( although Arts and the Adolescent ( Schools Council , 1975 ) was a notable exception ) . |
| 16 | So up to the woods and there in the woods he heard the sound of an axe . |
| 17 | In the following year he crossed Manchuria from Statensk in Siberia to Vladivostok , and during his time as Far Eastern correspondent of The Times he visited every province of China except Tibet . |
| 18 | But the image of Dinah would not leave him , and was strengthened by the times he visited the theatre and saw her in the flesh . |
| 19 | Honey magazine recognized this and acted on it in an extraordinary way with the launch of the ‘ Honey boutiques ’ in the major conurbations , so that the groovy styles portrayed in the magazine could be had by hitherto deprived readers in whatever part of the sticks they had the misfortune to live , with no more trouble than a Saturday day return fare . |
| 20 | Leicester continue to blow hot and cold , although one of the reasons they looked a little below par in their first game was because they were playing a Gloucester side that could be a dark horse for the title . |
| 21 | One of the reasons we chose the name U2 was to have that ambiguity which I think is necessary , so that it 's not so easy for people to make premature assumptions or wrong associations . |
| 22 | One of the reasons we developed a design-led retail business , offering our own unique products , was because we saw we could distance ourselves from other retailers who were just selling manufacturers ' products and discounting them and getting into constant competitive battles . |
| 23 | ( This is one of the reasons we put a harp on every bottle . ) |
| 24 | Yes , this is exactly one of the reasons we had a crisis last last time was because erm we did n't know that the then director I 'm sure did n't know what , what was happening . |
| 25 | ‘ One of the reasons we did the play , ’ said Lloyd , ‘ was to make sure as many people as possible watched it ; hence casting Michael in it . |
| 26 | This is one of the reasons we destroy the rain forests at our peril . |
| 27 | Yeah , one of the reasons it bucked the trend was because we 've erm , ground one of our competitors into the dust and he 's had to combine with another newspaper there and that too is struggling . |
| 28 | My Lords , I agree with my noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , whose draft speech I have had the opportunity to read , that for the reasons he gives the appeal should be allowed and the questions answered in the way he proposes . |
| 29 | Nowhere to be seen and one of the reasons I bought the magazine was to read the article as I have a Ti'ko machine ( and incidentally have been very pleased with it ) . |
| 30 | ‘ One of the reasons I think the Japanese are so good at putting in quality systems is that , in some ways , it 's painful attention to detail , a series of little things which really improve performance . |