Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 While we now have a reasonably good understanding of how interactions at plate boundaries give rise to major morphological features on the continents our knowledge of the tectonic processes operating in plate interiors is by comparision rather poor .
2 In the case of a company , for example , independent auditors report to the shareholders their opinion on the truth and fairness of published financial statements .
3 Gloucester 's position as sole surviving brother of the king , coupled with his outstanding record of service to the crown , would have made it impossible to pass him over , even in a society aware of the dangers which guardianship by a paternal uncle posed to the interests of the heir .
4 Gloucester 's position as sole surviving brother of the king , coupled with his outstanding record of service to the crown , would have made it impossible to pass him over , even in a society aware of the dangers which guardianship by a paternal uncle posed to the interests of the heir .
5 The revival of Evangelicalism in the later part of the eighteenth century was taken up by the groups whose passion for reform , restricting drunkenness and violent sports , were opposed to the whole basis of the Sussex labourers ’ principal recreations ; simple religious faith in fundamentals among ordinary people may not have been much affected , but organised religion was probably largely irrelevant to the pattern of daily life .
6 Given the existence of these EEC policies , it comes as no surprise that the states which border on the EEC are willing to join on whatever terms they are offered .
7 The limitations of this class were clear : they were the opportunists whose sense of failure and sense of grievance could be nicely manipulated through their sense of German identity and nationalism .
8 Each of us should ask for the wisdom necessary to appreciate the opportunities which developments in modern communications technology offer for serving God and his people , while at the same time recognizing the challenges such progress inevitably poses .
9 Government jobs and the opportunities which association with the government gives allow them the possibility of accumulating material goods .
10 It may seem a lot to some folk , but in the mega rich world of sport and the Olympics its gold on the cheap .
11 Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes .
12 The islanders whose way of life has been unchallenged .
13 ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached .
14 In Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190 , Lord Diplock said : ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . ’
15 To ask the Minister for the Arts what percentage of his budget he intends to spend in the current year and next year on ( a ) opera and ( b ) poetry .
16 Another way of approaching organisational design is to ask questions about the functions which management in organisations need to perform in order to be successful .
17 Indeed , all that remains today of the old inherent rights are the power to control the method of carrying out the functions which Parliament from time to time give to the local authorities and the power to make rules as to the conduct of the meetings of the local authority .
18 Alongside them , in other parts of the Weald , came Augustinians , other Benedictines and the Premonstratensians whose house at Bayham is one of the most complete to have remained in Sussex .
19 Also , a larger proportion both of text and drawings has been allocated to the countries whose contribution to that style has been most notable , for instance , France in Gothic architecture , Italy in Renaissance designs .
20 The countries whose applications for membership are officially on the table at the time of writing are Austria ( which applied as long ago as 1989 ) , Sweden , Finland , Malta , Cyprus and Turkey .
21 Similarly , under the settlements which people of property commonly make , the property will be in the hands of trustees .
22 And it 's much loved by Mike Harding , entertainer and well-known walker , who has made the Dales his home for the past twenty years .
23 Possibly these birds are part of the flocks which winter in the valleys of the Hampshire Avon and/or Severn .
24 Over the years their percentage of television time has had a direct correlation to the increase in prize-money .
25 Not surprisingly , the Milanese were impressed by the miracle and over the years their offerings to the Madonna amounted to enough money to build a new church , the one that Bramante designed .
26 Most of the warlords whose campaigns of destruction have shaken the world and threatened the destruction of the realms of Men have been Orcs rather than Goblins .
27 At the coronation , which took place in Moscow at the end of August 1856 , Levshin , the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs , quizzed gentry representatives from many parts of the empire on the question of emancipation and found sympathy for the idea only among the north-westerners whose feelings on the matter had already been communicated to the tsar .
28 In practice ‘ reasonable consideration for other road users ’ can be proved by a statement from a witness who saw the actions which amount to lack of consideration .
29 Lanfranc seems to have had no interest in the achievements of his tenth-century predecessors who had given the monks their rule of life .
30 An alternative method of distribution is to use one of the agencies which specialist in the delivery of media releases .
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