Example sentences of "being retained as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , reiterated the familiar British line that while the government was ‘ already considering the scope of agricultural restrictions , ’ it ‘ believes that wherever possible , they should in the first event be on a voluntary basis , with compulsory powers being retained as a fall-back . ’ |
| 2 | In Webb the employer was allowed to put forward an explanation , which was accepted as being gender-neutral , that an employee was needed at a specific time to be trained and to cover for a period of maternity leave with the probability of being retained as a permanent employee . |
| 3 | Alternative plans put forward in the Scottish Office consultation document on council reform would result in the region either being retained as a single-tier unit or being divided into two or three councils . |
| 4 | We can point to Milton being retained as an approved poet of high literary culture during the next century when other dissenting writing of Milton 's age circulated among groups increasingly only at the margins of political life . |
| 5 | It was not intended that the Villa would be used as a residence ( the east wing of the old mansion being retained as the family residence ) , but mainly for the exhibition of the fine collection of paintings and sculptures which the Duke had gathered together , including examples of Holbein ; Rembrandt : Leonardo da Vinci ; Titian ; Van Dyke and Rubens . |