Example sentences of "table [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prediction had been that these elections would result in more women and fewer Scots around the shadow cabinet table as a result of the voting system . |
| 2 | Vologsky slammed his fist down upon the table as the injustice of it all descended upon him again . |
| 3 | Many clubs employed ‘ cravat-looseners ’ whose sole job was to make sure that those who had slid beneath the table through no fault of their own , were not about to be choked by their clothing . |
| 4 | With the league regionalised over Winter it 's almost certain that Clwyd , Gwynedd and Powys teams will prop up the table for a couple of months . |
| 5 | At the entrance was a table for a member of the local Assembly executive who checked people 's names and wrote down their identity card numbers as they came in . |
| 6 | Draw up a life table for a cohort of 5000 students showing , for each year of study , the probability of leaving and the expected remaining stay calculated on the assumption that one-tenth of the leavers in any year depart at random times during the year and the remainder go at the end of that year . |
| 7 | Malik 's brilliant form took him to the top of the table for the tour with a total of 1,184 runs . |
| 8 | I said on the 14th that the equivalent of 25 million tonnes of coal gas contracts had been given , with a further equivalent of 10 million tonnes lying on the table for the Secretary of State to sanction . |
| 9 | The Duke and Duchess of York were guests at his table after a premiere of a film in the West End . |
| 10 | A mouldy lump of unidentifiable food lay on a table amid a pile of crumbs . |
| 11 | Dennis lay sprawled in the armchair between us , his feet propped on the glass-topped coffee table amid an array of empty bottles . |
| 12 | The factor of the Islay Estate put in an interesting table of the acreage of the various farms in 1894 . |
| 13 | The factor of the Islay Estate put in an interesting table of the acreage of the various farms in 1894 . |
| 14 | In some instances proposals for action had lain on the table of the Council of Ministers ( the body which makes Community law ) since the early 1970s ! |
| 15 | The proposals rest on the table of the council of ministers and it 's common knowledge that this government er has er shown the greatest reluctance to see any movement er forward . |
| 16 | Deontology , A Table of the Springs of Action , and Article on Utilitarianism , ed A Goldworth ; |
| 17 | Sacrosanctum Concilium speaks of the presence of Christ both in the sacraments and in the liturgical reading of the Word ( SC 7 ) ; Dei Verbum likewise speaks of ‘ the one table of the Word of God and the Body of Christ ’ ( DV 21 ) . |
| 18 | This table of the Nations in Genesis 10 can hardly be more ancient than the seventh century B.C. Not much later Ezechiel or one of his disciples included Yavan in the lamentation for Tyre ( 27.13–19 ) . |
| 19 | The table of the Nations in Genesis 10 reminds us of the map of Anaximander ; the Book of Job , probably an exilic work , has often been compared with Aeschylus ' Prometheus . |
| 20 | Examples given are : a league table of the use of each title in the main library and the short loans collection , to determine titles that should be duplicated or marked for reference use ; a record of items never used , for relegation purposes ; records of the use of books by subject , including interdisciplinary use , for purposes of fund allocation ; and analysis of the use of books by date of publication , to determine obsolescence parameters . |
| 21 | Seventh in the table of the start of play nineteen points from their ten games six wins a draw and three defeats . |
| 22 | Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags . |
| 23 | That the Bill shall be laid upon the Table of the House by one of the Clerks in the Private Bill Office on the next meeting of the House after the day on which the Bill has been presented and , when so laid , shall be read the first and second time ( and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read ) and , having been amended by the Committee in the last Session , shall be ordered to lie upon the Table . |
| 24 | One of Modigliani 's stone heads was on a table below the painting of Picasso and the contrast between the true thing and the true-to-life thing nearly split me . |
| 25 | There was a table near the window on which were three Carlsberg ashtrays ( no wonder you ca n't find one in a pub ) and a pair of professional-looking binoculars . |
| 26 | The ‘ kitchen-diner ’ on the other side boasted the usual cupboards and what looked like home-made worktops , and a table near the window with four chairs drawn up to it . |
| 27 | A bell rang and a Chairman , sitting at a table near the apron of the stage , banged loudly on the table with a gavel . |
| 28 | ‘ And , ’ she said drily , casting the purple passages over the table like a deck of cards . |
| 29 | Miss Evans did n't eat with them but stood by the table like a waitress in a restaurant , taking the plates to the sink as soon as they 'd cleared them and sweeping up crumbs round their chairs before they had finished drinking their milk . |
| 30 | Then it was Sue 's turn , and she opened up a shimmering square of silk scarf , which had been flattened to the size of an envelope and now expanded and billowed across the table like the sail of a brilliant ship . |