Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1872 the Catholic Archbishop Cardinal Manning announced that the majority of clerics now believed that there was nothing incompatible between evolutionary science and their own theological system . |
| 32 | In British public schools , for instance , not only are the majority of pupils deliberately drawn from that small section of British society committed to the standards which the public school promotes , but teaching staff are similarly rigorously selected , not merely on the basis of academic competence , but also on the basis of the extent to which they have successfully internalised the standards they are expected to foster among their pupils . |
| 33 | The expansion of the past few years has resulted in the majority of subjects now reaching a size at which they are academically viable in terms of staffing and the portfolio of courses they can offer . |
| 34 | In the three years that the revised scheme has now operated the Council has noted that the majority of bodies clearly have been able to submit their applications well within that timescale . |
| 35 | The majority of readers probably regard these features as self-evident , but they may not be aware of the speed with which UK society has changed in the last three decades , or , as we shall see , of the effects on areas which have not shared in the process . |
| 36 | And if the reading public as a whole is shrinking , if literature is increasingly relegated to the schools as something ‘ to be studied ’ — if , in a word , the majority of readers now are scholars ( whether students or professional academics ) — then the claims of literary theory to be our representative literary genre become stronger still . |
| 37 | The 4GL runs on top of multiple databases , including Oracle , Informix , Ingres and Sybase , as well as the Cobol-based flat file systems that still act as a base for the majority of installations out there . |
| 38 | The majority of children today are born to married couples . |
| 39 | The majority of children under 16 live with both their natural parents . |
| 40 | The majority of architects also stated that it was now competitive forces which determined fees . |
| 41 | Yes , I think really it 's a er , faulty gene in the system and no matter how men hate women , the majority of men really like women other than perhaps envy , or jealousy , or women earning more than their husbands and throwing it back in them , in their face , but the main subject , the main point to me is , there is a faulty ge gene in their system and there 's no way you will eradicate that ! |
| 42 | The majority of comments below relate , therefore , to the online services , but there are also a group of comments on external libraries , on external information services , and two miscellaneous comments . |
| 43 | The majority of voters also favoured cuts in the defence budget and level or increased Spending on domestic education and health programmes . |
| 44 | Patrick Costello , the priest in charge of the chapel on the summit said , ‘ The majority of people around here are against gold mining and since the church is the people the church is against it ’ . |
| 45 | The majority of people also voted for parties which advocate a Scottish parliament , but the Government rejects it . |
| 46 | The fact that the majority of people officially labelled as ‘ criminal ’ by the criminal justice system for the first time , never are again , seems to be a restriction on labelling theory 's potential in this respect . |
| 47 | The majority of people never progress beyond the householder stage . |
| 48 | Do you know , I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door , you know , he 's always playing next to me and he sits down , puts his trumpet there , gets his trumpet on ya , sits there , turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going |
| 49 | Rudston is basically a farming community , but mechanisation and modernisation have resulted in much less employment than of old and the majority of people now travel out of the village to work . |
| 50 | Is my hon. Friend aware that in my constituency the majority of people infinitely prefer the council tax to Labour 's alternative — the so-called fair rates , which are nothing but a return to the dreaded rating system that we had before , and which was especially hated in the south of England ? |
| 51 | It is nevertheless essential in the majority of situations where there is a specific question on the chronology requiring an accurate and reasonably precise answer . |
| 52 | The majority of apartments also have a sea view . |
| 53 | The extent of local monopoly means that the majority of DHAs still have to deal with their own local providers and may have no realistic alternative for the bulk of their services . |
| 54 | The prayer for relief so far as the third defendant is concerned , seeks damages for conspiracy to defraud ; exemplary damages ; an indemnity in respect of any liabilities to B.M.T. under what is described as ‘ the said deed , ’ which presumably means the legal charge or other instrument containing the personal guarantee given by the plaintiffs ; damages for deceit ; and interest . |
| 55 | The ideology of psychologism also fits in with the need for motivating people for productive work , and at the same time makes possible and legitimates a fascination with mystery and magic . |
| 56 | The weakness of clauses expressly undertaking obligations is that they will not prevent other , more extensive obligations being imposed unless they are inconsistent with the implied obligation . |
| 57 | Until this year , some of that waste went to Finland and the remainder to facilites elsewhere in the United Kingdom . |
| 58 | Under the coalition agreement the new government aimed " to achieve the unity of Germany swiftly and responsibly for the whole of the German Democratic Republic [ East Germany or GDR ] at one time after negotiations with the Federal Republic of Germany [ West Germany ] on the basis of Article 23 of the [ West German ] Basic Law " [ see also p. 37259 ] . |
| 59 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 60 | A likely result of taking job enrichment into account is the reduction of monotony usually associated with the clerical tasks of computer systems . |