Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At this point my story becomes the introductory scene of a fiction which could be continued .
2 Mount the tanks side by side on the firm base and stick a length of sheet glass over the inside joints with a smear of silicone sealer .
3 It is useful to tap New line after sub-headings ( eg after shoulder headings , see Task 20 below ) and after short lines to be selected as a single block of text , eg a list ( see Task 4 ) , or the inside address of a letter .
4 A third method is for the binder to stamp his name ( usually in minute letters ) on the inside edge of a front or back cover , or sometimes on a fly leaf .
5 Shoemaking begins and ends with a last , the three dimensional pattern of the inside shape of a shoe .
6 If you 've had your sofa or curtains for a while and have thrown away any spare material , take a snip from the inside of a seat cushion or from the inside hem of a pair of curtains to stick in your book .
7 Er , it is not just an additional committee , on the part of the West region , it is in fact the total reorganisation of a number of meetings , and getting down to a far more business-like thing .
8 Harden 's type-series ( 1956b , pp. 139–43 ) divided the total assemblage into a number of distinct categories , beakers with stems or claws , bell , bag or cone-shaped , with the related horns , pouch bottles , squat jars , bottles , palm cups and bowls , to which has been added a bucket-shaped vessel from the cemetery of Westgarth Gardens , Bury St Edmunds ( Suffolk ) ; slight variations have been made to the original typology ( Harden 1978 , pp. 2–6 ) .
9 But if the choreographer does not understand all the details which go to make the total presentation of a ballet , it can all too easily fail in some way or other .
10 The total return from a security in a future time period is dependent on a series of anticipated and unanticipated events .
11 Frequently recurring criticisms of the contracts are that they are of up to nine years ' duration , they contain hidden annual increases , that the costs of settling old agreements are added to the undisclosed capital value of new equipment , and that the total cost of a contract is not disclosed .
12 The survey looked at the total cost of a funeral , including the fees paid via the funeral director for cremation or burial , minister 's fees , flowers , obituary notices and so on .
13 This definition of the importance of a unity of view in management and of the importance of sharing interest and concern allows the significance of the classroom and of the small-scale , almost invisible base of experience of the individual teacher to take its place alongside larger aspects of policy and of governmental requirement in the total framework of a school 's management .
14 In such conditions as prevailed in the last phase of the Weimar Republic , of the total discrediting of a State system based upon pluralist politics , the ‘ functional ’ leadership of the bureaucrat and the Party politician as the representatives of the impersonal ‘ rational-legal ’ form of political domination , imposing laws and carrying out functions for which they are not personally responsible and with which they are not identifiable , lost credibility .
15 The Total Change of a Chemical Reaction
16 Basic dual porosity theory postulates that the total conductance of a sample of formation is equivalent to the sum of the separate conductances for each porosity system .
17 I am increasingly concerned that validators increasingly fail to use as an important criterion the total experience of a student .
18 As points of reference for the total curriculum of a school each of these falls within the usual definition of broad aims .
19 Try to record anything you can remember — details , a feeling , colours , even an odd word can sometimes trigger the total memory of a dream .
20 In 1801 John Dalton stated that the total pressure of a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of the component gases .
21 Removal of organic matter and oxidation are necessary in the determination of the total chromium in a sample .
22 At any moment , the total number of a trust 's shares in issue is fixed .
23 Following a casualty which results in the total loss of a vessel the remains of which are causing an obstruction or a danger to other shipping , the Policyholder may be requested by a Harbour Master or Receiver of Wrecks to remove the vessel .
24 The total risk on a security or portfolio may be described as follows : .
25 No limit to the total weight of a Datapost consignment — individual items can weigh as much as 30kg .
26 All aggregates are made up of their constituent parts — for example , we see later that the total demand for a country 's output consists of the sum of individual demands and can be written as follows : where AD is total ( or aggregate ) demand , C is the sum of all individual consumers ' demands for goods and services , I is the sum of all individual firms ' demands for investment goods , C is the government 's demand for goods and services , X is the total foreign demand for the country 's exports and M is the demand for imports .
27 It has the effect of increasing the surface area of a solution , thus increasing its speed of activity , and assisting in the total capability of a solution to suspend dirt much of it ending up trapped in the foam .
28 The justification for using a hierarchy is mathematical , and has to do with the way in which the total variability of a collection is successively reduced as one passes from higher to lower levels in the hierarchy .
29 Mr Lamont said the total tax on a pint of beer would rise by about 1 1/2p and a bottle of wine by about 5 1/2p .
30 In experience of this kind , perceptions achieved through the schema aesthetic begin to affect the total context of a work and start to not only direct attention but also change the way in which the image is seen .
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