Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world . |
| 2 | Tomorrow is his Feast Day , but little is known about the life of this fourth-century divine ; he was renowned as a preacher and energetic founder of nunneries , and raised the funds to build the basilica in Verona where a statue depicts him holding a fishing-rod . |
| 3 | They are making an appeal for £3.5 million in order that it can be rehoused at the University of Cambridge where a special facility is going to be added to the university library . |
| 4 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 5 | Although the guidebook says it 's E2 5c , this is the kind of climb where a grade lacking some type of ‘ stomach shuffle component means it is n't that relevant . |
| 6 | It could be argued that home-school links is precisely the kind of issue where a generalized LEA policy is least appropriate , since the chemistry of relationships between each school 's staff and its parents is a unique and subtle matter , hardly conducive to centrally determined procedures . |
| 7 | The following two case studies show the kind of situation where a family meeting is a helpful part of the social work plan . |
| 8 | It 's just the kind of situation where a man feels he 's the only guy in the world who does n't know the form and it 's embarrassing . |
| 9 | In other words , if we choose coordinates so that the linearised flow near the origin takes the form we can use these equations to work out the point on the side of B where a trajectory emerges from B if it starts at a point on the top face of B. ( We assume that the box B is a cube with faces which are part of the planes . |
| 10 | Sadly the Metroliner had lost confidence in being a train and wanted to be an airliner instead : the coaches were rounded like a fuselage there were airliner seats with fold-town tables from the seatback in front even a company magazine at each place . |
| 11 | I flew into the monastery by helicopter just a couple of days after the fire and it was still smouldering . |
| 12 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 13 | Thirdly , in the study by Meshkinpour over a third of the patients were referred with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease compared with 14.2% in our study , and it was this patient population which yielded the smallest number of positive diagnoses in our experience . |
| 14 | The problem of hypoxia during endoscopy in the elderly has not been addressed since the work of Rozen almost a decade ago before reliable methods of non-invasive arterial oxygen saturation measurement were readily available . |
| 15 | The return to Warrington where a gasometer was destroyed three weeks ago may appear to set a curious pattern to the IRA 's logistics , but it may be that recent arrests and seizures of weapons and explosives in London in early March has inflicted a major blow to their intentions in the capital . |
| 16 | The risk was undoubtedly greatest for those living closest to the plant , particularly in the village of Seascale only a mile away . |
| 17 | When the final scenes were played out in a villa near St Tropez in the South of France just a month ago , I was left open-mouthed at the level of stupidity — or was it arrogance ? — displayed by the Duchess and her balding ‘ financial adviser ’ John Bryan . |
| 18 | Jones made this point by taking a small flashlight out from his pocket and making a strong cautionary comment that he would be ‘ extremely surprised if enough power could be generated by the process to power even a flashlight . ’ |
| 19 | Employees will be informed as soon as possible of the venue at Barlaston where a doctor will be on hand to answer , in confidence , any queries about transplants and the work of the Trust . |
| 20 | Noting that the Marxist classics attribute great importance to the possibility of replacing officials , Hegedus argues that ‘ for the most part , administration involves the sort of functions where a planned rotation of official personnel is expedient not only for the sake of opposing bureaucratic tendencies but also for the sake of greater efficiency ’ . |
| 21 | What I wanted was an area marked ‘ The sort of place where an average girl out on her own wo n't get mugged or raped and she can get a cheap bed for the night , no questions asked . ’ |
| 22 | Or perhaps even that he and I together , in as filthy moods as we were , must n't have looked like the sort of people even a policeman should risk messing with . |
| 23 | It was the sort of brooch only a very little boy could admire . |
| 24 | In Leaf v International Galleries , Denning LJ ( as he then was ) expressed the view that the right to rescind for misrepresentation can not survive beyond the point of time when a right to reject for breach of condition is lost . |
| 25 | It always seemed very cold , grey , and deserted , not a bit like the picture in The Nottingham Graduate , but better , I imagine , than the canal at Dunkirk where a colourful fellow-student named Reynolds reputedly took his morning dip . |
| 26 | This group of people was recognised by the meeting in Tokyo over a year ago , and this is an issue that many people — both my friends and strangers that I come across in collecting or canvassing for Amnesty — ask me about . |
| 27 | advisers , we have known them through the period their firm through the period of time quite a number of years , and we can federate er er testify to their integrity . |
| 28 | at the beginning of courses when a new intake arrives |
| 29 | Dollar interest rates cracked the price of gold down a dozen years ago when they were hoisted to 20 per cent . |
| 30 | John Wesley was a reluctant convert to open-air preaching — " I would have thought the saving of souls almost a sin , if it had not been done in a church " — but at Bristol in 1739 he followed the example of George Whitefield and " submitted to be more vile , and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation " . |