Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The fees mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above shall not include fees payable under the provisions of the Betting , Gaming and Lotteries Acts 1963 to 1971 or of the Gaming Act 1968 . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly these tribunals have been criticized as not being independent of the Ministry of Labour or of the Unemployment Assistance Board . |
| 3 | He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ . |
| 4 | The 15.3% swing against them in Torbay is indicative both of this and of a more generalised dissatisfaction with the policies of the council . |
| 5 | The best example of this and of the way in which Switchboard tends to mirror the mainstream gay ( and still mainly male ) community lies in the organization 's response to AIDS . |
| 6 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 7 | Clinton , a graduate of Hot Springs High and of the School of Government at Georgetown University , Washington , would dispute anything to provoke discussion . |
| 8 | The corporation was self-elected and of the weakest kind . |
| 9 | In our opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and the group at 31st March 1993 and of the profit and cash flows of the group for the year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 10 | Digitizing began in 1973 and completion of the digitizing of the 1:1250 basic scale maps is expected by 1993 and of the 1:2500 series by 2005 . |
| 11 | In our opinion the accounts give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company and the Group at 27th March 1993 and of the profit of the Group for the financial year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 12 | proposed and seconded adoption of the Balance Sheet and Revenue Account as printed on page 16 of The Embalmer , Vol. 36 , No 2 , Spring 1993 and of the Report printed on page 11 . |
| 13 | The matter is addressed from the point of view of the buyer in cl 2.2 of Precedent 2 and of the seller in cl 6 of Precedent 1 , but apart from the time when the buyer becomes responsible to pay the storage charges , the principles are much the same . |
| 14 | ‘ In the reign of the Most Gracious Sovereign , George III and under the auspices of the Right Hon. William Fettes , Lord Provost of Edinburgh , the Harbour of Leith , though formed at a remote period and as commerce in the course of ages increased often repaired and extended , yet being still narrow and incommodious , Robert Dundas of Melville , Esq. , in absence of the Right Hon. Charles , Earl of Dalkeith , Grand Master of Scotland , laid the foundation stone of these docks in which the numerous vessels arriving from every quarter of the globe might receive ample and secure accommodation on the 14th day of May in the year of our Lord 1801 and of the Aera of Masonry 5801 , John Rennie being Engineer . |
| 15 | Punishments should , he said , be public and of a kind appropriate to the type of offence : corporal punishments for crimes of violence , public humiliation for ‘ crimes founded on pride ’ and so on . |
| 16 | It should be recalled , however , that earlier it was noted that the changes were few and of a relatively trivial nature , and in the case studies it was reported that changes following the use of the booklet tended to be shortlived . |
| 17 | I wonder whether , if Labour Members present were Members not of this but of a similar Parliament in an eastern European country or in Russia , they would be taking this attitude . |
| 18 | He was good-looking but of the rough , hirsute kind . |
| 19 | ‘ It is appropriate for spectators to applaud successful strokes in proportion to difficulty but excessive demonstrations by a player or his partisans are not proper because of the possible effect upon other competitors . |
| 20 | Whether or not the analogy of the firm as a cooperative family is a realistic one for the majority of labour , this idea forms a crucial part in the ideology that Japanese industrial relations are different because of a longstanding preference for conformity to group consensus . |
| 21 | The situation in the islands is now fundamentally different because of the existence of Comhairle nan Eilean — the Western Isles Islands Authority — which has much greater resources both for investigating local problems and doing something to solve them , than any voluntary organisation possibly could , but the question remains whether the technique devised by the Lewis Association still has validity . |
| 22 | Before leaving Butterworth v. Kingsway Motors it should be noted that if the same facts ( i.e. involving a motor vehicle ) were to occur again today , the result would be different because of the Hire Purchase Act 1964 , Part III ( see paragraph 5–40 above ) . |
| 23 | Where a continent moves towards a subduction zone associated with an intra-oceanic island arc the consequences are rather different because of the resistance of continental crust to significant subduction . |
| 24 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |
| 25 | The ‘ rational ’ and utilitarian planks of the success of the Green Movement are also interesting because of the burden they place on the importance of good science . |
| 26 | The Supreme Court decision in Dames and Moore v. Regan537 is especially interesting because of the large number of potentially affected individuals , including the hostages detained in Tehran , foreign and American banking interests , commercial enterprises with dealings in Iran , and government agencies . |
| 27 | The combination with videodisc players is particularly interesting because of the ways random access can be exploited . |
| 28 | The " time risk " illustrated in the drawing is interesting because of the inevitability of failure : the risk is shifted to the estimation of the length of time that might elapse before that failure . |
| 29 | They are minor , in the sense that one meets them relatively infrequently , but they are also quite interesting because of the linguistic sophistication they reveal in the usage of the ordinary speaker . |
| 30 | He says that no , the pond is n't just full of green slime and mud , there are thousands of tadpoles , which in themselves are interesting because of the way they metamorphose . |