Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They are wooden galleries beneath extended eaves in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century farmhouses , and were probably designed for storage purposes originally , but were undoubtedly used in summer by the womenfolk in their cottage industry of spinning the wool of the local Herdwick sheep with spinning wheel and distaff .
2 278 , from the judgments in which the Court of Appeal quoted with approval .
3 The striking feature of the activities at which children worked for a high proportion of the time was involvement with other people ; conversely , most of the activities at which children worked for the lowest proportion of time writing , reading , drawing/painting — involved no other people and could have been carried out most effectively in isolation .
4 The striking feature of the activities at which children worked for a high proportion of the time was involvement with other people ; conversely , most of the activities at which children worked for the lowest proportion of time writing , reading , drawing/painting — involved no other people and could have been carried out most effectively in isolation .
5 Governments can raise tax revenue only if they can identify the activities on which the tax rates apply .
6 The activities of its centuries-old rival Debrett 's , which uses its once exclusive name to sell smoked salmon , begin to sound comparatively tasteful .
7 It will be recalled that following the mutual agreement over the continuation of the Bedfordshire scheme in 1930 and the exceptional arrangements made for Cambridgeshire , the Cambridge Board had established its Rural Areas Committee ( RAC ) in 1932 to expand its provision of Chapter III courses in both counties through the activities of its university resident tutors , Shearman and Baker .
8 If they ever do reveal controversial findings , as occasionally happens if a government sets up a committee to examine the activities of its predecessor , the report often merits little more attention that a small paragraph in Le Monde .
9 The EEIG can be used either to co-ordinate the activities of its participants , or to extend their range .
10 Their ownership right is a limited one which can never apply to the entire enterprise and the activities of its members . ’
11 First , as a criticism of the sheer impracticability of the grandiose project Owen had in 1833 put to the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes and which still survived in the objectives though not in the activities of its even shorter-lived successor , the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union , the Webbs ' case succeeds .
12 Regarded by analysts as a political and diplomatic triumph for China , the visit secured a formal undertaking by India to check the activities of its Tibetan refugees .
13 I was not able to see the CIEFL in session , but through discussions was able to get a good idea of the activities of its various English Departments .
14 Perhaps we will even be able to count on the support of Conservatives who have had a sudden conversion to freedom to undertake the activities of one 's choice in the countryside overriding all issues including wanton cruelty .
15 Chill dread settled in at the base of her skull and directed the activities of her roiling stomach , as she tried in vain to move her mouth , or even blink .
16 For example , employers and teachers keep registers of attendance and prescribe as well as supervise the activities of their employees/pupils , that is , restriction by intent .
17 It is also affected by the attitudes of those in the respective management structures , who have power to reward in specific ways the activities of their subordinates .
18 The so-called ‘ structural ’ approach adopted by these studies concentrates upon the organisational structure of unions rather than focusing upon the activities of their membership .
19 Snotlings are great mimics and are fascinated by the activities of their larger relatives , which , although their actions are completely inexplicable to Snotlings , they will often cheerfully imitate .
20 So cats coordinate their hunting expeditions with the activities of their prey .
21 Both parties had their own organisations to co-ordinate the activities of their followers and ensure party unity .
22 They want the thing to be sorted out properly in Brussels and they want the French authorities to be told in no uncertain terms that it 's their job to control the activities of their farmers .
23 Perhaps the most suitable starting point is to look at the major domestically based leisure groups , the activities of which are summed up in Table 11.13 .
24 The allegations , made in the Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad , implicated the Civil Co-operation Bureau , the activities of which were currently under investigation by the Harms commission [ see p. 37234 ] .
25 A decree published by the High Committee of State ( HCE ) on Aug. 15 gave the authorities additional powers to order the suspension or closure of any enterprise the activities of which " endanger public order , public security , the normal functioning of institutions or the higher interests of the country " .
26 That is , all productive units are merged into a single firm without any change in their numbers or their costs of production , and further that this newly created firm acts solely as a costless decision-making and co-ordinating mechanism for the activities of what were formerly the independent units .
27 A good industrial photographer will not be particularly good at portrait work and a fashion photographer will probably not know how to handle food , so if all these areas are represented by the activities of your company or client organisation you will need to find photographers in each field .
28 I commend this statement to you , those of you who are responsible for the accounts of your organisations , I hope you will also seek to comply with the , the standard , so that the charities of all organisations , the accounts of all charities can be seen clearly , so that er , you can understand the activities of your organisations from the accounts , and so that one charity can better be compared with another charity .
29 ( b ) Its laws could regulate the activities of anyone , anywhere .
30 But the law is not necessarily so , and many people born today will find their chances to pursue different conceptions of the good affected by law as a result of the activities of our and previous generations .
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