Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His capacity for controversy in such social encounters had gained Johnson a great deal of his divinity in English letters , but in Scotland , with the good manners of a visitor necessarily prevailing , such intercourse invariably proved pleasant , Lord Monboddo 's house typically thus . |
| 2 | ( I am anxious that you should understand the customs and manners of the country where the events in question took place , so different from your own . |
| 3 | It has already been suggested that the drafter 's primary objective is to transfer , so far as possible , the risks of the contract away from his/her client and onto the other party to the contract . |
| 4 | Its methods may improve our understanding of our patients and ourselves and form the basis for behavioural changes , on which reduction of the risks of the disease still largely depend . |
| 5 | Perhaps to make use of the end dregs of a field where turnips had been sown . |
| 6 | In fact the tactics of the provos today are the same as those used in the 1940's by the Zionists . |
| 7 | Here we are concerned with essential characteristics of the goods so that , for example , in a hire purchase case Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 936 , a car was defined as being a vehicle capable of moving under its own power . |
| 8 | They do not however use this data to temper their judgements , with the result that a school may be praised because of the intake characteristics of the pupils rather than because of anything it has done . |
| 9 | The research will address particularly two issues in Metropolitan health and welfare planning : To what extent are socially disadvantaged individuals concentrated in relatively deprived geographic areas ? and how are individuals self reported morbidity and health service use related to the social characteristics of the neighbourhoods where the survey respondents live ? |
| 10 | Both these churches illustrate the Asturian characteristics of the round-headed rather than the horseshoe arch construction ( the Carolingian influence is evident ) , and Roman type decoration and capitals , though the Visigothic cable pattern is also used . |
| 11 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 12 | Later I descended with the songs of the skylarks still in my ears and I listened to the grumbling of the men in the mist of the grey streets . |
| 13 | To the ears of a European newly arrived , this music sounds very strangely , for there are ten to twelve hautboy , and as many cymbals , which [ all ] play together . |
| 14 | Theda stood her ground , aware of Taggy hovering on the stairs behind her , the listening ears of the maids above , and Adam Diggory 's unseen shadow at the back of the hall . |
| 15 | The demand for Greek work in the early centuries of the Empire far exceeded the supply , and a busy industry arose in the production of marble copies ( few could afford bronze ) after popular bronze ( and rarer marble ) types . |
| 16 | He obviously had to get him up f erm sort of rolled him over er one way then the other to be of but the er the legs of the jeans on . |
| 17 | the experts too are fans of the boat already … |
| 18 | If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances . |
| 19 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 20 | Nutty hovered on the outskirts of the melee not sure what to do next , all her team being gainfully employed in the argument and her own presence as captain obviously superfluous . |
| 21 | On the outskirts of the City internationally famous Nottingham Forest and England 's oldest team Notts County take on their opponents at the City Ground and the Meadow Lane Stadium . |
| 22 | The main competition for the Royal Oak comes from the Black Bull , an old coaching inn also located in the town centre , and from the Leofric , a two-year-old motel located on the outskirts of the town close to both motorways . |
| 23 | They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears Only those books come down which deserve to last . |
| 24 | During the First World War , Turkish bureaucracy and a locust plague produced a famine in Lebanon of such proportions that an American woman resident in Beirut was moved to describe for readers of The Times how she : |
| 25 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 26 | A primitive shading is found on a few vases of the generation before , by the Brygos Painter for instance to indicate the roundness of shields ; and in this time it appears , very sparingly , both in red-figure and on another class of Attic vase which we have not yet considered , those with a white slip . |
| 27 | Her concern that the sisters living a life of contemplative discipline should in one respect be totally unrestricted — in their access to , and possession of , books — and the fact that , evidently , the brothers of the order both encouraged and instructed them in the knowledge of theological traditions , illuminates , and is symptomatic of , the problems faced by women who wished to live out their faith and give an articulate account of their experience . |
| 28 | The favoured candidate is a system of proportional representation under which the numbers of candidates of a party ultimately returned would be much more proportionate to the number of votes cast for that party overall . |
| 29 | Flora , always spoilt , is never lonely — until at the last she has the frightening experience of seeing herself as one pair of hostile eyes saw her : the eyes of a person so ill-conditioned as to sent her an anonymous letter , and yet a painter of distinction . |
| 30 | With our eyes we see only the eyes of the others there . |