Example sentences of "that whereas [art] " in BNC.

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1 Actual details are vague , but John claims that whereas every other pickup in existence suffers from a muddy , limited response , his design ( available fitted to any guitar , single-coil or humbucking , at a cost of £150 ) gives the first genuinely ‘ full range ’ sound .
2 The difference between the two is that whereas a regulation is universally binding on all member states , a directive is specifically aimed at a named member state , informing it that something must be done , but leaving the way in which it is to be achieved to the discretion of the national government .
3 The Minister of State spoke about overcrowding and the cost of adding a supervision requirement to the new sentence ; with Mayhew , in a phrase that was to gain increasing currency on the Conservative benches , pronouncing that whereas a great many people who get a suspended sentence , and their friends , think that they have got away with their crime , the effect of ‘ a short , sharp and I hope , nasty taste of prison ’ would linger on .
4 The difference is that whereas a syntactic deviance may be tolerated , only a semantic deviance can be directly interpreted .
5 Music has a time-span which is very different from that of speech — it spreads words into another time dimension , so that whereas a writer has to ‘ pad out ’ his thoughts to give his words extra body , such padding becomes burdensome in music — unwanted material we could well do without .
6 It was his hope that whereas an essentially Ukrainian background would rule behind the front door of their home , his son could become assimilated into the society that had adopted his flotsam parents .
7 This distinction can be put briefly by saying that whereas an appellate court has power to decide whether the decision under appeal was ‘ right or wrong ’ , a court exercising supervisory powers may only decide whether the decision under review was ‘ legal ’ or not .
8 And that whereas the earth 's actual mantle , which appears on the ocean floor , consists of heavy rocks — predominantly silicon and magnesium ( sima ) — the continents are made of lighter material : igneous rocks and crystalline schists ( sial ) .
9 The figures below ( Table 1.1 ) show that whereas the total size of the population aged 65 and over will not rise substantially ( it will in fact fall between 1991 and 2001 ) , those aged 85 and over will almost double in number in England and Wales , from just over half a million to almost one million ( an increase of 88 per cent ) .
10 Inspection shows that whereas the clock has pulsed 12 times , X1 has pulsed on 6 times and X2 only 3 .
11 It was suggested , for example , that stock was over-valued and that credit notes due to customers had been understated with the effect that whereas the accounts as published had reported profits of £1.3m , they should have reported a loss of approximately £400,000 .
12 We would again point out that whereas the Committee has produced ‘ evidence ’ from a politically motivated group , the British BSSRS ( sic ) and an emotionally committed woman , Nancy Tait , our plant has been assessed and approved by the IIRS , Cork County Council , Cork County Medical Officer , An Taisce and the IDA .
13 Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master .
14 It is noticeable , however , that whereas the G-5 countries now account for 75 per cent of the world 's FDI flow , their position as the five major exporters is a much less concentrated 45 per cent .
15 Speaking of the activities of elementary particle physicists , he writes that whereas the activity appears essential as long as we believe in the independent existence of fundamental laws that we can still hope to know better , it loses practically its whole motivation as soon as we believe that the sole objective of the scientists is to make their impressions mutually consistent .
16 It also shows that whereas the universities and polytechnics/colleges had almost the same number of full-time students in 1987 , part-time students were mainly concentrated in the latter and the Open University .
17 The Dukeries field was ( and still is in many respects ) different from many others on all three of the components of a place , as illustrated not only by Sunley 's arguments ( following Krieger and others ) regarding the different social relations at the workplace , but also Waller 's ( 1983 , p. 235 ) that whereas the Dukeries villages were praised for many of their design aspects , ‘ the social and political institutions of the miners in the new South Yorkshire villages left much to be desired compared with traditional and long-established coalfields ’ .
18 … ’ Reading this part of the judgment as a whole , however , it is clear that the district judge was doing no more than taking note of the fact that whereas the proceedings before him were ready for trial the future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was beset with uncertainty .
19 Indeed , some people never even seem to master that whereas the Macintosh user hardly even notices the underlying System and Finder .
20 It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit .
21 The universities complained that the replacement of the University Grants Committee by the Universities Funding Council posed a threat to their independence , arguing that whereas the University Grants Committee represented the universities to the government , the Universities Funding Council represents the government to the universities .
22 Quite new kinds of research were opened up , so that whereas the static kind of classifying was a rather sterile tradition , Darwinism presented an attractive research programme .
23 Other differences flow from the fact that whereas the rights of shareholders depend mainly on the provision of the company 's articles , which will have been drafted in the interests of the company , those of debentureholders depend upon the terms of a contract between lender and borrower and its terms will have to be acceptable to the lender .
24 The difference is that whereas the policeman is justified in acting as he does , the citizen is merely excused from criminal liability on the grounds that he lacks mens rea .
25 One relevant difference is that whereas the Renaissance aspiration to assimilate Rome was realizable , no analogous aspiration was possible for Germany vis-a-vis Greece .
26 You will notice incidentally that whereas the enangar relationship can be reciprocal because the paired groups are ordinarily of the same social status , the relationship with the Nambudiri , who are of superior ritual standing , is always asymmetrical .
27 This judgment , implicitly criticizing the Aug. 6 order , found that whereas the President had allowed the Punjab and Baluchistan assemblies ( controlled by opponents of the PPP ) to dissolve themselves , those of Sind and the NWFP ( both dominated by the PPP ) were summarily dismissed [ see p. 37652 ] .
28 Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both .
29 It is safest to assume , therefore , that whereas the Lion and Stag mosaic might be predominantly the work of a craftsmen who was also present at North Leigh , the same proximity of relationship can not be postulated for the Oceanus mosaic .
30 Moreover , it has been claimed ( e.g. by Burton-Roberts forthcoming ) that whereas the phenomenon in [ 7 ] is restricted to the juxtaposition of NPs , the phenomenon of loose apposition extends to the juxtaposition of other categories .
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