Example sentences of "' [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The businesses include two in waste disposal — essentially landfill operations — two in quarrying , two in the manufacture of scientific instruments plus a chain of builders ' merchants and a maker of specialised grouts . |
| 2 | Kitchen specialist shops , builders ' merchants and the kitchen sections of department stores will often concentrate on the more expensive ( but high quality ) rigid ranges of kitchen unit . |
| 3 | It would , furthermore , be difficult to justify the scale of directors ' remuneration if the recipients did not possess comparatively scarce abilities , and it would , if only for that reason , be surprising if directors were themselves to deny the possession of special skills . |
| 4 | The annual report should also give information on directors ' remuneration and the cost of non-audit services provided by the auditor . |
| 5 | The proposed expansion of the zoning scheme , which has been on trial in three city-centre wards since 1990 , has already won the clear support of the police , residents ' groups and the hospitals , which have become increasingly concerned about late-night disturbances and violence . |
| 6 | The phenomenon drew comment from nearly all the booksellers taking part in the survey , looming larger in most booksellers ' experience than the formerly familiar threat of expansion by the chains ( although the latter phenomenon has obviously not disappeared , with Jarrolds , in particular , awaiting the arrival of a 10,000 sq ft Dillons store in Norwich with a certain apprehension ) . |
| 7 | However , this will not preclude other world faiths from that particular discrete area of the curriculum should their introduction be appropriate to the childrens ' experience or the particular theme , topic or unit of work being studied . |
| 8 | However , this book does more than foreground girls ' experience and the culture of femininity . |
| 9 | On her lips she tasted the dust raised by the horses ' hooves and the wheels of the carriage . |
| 10 | It was supposed to be the parched Wild West , with dust spraying up from the horses ' hooves and the wheels . |
| 11 | The horses ' hooves and the wheels of the cart were muffled in straw so that it seemed to glide like a terrible phantasm . |
| 12 | With that she was gone and a minute or so later , they heard the crack of a whip and the sound of horses ' hooves as the coach pulled away . |
| 13 | He had estimated the value of the shares in H and SW on the basis of , inter alia , the companies ' accounts and the general approach of stock market investors to investment trust companies and the level of yield such investors might expect . |
| 14 | The thousands of miles of new hedgerows in the Midland countryside , when they came to full growth after a generation , added enormously to the bird population , especially with the extermination of the larger hawks and kites as pests , a process that is abundantly recorded in the church-wardens ' accounts or the field-reeves ' books of Midland villages . |
| 15 | Instead of relying upon the workers ' militia and the election of officers , Trotsky and his acolytes created a Red Army modelled on thoroughly traditional lines . |
| 16 | The two governments would conclude an agreement specifying the size and duration of the Syrian forces ' presence and the relationship of these forces with the Lebanese authorities . |
| 17 | In addition , they control resources which can be withdrawn or redeployed at their discretion , and are of vital importance for workers ' livelihood and the revenue base of state expenditure . |
| 18 | St. Leonard 's Street became the centre of operations ; the Olive Branch Inn ( no. 3 , in existence c.1826–1959 ) was the bullards ' headquarters and the Royal Oak ( no. 60 , in existence c.1796–1906 ) provided stabling for the bull . |
| 19 | This is convenient because it is now recognised that they are such an important aspect of the transaction ; and pension under-funding or , in recent times more likely , over-funding , can involve such large amounts of money that the arrangements will generally be negotiated separately from the rest of the agreement by specialist pension lawyers from the parties ' solicitors and the parties ' respective actuaries . |
| 20 | She sat quite quietly , listening to their banter , transfixed by Miles ' hair and the way it fell on to his neck , mesmerized by trying to imagine the smooth body under the blue polo-necked sweater . |
| 21 | But she fears the embers ' flicker and the night closing in over chill ash . |
| 22 | Haughey 's espousal of liberal reforms was seen as a response to the shock result of the November 1990 presidential election [ see p. 37868 ] , in which the victory of Mary Robinson , a woman supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , was seen as reflecting a major shift in voters ' attitudes and a challenge to the traditional political dominance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael . |
| 23 | It is worth describing in some detail the evolution of the Inservice Panel , since it is the evaluators ' judgement that a number of lessons might be learnt from its somewhat chequered career . |
| 24 | This entry-level operation will be responsible for putting AIX Lite ( UX No 369 ) , OS/2 , Hunter Systems ' XDOS and a Macintosh emulator on the M20 later this year , Filip said , a move still capable of producing a chill in competitors like Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 25 | They strolled back home down the tunnelled lane and called in at the Littles ' cottage and the Vicarage on the way . |
| 26 | If those principles are applied to the facts of the present case , in particular to the Commissioners ' finding that the transaction did not involve any bounty on the part of Mr Levy , it is clear that there was no disposition , agreement , or other transaction within s454(3) of the 1970 Act [ now TA 1988 , s681(4) ] . |
| 27 | In the family proceedings court a justices ' clerk or a single justice may make , vary or revoke directions and may refer any matter to the full court for consideration . |
| 28 | In any event , Ermold assumed that the parents would relish the description of their son , and be amused by the contrast between the adults ' formality and the child 's spontaneity ( though such licence may have been permitted only to under-sevens ) . |
| 29 | He was given an immediate Critics ' Award and a seat at the back . |
| 30 | Crawford was a British star on Broadway and , for his considerable pains , won two Best Actor honours , the Variety Critics ' Award and the Whitbread Anglo-American Group Award . |