Example sentences of "with the spirit [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He insisted that he wanted to return to the church to sample some more of the atmosphere : commune with the spirit of the Levellers — that sort of nonsense . |
| 2 | In keeping with the spirit of the Blues Skies approach I should also point out that in the absence of clearly identified industrial or commercial possibilities ( as opposed to imagined ones ) the research would not be subject to the constraints of confidentiality . |
| 3 | A stance which was appropriate for the Age of Brezhnev and Galtieri now seems out of date and out of touch with the spirit of the times . |
| 4 | The victory of Gothic architecture showed that Nonconformity had kept pace with the spirit of the times ; to have done otherwise would have turned them back into hole-and-corner chapels appealing , like the Quakers with their simple meeting-houses , to ‘ men and women of a certain temper ’ . |
| 5 | Does Labour really think it is in accord with the spirit of the times ? |
| 6 | The suggested move towards a centrally-determined curriculum , however , was still out of keeping with the spirit of the times . |
| 7 | In short , he had identified himself at last with the spirit of the times . |
| 8 | Nothing illustrates more dramatically the extent to which Nizan 's work fired the imagination than the spectacle of Sartre himself publicly criticising traditional " institutionalised " intellectuals for their lack of imagination , publicly insulting Raymond Aron for his failure to take note of the significance of the May events , and extolling by implication Nizan the youthful iconoclast , an exemplary dissident intellectual in tune with the spirit of the times . |
| 9 | Tax-dodging is in line , it seems , with the spirit of the times . |