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

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1 The two had much in common : conceit , fame , unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress .
2 Richard was tall for his age and personable , with impeccable manners and a strong sense of occasion .
3 A Sephardic Jew , he was a tall , spare man of high moral principles and the most courteous manners and an odd habit when listening of purring like a cat .
4 The qualities a diplomat needed — quickness of wit , courtly manners and an impressive appearance , social polish and savoir-faire — were not to be acquired in classrooms and libraries .
5 As a hungry little lad my stomach occasionally overruled my manners and the Grace would include a parenthetic rebuke such as , ‘ For what we are about to receive ( and for what Stewart has already eaten ) we give You thanks … ’
6 Manners and the preservation of an image of the manager as being all-seeing and ahead of the game , were very important .
7 She keeps giving me clothes — ; not this dear old awful thing , Mrs McPhee at home made this — and making me practise manners and the piano and I could n't tell her about last night , I could n't , I ca n't disappoint another person , not after my mother — ’ and Alexandra put her head down on to the slice of bread on her plate and burst into tears .
8 ‘ Drink/drive campaigns have been successful in changing social attitudes , now is the time for raising awareness of road manners and the Highway Code . ’
9 At one extreme are the relations of permanent hostility between the Buid and Christians , paralleled on the mystical plane by the permanent struggle between the spirit familiars and the predatory spirits .
10 The writers take risks and every episode has something wacky about it : elaborate dream sequences ; an argument played back four different ways from the perspective of each of the participants ; the cast transported into the world of the Dick van Dyke Show .
11 Due to the presence of foreign exchange risk , or simply exchange or currency risk as it is often described , many exporters and importers use the forward market to hedge such risks and a link exists between Eurocurrency interest rates and the forward exchange rate .
12 You must not take risks and the idea is to hit the opposing tackler and keep the momentum going through second phase , which is not pretty to watch — and not always effective if the other team can tackle , as England showed us recently at Murrayfield .
13 Women are not advised of the risks and the necessary check-up services are rarely available .
14 You 're sweating and nervous and you know you 're out on a limb here , you 're in the process of taking some terrible risks and the luck , the flow that comes from being justified and in tune and not taking too much for granted , not being contemptuous or disrespectful of fate ; all that 's in danger here because you 're pushing the envelope , you 're maybe relying on one or two too many things going perfectly .
15 To begin with , it is clear from chapter 1 that the CAPM does not require any comparison between the divisional risks and the risk of the corporate group as a whole .
16 The institute 's auditing committee said there are limitations on the auditors ' ability to know the systems as well as the directors , or to challenge directors ' judgments on activities and risks and the solutions they have adopted .
17 The specification of untried or new technology , equipment or techniques has risks and the contractor has to make allowances for any exceptional remedial works which may be necessary .
18 The Bosnia Aid Committee of Oxford has to weigh up the risks and the costs of each convoy .
19 ‘ We are also concerned about the possible health risks and the possible depreciation of house prices . ’
20 ‘ As a farmer whose children have grown up on a busy farm , I am very aware of the risks and the work pressures that all too easily lead to children being exposed to danger .
21 Well , we understand that conflict , er but basically , at government level , it 's been determined that er the risks and the dangers of H I V the AIDS virus is actually more er more dangerous to society and the individual than drug misuse itself .
22 These collections , along with decorative arts and a number of period rooms , occupy the first floor , parts of which will not reopen until later this year .
23 In aesthetics , foundationalists would valuate realist canons which privilege Quattrocento perspective in the visual arts and an externally ordered narrative structure in literature .
24 In fact , we have published three leaflets , dealing respectively with the arts and the quality of life , the earnings of arts organisations and attendances at arts events .
25 The science of art , claims Kemp , has not been adequately appreciated by art historians and to begin to rectify the situation he strives to demonstrate that ‘ there were special kinds of affinity between the central intellectual and observational concerns in the visual arts and the sciences , in European history between the Renaissance and the nineteenth century ( p. 1 ) .
26 The Boston text , for example , is published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program , Massachusetts Council of the Arts and the Humanities , and additional funding is provided by the Lila Wallace Reader 's Digest Fund ( the benefactor of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York ) .
27 A new national lottery to aid sport , the arts and the national heritage .
28 Tampa area attractions include the Museum of Fine Arts and the Salvador Dali , both in St Petersburg Ybor Square , a restored Cuban marketplace where Cuban refugees still hand-roll cigars .
29 This is the key to Dorothy Heathcote 's attitude to drama ; may I suggest it is also a key to the re-thinking that will have to be done vis-à-vis the arts and the curriculum .
30 Aristotle himself believed that the arts and the sciences have been discovered many times and then lost again .
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