Example sentences of "of [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queen 's Bay Lodge , once known as Easter Duddingston Lodge , was the home of the Jenner family , who later used it as a staff hostel . |
| 2 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 3 | Wordsworth tells us that he wrote The Prelude in order to give an account of the growth of his mind , which may help to account for the inclusion of some of the stranger incidents . |
| 4 | As a follow up to its advice on what not to wear to an interview ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September , p 21 ) , Robert Half recruitment consultants — obviously not snowed under with work at the moment — has joined forces with Accountemps to unveil some of the stranger CVs companies have received over the years . |
| 5 | One of the stranger points about desktop publishing is that the hardware you select to act as the basis of your system is , to a greater or lesser degree , irrelevant . |
| 6 | Partly because of the stranger standing in the lift behind her . |
| 7 | From the back of the crowd , Blake could see the shuffling figure of the stranger walking down the street . |
| 8 | Several of the nearer birds got up and flew along the shore , revealing another feature which pin-pointed their origins : the lack of a white rump showed them to be of the race hudsonicus which breeds in northern Canada . |
| 9 | However , it is worth noting that Sigma ( 4.7 ) , between Delta and Epsilon and in the same field with Epsilon , is one of the nearer stars , only 19 light-years away and only about a third as luminous as the Sun . |
| 10 | She took the covering from one of the nearer pieces , revealing what looked like an old-fashioned letterpress . |
| 11 | Then Braque has capitalized on the element of ambiguity in the Demoiselles ( it is not immediately clear for instance whether the leg of the ‘ demoiselle ’ on the left is the far leg or the near leg , and the lower part of the twisted forearm of the squatting figure is left undefined ) as a means of emphasizing the flatness of the canvas he was working on : the far buttock of the Nu is connected to the foremost leg and heightened in tone so that it appears to stand in front of the nearer part of the figure ; if the outline of the neck were extended it would not join the shoulder naturalistically but pass by its outer edge , and the fact that the outline is deliberately broken allows the neck , shoulder and arm to flow into each other and fuse . |
| 12 | And then , loudly enough to be heard from some of the nearer tables , she said , ‘ Wait a minute . ’ |
| 13 | As yield increases , the present values of all future cash flows fall , but the present values of the more distant cash flows fall relatively more than those of the nearer cash flows . |
| 14 | They knew that only another planet , whose orbit lay beyond those already recognized , could explain the behaviour of the nearer planets . |
| 15 | But at the same time , fresh water from the Susquehanna and other northern and western rivers skims south across the top of the denser salt water . |
| 16 | In all communities , but most particularly in the poorer inner-city areas ( largely as a consequence of the denser , more multiplex structure of local networks ) they were passed from one family to another , being received with warmth , friendliness and trust . |
| 17 | Part of the Semper wing of the Zwinger palace , the historic collection was known as the ‘ Rustkammer ’ ( armoury ) from the sixteenth century but renamed the ‘ Historisches Museum ’ after World War II . |
| 18 | Other members of the Zwinger crew are Documenta participant Eran Schaerf , the Berlin performance group Die Tödlische Doris and the solo performance artist Susi Pop . |
| 19 | Ours was glancingly Tudorbethan and called ‘ The Oaks ’ ; others had clearly been inspired by visits to Spain and were called ‘ Casa-something-or-other ’ ; one or two bore hints of castellation and crenellation and were appropriately named after some of the statelier English homes ; while Syl 's house had been conceived in a dour Regency style by a less fertile imagination and its grey dressed stones were covered by a great pelt of ivy . |
| 20 | JPs were for the most part recruited from the greatest landowners in a county , although commissions of the peace often included a few of the humbler type , possibly men with a legal background who were appointed to do the chores . |
| 21 | After fulfilling the founder 's intentions for more than a century it was replaced in 1966 by the Mowlem Theatre , a typical post-war design which does little to improve the appearance of the humbler original . |
| 22 | It was hardly surprising that many of the humbler converts to Protestantism should interpret this doctrine as egalitarian in a wider social and political sense . |
| 23 | Most of the humbler folk on the widdershin side of the river , in Morpork 's mazy alleys , supplemented their meagre incomes by filling some small rôle for one or other of the competing gangs . |
| 24 | What had been pigeonholed by many as a niche market , for niche products , seemed to have come of age when Alain Pierrot of Hachette disclosed to the conference the total sales of the Grolier Encyclopaedia on a silvery disk . |
| 25 | According to Kenneth Lohf , president of the Grolier Club ‘ Until the current exhibition , there has been no comprehensive showing at the Club of the treasures of Scottish literature . ’ |
| 26 | Mrs Saint Germain , a member of the Grolier Club , began collecting Scottish literature aged only eight , when a family friend gave her an 1832 copy of Robert Burns poems . |
| 27 | Pupils need to be made aware of the subtler uses of language , and of the appropriate uses of figures of speech . |
| 28 | Under certain states of consciousness he could become aware of the subtler dimensions of the landscape and wrote : |
| 29 | This , together with an appreciation of the steeper slopes , soil erosion and the local changes in level and aspect , make for a finer assessment of the subtler aspects which may have been of great significance to the original selector 's choice of site for the particular settlement under study . |
| 30 | Red is obtained from the roots of the madder plant ( rubia tinctorum ) and also from the crushed bodies of female insects of the coccus cacti genus , which produce a colour usually referred to as cochineal or carmine red . |