Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] from [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems inappropriate to regard this enhanced memory for the arousing slide as being evidence for arousal per se affecting performance — the arousing stimuli are of course different from the normal ones in numerous ways . |
| 2 | This transformation was due first to the influx of runaway serfs into the towns which meant that labourers free from the personal ties of feudalism , but having no access to the means of production , became a dependent and exploitable group which was to become the proletariat . |
| 3 | Adams supplied the application and concentration absent from the other batsmen and coaxed another 99 from the last three wickets with improbable but important help from his fellow Jamaicans , Walsh and Patterson . |
| 4 | Those who use them in this way thereby manifest their own acceptance of them as guiding rules and with this attitude there goes a characteristic vocabulary different from the natural expressions of the external point of view . |
| 5 | Science has no survival value , and we have to rely upon our sense of plausibility in areas remote from the vital concerns of everyday practice ( 7.219 ; Hardwick 1977 : 2o ) . |
| 6 | The earth floor was clear of everything , the place fresh from the constant winds . |
| 7 | The Settled Land Act 1882 provided that the tenant for life should have power to sell , grant leases , or mortgage the land , giving to the purchaser , lessee , or mortgagee a title free from the beneficial interests under the settlement . |
| 8 | The first task consisted of formulating a view of society which was based on principles different from the traditional ones , according to which societies could be typified in terms of their administrative organization by using such terms as ‘ democracy ’ or ‘ monarchy ’ . |
| 9 | Because Karajan was a legend in his own lifetime and thus in some ways indistinguishable from the legendary figures of the past , it is important not to overlook the ways in which he effected a thoroughly modern revolution in both the method and the manner of orchestral training . |
| 10 | It is not yet known whether research would confirm these hypotheses of the character of certain distinct twentieth-century paranational cultural formations , though they provide an initial basis for considering the contradictory character of the history of the avant-garde movements : that they represent sharp and even violent breaks with received and traditional practices ( a dissidence or revolt rather than a literal avant garde ) ; and yet that they become ( in ways separable from the important facts of their dilution and commercial exploitation ) the dominant culture of a succeeding metropolitan and paranational period . |
| 11 | This probably reflects the effect of high male mortality rates resultant from the major wars and it should not therefore be assumed that future cohorts of elderly will continue to illustrate this extreme gender imbalance . |
| 12 | It was part of the social self-definition of the patronizing household , often deliberately in terms residual from the true courts , to assume what was at once a responsibility and an honour ! |
| 13 | Despite the fact that it can seem at times as if half the figures on the red benches are comatose — a chastened Lady ( Barbara ) Wootton concluded after eight years in the place that at any one time about ten per cent of the participants in a debate were fast asleep — the quality of argument can be incomparably higher than in the House of Commons , and the pool of expertise available from the ennobled professors , judges , generals and bureaucrats makes for more informed contributions . |
| 14 | However , this person can not be held responsible for the charges due from the other residents . |
| 15 | At the same time there had grown up , mainly during the twelfth century , the extension of the authority of the royal house of France , the dynasty of Capet , through the insistence that the homage due from the great feudatories to their king should be ‘ liege ’ . |
| 16 | An analysis showed that by January 1988 , there were literally thousands of results outstanding from the previous sessions . |
| 17 | Decay sets in if soft tissues remain , and the bones may be dispersed by wind , water or trampling ; or the carcases may be scavenged by predators , with results indistinguishable from the primary effects of predation . |
| 18 | He preferred to follow his own political destiny free from the provincial constraints of western Ireland . |
| 19 | To build the most stable and convenient soil structure possible from the available resources should be the most important task of every farmer . |
| 20 | National pamphleteers remote from the social relations of the villages might rant on about the idle and undeserving poor , but relief at local level was in the hands of the annually elected parish overseers supervised by the vestry meeting , and they knew their own poor well enough . |
| 21 | Alcoves like this can also be treated like separate small rooms and lined with mirror ; or with the curtain or shade fabric ; or painted or papered in a colour from the room scheme which is at the same time different from the main walls . |
| 22 | The Woolwich claimed that the capital sum was recoverable as a debt due with interest payable from the respective dates of the initial payments under the general principle of restitution . |