Example sentences of "[noun] in [art] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " For a man who can catch a gibbon in a Ming vase it will be child 's play . " |
| 2 | Solicitor Janna Neale sold her partnership in the law firm she had helped establish when she realised that her anxious and perfectionist nature made her unable to leave work any evening before ten , and even then she 'd carry clients ' cases and cash-flow worries home . |
| 3 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 4 | Although ministers have suspended moves to reduce subsidies until May , many dentists in the North-East say they still believe a reduction is on the cards . |
| 5 | This time she announced it was n't Mrs Brown 's four calling birds three French hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree she had been five gold rings . |
| 6 | DRACULA star Sadie Frost , 25 , was lost for words in a love scene she was supposed to punctuate with moans . |
| 7 | ‘ In your labours in the Vestment Guild you are creating things of beauty to lead us to the wonder of God . |
| 8 | When there is , as physically there must always be , an and effect in the Couette viscometer it may be taken into account by performing measurements with various values of the fluid column length l or by using the exact theory for a conical end derived by Mooney & Ewart ( 1934 ) and used in the Cone and Plate Viscometer . |
| 9 | With a companion in a BN Islander and Spencer in an Aero Commander they set off for Botswana . |
| 10 | By the time you have had two or three months in a language area you should start to collect texts , a few at a time , unless the local people are very suspicious of tape recorders or there is some other inhibiting cultural factor . |
| 11 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 12 | By the afternoon of 21 May , as we have now seen , 5 Corps had determined precisely which groups of Cossacks and anti-Tito Yugoslavs in the Corps area it was planning to hand over , in accordance with their interpretation of the Robertson order of 14 May . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Paisley was keen to establish a public distinction between these two roles , At an early election meeting in an Orange Hall in the Bannside constituency he arranged to have a friend ask him if Protestant Unionism was just Free Presbyterianism by another name . |
| 14 | what we 're dealing with is a small group of MP s who thought there were some advantages in the Paignton amendment I 've discussed it very thoroughly with them for some time , and they agree that there were real difficulties about the Paignton amendment which I 've now addressed |
| 15 | Thon wee Marie Tress that used to work the upper circle got stuck ahint the safe in the office way him an he vernear tane the blouse affer . |
| 16 | Maggie scrounged what food she could , and when Sarah dipped a crust of bread in the cabbage soup she 'd made she could see the cracks in the bottom of the dish through the thin liquid . |
| 17 | As we were unable to cover any practical work in the January session it has been requested that further time be allocated . |
| 18 | One night , at home in the beach house he and Astrid , their son Alexander and I were sharing , Den had a few Scotches sitting around the piano and revealed a talent for playing ‘ Smoke Gets In Your Eyes ’ with his nose . |
| 19 | When they had eaten their lunch in the dining room they withdrew to their rooms for a siesta . |
| 20 | But when he got the job in the stocking factory he seriously thought it was for life . |
| 21 | He dismisses the women who make up almost half the workers in the textile industry he studied as ‘ a major safety valve against the consequences of alienating work conditions ’ . |
| 22 | If any issue is likely to arouse feelings of helplessness in the advice worker it is this one . |
| 23 | To evaluate long-term variations in soil erosion in the Pátzcuaro basin we collected 20 sediment cores ( 1.24–2.85m in length ) from the lake in 1988 using a simple gravity-percussion corer ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 24 | DELIGHTED car dealers in the North-East say they are poised to accelerate out of the recession after the Chancellor sent new prices tumbling . |
| 25 | At the National Gallery 's new sumptuous shop in the Sainsbury Wing I recorded three books on Gwen John ( and none on Augustus , her brother ) , two on Artemisia Gentileschi ( one being the very scholarly and feminist monograph by Mary D Garrard , published by Princeton University Press , now in paperback ) , one book on Rosalba Carriera , and most surprisingly given the feminist industry around this artist , only one on Mary Cassatt . |
| 26 | After serving with the Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer war he became an aeronautical engineer , using his observation of sea-birds in flight to design a revolutionary type of monoplane with swept-back wings . |
| 27 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 28 | Sometimes he acted too hastily or was too reluctant to compromise , and in his first years in the White House he had to endure some harsh criticism . |
| 29 | Preston sought anaesthesis in the colour supplement he had brought with him and was distracted for a while by a feature on Great Journeys undertaken or contemplated by the Rich and the Famous . |
| 30 | After a short and furious rest in the potato store I entered the women 's hospital , inflexibly determined on an inspection . |