Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 2 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 3 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 4 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 5 | The village school attended by my father was a Church school : it had been founded and was originally funded by the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church ( was there ever a more eloquent title ? ) . |
| 6 | He had done his initial research on jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as varied as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 7 | He had done his initial research on Jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as various as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 8 | Certainly the ball skills of the three-quarters in the tests were impressive . |
| 9 | Thus , the abolition of the new-town development corporations in England in the late 1980s has strong implications for the mobility of the poorest in the cities : they will not find a great deal — if any — of non-owner-occupied housing beyond the conurbations . |
| 10 | Albert Funnel , a child in Brighton in the 1900s , evokes the long shadow of the workhouse over the lives of the elderly in the decades before Old Age Pensions : |
| 11 | The majority of the fry are eaten but I think that this is a case of survival of the fittest in the confines of a community tank . |
| 12 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 13 | In the 1770s in the Potteries women could earn 7s ( 35p ) a week as gilders , though men at the same trade could earn 12s ( 60p ) . |
| 14 | There was free distribution of milk to the poor and broth to the sick in the villages nearby , and an almshouse was established , modelled on those which Nicholas had seen in Holland . |
| 15 | A pre-war immigrant himself , he believed to the full in the rhetorics of democracy , equal justice , and innocence until guilt is proven — and he practised accordingly . |
| 16 | ‘ Every day Smailovic risks his life playing to the dead in the graveyards of Sarajevo . |
| 17 | There had been disaffection among the Welsh in the universities for more than eighteen months now , and many a wandering musician had been thrown into prison for stirring up sedition with his tribal songs , and more than one had been put to death . |
| 18 | Indeed , neither team was to prove a serious contender for the title with Jay Sigel , who played in the singles match against Jim Milligan , going the furthest — being knocked out at the 19th in the quarter-finals . |
| 19 | They , and all of life in India in its own way , are sacred , but the holes bored by the former and the mounds erected by the latter in the paddocks were a threat to the horses , Occidental logic demanded that the one could best be filled by the deposition of the other . |