Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [art] figure " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were acknowledged publicly by no less a figure than a former Prime Minister , W.L. MacKenzie King , at the communal celebrations of Lyon 's 60th birthday and his 35th anniversary of engagement in social interests , as well as those of his friend of many years ( to whom Lyon Cohen had diverted the honour of being invited to be the Member of Parliament several years before ) , Sir Samuel W. Jacobs , KC : ‘ Our friend finds himself today , ’ , commented Jacobs , ‘ the acknowledged leader of Jewry in Canada , a position acquired by years of self-denying effort … respected by his own , and also by the larger community in which we dwell . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed the psychiatrist who first popularised the notion that hypnosis has a special relationship with truth , no less a figure than Sigmund Freud , later issued a retraction . |
| 3 | It was no less a figure than Professor Derek de Solla Price , in his Little Science , Big Science , who expressed one perspective on science in the following terms : ‘ We may define a man 's solidness … as the logarithm of his life 's score of papers . |
| 4 | Good timing then for a new coupling ( though recorded in 1986 ) of the Missa choralis and Via crucis from the Ensemble Vocal Audite Nova de Paris , under their director Jean Sourisse , with no less a figure than Marie-Claire Alain at the organ of the Eglise Saint-Antione in Paris ( ) . |
| 5 | No less a figure than James I himself also published several works on the subject . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , if men such as these were in fact the local recruiting agents , not all were equipped for the job ; Nicholas Hill of Oakham , though servant to no less a figure than the king , possessed neither arms nor armour . |
| 7 | That event had the imprimatur of no less a figure than Louis Aragon , one of the founders of the movement , who wrote an uncompromisingly surrealist preface for it in which he spoke of the rock candy sticks which ‘ emerge from the earth at every seismic shock ’ and toasted Félix Faure , the President of the French Republic who died , in 1899 , in the arms of a courtesan . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that Theodore 's works were translated and brought to Ireland by no less a figure that Saint Columban . |
| 9 | Questioning of the effectiveness of the accepted methods , and the justification for them , was not confined to penal reformers , being shared by no less a figure than the all powerful Permanent Secretary at the Home Office , Sir Charles Cunningham . |