Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia stared at what looked like a photograph of herself in a revealing and over-elaborate evening dress . |
| 2 | The two friends took stock of everything in the immediate vicinity . |
| 3 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 4 | If you provide a specimen you will be offered part of it in a suitable container . |
| 5 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 6 | I reject absolutely any charges of racism on the part of anyone in the Tory party in the Langbaurgh campaign . |
| 7 | It is symptomatic of our age that we wish to declare the existence of everything in the loudest possible way . |
| 8 | Consequently , the starting point for the restoration of the equilibrium must be its disruption , the function of which in the present case is to restore the balance , but at the same time on an even more deeply contradictory basis . |
| 9 | For a moment there was a flash of something in the dark eye . |
| 10 | My former BBC colleague at Westminster , John Harrison , reporting from Zimbabwe on Maundy Thursday , caught the horror of it in a memorable phrase : the cost of an Easter egg , he said , would keep a child alive for a month or more . |
| 11 | However , it remains possible that people do see the support which they give to elderly relatives as part of a two-way pattern which stretches over time and across generations , and where they themselves will benefit ultimately from the support of someone in a younger generation . |
| 12 | The Murcia ruling gave the PSOE 176 seats , a majority of one in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies . |
| 13 | In 1980–81 , for example , there were 62,000 students in Wales following non-advanced courses , the majority of them in the 35 colleges , as compared with 14,000 on advanced courses . |
| 14 | I 'm only meant to use one tablespoon of it in a whole basin of water and you 've gone and put it all over your head neat ! |
| 15 | Dickens has an horrific description of it in The Old Curiosity , Shop ( 1841 ) , when it had reached the rock bottom of filth and ugliness , and of human degradation . |
| 16 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 17 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 18 | There is a portrait of him in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , vol. lxxix , 1953 . |
| 19 | The Green Lady is also the subject of an oil painting ; a portrait of herself in a green dress which the Spanish lady gave to the Bolle family as a gift . |
| 20 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 21 | The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything … |
| 22 | The superego is a relatively modern acquisition and is the psychological agency which is the inner counterpart of what in the outer world we would call ‘ culture ’ or ‘ civilization ’ . |
| 23 | The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) . |
| 24 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |
| 25 | Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room . |
| 26 | On the wall of his surprisingly modest flat , a street away from the stadium , is a framed picture of him in the hallowed yellow shirt of Brazil , taken before one of his 25 international appearances . |
| 27 | Men have been known to write and ask for a picture of me in a bathing costume . |
| 28 | In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ . |
| 29 | But it was vigorous criticism of him in the 1922 Committee by Tory back-benchers which convinced Brittan — and Mrs Thatcher — that he no longer enjoyed the confidence of the party in Parliament . |
| 30 | Its garden front just manages to survive , intact on its eastern bays , sensitively refaced on the western , beneath the mound of Italianate jumble that Alfred Waterhouse piled on top of it in the 19th century . |