Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The rigidities and continuities of the planning and design process may constrain ability to deal with the unanticipated and often press purpose built systems into unlikely roles .
2 Horace Walpole describes the effect of walking through the grotto into the garden in language that both recalls Eloisa to Abelard and anticipates descriptions in the Gothic novel : ‘ The passing through the gloom from the grotto to opening day ; the retiring and again assembling shades ; the dusky groves , the larger lawn , and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that led up to his mother 's tomb , are managed with exquisite judgement . ’
3 The raid on Gay 's The Word bookshop in 1984 was merely the largest and best publicised exercise in State censorship this decade .
4 As a member of the HAE , and one of the largest and best known hire companies in Europe , HSS is well-equipped to meet all your hiring requirements .
5 ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’
6 Tucked away at the foot of the steep Tibbiwell Lane is the site of one of the largest and longest worked mills in Painswick , Brookhouse Mill .
7 WHO : The largest and longest established organization , the National Association of Prison Visitors , arranges visits by its nine hundred members with local prison governors .
8 Ibstock , however , as one of the largest and lowest cost producers , says that all bar one of its bricks plants are in the black .
9 In this case , the mill was saved by the much-respected and sadly missed author , David Verey , who purchased and restored the derelict mill in 1965 .
10 It was soon overtaken by the profounder and better known works of Bonaventure , Albertus Magnus , and Aquinas .
11 Particular attention was given to two issues : the rural and sparsely populated character of much of Wales , and the problems caused by the prevalence in Wales of two languages .
12 The inherent and deeply charged contradictions of a culturally threadbare working-class politics having such a richly threaded , but essentially unpolitical base , is right at the heart of the problems facing strategists of class liberation ’
13 We must be careful not to assume that this ‘ beads on a string ’ pattern is the norm , because in such areas there is frequently abundant prehistoric and Romano-British settlement on the dry and now abandoned chalk uplands .
14 In conditions below ten knots a masthead drifter , set flying from a tack point on the extended and heavily reinforced pulpit structure , should help Q2 in what are anticipated to be her least favoured conditions .
15 These phenomena included ‘ the unexampled diffusion of wealth ’ ; ‘ uniformity of prices ’ ; ‘ an ‘ independence ’ of manners ’ ; ‘ the ‘ realistic ’ tendency in art and behaviour ’ ; ‘ the unprecedented growth of population ’ ; ‘ the astounding cheapness of most necessaries ’ ; ‘ the universal and sometimes frenzied spirit of competition ’ ; the ending of feudalism and the introduction of freedom .
16 For almost the whole of the period under review , the prevalent and strongly held belief was that Britain , in common with other major economies , had climbed out of the economic slough of the interwar years and was set on a broad and permanent path of rising prosperity and full employment .
17 Relatives of the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6 described the brutal and systematically degrading treatment the prisoners receive in jail .
18 Incidentally , in the completed and highly recommended movie Branagh does look totally out of his skull in that scene .
19 This could even have the elusive and much desired effect of reducing the appeal of smoking as a ‘ grown up ’ activity through reconstructing it as an essentially teenage pursuit .
20 James Byam Shaw CBE , the distinguished and much loved art historian and connoisseur of drawings , died 18 March .
21 They were never very significant , few are well-documented , and many are now abandoned , but they represent , in the old and densely occupied county of Somerset , one of the few cases where an area was colonised and settled .
22 While waiting they are pleasantly confronted by what must be one of the prettiest and best dressed greengrocers in the country .
23 The Indian civil service never had more than 1,000 members to administer the vast and densely populated subcontinent — a tiny fraction ( at most 1 per cent ) of the legions of Confucian mandarins and palace eunuchs employed next door to administer a not-much-more populous China .
24 Its theoretical weaknesses are implicit in the fact that it rests on the vague and easily manipulated notion of consent .
25 These both include many steps with the so-called ‘ dotted ’ rhythm i.e. in 3/4 the dancer steps on the first beat , holds on the second and briefly takes weight on the other foot on the third before stepping onwards .
26 Mal could of course revert to right back , but that would mean dropping the speedy and much improved Gary Fleming !
27 The driver said nothing , but we were in Broadway and the seventies and still heading north .
28 Obviously many factors play a part , but there is over a twofold difference ( 179 v 364 per million ) between the worst and best served districts .
29 The development of these large Cotswold settlements may be connected with the evident wealth of the area reflected by the large and richly appointed villas and the same could apply to Oxfordshire where there are at least two sizeable settlements and no apparent defences .
30 In addition the large and perfectly matched pearls outlining the margins of the mitre crown and the balas ruby of 414.3 carats mounted at its apex were enough to proclaim her ready access to the treasures of the orient .
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