Example sentences of "[art] [adj] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | His skies boiled and burned , or they reflected the eternal in the eyes of a baby . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There is a more complicated echo of Shakespeare in the scene when Aragorn , as the true king , revives the sick in the Houses of Healing with his touch and the herb athelas . |
| 6 | The details of the liberal programme ( attack on regional , ecclesiastical , and aristocratic privilege , guilds , and the Mesta ) were inherited from regalists and political economists , from the servants of Charles III who had attacked the privileged in the interests of a modernized monarchy unencumbered with private jurisdictions . |
| 7 | 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 ? ) . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | An attraction of the older cosmology was that heaven and hell were as far apart as possible — the former beyond the outermost sphere , the latter in the bowels of the earth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Everyone is the same in the eyes of God , and his love , mercy and forgiveness are for all . |
| 14 | Do the same in the terms of the culture which you are trying to examine |
| 15 | ‘ And certainly the biggest in the careers of any of our players . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 | In the years following the violence of the Mexican revolution , great attention was paid to the content of education , in an attempt to involve the young in the principles of the revolution , but this emphasis has declined in the second half of the century . |
| 19 | ‘ Every day Smailovic risks his life playing to the dead in the graveyards of Sarajevo . |
| 20 | ‘ You must have got a few in the Houses of Parliament , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 21 | Almost as he spoke they heard a crashing in the bushes at the top of the ridge above them . |