Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 2 | How can I be so curmudgeonly , so rude , to an organisation which makes it possible for me to enjoy the serenity of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal , the bone-chilling bleakness of Housesteads , the intimacy of the walled garden at Wallington ? |
| 3 | Interestingly , the exhibition identifies two paintings in particular as possessing this quality of intimacy : William Nicholson 's and Victor Pasmore 's portraits of their respective in which the intimacy of the marital relationship , it is supposed , finds direct pictorial expression in the paintings themselves . |
| 4 | The full stage production has the advantage of scenery — the exterior and interior of the home in the Boston area — but loses the intimacy of the in-the-round presentation at the Studio theatre . |
| 5 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 6 | Webb was one of the key figures in the restructuring of the Football League following the breakaway of the Premier League . |
| 7 | SOCRATES and Plato may be unlikely corner men for an aspiring heavyweight champion , but Lennox Lewis , the man reluctantly carrying the tag of the next Frank Bruno , is a lover of philosophy , and admits to being ‘ one of those deep-thinking kind of guys ’ . |
| 8 | In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth . |
| 9 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 10 | At 11 o'clock de Castelnau , by now in receipt of further intelligence which seemed to presage the total collapse of the defence on the Right Bank , was back in Joffre 's office . |
| 11 | In May 1990 border troops were transferred from the Defence to the Interior Ministry . |
| 12 | The conflict in Tbilisi , however , had led to the recall of troops for the defence of the embattled Gamsakhurdia , and to a resulting lull in hostilities in South Ossetia . |
| 13 | COLIN KEITH , a hero of last year 's victory , has been forced to pull out of Scotland 's team for the defence of the European Championships in Aix-en-Provence from 28 April-1 May . |
| 14 | Franco 's hostility to intellectuals of any persuasion meant that intellectuals the world over were driven into the defence of the Spanish Republic . |
| 15 | Others , such as the Prime Minister , Juan Negrín , advocated struggling on , in the hope that the situation in Europe would degenerate into an open conflict with Hitler and Mussolini , and that this , in turn , would oblige the western democracies to come to the defence of the Spanish Republic . |
| 16 | Most of his interventions in Parliament were concerned either with the welfare of his Cheshire constituents or the defence of the Calvinist religion . |
| 17 | Nizan chose not simply to suspend judgement , but to give public support to the Moscow version of events on the grounds that critical accounts of the Soviet state generally lacked both historical perspective and scientific rigour , and more importantly , that the defence of the Soviet Union in the torrid international political climate of the late 1930s was imperative . |
| 18 | It was therefore thought necessary to take steps not only to secure the defence of the Iberian Peninsula , but also to give it the ability to assume an offensive role if necessary . |
| 19 | He has shown courage in coming to the defence of the Baltic republics . |
| 20 | The United States " can not — and will not — conceive all the plans , design all the programmes , execute all the decisions and undertake all the defence of the free nations of the world … " |
| 21 | What do they indicate about the defence of the old city and about the trade of the old port ? |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher will have to be satisfied with the assurances she will receive from Mr Bush , who will tell her that , since defence cuts are politically inevitable , it is far better for modest and planned reductions to be proposed by his cabinet and the Pentagon than for swingeing cuts to be imposed by the US Congress , which is already chafing at the thought of the US budget deficit being deepened to pay for the defence of the wealthy Europeans . |
| 23 | Later , seated dizzily at the desk in his study , he reached for a piece of paper to write some orders for the defence of the banqueting hall . |
| 24 | He had twice been badly wounded and was still hobbling around with a stick when he was given command of Fort Vaux , the smallest of the forts ringing Verdun but crucial to the defence of the important Fort Souville . |
| 25 | In the overhaul of government that accompanied the War of the Spanish Succession the servants of Philip V rejected the system of the Great Councils , less because it gave the grandees too much political power than because it was incurably inefficient and incapable of organizing the monarchy for the defence of the French dynasty . |
| 26 | Public service broadcasting objectives were intertwined with two other issues : the state as arbiter between different interests ( programme companies , the cinema industry , etc. ( and state support for ‘ worthy ’ or ‘ noble causes ’ — the defence of the French language , of French film production , of programmes for children . |
| 27 | Mainly because the defence of the territorial possessions of each individual church presented the clearest and most immediate duty of its head . |
| 28 | Some of the magnates were motivated by personal or local considerations : the northern lords , Wake , Neville and Percy , were concerned at the neglect of the defence of the northern border as Edward 's continental campaigns swallowed up all the available resources ; but Arundel , Warenne and Huntingdon do not seem to have had personal grievances against the king , and their role in the crisis still awaits a satisfactory explanation . |
| 29 | In 1323 Andrew Harclay , earl of Carlisle , who was of critical importance for the defence of the northern border of the realm , was executed on suspicion of treason . |
| 30 | He was wounded at the siege of Leith in 1560 and nine years later he stood against the northern rising , subsequently advising on the defence of the northern border . |