Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detecting them is just the beginning of a process in which only slowly , and with considerable backsliding , one becomes aware of the multiple ways in which they manifest themselves as evasiveness , defensiveness , spikiness , apprehensiveness and so on . |
| 2 | Undoubtedly , in March 1914 , nine days after his thirty-seventh birthday , at one of the lowest ebbs in his fortune ( but soon after he had received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund ) , Thomas speculated in fictional form upon another path his life might have taken if he had left grammar school at sixteen and followed his father 's plan of a career in the Civil Service . |
| 3 | Initial studies of the performance and prospects of the industrial sectors in which the firms are involved are being followed up by in-depth interviews with managers in about 30 plants . |
| 4 | The Spanish candidacy is being supported by Turin , one of the six cities in which the six seeds will be based for the first round . |
| 5 | The Carrowdore road races are the penultimate round of the Irish Championships in which Joey Dunlop leads the 600 class , and shares top spot with Brian Reid in the McBrides Fashions 250 series . |
| 6 | In other words , Leavis is proposing that English be transformed into the study of culture based on " a sense of the subtle ways in which , in a concrete cultural situation , the spiritual and the material are related " . |
| 7 | When called upon to tell us of the exemplary conditions in his new factories at Bournville , Mr Cadbury — his looks belying his years and status — refused to blow his own trumpet and blushingly declined to speak . |
| 8 | After all , that had been one of the major problems in their marriage . |
| 9 | Its aim is to understand the historical origins and the development in the successive cultural milieux through which the Christian faith has passed of the major doctrines in which these beliefs have been expressed ; and it is particularly concerned with the contemporary appraisal and formulation of these doctrines in view of the dominant directions of modern thought , and with their ecumenical prospects . |
| 10 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 11 | Mr. Nicholas Bennett : Does my right Hon. Friend agree that one of the major ways in which unemployment has been reduced in Wales is through the Governments regional policy of re-locating Civil Service and other Government agency jobs to the regions and Wales ? |
| 12 | In the first chapter I dealt briefly with some of the major ways in which the global system has been categorized . |
| 13 | Yet one of the major events in its railway history looks set to go unnoticed because of lack of council funding . |
| 14 | Reagan was obviously rather good at his job , rapidly becoming something of a celebrity in Des Moines and , ‘ one of the best sportscasters in his region ’ . |
| 15 | He 's one of the best teachers in our school and . |
| 16 | His life was written by the George Crabbe who was his son ; modest , truthful , and sensitive , it is one of the best biographies in our language . |
| 17 | ‘ Naylor tells me you 're one of the best executives in your particular line , ’ Cicely Hepwood , a neat and gentle woman , remarked at one point during the meal . |
| 18 | Although some US rugby enthusiasts were able to tap into these satellite transmissions to view the matches live , the majority have not seen the heroics of the best players in their sport . |
| 19 | amazing stuff — considering that Rekdal is one of the best players in our national team and at least as good as Batts … |
| 20 | They get some of the best curators in their fields ’ . |
| 21 | That were one of the best nights in my life , the charge we gave Arthur he gave it straight back to us . " |
| 22 | We 're precise in our requirements and we commission our design work from some of the best practitioners in their particular field . ’ |
| 23 | Yet he also makes clear that a number of the best poets in his anthology were unbothered by developments in London : ‘ Some homely writers had clearly never heard about the requirements of polite taste ’ [ ECWP , p. xxvi ] . |
| 24 | It has made this country one of the best places in which to live , work and bring up our children . |
| 25 | The 13th edition of Just a Bite guide lists 900 of the best places in which to eat without breaking the bank . |
| 26 | Because unemployment duration is measured in days in our sample , solving for the optimal reservation wage for each of the 1,608 individuals in our sample for each period at each iteration causes serious computational problems . |
| 27 | Charlton Heston got lucky in 1959 only because Ben Hur swept eleven of the twelve categories in which it was nominated . |
| 28 | Creeping to the windows of the married quarters in which she was still living since her husband 's sudden and secret posting , she looked up to see a mass of twinkling red , green and white lights , as wave after wave of aircraft passed overhead with unceasing regularity , making the earth shake beneath them as they roared southwards to the English Channel . |
| 29 | The legality of the threat of use of a weapon therefore depends on an evaluation both of the characteristics of the weapon and of the possible circumstances in which it might be used . |
| 30 | Some of the earliest items in her collection look more like implements of torture . |