Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we took advantage of the tender and the contractor being in th in the area , to extend the water pipeline from its current location at the football stadi erm er pavilion , through to the cemetery . |
| 2 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 3 | This was a conference where images of the macabre and the grotesque mingled with the moving and the tragic ; where the children and the handicapped were feted as survivors of a silent holocaust ; where people went to learn the difference between pro-life and pro-death , between cloning and twinning , between a blob of jelly and a living foetus , between a terminated pregnancy and murder and to learn how to counter difficult questions . |
| 4 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 5 | The capsule containing the two arching semicircular canals that are found in either side of the skull of the proto-fish and the lamprey has been improved considerably by the jawed fish . |
| 6 | forced mergers of sole practitioners are not in the interest of the professional or the public ; |
| 7 | Yet obviously his two great assets — his understanding of the defensive and the devotion he inspired among the troops — ideally suited him to the task there . |
| 8 | Menstrual taboos , even in their Jewish expressions , are replete with an ambivalent fusion of the sacred and the taboo . |
| 9 | You may have heard too much of Moby 's ‘ Go ’ by now , but there can be few complaints otherwise : Meat Beat Manifesto , DJ Carl Cox , Nightmares On Wax , Orbital etc , provide a mixture of the subtle and the hardcore in aid of peace . |
| 10 | The study day will include lectures and remembrances of the line , which finally closed in 1959 , a walk along part of the trackbed and a viewing of some of the recently restored buildings of the lead mine which the Railway opened to serve in 1877 . |
| 11 | In Committee when we discussed the needs of the disabled and the need for a code of good practice , the Minister 's response , as it was to everything else to do with consumer interest , was " It will be all right on the night " . |
| 12 | Ruether 's interest ( as that also of Bultmann ) is in Jesus ' message , a message in her case held to concern the coming of the kingdom , the vindication of the poor and the creation of a just social order . |
| 13 | Benjamin ( 1975a , pp. 83–4 ) , like Weber , observed that the autonomy of the aesthetic and the separation of spheres more generally result in a ‘ shrinkage of experience ’ , or what Weber called the creation of a class of ‘ specialists without heart ’ . |
| 14 | Sadly , one of the grimmer interpretations of the word ‘ experience ’ loomed in ugly manner over the last few days of the tour and may overshadow some of the good that the trip has produced . |
| 15 | From the 1200s onwards Lothar 's family , the Conti of Segni , occupied the west slope of the Viminal and the area behind the forum of Nerva and they had property and influence in the rione Monti , where the Colonna and the Frangipani were also settled . |
| 16 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 17 | I think he was convinced the green was fast , but maybe he had forgotten we were coming out of the rough and the topspin ran us through the green . |
| 18 | This rather skeletal account of the phenomenon of hysteresis , suggesting a connection between the time paths of the actual and the equilibrium unemployment rates , needs to be substantially fleshed out . |
| 19 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 20 | For sheer daftness there 's no beating the British Tank Malling ( Cannons , Panton Street and Oxford Street , 18 ) which postulates a ludicrously megalomaniac semi-Fascist politico ( Peter Wyngarde ) , backed by criminals , the police , bishops and the judiciary in his attempt to bring moral regeneration to the country , while at the same time feeding the dirty sexual desires of the great and the good who back him . |
| 21 | The next move was to find a chairman from the ranks of the great and the good , someone of acknowledged independence who combined the qualities of Solomon and Job . |
| 22 | No further away than this morning The Times printed an advertisement from 209 of the great and the good who are calling for the legalisation of cannabis . |
| 23 | THE CONTRADICTORY and yet predictable responses of the great and the good to the problem of crime among the young has made depressing reading in the days since the murder of James Bulger . |
| 24 | Its guest-list read like a who 's who of the great and the good . |
| 25 | The effective teacher of history was the person who could elicit clearly the moral messages to be gleaned from studying the lives of the great and the good ; the age demanded that this should be interpreted mainly within an imperial context with the emphasis upon citizenship and service . |
| 26 | Fill in any from a number of entries : an errant Etonian , a curious coffee merchant , a giggling , gallant Grenadier , a would-be vaudevillean , a fervent family man , a cake connoisseur , purveyor of smutty jokes , wireless waffler , acquaintance of the great and the multitude , retailer of unashamed repetition . |
| 27 | A married man 's pall was expected to be supported by his married friends ; if single then bachelor colleagues would perform the duty ; likewise for spinsters — but not so for children ( except in certain rural areas ) , married women or widows , when the responsibility was delegated either to adult male relatives of the deceased or the undertaker 's own men . |
| 28 | 2.26 The most important factor to take into account when considering the appropriate multiplier to apply is , of course , the age and probable working life of the deceased and the expectation of life of the dependants . |
| 29 | These tickets were produced en masse , though certain coffin-makers and funeral furnishers are known to have commissioned their own designs , with a central cartouche for the printed or hand-written details announcing the name of the deceased and the place , date and time of the funeral . |
| 30 | The Government encourages exploitation of most of us by preying on the fears of the employed and the misery of the unemployed . |