Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was interested in the modern rather than the ancient , preferring Nottingham to York , new country seats and their furniture , paintings , formal gardens , and waterworks to ancient houses , and contemporary manufacturing , mining , and drainage projects to antiquities . |
| 2 | Reference , in the textual rather than the semantic sense , occurs when the reader has to retrieve the identity of what is being talked about by referring to another expression in the immediate context . |
| 3 | The second group is concentrated among a particular section of the middle class — those in the private rather than the public sector , and among those who are not graduates . |
| 4 | Given that the state superstructure might be ‘ overdeveloped ’ in relation to the class structure of a given colony , because it originally had its base in the metropolitan rather than the indigenous social structure , this does not tell us what it was about colonialism which produced a state system in which the military-bureaucratic oligarchy was dominant . |
| 5 | Lord Lane CJ added : [ o ] ne hesitates to suggest that different legal considerations might apply according to whether the proceedings are taking place in the civil rather than the criminal courts and we do not do so . |
| 6 | One simple way of describing this difference is to say that speech act theory is interested in the social rather than the cognitive aspects of language . |
| 7 | Barr 's European equivalents flourished in the 1950s rather than the 1930s — Jean Cassou at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris , Wilhelm Sandberg at the Stedlijk in Amsterdam , Pontus Hulten at the Modern Museum in Stockholm and then at the Pompidou Centre in Paris . |
| 8 | My general position would be that if this policy is to go ahead the more it 's worded in the positive rather than the negative the better . |
| 9 | Everything was out in the open now and the dream she had had for so long was about to turn into reality . |
| 10 | Earn outs were particularly popular in the 1980s especially where the vendor worked as an employee of the purchaser in a service-based business after completion as it is a means of providing an incentive to the vendor where the profits may depend heavily on the skills of the employees . |
| 11 | In fact , another species of bee that communicates about food sources ( Apis florica ) does so in the same way except in so far as it wiggles in the horizontal rather than the vertical plane , and so can indicate directly the angle of the food source from the sun . |
| 12 | Self-evaluation requires you to be completely honest with yourself , but in a constructive rather than a negative way . |
| 13 | Earlier studies of services in the 1930s and 1940s which were concerned with the long-term trajectory of industrial economies tended to define services in a negative rather than a positive manner — that is , by what they were not . |
| 14 | In practice , inter-Service rivalry only becomes unbridled when there is a danger — real or anticipated — of the balance between the Services being upset ; or of the structure of one of them being changed in a revolutionary rather than an evolutionary way . |
| 15 | So , whilst in the foregoing passage repressed homosexuality is construed as a cause of a violent and neurotic racism , elsewhere Fanon regards manifest homosexuality as an effect of the same neurotic racism , though now in a masochistic rather than a sadistic form , and especially the masochistic relation of the white man to the black man : ‘ There are , for instance , men who go to ‘ houses ' ’ in order to be beaten by negroes ; passive homosexuals who insist on black partners ' ( pp. 158 , 156 , 177 ) . |
| 16 | Roger was clever , she told herself , though in a thoughtful rather than a brilliant way . |
| 17 | It largely disappears when literary texts are treated as cultural traces in a cognitive rather than an affective reading . |
| 18 | However , as we have seen in Chapter 3 , clinical aromatherapy ( without the use of massage ) can work wonders if applied in a holistic rather than a symptomatic way . |
| 19 | As I know from my own experience , crack , or free-base , is highly addictive , but in a psychological rather than a physical way . |
| 20 | This lawyer was therefore classified as professionally marginal , in a structural rather than an attitudinal sense . |
| 21 | Foucault 's account of power is thus difficult to the degree to which he argues that the exercise and resistance of power work in a disruptive rather than a dialectical relation to each other , suggesting that ‘ points of resistance are present everywhere in the power network ’ . |
| 22 | A Noel Coward lyric goes ‘ Bad times are just around the corner ’ ( ‘ There are black clouds over the dark cliffs of Dover ’ ) and many homes this Christmas will be Dickensian in a depressing rather than a jolly sense . |
| 23 | The national entities of England , Scotland , Northern Ireland and Wales are organized in a unitary rather than a federal structure and parliamentary government in practice provides for the supremacy of the executive branch . |
| 24 | You are likely to make a mess of it , lose your To Do list or confront people in an attacking rather than a rational way . |
| 25 | It is also said that Hinduism believes in an impersonal rather than a personal Deity . |
| 26 | It is generally used in an exclusive rather than an inclusive sense . |