Example sentences of "in [art] [noun pl] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 How about a restaurant set in the vaults of a medieval monastery , lit by candles and with a menu that owes its variety to the best raw material found around the world ?
2 While there 's some of that in ‘ Weird Nightmare ’ , Willner has fashioned an altogether darker ride , placing the shocking , brutal stream-of-consciousness prose from Mingus ' Beneath The Underground autobiography in the mouths of a droll , disembodied Leonard Cohen , a stentorian , harassing Chuck D and Doctor Joh , the latter back in a setting that recalls the Bacchanalian exotica of his classic ‘ Gris Gris ’ psychedelic gumbo album .
3 The reorganization was recommended by an engineer in the pages of a leading Petrograd journal , since he thought it would lead to the dissemination of experts .
4 They are also interested in the movements of a maroon-coloured Vauxhall Astra estate car , registration D978 XMO .
5 Apparently , in the movements before a 360 ° loop the board is headed into the wind so that it takes off from the wave at an oblique angle .
6 ( b ) if the Panel were a statutory body it could find its rulings subject to frequent challenge in the courts with a consequent increase in delaying tactical litigation by the parties to takeovers ; and
7 The courts : Very occasionally a decision by the council or , on appeal , by the DoE can be challenged in the courts through a judicial review .
8 A horse that stands just twenty one inches high is pulling in the crowds at a small breeds farm .
9 A WOUNDED British woman told yesterday how her lover gave his own life to save her from death in the claws of a crazed grizzly bear .
10 It seemed bizarre to be instructing a Baluch builder in the niceties of a fitted kitchen when the man would never have seen one , would never use one .
11 These are evident in the projects of a wide variety of film-makers , artists , novelists , poets and photographers , some of whom I have already referred to .
12 Instead , from now on all ‘ heroes ' deaths ’ were placed in the newspapers under a uniform heading at the top of the columns , reading : ‘ For Führer , People , and Reich gave their lives … ’
13 Each group is illustrated in the plates by a typical species , but of course all the groups contain many species , and any specimen the reader is likely to find will probably differ from the one chosen for illustration in several details .
14 In 1993 we ought to reflect that in this year a new American president is following in the footsteps of a pioneering Labour government 45 years ago .
15 For example , I visited a ‘ community rehabilitation house ’ , a converted Victorian house in the suburbs of a northern city , where ten adults lived and the concept of normalization was applied .
16 He appears to have had some sort of vision or dream , or perhaps both , in the precincts of a pagan temple to the Gallic Apollo , either in the Vosges region or near Autun .
17 Budgetary information is rarely included in the accounts of a profit-oriented or Type A non-profit organization .
18 If the government is to achieve a balance in the accounts in a current account deficit , it means either borrowing from abroad or reducing the government 's stocks of gold and/or foreign exchange reserves .
19 They were evidently hearing something different from the rest of us now , for we would watch them slow-dance to the fastest beat , and then , on the next record , see them execute perfect and elaborate improvised arabesques , all fast footwork and impassioned arms , in the gaps of a slow blues .
20 Lucker rummages in the bags for a floating bottle of vodka .
21 He says that in a few years gas will become expensive , and coal will be waiting in the wings as a cheap form of energy .
22 The moon lay in the tree-tops like a squashed Gouda in a dish of broccoli .
23 Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women .
24 NEXT OVER THE PARAPET was east Londoner Alan Cooke , with his entirely self-published Shades Of Grey , a rough and ready roller-coaster trip through a couple of weeks in the lives of a black detective and an out-of-control street kid with a gun .
25 Toss the beef in the teriyaki in a large bowl and leave to marinade for 1–2hr .
26 ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of this Act , no person shall , except during the permitted hours : ( a ) sell or supply to any person in any licensed premises , or licensed canteen , or in the premises of a registered club any alcoholic liquor to be consumed either on or off the premises , or consume in , or take from , any such premises any alcoholic liquor .
27 Defoe , who travelled more of the roads of the country than most of his contemporaries , was inclined to see himself in the foothills of a better transport age — the equal of the fabled Roman achievement .
28 He called for continued support for the government , and also made it clear that in the discussions of a new constitution , his preference was for a presidential republic .
29 This particular issue forms one of the contentious elements in the discussions about a Social Charter .
30 Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries .
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