Example sentences of "in [art] [noun pl] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in The Languages of Love the pun is indicative of the tragic breach between the human and the divine , in Thru it is described as ‘ free , anarchic , a powerful instrument to explode the civilization of the sign and all its stable , reassuring definitions ’ ( 29/607 ) . |
| 2 | Years ago , I saw in the pages of Punch a cartoon more memorable than most ( I have redrawn it in Figure 1 ) . |
| 3 | Although relations between the bishops and the resident aristocracy are harder to piece together , the fortunes of one or two families are clear enough ; in the pages of Gregory the descendants of Quintianus 's opponent , Hortensius , appear consistently as failures ; so too does the ill-fated family of the comes Firminus . |
| 4 | The legal profession is not always entirely blameless in these matters , for there is often left in the minds of interested people the suspicion that , in the courts of law the scoring of points and the winning of cases takes precedence over the desire to administer justice and establish truth . |
| 5 | The following is an example of a suitable clause : It is hereby agreed that notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the Articles of Association the investor shall be entitled at any time after Completion to transfer all or any part of the investor 's shares to another investor or investors approved by the Managers ( such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) to the intent and effect that any such investors shall be entitled to the benefit of all such provisions of this Agreement and Articles of Association as the investor shall require and the Managers and the Company shall do or procure to be done ( insofar as it lies within their respective powers ) all such matters and things , including the execution of all such documents as shall be necessary or which the Investors shall reasonably require for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this clause . |
| 6 | In the forests of Avelorn the hunt was closing in . |
| 7 | The comedy duo follow will be following in the footsteps of Orville the Duck and Little and Large as recent big-name acts to bring festive crowds flocking to Darlington 's record-breaking Civic Theatre . |
| 8 | For everyone else , it really does n't matter , because the detective work is going to lead to applications for us today , as disciples who follow in the footsteps of Matthew the apostle and whoever it was who put together the first gospel of the New testament . |
| 9 | There is little overlap in the families of plants the different groups visit and , in those families , the flowers may look very different . |
| 10 | A. For people who live in the hills of Britain the lowland plains seem flat , dull and uninteresting . |
| 11 | To others in the farmlands of Grabouw the apple says ‘ Organize , fight back , ’ and the numbers of farm labourers joining unions are growing . |
| 12 | In the reigns of Charles the Bald 's predecessors , the count 's first main function was to look after royal estates ( fisc-lands ) and royal income ( for instance from tolls and fines ) within his county . |
| 13 | Being more selective in the areas of work the Council undertakes ; and |
| 14 | In the villages of Bangladesh the folk-songs , even the tapestries women make , tell stories of love and romance . |
| 15 | In the wilds of Rajasthan a naked army of shaven-headed Hindu sadhus was rumoured to be marching on Delhi , led by an old sorceress . |
| 16 | In the interests of security the government refused to countenance labour organizations and strikes were a criminal offence . |
| 17 | In the comedies of Aristophanes a hero is bothered and bludgeoned by a succession of intruders and enemies , much like the heroes of Otherwise Engaged , Dear Daddy or The Sea , the Sea . |
| 18 | After an arduous five-year apprenticeship in the disciplines of war the twenty-one-year-old Duke had produced his masterpiece . |
| 19 | A similar violence — both theological and political — can be discerned in the careers of John the Baptist and of Jesus . |
| 20 | In the corridors of Congress the name ‘ Hauser ’ was whispered behind closed doors . |
| 21 | The villa had been built in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent by a Baderini banker . |
| 22 | Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king , behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem , saying , ‘ Where is he that is born King of the Jews ? |
| 23 | Coal was on the move when Leith was first recognised as a port back in the days of Robert the Bruce . |
| 24 | It was enabled to continue in office until May 1979 and in the recriminations of defeat the Conservative Party polarised into the Thatcher and Heath factions , the implications of which are still only partly worked out on the political scene . |
| 25 | In the words of Dirac a state of motion of a system may be defined as an undisturbed motion that is restricted by as many conditions or data as are theoretically possible without mutual interference or contradiction . |
| 26 | Even in the depths of winter the sea ice is never a complete cover . |
| 27 | In India , for example , 6000 million t of topsoil are lost annually , while in the highlands of Ethiopia the annual figure is 1600 million t ( Earth Report 1988 ) . |
| 28 | In the sciences of course the possibility of pure objectivity has been a convenient and fruitful assumption , which has only recently run up against its limitations . |
| 29 | The Personnel Department is involved in the formulation and implementation of policies governing the organisation 's dealings with its existing and potential employees Here , too , microcomputers can make a valuable contribution They place in the hands of managers a powerful analytical tool which is available to them at any time . |
| 30 | Ostensibly set up in 1928 with the aim of promoting the development of French proletarian literature and propagating the sectarian cultural views of RAPP ( the Association of Soviet Proletarian Writers ) , Monde became in the hands of Barbusse the site of cultural collaboration between communists and non-communists alike . |