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

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1 Years ago , I saw in the pages of Punch a cartoon more memorable than most ( I have redrawn it in Figure 1 ) .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 He wrote of it as seeds finer than the spores of fungi or dust caught in the sails of ships a thousand miles from land .
7 It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land !
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