Example sentences of "absent from [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A novelty is F£ minor , rare enough to be absent from every theorist 's list , and which Campra had used before only in passing modulations . |
| 2 | Although the Mandate was created by agreement , treaty arguments are conspicuously absent from the Court 's reasoning in these two cases . |
| 3 | Writing is made to seem a small betrayal , as it may have been in the life of Prentice 's Uncle Rory , who makes a prize-winning living as the author of travel books about ‘ unlikely destinations ’ and who is absent from the grandmother 's funeral where the story begins ( with a predictable bang ) . |
| 4 | Notably absent from the CBI 's understanding of the problems of inner cities was any notion that they should be met by national economic policy . |
| 5 | Such a statement of principle is notably absent from the Government 's proposals . |
| 6 | It is no accident that in secular lyrics of the period women , apparently the cause of so much self-regarding male rhetoric , ( albeit rescued by humorous and witty posturing ) , are conspicuous by their silence — absent from the lover 's self-dramatisation and the satirist 's easy jibes . |