Example sentences of "from [art] [adj] or [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mosaics here date from the thirteenth or fourteenth century . |
| 2 | They were most likely to come from the 35–44 or 55–64 age group . |
| 3 | Crone found that the yellow spots on the leaves and pebbles were pollen from the tropical or subtropical bush of the genus Rapanea and of a tree of the genus Harpullia , common to rainforests . |
| 4 | It does this by a process called dithering which takes two or more colours from the 16 or 256 colour palette available and places them side by side to give the impression of another colour . |
| 5 | Native ( natural metallic ) copper was probably first used about the eighth millennium BC. and the earliest smelted metals , copper and lead , date from the fifth or sixth millennium BC . |
| 6 | The implicit extension is the set of propositions that follow from the best or soundest interpretation of the convention , whether or not these form part of the explicit extension . |
| 7 | Each position implies a broad method : in ( a ) illustration and clarification of the ‘ informing spirit ’ , as in national histories of styles of art and kinds of intellectual work which manifest , in relation with other institutions and activities , the central interests and values of a ‘ people ’ ; in ( b ) exploration from the known or discoverable character of a general social order to the specific forms taken by its cultural manifestations . |
| 8 | Most drives only allow a five degree variation from the horizontal or vertical plane so make sure that your drive is mounted as accurately as possible . |
| 9 | Card 19 from the 600 or 700 pack knitted in slip changing colour every 2 rows . |
| 10 | The increase in concentration of insulin seems to force a response from the slow or faulty system . |
| 11 | This impressive linear earthwork running east-west is reckoned to be a division between the lands of Mercia to the north and Wessex to the south , and probably dates from the sixth or seventh century . |
| 12 | They are partially derived from the conventional or literal meaning of an utterance , produced in a specific context which is shared by the speaker and the hearer , and depend on a recognition by the speaker and the hearer of the Cooperative Principle and its maxims . |
| 13 | This mode of political religious action no longer starts out from a universal centre and figure , such as the papacy , but rather from the national or local church within the state , whose ‘ magistrates ’ — Calvin 's term for lay political leaders — are ideally Christians of moral rectitude , who perform this duty as one ordained by God . |
| 14 | Ignoring the very recent breeds , it is clear that in earlier days , when cat-showing was just beginning , the major pedigree lines nearly all stemmed from the Near or Far East , with the West lagging far behind . |
| 15 | Qualitative judgements are then derived from the positive or negative outcome of the quantities involved . |
| 16 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 17 | Days from the Whig or Hanoverian calendar of celebration — such as 28 May ( George I 's birthday ) , 1 August ( George I 's accession day ) , 20 October ( George I 's coronation day ) , 30 October ( the birthday of George , Prince of Wales ) , and 4 and 5 November ( the birthday of William III and the dual anniversary of Gunpowder Treason day and William 's landing at Torbay ) — could often provoke Jacobite counter-theatre of mockery and subversion . |
| 18 | Please remember that , should you suffer from a chronic or acute complaint , these methods are best used in conjunction with whatever form of treatment you are receiving — whether from orthodox medicine or a qualified complementary practitioner . |
| 19 | However , baronies associated with castles or the greater landed lay families have not been studied other than from a legalistic or genealogical point of view . |
| 20 | Yet it is far from clear exactly what citizenship involves , either legally or from a political or social point of view . |
| 21 | The captain had to certify to the Port of Havana medical officer that no-one on board was ‘ an idiot , or insane , or suffering from a loathsome or contagious disease ’ . |
| 22 | The public will rarely buy a record they have never heard , particularly when it comes from a new or unknown artist . |
| 23 | Coming almost certainly from a middle-class or working-class home , once his seminary days were over he had little opportunity for further education . |
| 24 | The function of a visual word-recognition system is to accept , as input , information gathered from a printed or written word , and to produce , as output , an abstract identification of that word . |
| 25 | Much as it is ‘ obvious ’ to us from the diagram ( though not from a verbal or mathematical description of the same sate-of-affairs ) that B will hit D , that D will then tilt with its left half moving downwards , and that B will end up touching both A and D but not the ground , so it is easily discoverable by the program that this is what will happen . |
| 26 | The developer , whether obtaining land from a passive or active approach , will be committed to undertake an extensive and detailed market research appraisal and investigation of the site before proceeding to purchase . |
| 27 | Care must be taken in cases where a tragic situation is concerned e.g. Claimant suffering from a serious or terminal illness as the exclusion will apply only if the claim arises as a consequence of the illness . |
| 28 | If the patient is unconscious and will never regain consciousness , or is suffering from a progressive or fatal illness , then the respirator must be seen as heroic treatment and may be turned off , as in the case of Karen Quinlan , when it is no longer of any lasting benefit . |
| 29 | Having defined his subject , the author goes on to consider the relationship between caring professions and the state in a useful discussion of the varying positions of authors whose analysis derives from a neo-Marxist or neo-Weberian concept of the economic and political structure of society . |
| 30 | From a strategic or competitive viewpoint , the two outstanding advantages of the high-performance approach concerned the quality of the end products and the flexibility of the organization in response to rapid change . |