Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fan ’ and ‘ step ’ experiments led him to doubt this , and , combined with close observation of the dance led to the decoding of the language . |
| 2 | Although the planning of the cottage rested on the patriarchal assumption that it would house a male art lover , with perhaps a wife and certainly a ( female ) domestic to service it , Unwin displayed some unease about the status of such service , and thought that : " It is possible , though not easy , to introduce one helper into home life on equal terms , but very difficult indeed to do this with two " ( 1901 p66 ) . |
| 3 | The starkness of the contrast drawn between the premises and application of traditional natural justice and those of fairness are open to a number of objections . |
| 4 | The spine of the tree curved like a man stretching tall after a heavy sleep . |
| 5 | A trie index is particularly useful when keys are of varying sizes , and the path of a search at any point of the tree depends on a part of the key rather than its full value . |
| 6 | The circle was a blur now , and the walls of the Tree rang with the echoes of the chant |
| 7 | On this occasion there was serious difficulty in settling the crown presentee , and the very real danger to the political interest of the duke lay in the fact that the Opposition and the rival candidate were set up by some of his own friends . |
| 8 | The last of these was ironic , not to say cynical , for much of the manpower used in the building of the Valle de los Caídos had been provided by political prisoners , who were allowed to redeem part of their sentences in what was , effectively , a labour camp . |
| 9 | In many respects the purchasing and contracting arrangements have strengthened the power of the locality to decide , mainly because of the reliance placed on the technical judgements of the caring professions . |
| 10 | He had n't noticed it before because of the hedge growing along the side of the bank , but here , and for some way ahead , it was open to the road . |
| 11 | The other side of the hedge gives onto the road . |
| 12 | Expressed in the simplest terms , however , normal flight depends on the creation by a propeller-like action of the wings of a zone of low pressure in front of and above the insect and one of high pressure behind and below it , the consequent movement being a resultant of the thrust provided by the insect and forces due to gravity and air-resistance . |
| 13 | Moreover , in China there was nothing corresponding to the secularization of history in Europe after the domination of the Church ended with the Renaissance and Reformation . |
| 14 | Today only the superb campanile and a section of the right side of the church remain from the original fourteenth-century building . |
| 15 | The interior of the church suffered from the dead hand of the restorer between 1897 and 1907 , but it represents one of the most monumental examples of the Romanesque in Bohemia . |
| 16 | ‘ Institutions ’ here should be understood in a sense consistent with Weber 's sociology of religion , in which the institutions of the church mediate between the prophetic reactors of religious ideas and the ‘ laity ’ ( Bourdieu 1987 ) . |
| 17 | The pulpit , Communion area and side aisles were all carpeted and the inside of the church painted to a colour-scheme prepared by Mr Brian Jeffers . |
| 18 | There are many pictures and engravings of the church dating from the 18th century . |
| 19 | William could see the village where they lived and the smoke from the fires rising straight up into the air and the dark tower of the church rising above a cluster of stark trees , and because he was nervous he wanted to work his way in that direction , so it would not be so far to run , but because his father was beside him , smiling his reassuring smile , he did n't . |
| 20 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 21 | The quality of the printing depends on the number of dots that are used to create each character ; typical values range from 8 rows of 8 dots to the , so called , Near Letter Quality of 24 rows of 17 dots . |
| 22 | In 1666 , many saw the Fire of London as the work of Catholic conspirators , and a decade later the revelation of an alleged ‘ Popish Plot ’ to assassinate Charles II was readily accepted as further evidence of the seriousness of the threat posed to the English state and church by international Catholic plotting . |
| 23 | A growing realisation of the threat posed to the economies and stability of States and the well-being of their citizens by drug-trafficking and international crime has prompted governments in recent years to give very high priority to the development of effective international mechanisms to meet that threat . |
| 24 | This has caused some concern as peaceful demonstrators may be prevented from marching because of the threat posed by a potentially disruptive counter-demonstration . |
| 25 | However , he warned of the threat posed by the secession issue to the future of perestroika , commenting : " We have embarked on this path and I am the one who chose it . |
| 26 | This is a negation of the threat contained within the beautiful physical form of Lamia which the reader knows is redolent with destructive force . |
| 27 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 28 | The active , courageous aspect of Carlotta and her lover Don Manuel is suggested now and again in the echoes of the conflict heard by the reader before they are heard by Hi Ridden . |
| 29 | The nature of the conflict fought in the 1370s was to be very different from that of earlier decades , and its effects more dramatic . |
| 30 | That 's the theory … here 's the practical … first the course … they 've mapped out the 26 miles … the beauty of the route lies in the cobbled squares of ancient towns like Bhaktapur … the beast is the city … traffic and smoke is a major problem … the other unknown factor is altitude … |