Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Dr Henning talked about meditation the picture changed to four men demonstrating the art of yogic flying . |
| 2 | it was something about March the second , it was just a clip |
| 3 | During gastrulation the front and back , top and bottom become evident , and the basic body plan is laid down . |
| 4 | That was when Fernandez was hired from Miami for $195,000 a year and a basket of pension plans that would excite a baseball player . |
| 5 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 6 | The most important is Domesday Book , the great survey compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086 . |
| 7 | The fines imposed upon the Earl of Lancaster and his followers were remitted , and Lancaster received confirmation of his right to Pontefract , Tutbury and Leicester , which he had not been able to recover after the revolution of 1327 , though he had to lease Pontefract from the queen for £1,000 a year . |
| 8 | The Ledingham-Smiths did not pay the £5,000 a week as required , but did continue the banker 's order for £1,000 a month . |
| 9 | She knew stories about Anancy the spider and the Maroon people who fought the British in the mountains . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's an exhibition about Michelangelo the sculptor , not Michelangelo 's sculptures ’ , in the words of Pietro C. Marani of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici of Milan , curator at the Pinacoteca di Brera , and scientific co-ordinator of the exhibition . |
| 11 | For Nizan the originality of the contemporary period , however , is that history has violently entered the arena and fractured the classical mould- The non-reflective , naturally ordained existence of the classical period has been ruptured . |
| 12 | The difference is only that for postverbals the property complex qualifies the E ( and in surface terms we have an intransitive verb phrase ) , while with adverbals the property complex is qualified by the E ( in surface terms , a transitive verb phrase ) . |
| 13 | Various reports a plea for support a plea for interest particularly for the seventy fifth anniversary year next year and after that we had the most lovely party . |
| 14 | However , in contrast to the present position where audit reports are signed only with the name of the firm , in the case of a limited company acting as auditor the report could also include , as is currently the case in Sweden and Germany , the name or names of one or more individuals responsible for conducting the examination . |
| 15 | Because we know more today about the sources of infection and pollution , about quarantine an isolation , hygiene and preventive medicine , we can watch Israel 's obedience actually fulfilling God 's promise to take away their sickness ( Exodus 23:15 ) . |
| 16 | European and Asian gourmands will pay up to $100 per pound for the morel , matsutake and chanterelle mushrooms that grow in the forests , creating an industry that , by some estimates , is worth $10m a year . |
| 17 | Actually , Ron does n't know it , but he 's got a point — you really ought to think about money a bit . |
| 18 | During March a number of mass graves were found near former concentration camps or prisoner-of-war camps . |
| 19 | The good advance man develops through experience the wisdom of knowing when to try something and when not . |
| 20 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 21 | ( If you find yourself meditating for hours every day , perhaps you should ask whether you are avoiding other aspects of your life . ) |
| 22 | They pump iron for hours every morning . |
| 23 | For hours the magician swam around , with the normally chatty parrot perched silently on his shoulder . |
| 24 | For hours the dark , dry |
| 25 | For hours the planet had grown no larger in Miles Engado 's faceplate ; seeming instead to retreat as he fell towards it . |
| 26 | For take-off the tail should only be raised a small amount . |
| 27 | But for McLaren the enmity was more than ideological . |
| 28 | Money procured for Minton the kind of men he needed , but his inability to possess them left him with insatiable desire , to such an extent that his relentless pursuit of young men began to intrude into everything he did . |
| 29 | For generations the place where all the more mature locals have come to buy their clothes . |
| 30 | This hardly looks the same principle , but the connection lies in the fact that for Kant the sense in which every person is an end is that each is a rational agent who , as such , should be conceived as potentially cooperating with me in settling upon and living by universal principles of behaviour taken as binding on all rational agents . |