Example sentences of "[art] [adj] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be provided by the magic power or words , such as inscribing prohibitions into the nation 's constitution , and by manifestations of the divine in terms of either retribution for failing to uphold the truth , or grace for upholding the truth , with rewards ‘ such as oil finds and victories in the World Championships ’ . |
| 2 | The juice from this residue , called the taille , is the poorest in terms of quality which may be used for Champagne . |
| 3 | He read about the unemployed in newspapers and saw films about them on television , pacing across photogenic sections of contemporary Britain and muttering darkly about waste and emptiness . |
| 4 | For the rich get richer and the poor get poorer , and no one troubles to hide it any more ; to shut the poor away in poorhouses , the old in almshouses , the mad in madhouses , the orphans in orphanages . |
| 5 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 6 | Conditions provided plenty of drama on the reach out of the Crouch , with a cold and vicious south-westerly and a lumpy sea which spread-eagled the unwary in broaches both to windward and to leeward , and a variety of spectacular gybes and blow-outs . |
| 7 | But from the Ignorant in Clouds conceal 'd . |
| 8 | Off road racing … is all about mud … forest tracks … driving wheels through the impossible in machines that look improbable … |
| 9 | It is not that on the borders of logic there is a loose form called argument from analogy , but that all thinking starts from a spontaneous discrimination of the like and the unlike , and tendency to group the similar in categories and expect similar consequences from similar conditions . |
| 10 | Deal & Kennedy suggest the following in situations where the culture may go against successful implementation : |
| 11 | The capital has failed to achieved the real in earnings and dividends . |
| 12 | In a similar way , Raymond Briggs has explored the uncomfortable in picture-books . |
| 13 | THE most baffling thing about the weekend 's Smash Hits Poll Winners Party was the way the best and the worst in categories crossed over . |
| 14 | Again , the prisons hit by riots in 1996 and 1990 were not all overcrowded ( for example Northeye in 1996 and Dartmoor in 1990 ) or the worst in terms of physical conditions ( Wymott and Wayland in 1996 ) . |
| 15 | Britain 's standard of food in national institutions and mass catering is some of the worst in terms of health and palatability in Europe . |
| 16 | ‘ There is nothing like the Sunday trading issue to bring out the worst in retailers , ’ it said . |
| 17 | As a ‘ grifter ’ preying on the gullible in bars and trains , Roy is constantly on the move — until the day a scam backfires . |
| 18 | The opening paragraph of the novel poses the problem of the animate and the inanimate in terms of mobility : |
| 19 | Thus the major impact of the conference on me was to feel some of the actual consequences of debt for the poor in countries such as Brazil , Kenya , Jamaica and the Philippines . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the crowding together of the poor in slums was seen to be dangerous — debilitating to health and facilitating possibly seditious communication of the kind which had led to the riots in Trafalgar Square in 1886 . |
| 21 | It may be that the battle of Otford was a Kentish response to Mercian interference in the mid-770s in areas that were regarded by Ecgberht as within a Kentish sphere of influence . |
| 22 | ‘ Very often the amounts of money taken from the elderly in muggings is minimal . |
| 23 | The prevalence of depression among the elderly in institutions has been less well researched . |
| 24 | segregation of the elderly in bungalows … and flats … cuts them off from neighbours other than people of their own age and accentuated their isolation . |
| 25 | Using a variety of official statistics he calculates that the total cost of the elderly in terms of publicly funded services and benefits was at most 103 per cent of the cost of a child in 1979 . |
| 26 | Patrons attach clients to themselves by extending loans to the latter in times of crisis . |
| 27 | In status , it lies between a professorship and a senior lectureship , but is equivalent to the latter in duties ( and salary scale ) . |
| 28 | Standing beside Major Braithwaite 's box were the Dean , the Dean 's wife , Lord Cumbermound , his daughter and granddaughter , the latter in jodhpurs , blue shirt and the horrible purple and green of the pony club tie . |
| 29 | In the longer run , a measure which drew the line between voters and voteless was bound to increase the consciousness of the latter in ways that would encourage an upsurge of working-class political aspirations . |
| 30 | In addition , this committee reflected the view of many educators of visually handicapped pupils that there is no distinct cut-off point between the fully and the partially sighted , nor between the partially sighted and the blind in terms of functioning . |