Example sentences of "[prep] [art] age [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perpetuates the dire age of violently sexist songs of an age when rugby should have been ashamed of itself . |
| 2 | Yet , the fact remains that , although we are dealing with an age when history was not decided by battles at sea , the first major battle of the Hundred Years War was fought at sea in June 1340 . |
| 3 | Recently restored to its original splendour , the visitor to these former royal apartments slips back into an age when elegance was king . |
| 4 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |
| 5 | In an age where liberty has made great advances in the world , there is still conflict , instability and want , causing great misery and inhibiting the peace and co-operation which we want to help to build . |
| 6 | In an age where employability is the keynote the idea of educating for leisure may seem an anathema ; however , even job application forms ask questions about leisure interests , presumably on the grounds that it tells employers something about potential employees . |
| 7 | People who , in an age where profit comes before quality , have eschewed mass production . |
| 8 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 9 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 10 | He tended to be rather naïve in his dealings with others ; outspokenly critical , to the point of rudeness , of his less gifted fellow-musicians — a trait which was to earn him many enemies ; deceitful on occasion ; and certainly arrogant , in an age when obsequiousness and servile flattery were necessary to ensure success . |
| 11 | We live in an age when inflation is in the order of 1.7 per cent . |
| 12 | This solitary travelling , in an age when travel was dangerous , may seem to show her as an indomitable and independent woman , like Mary Kingsley in the nineteenth century ; but in fact , like most psychotics , she was extremely dependent on others . |
| 13 | Some of its appeal undoubtedly lay in its ritual and spectacular trappings ; in an age when pageantry was declining elsewhere and when a new mass public was appearing , royal marriages , funerals and coronations were welcome as stirring displays . |
| 14 | In an age when insurance against all forms of liability is commonplace , it is surely not surprising or unjust if law makes persons who carry on some kinds of hazardous undertakings liable for the harm they do , unless they can excuse or justify it on some recognisable ground . ’ |
| 15 | In an age when homosexuality and abortion have been legalized , what could be the reason for an otherwise progressive body like the Warnock Committee to invoke the criminal law with a view to preventing a newly available reproductive technique from being practised between consenting adults ? |
| 16 | Many Scots were attracted by the possibility of earning their living with their swords , in spite of the fact that this was not a particularly attractive career in an age when advancement in rank was frequently purchased and promotion hard to obtain without both private means and interest . |
| 17 | The importance of their support , in an age when poverty and early death threatened family life in childhood still more than divorce and deprivation today , is brought home by the story of a North Welsh orphan , baptised as John Rowlands . |
| 18 | Which made it the more regrettable that , in an age when abortion is pressed on one as if it were a free sample , she should have contrived to have four children in six years — unwanted , dubiously parented , ill cared for . |
| 19 | King lived in an age when growth rates changed only slowly so that his greatest concern was the possible end of the world ! |
| 20 | In an age when information is power , there are clear motives for archiving . |
| 21 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 22 | But today 's guides retain their individuality in an age when individuality is a rare quality . |
| 23 | In an age when sin and madness were so strongly associated , the only reason for confessing to having been insane would be that complete recovery showed divine forgiveness of whatever sin had caused the madness in the first place ; and this is the reason advanced by the two mediaeval authors who admit to having been mad , Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve . |
| 24 | It is a sad document of a young woman 's promiscuity in an age when AIDS has made most thinking members of the public chaste . ’ |
| 25 | It is significant that , in an age when belief in miracles , extreme saintliness and revelation were of the stuff of daily life , so many of her contemporaries believed Margery to be mentally ill ; only , probably , the superstitious , the credulous and the ignorant believed her to be a genuine mystic . |
| 26 | In an age when décolletage mattered , her shoulders were said to be superb . |
| 27 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 28 | She was still at an age when honour , bravery and loyalty outweigh results . |