Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [verb] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the temple , and clustered round it , were craft workshops where the locally gathered and imported raw materials were made into manufactured goods . |
| 2 | The double stapling technique was never applicable in these cases because of the widely dilated and thick walled anus ; hence a hand sewn ileoanal anastomosis was required . |
| 3 | The widely read and influential book of the French politician and columnist , ServanSchreiber , translated as The Amer–can Challenge ( 1968 ) , summed up these fears ahout the loss of economic independence , and recommended that European industry and commerce should learn from the methods of the Americans and try to beat them at their own game . |
| 4 | Most often identified with the widely known and popular Hybrid Tea , the bush form includes many different kinds of so-called ‘ Old ’ roses as well as ‘ Moderns ’ . |
| 5 | This religious sanctuary stood near Paderborn , and was a type of national spiritual or magical centre for the widely scattered and nomadic Saxon tribes . |
| 6 | The ornately decorated and sculptured churches were parables and sermons in honey-coloured stone , miraculously preserved . |
| 7 | The US corporation Air Express International is one of the longest established and largest freight forwarders , with 27 subsidiary companies and a network of agents around the world and a turnover in excess of $600m a year . |
| 8 | It 's an icon-driven multipart adventure and quite possibly one of the most involving and well-presented strategy programs available and is still an essential purchase even now . |
| 9 | Work completed , Donald John chauffeured me off to the most concerning and uncertain part of this Western Isles sojourn , the 45 minute ferry boat crossing to South Uist . |
| 10 | At Sotheby 's the following day , the most debated and perplexing lot was an anonymous portrait of a praying cleric on a blue ground , inscribed with the sitter 's name , the composer Jacob Obrecht . |
| 11 | He was only placated by the ale wife placing a frothing tankard in front of him and throwing him the most longing and sly of glances , as if he was Paris and she Helen of Troy . |
| 12 | Used many times every day , it is the most time and labour-saving device ever invented for cooks . |
| 13 | The technique of moving together on the rope is one of the most mistrusted and misused methods of travel in the mountains . |
| 14 | It might not be a complete oversimplification to state that many of the profession 's difficulties with the lay public stem from the public 's basic incomprehension of what we write ; and yet is it not the particular beauty of the English language that the most appreciated and elegant words are in fact the simplest and most easily understood ? |
| 15 | As a result , although the coverage is not as lively or interesting as it would probably be if the editors had more freedom , it is not nearly as stilted as many people feared ; it is certainly much better than the terribly restricted and monotonous presentation of the Canadian House of Commons . |
| 16 | SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander acknowledges the Solaris ‘ endorsements ’ he got last week from the hardware community are kind of lukewarm and skimpy — see page two — but he still claims , mostly for Destiny 's benefit , that he 's got the only tested and proven big-time distribution channel , namely Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 17 | As the mind progressively clears in early recovery , the sense of guilt and remorse can be so powerful that the sufferer returns to the substance or process of addiction as the only known and practised method of suppressing unpleasant feelings . |
| 18 | Only Ithell Colquhoun in the grotesquely castrated and labelled forms of her ‘ Pine Family ’ of 1941 wreaks specific revenge on the serial mutilation that dominates the work of her male counterparts , and on the occasion that Leonor Fini paints a male nude in her ‘ Chthonian Divinity Watching Over the Sleep of a Young Man ’ the female deity hovers above his vulnerable body with an ominous vigilance that is far from passive . |
| 19 | In other works , the pictures represent a record of the highly eroticised and mythological meeting of the artist and his model . |
| 20 | This is not to say there is no conflict between the haves and have-nots , the highly rewarded and those who receive little reward . |
| 21 | Rivetingly , at the exhibition a three dimensional version of this work made by a child was placed beneath the portrait , a delicious counterpoint to the highly wrought and sophisticated 17th century portrait . |
| 22 | By the Permian-Triassic the suture lines of many ammonites had begun to assume the highly crimped and complex form that was to characterize much of their later history ; the ceratites of the Triassic combined broad loops and tight folds in a distinctive pattern ( see p.74 ) . |
| 23 | The match commentator will be the highly experienced and versatile David Fordham . |
| 24 | At one extreme was the highly capitalized and specialized agricultural industry of Denmark , and at the other the huge latifundia of Andalusia or south Italy , with their poverty-stricken swarms of landless peasants working for day wages when they could . |
| 25 | One of the 84 co-sponsors of the Senate resolution was Robert Dole , the highly respected and influential Republican minority leader in the Senate . |
| 26 | Their report concludes that people should be ‘ enabled and encouraged to eat foods which are closer to the natural grain , vegetable or fruit than the highly processed and refined products which now form a large part of our food . ’ |
| 27 | Colin Patterson on the other hand writes what is for me the most scholarly paper in the volume , pointing out that , from the transformed cladist point of view , the much discussed and abused term ‘ homology ’ actually refers to those characters that define natural groups of organisms and need have no evolutionary connotations . |
| 28 | Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more , there is plenty here on the crowded , ramshackle household and its often hand-to-mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic , temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures , the art and music which pervaded the house , the much loved but somewhat casually raised children , the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live-in models , nannies , general factotums , portrait sitters , studio visitors , plaster moulders , musicians , friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift . |
| 29 | Upper- and middle-class Victorian men relied on working-class female prostitutes to satisfy their sexual appetites , while demanding purity of their wives and inflicting upon them the impossibly sentimentalized and saintly ideal of the Virgin Mother . |
| 30 | Our aim is nothing less than than to make Britain the best trained and educated nation in Europe . ’ |