Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The note destroyed the intimacy between the two . |
| 2 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 3 | How can I be so curmudgeonly , so rude , to an organisation which makes it possible for me to enjoy the serenity of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal , the bone-chilling bleakness of Housesteads , the intimacy of the walled garden at Wallington ? |
| 4 | Interestingly , the exhibition identifies two paintings in particular as possessing this quality of intimacy : William Nicholson 's and Victor Pasmore 's portraits of their respective in which the intimacy of the marital relationship , it is supposed , finds direct pictorial expression in the paintings themselves . |
| 5 | The full stage production has the advantage of scenery — the exterior and interior of the home in the Boston area — but loses the intimacy of the in-the-round presentation at the Studio theatre . |
| 6 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 7 | Major topics in this literature are marital happiness , the division of labour and the general patterning of husband-wife roles ; the combination of women 's employment with marriage , and its consequences for husband-wife and mother-child relationships ; the inter-relationships between the nuclear family and the wider kinship system ; and the ‘ captive wife ’ syndrome — the socially isolated situation of women with young children . |
| 8 | Full appreciation of place will involve exploration of the inter-relationships among the physical environment , the built environment , and the people . |
| 9 | Webb was one of the key figures in the restructuring of the Football League following the breakaway of the Premier League . |
| 10 | SOCRATES and Plato may be unlikely corner men for an aspiring heavyweight champion , but Lennox Lewis , the man reluctantly carrying the tag of the next Frank Bruno , is a lover of philosophy , and admits to being ‘ one of those deep-thinking kind of guys ’ . |
| 11 | It is impossible for me , for reasons of space , to do more than summarise the most relevant parts of the judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada . |
| 12 | The majority of potentially battle-winning systems are pursued at or beyond the frontiers of existing technology where the risks of failure are high ; where cost estimates are notoriously uncertain ; and hence where the judgments of the soundest and most experienced men can turn out to be fallacious . |
| 13 | It is only necessary to refer to the second of those cases which were decisions of this court , because in the judgments in the second of those cases , reference is made back to Brown v. Draper . |
| 14 | But both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords supported the Minister , Lord Keith saying that the judgments in the Divisional Court illustrated the danger of judges wrongly , though unconsciously , substituting their own views for the views of the decision-maker who alone was charged and authorized by Parliament to exercise a discretion . |
| 15 | When one comes to look at the judgments in the American Economic Laundry case , it appears clear that the approach which the court was adopting in that case was to regard the tenant against whom a possession order had been made as a statutory tenant who did not have all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts . |
| 16 | In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth . |
| 17 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 18 | It seems evident from the widespread popularity of the enactment of the hunt that simple timber arenas were provided in all large and probably even in small settlements , for they were part of the activities at the seasonal festivals . |
| 19 | She was involved in planning the activities with the advisory teacher and took on full responsibility for organising the equipment for each session . |
| 20 | The activities of the Preparatory Commission which is already functioning have made the position even more complex . |
| 21 | It is difficult to assess the real impact of these activities on actual policy formulation , but it seems clear that the activities of the preparatory committees at least were thorough and significant , and to some extent taken seriously by the party and government ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 188–90 ) . |
| 22 | An indication of this has been the reduction in the activities of the rural underworld , which was such a thriving feature of village life when it was an occupational community , but which has now virtually disappeared . |
| 23 | Post-demonstration coverage also marginalised the political content , focusing , instead , on the activities of the violent minority . |
| 24 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 25 | The association with Fahreddin Acemi of the only information in the Turkish sources about the activities of the early Muftis may well not be entirely coincidental , for in one very important respect he seems to have differed from his two predecessors in the traditional list , Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan , in that he appears not to have held a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , whereas Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan apparently both held the kadilik of Bursa at the same time as the Muftilik . |
| 26 | If it is the case that the grand caliph in de la Broquière 's account is indeed Fahreddin Acemi , it would mean that all the admittedly meagre information relative to the nature of the early Muftilik and the activities of the early Muftis is connected with Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 27 | Scepticism about the relation between words and things indeed raises a question about whether the Renaissance is a phenomenon or whether it is a signifier , a discursive practice , which acts as a supplement for , say , the activities of the early modern period which are the things ostensibly being signified by the term Renaissance . |
| 28 | The Minister said that all of the activities of the civil rights movement had indicated that it was predominantly a Republican body , and activities in Derry did not disprove that . |
| 29 | The activities of the Japanese ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) provide an important counter-example to the proposition that planning requires extensive state ownership . |
| 30 | The Slovak parliament on March 19 agreed to investigate the activities of the Interior Ministry since November 1989 ( i.e. under Meciar , who was Slovak Interior Minister before becoming Prime Minister in June 1990 ) , and the visits abroad by Slovak delegations . |