Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Webb was one of the key figures in the restructuring of the Football League following the breakaway of the Premier League . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The activities of the Preparatory Commission which is already functioning have made the position even more complex . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Post-demonstration coverage also marginalised the political content , focusing , instead , on the activities of the violent minority . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Further evidence of a new mood in the legislature in this period can be seen in the steps taken to curtail the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency . |
| 22 | Any increase or decrease in the money stock is thus directly attributable to the activities of the central bank . |
| 23 | To present an oversimplified example , it can be argued that many occupational groups within the middle class in Western society plan , organize and coordinate the activities of the working class . |
| 24 | the activities of the 7th Argyll and Bute Volunteers , reports of accidents , and meetings of natives in Glasgow . |
| 25 | The King 's announcement came amidst reports on April 15 that 43 intellectuals and businessmen had published an open letter calling on the King to establish national and municipal councils and to curb the activities of the Islamic religious police , the mutaween . |
| 26 | It might be the case that the activities of the Young Conservatives make the young people involved feel better : to use the curious language of modern psychologists , participation might improve the young members ' ’ sense of self-esteem' or ‘ actualize their inner identities ’ . |
| 27 | Although most of the activities of the Young Conservatives may be ostensibly apolitical , nevertheless a tacit deal has been struck , which is of great political value to the main Party . |
| 28 | History used to be written only about the activities of the small group of men and women who held positions of power . |
| 29 | Eric Howe , the Data Protection Registrar , had argued that the activities of the mischievous or curious should not be criminalised . |
| 30 | Within the framework of the activities of the African Institution Stephen and Zachary Macaulay had a considerable impact on the formulation of legislation and policy for the suppression of the slave trade and its execution . |