Example sentences of "[art] [adj] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She returned after a ten year absence , this time as director of ACARTE , an arts education programme linked to the Gulbenkian 's Centre of Modern Art , consolidating the respect she held as one of Portugal 's cultural leaders . |
| 2 | Being in a position of power , his stupidity does not just affect him , nor just his family , but a whole kingdom , showing the universal not only the domestic significance of the old 's relationship to the young . |
| 3 | Possibly Mr Quekett came to his aid : it would be a simple matter to consult the parish registers for St George 's until they found the bridegroom-to-be 's baptism in 1818 , son of Benjamin Titford of Chapman Street , ‘ Outrider ’ — and so the entry reads on the marriage certificate . |
| 4 | On the facts of Lawrence the accused 's conviction for theft was upheld even though the victim intended to transfer property . |
| 5 | The accused 's conviction for manslaughter was upheld . |
| 6 | The jury must place themselves in the accused 's position with the accused 's knowledge . |
| 7 | It would appear that the pretrial investigation determined the accused 's fate without as much as affording him a right of effective participation in the process . |
| 8 | One looks at the accused 's state of mind . |
| 9 | ( d ) Whether the unlawful act was a dangerous one is judged not by the accused 's state of mind , but by a sober and reasonable person in the defendant 's position . |
| 10 | The bank was contractually obliged to honour the cheque even when honouring put the accused 's account into the red . |
| 11 | There was no need for the whole of the accused 's body to be in the building : the top half was in a shop-front display , the bottom half outside . |
| 12 | The element of ‘ mens rea ’ — that is to say , what was actually in the accused 's mind at the time of the assault — is of utmost importance . |
| 13 | After the curtain had come down and she 'd put away the props she hid in the extra 's dressing-room in case the reporter had changed his mind and dared to wait for her . |
| 14 | The seven-year-old 's victory in the River Trent Conditions Stakes came only 24 hours after he covered his latest mare . |
| 15 | The architect was instructed to keep ornamentation to a minimum , but the Victorian 's notion of minimal detail would be considerable elaboration to any other age . |
| 16 | The year was 1876 and the coachman was later fined for his behaviour , but the incident illustrates the reactionary 's response to new forms of transport . |
| 17 | When the noblewoman Dhuoda saw off her fifteen-year-old son William to join Charles the Bald 's court in 841 , she gave him a book of advice . |
| 18 | He saw what he took to be Charles the Bald 's institutionalisation of hereditary countships in 877 as clinching his case . |
| 19 | By totting up numbers for one group of estates , adding a notional 22 per cent for unrecorded children under twelve , and a further 25 per cent for other omissions , and then multiplying these for the whole of France , Lot calculated a population for Charles the Bald 's kingdom of 26 million . |
| 20 | Once authority has been delegated , a superior should not expect his subordinate to refer decisions up the chain of command to him for confirmation ( or ratification ) provided that the decision is within the subordinate 's scope of delegated authority . |
| 21 | What is relevant is that the subordinate 's perception of the experience will affect his or her behaviour . |
| 22 | A system that had been designed to exclude the poor 's income from the payment of tax , was reshaped in such a way that , although the poor continued to enjoy exemption on their low income , the same privilege was extended to similar bands of income for all other taxpayers . |
| 23 | The poor 's entitlement to relief depended upon their having a settlement in the parish . |
| 24 | Henry Fielding was one of those who was annoyed by the poor 's presumption in this regard . |
| 25 | It is not because of the poor 's isolation from the modern sector that they remain poor , but because they provide a cheap human resource for that sector . |
| 26 | So when the Colonel 's lady — with the provincial 's enthusiasm for champagne — questioned her choice of an exquisite and rare-vintage sweet wine from Frontignan to accompany the pudding , Fru Møller was uncharacteristically acerbic in her response . |
| 27 | Amanieu VII 's marriage to Rose de Bourg brought with it important landed possessions around Bourg and Blaye ; his daughter Mathe married Renaud de Pons , lord of Bergerac , in 1314 , and was to give the Albret a significant foothold on the borders of Périgord ; while Amanieu 's son , Bérard I ( d. 1346 ) who was lord of Vayres and Vertheuil in the Entre-deux-Mers , acquired the castles and lordships of Langoiran and Podensac for his cadet son Amanieu through the latter 's marriage to Mabille d'Escossan in 1345 . |
| 28 | Hines ( 1972 ) , for example , using exactly the same words as McKeever and Huling ( 1971a ) replicated the latter 's finding of a right field superiority in bilateral recognition when a digit was presented at fixation but obtained a significant left field advantage without the digit . |
| 29 | In 1532 he was sent as Ambassador to the German Emperor , nominally to discuss the latter 's plan for European action against the Turks , but secretly to explore a possible alliance for England with some of the Protestant German princes . |
| 30 | Meanwhile relations between Childebert and Guntram had soured over the latter 's treatment of lands once held by Sigibert . |