Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years he had become as used to the rocking and swaying of a train as an experienced sailor is to the pitching and rolling of a ship . |
| 2 | Mid-sole : the layer between the sole and insole of the boot , which is anatomically shaped and designed to give the correct amount of flex and support for the activity for which the boot is designed . |
| 3 | Because of the upset and confusion of the Monday morning , I had to postpone the continuation of my consultation with Geoff Tulloch until the Wednesday afternoon . |
| 4 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
| 5 | that it came as no surprise that after six busy years with the Association she was appointed Deputy Head Teacher of the Doncaster School for the Deaf and Director of its Further Education Department . |
| 6 | To elderly people with long memories Korea connoted a localised crisis at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries resulting from the decline of the Ch'ing dynasty in China , the landward expansion of the Russian empire , and the beginning of the Japanese colonial empire in the Far East . |
| 7 | At the height of Britain 's imperial role , at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of this century , there was a considerable outflow of investment , in the form of both direct investment and financial investment by the City in foreign bonds and securities . |
| 8 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 9 | They therefore accepted views of early kinship which represented it as a system where women were superior to men , where sex was unrestricted , and where the private and isolation of the group formed by parents and children was replaced by the commonality of a much larger undivided group . |
| 10 | Although it is obviously hoped that these accounts will be interesting as economic history , whatever they reveal about the working and role of government may also be relevant and applicable today . |
| 11 | O Lord Jesus Christ , the help of the helpless and companion of the lonely ; we ask You to bless all those from our family who are unable to leave their homes or to join in public worship . |
| 12 | " This organ is situated on each side of that of Veneration , and extends under part of the frontal and part of the parietal bones . |
| 13 | He is rarely out at night and is largely free to organize his activities so that in bad weather , for example , he can catch up on paperwork in the dry and warmth of the office . |
| 14 | Adapted in their different ways to the dry and cold of the tundra , musk-ox and opposite-leaved saxifrage . |
| 15 | The apostle Paul , while encouraging the Corinthians earnestly to desire spiritual gifts , especially that they might prophesy , has another conviction about what will build up the church , namely , the preaching and teaching of scripture . |
| 16 | In the antique mirror with its frame of carved shells she saw both their faces distorted by a defect in the glass ; the brown and green of Stella 's huge luminous eyes smeared like wet paint into the deep clefts between nostrils and mouth ; her own wide brow bulging like that of a hydrocephalic child . |
| 17 | Jock 's voice was raised as he continued to describe the events over the past five days : — The attack on the Casino at Ouistreham and the eventual capture of the town by the British and French of No. 4 Commando . |
| 18 | In an important sense , therefore , teaching is best thought of as the guiding and facilitating of learning , and the style of interaction called for is one in which there is reciprocity and collaboration in the making of meaning . |
| 19 | Most Boehme works that come up are later than this circa 1804 pot ( though , oddly enough , with one sold in Delaware , and one at Christie 's , this was the third sold in a month ) , are generally sort of ‘ provincial Philadelphia ’ in style , and lack the soaring and presence of this one , which went to an Eastern private collector for $20,000 ( £14,285 ) . |
| 20 | At the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century , in the years of Spanish rule , the fort was completed . |
| 21 | While , therefore , the first generation of English Protestants had found the new Protestant liturgy a pale shadow of earlier Catholic ceremonial , there is every indication that by the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries their children and grandchildren had become firmly wedded to the Protestant services of the Prayer Book . |
| 22 | I have also lifted the catch , both on the outside and inside of one of the windows . ’ |
| 23 | In the north , building design had much in common with northern Europe and primarily evolved from Lombard styles ; in central Italy , particularly Tuscany , coloured marbles were used as veneers in decoration both on the outside and inside of the buildings giving a colourful rather than plastic effect to the decoration . |
| 24 | ‘ We are miserably bantered , say they , by our senses , and amused only with the outside and show of things . ’ |
| 25 | ( 1983 ) drew three alternative models to explain the relationship between Mesozoic growth faults and basement thrusts , based on reflection seismic sections through the Mere and Vale of Pewsey faults . |
| 26 | To the north are the giants of the Pennines and eastward are interminable rolling moors divided by the loneliest and least-known of the Yorkshire Dales , the wild recess of Whitsundale . |
| 27 | But behind her she could hear , all over the bay , the scraps of men 's voices shouting , and the rumble of rollers as the ships were drawn up to safety , and the lowing and bleating of animals being driven uphill . |
| 28 | Thus it was at London , Bristol , Liverpool , Hull and Glasgow in the last years of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century that a " lagged response " to the great increase in trade was concentrated . |
| 29 | A senior officer , when employed , was able to place young men in the line of command by securing their entry as midshipmen , an appointment which became increasingly in demand with the expansion of the navy during the wars against France at the end of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 30 | Lotus is a world leader in the development and manufacturing of this material , so expect the fit and finish of the Elan 's body panels to be excellent . |