Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | At 11 o'clock de Castelnau , by now in receipt of further intelligence which seemed to presage the total collapse of the defence on the Right Bank , was back in Joffre 's office . |
10 | In May 1990 border troops were transferred from the Defence to the Interior Ministry . |
11 | The conflict in Tbilisi , however , had led to the recall of troops for the defence of the embattled Gamsakhurdia , and to a resulting lull in hostilities in South Ossetia . |
12 | COLIN KEITH , a hero of last year 's victory , has been forced to pull out of Scotland 's team for the defence of the European Championships in Aix-en-Provence from 28 April-1 May . |
13 | Franco 's hostility to intellectuals of any persuasion meant that intellectuals the world over were driven into the defence of the Spanish Republic . |
14 | Others , such as the Prime Minister , Juan Negrín , advocated struggling on , in the hope that the situation in Europe would degenerate into an open conflict with Hitler and Mussolini , and that this , in turn , would oblige the western democracies to come to the defence of the Spanish Republic . |
15 | Most of his interventions in Parliament were concerned either with the welfare of his Cheshire constituents or the defence of the Calvinist religion . |
16 | Nizan chose not simply to suspend judgement , but to give public support to the Moscow version of events on the grounds that critical accounts of the Soviet state generally lacked both historical perspective and scientific rigour , and more importantly , that the defence of the Soviet Union in the torrid international political climate of the late 1930s was imperative . |
17 | Tass on Oct. 4 announced that military intelligence operations were being cut by more than 10 per cent with surplus resources reportedly being transferred to the KGB 's new Directorate for the Defence of the Soviet Constitutional System . |
18 | Responsibility for the attack had also been claimed on Feb. 4 by a hitherto unknown group , " The Organization for the Defence of the Oppressed in Egypt 's Prisons " . |
19 | It was therefore thought necessary to take steps not only to secure the defence of the Iberian Peninsula , but also to give it the ability to assume an offensive role if necessary . |
20 | He has shown courage in coming to the defence of the Baltic republics . |
21 | The United States " can not — and will not — conceive all the plans , design all the programmes , execute all the decisions and undertake all the defence of the free nations of the world … " |
22 | What do they indicate about the defence of the old city and about the trade of the old port ? |
23 | Mrs Thatcher will have to be satisfied with the assurances she will receive from Mr Bush , who will tell her that , since defence cuts are politically inevitable , it is far better for modest and planned reductions to be proposed by his cabinet and the Pentagon than for swingeing cuts to be imposed by the US Congress , which is already chafing at the thought of the US budget deficit being deepened to pay for the defence of the wealthy Europeans . |
24 | The new government of Russia which negotiated with the brother of Nicholas II with a view to restoring the monarchy in Russia , and in which the leading monarchists Lvov and Guchkov occupy leading positions , this government is trying to represent as a defensive war … its imperialist war with Germany , to represent as a defence of the Russian republic … the defence of the predatory imperialist bandit-like aims of Russian , English , and other capital . |
25 | In spite of the strong antagonisms he had aroused , he had been a key figure in the religious and political reorientation of Evangelicalism and in its forging of an alliance with the resurgent Conservative party around the defence of the Protestant Established Church . |
26 | Later , seated dizzily at the desk in his study , he reached for a piece of paper to write some orders for the defence of the banqueting hall . |
27 | He had twice been badly wounded and was still hobbling around with a stick when he was given command of Fort Vaux , the smallest of the forts ringing Verdun but crucial to the defence of the important Fort Souville . |
28 | Public service broadcasting objectives were intertwined with two other issues : the state as arbiter between different interests ( programme companies , the cinema industry , etc. ( and state support for ‘ worthy ’ or ‘ noble causes ’ — the defence of the French language , of French film production , of programmes for children . |
29 | In the overhaul of government that accompanied the War of the Spanish Succession the servants of Philip V rejected the system of the Great Councils , less because it gave the grandees too much political power than because it was incurably inefficient and incapable of organizing the monarchy for the defence of the French dynasty . |
30 | Mainly because the defence of the territorial possessions of each individual church presented the clearest and most immediate duty of its head . |