Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that the orbital radii are rx and rG for Cygnus X-1 and the blue supergiant respectively , and that the normal to the orbital plane is tilted at an angle i with respect to our line of sight . |
| 2 | And , secondly , as discussed earlier , a continuity view of psychosis rests very heavily on the idea that it is the type of nervous system they have in common that connects the normal to the abnormal . |
| 3 | Others are working with the displaced in the internal refuges run by the church . |
| 4 | The unemployment rates among married heads of household moving from the owner-occupied to the local authority sector is about six times the rate of those moving in the opposite direction ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | Have you ever noticed how God has a tendency to match up the strong , overbearing with the meek and shy , the perfectionist with the reckless , the lazy with the energetic , the silly with the sober ? |
| 6 | Other experimenters have varied the procedure , following Lawrence in training subjects on two discrimination tasks involving the same stimuli but changing the response requirement not by changing from the simultaneous to the successive arrangement but in some other way . |
| 7 | The stimuli may have remained the same but almost all other aspects of the training situation were radically altered in the shift from the simultaneous to the successive procedure . |
| 8 | The many hours on the road give cyclists the opportunity to employ tactics varying from the subtle to the murderous . |
| 9 | Thou shalt separate the earth from the fire , the subtle from the gross , gently with great sagacity ; it ascends from earth to heaven , and again descends to earth ; and receives the strength of the superiors and the inferiors — so thou hast the glory of the whole world ; therefore let all obscurity flee before thee . |
| 10 | The so-called Anabaptists ' take-over of Munster in 1536 became for more than a century afterwards a byword among the respectable for the supposed anarchy , savagery and madness which were bound to result if ever the " multitude " gained political power . |
| 11 | They have been collecting tins from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 12 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 13 | When the 27-hour non-stop TV spectacular was last staged in 1990 , the Hampshire people proved as dotty as anyone in the bizarre ways they raised cash for the needy in the local community . |
| 14 | This feature sharply distinguishes the repressive from the aggressive stance towards the dispute , which consists in holists and individualists giving incompatible answers to the questions they address , each set grounded on a prior commitment to their own approach . |
| 15 | For this object thus much is effected by works of imagination : — that they carry the mind out of self , and show the possible of the good and the great in the human character . |
| 16 | In all likelihood it would have been considered by the Air Ministry , and quietly stored , with the many other ‘ war-winning ’ schemes , from the possible to the ridiculous . |
| 17 | Is it really beyond the realms of the possible for the international community to put any tangible pressure on Ceausescu ? |
| 18 | There had emerged a leader who taught his army to distinguish the real from the imaginary and the possible from the impossible . |
| 19 | She also sought , of course , the more usual and natural means of escape and fantasy , such as the watching of advertisements , the reading of fiction , and the spinning of self-indulgent romances , but her experience of life as a child was so narrow that she had no way of telling the possible from the absurd . |
| 20 | This research explores ways of moving out of the Western paradigm of thinking about ‘ the political ’ and the relationship of the political to the economic . |
| 21 | The department offers opportunities for postgraduate study in all areas of systematic theology from the Patristic to the Mediaeval era ; from the Reformation to modern times ; in philosophical theology , from the pre-Socratics to the encounter with modern humanist systems ; in comparative religion and the history and phenomenology of religions , and in such specialised topics as theology and ecology ; feminist theology ; theology and imagination ; theology in the post-modern world ; theology of world religions ; Celtic Christianity ; ecumenical theology ; and theology , ideology and culture ( representing some prominent research interests of current members of staff ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Western Decorative Art 1850 Towards 2000 ’ offers a delicious feast for eyes with objects ranging from the mass-produced to the select few . |
| 23 | Is not this transgression contained , the unintended reverence paid by the sacrilegious to the sacred ? |
| 24 | The railway is currently under construction and will be using the trackbed of the long-closed Newbury Railway , previously standard gauge and originally Brunel 's broad gauge . |
| 25 | Foundationalists must keep the direction of justification all one-way , from the non-basic to the basic , or else renounce any use of the regress argument . |
| 26 | Having said all this , there were still those who wondered if it was not all too easy to confuse the eternal with the transitory . |
| 27 | He makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history , to distil the eternal from the transitory … |
| 28 | Mrs Smelley did n't think he should have gone until he had been called up , while Grace was still tending the wounded on the Western Front , so she did n't even know what he had done . |
| 29 | From my position at the entrance to the dug-out I could see the wounded in the sunken road in the same positions they were in before the shelling started . |
| 30 | Helicopters were bringing in supplies and evacuating the wounded from the blockaded city . |