Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | For example , the tin-glazed pottery made in Europe from the Renaissance onwards was produced in many styles : that made in the Low Countries ( known as Delftware ) is of a specific range and type which varies from one production centre to another and is different again from the maiolica of Italy and the lustreware of Spain . |
2 | I could not restrain myself from hastening to view one of those Druid circles , of which there are so many in the Isle of Lewis ; that given in the small vignette is the first one I reached . |
3 | The new sales division is headed by Paul Hutchinson as director of sales ( David Marten is due to retire in the near future ) and John Mohin has been appointed sales manager , responsible for UK sales operations , assisted by Diane Best and Michael Trotter as regional sales managers . |
4 | This year 's donations were the largest given in a single year . |
5 | There 's more of worth , more that uplifts in a single chorus of ‘ We Need Money' ’ than in a dozen of your picky , pedantic articles ! ’ |
6 | But it remains the case that the current rate of increase in unemployment is considerably lower than that experienced in the early part of last year . ’ |
7 | Generally , these policies were successful in preventing heavy unemployment like that experienced in the 1930s , but unfortunately they tended to give rise to the phenomenon known as ‘ stop-go ’ . |
8 | If it is assumed that the expected volume of output is roughly equal to that experienced in the previous year , , then the higher is , the greater will gross investment tend to be . |
9 | Is it right to see in the big reduction in disconnections signs of a different attitude on the part of the electricity companies to their customers and signs of better management since the companies were privatised , and is there scope for further improvement in this respect ? |
10 | Articles in journals , a chapter in books on research methods and collections of conference papers ( such as that highlighted in the last edition of Observations ) , were available , but nothing that had quite the focus and range of explaining background , methodology and queries as well as providing sufficient examples . |
11 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
12 | Six months on from ICL 's decision to introduce a no smoking at work policy at its Reading office block , it is still possible to indulge in an on-site nicotine fix . |
13 | He also understood what few canvassers of the more earnest sort admit , even to themselves : that canvassing in a parliamentary election is not supposed to change electors ' minds . |
14 | One final reason why Gothic 's victory was never complete lay in the new Settlements and Central Halls which Nonconformity erected in town centres . |
15 | If the transferred employee insists on moving into bigger or more ‘ up market ’ accommodation , the excess mortgage allowance is based on the price of housing comparable with that owned in the old area . |
16 | The debts shown in the Accounts relating to the Business ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the corresponding accounts for the preceding three financial years ) were good and collectable in full in the ordinary course of business and have or will realise the net amount thereof . |
17 | It is difficult to believe these comments refer to the same Report as that evaluated in a balanced leader in the Independent ( 16 November 1988 ) under the headline ‘ A blow for literacy ’ . |
18 | It is possible to see in the parallel gulf between detailed legal control over lending to the needy , and very little control over other credit , the survival of the very long-standing and deep-rooted mistrust of usury ( alongside social concern about the way that high rates of interest could turn poverty into destitution ) . |
19 | For the four clubs Rovers are due to meet in the next stage of the Anglo-Italian Cup are setting the pace in Italy 's Serie B. |
20 | The domestic world which draws the suburban housewife away from the temptations of an illicit romance in Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) is quite as cosy as that depicted in an earlier collaboration between Lean and Noël Coward , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) . |
21 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
22 | I 've had three goes at it , and I can tell you that looks are the last thing to be considered ; it 's what 's underneath that matters in the long run . |
23 | There were fears that if the date for stabilisation was altered from that promised in a recent government white paper , the privatisation of the electricity industry would be jeopardised . |
24 | ( Infuriatingly , though , the notes are due to appear in a separate volume , which has still not been published , so it is impossible to tell whether the quotation comes from a letter , from conversation or from some unauthenticated report at second-hand . ) |
25 | The British Museum 's show was originally scheduled to coincide with the publication of its new catalogue of the drawings of Rembrandt and his School , due to appear in a few year 's time . |
26 | An 18-year-old and a 16-year-old are due to appear in the same court to face a similar charge . |
27 | Learners acquire a particular language by receiving comprehensible input , that is to say by being exposed to messages expressed in language which is within the current acquired competence of the learners , together with language which is due to appear in the next stage of acquisition , and which can be eased into the mind by the help of context , knowledge of the world and so on . |
28 | In February she is due to appear in the networked This Sunday . |
29 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
30 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |