Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun prp] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonard , who plays more golf in the summer than bowls , partners Irish international senior skip and Lisnagarvey club mate Noel Graham in their bid to win the Irish pairs title for the first time since the brilliant Fisher and Ringland combination won it for the Lisburn club in 1970 . |
| 2 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 3 | It has been confirmed that Steve Collins , an Irish-American middleweight from Brockton , Mass , will challenge Mike McCallum of Jamaica for the WBA title in Dublin on February 3 . |
| 4 | In recent years , ex-students have achieved rapid prominence : Ian Davenport , Fiona Rae and Damien Hirst were shortlisted for the Turner Prize in the last two years , while enough of the young neo-conceptual artists dominating the scene ( represented in the Saatchi Collection ; for instance ) studied there for the style to be referred to as ‘ the Goldsmiths ’ phenomenon ’ . |
| 5 | The artist for this year was Helen Chadwick whose exhibition Of Mutability held at the ICA in 1986 led to her nomination for the Turner Prize in 1987/ The critic selector was Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton , formerly editor of Artscribe International . |
| 6 | The extent of active support for the Khmer Rouge in the countryside is impossible to judge , but interviews with peasants in the provinces of Battambang , Pursat , Takeo and Kampot , in the west and south of Cambodia , indicate widespread passive support allowing the guerrillas to move around and gather food . |
| 7 | Accommodation had been booked for the September weekend in 1993 . |
| 8 | JC : Whether he overestimated my capabilities or not , I 'm pleased to have sung Gloriana , and enjoyed later performances conducted by my dear friend Reggie on the Covent Garden tour and during a visit to Rhodesia [ Zimbabwe ] for the Rhodes Festival in 1953 . |
| 9 | Tonight and for the following two nights we are privileged to welcome a quintet of American musicians specially brought together for the Guinness Spot in association with Frank Tate . |
| 10 | Do you know what though , I need to get some more money for the Devon trip in soon . |
| 11 | Muller , in fact , played off-season for the Greystones club in Ireland and by all accounts has been one of the most successful migratory players to visit the island . |
| 12 | Quick Ransom was sent on by jockey Dean McKeown some 300 yards from home and the victory earned the gelding a 3lb penalty for the Northumberland Plate in a fortnight . |
| 13 | CRICKETER Anton Joyce hit a century in 36 balls — with nine sixes and nine fours — for the Woodhouse club in Leeds . |
| 14 | Redknapp became England 's most expensive 17-year-old when Kenny Dalglish paid Bournemouth £350,000 for the Barton-on-Seaborn player in June 1990 . |
| 15 | X/Open Co Ltd has abandoned plans for a European Xtra conference , which was to be held in Dusseldorf next month ( UX No 386 ) : it claims users expressed a preference for the Xtra Congress in Washington DC during the first week of December . |
| 16 | SOUTH Africa will today give England manager Geoff Cooke an unexpected gift — a sneak preview of their line-up for the Twickenham Test in a week . |
| 17 | The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 . |
| 18 | Magritte 's career has not been examined in such detail in Britain since Sylvester curated a smaller and more exclusive exhibition for the Tate Gallery in 1969 . |
| 19 | He has never been studied in a comprehensive exhibition in this country , although twenty-two oil paintings and fourteen works on paper were prominently included in ‘ The Essential Cubism ’ which Cooper curated , with Gary Tinterow , for the Tate Gallery in 1983 . |
| 20 | It is intended that the orchestra would be in place in time for the Edinburgh Festival in autumn . |
| 21 | Nearly 200,000 khaki uniforms will be traded in before 1991 for the Balmain number in a colour known as terre de France , a wordplay on the army 's role in protecting French soil . |
| 22 | So there was an Englishman , a Welshman and a Scotswoman all fighting for the Hereford seat in Parliament … and you 'll have to wait until 9th April to hear the punchline . |
| 23 | Possibly one of the earliest was Miss Robb who had shown a keen interest in the purchase of a new harmonium for the Sunday School in the wooden Tabernacle . |
| 24 | Congratulations to Brian Harris , former Manager of the Education Department , on his new appointment as Manager of a housing project for the Shaftesbury Society in Kilburn . |
| 25 | Peasant representatives for the Black-Earth Region in the Dumas had shown ho interest in any political problem apart from the land issue . |
| 26 | BBC Pebble Mill Monday 23 September 7.00pm David Lodge 's novels include CHANGING PLACES ( 1975 ) , SMALL WORLD , shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984 and NICE WORK , Sunday Express Book of the Year in 1988 , and also shortlisted for the Booker Prize . |
| 27 | Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood 's bleak view of an anti-feminist future was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1986 . |
| 28 | McGeechan reflected that Scotland probably should have scored three tries and there was some suspicion about the Scottish scrummage ( though preparation for the England game in that regard will not be as fraught as last week ) . |
| 29 | During the past year we have continued to play a full part for the UK government in the international research effort which pursues nuclear fusion as a long term energy option . |
| 30 | Stevens , 33 , who earned just £11,325 from snooker last year , takes a break from his lumber yard job next week for the UK Championship in Preston . |