Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Functionally the political decision shown in the drawing may seem very similar to the refusal to make a decision . |
| 3 | The Chinese government in May 1990 rescinded the martial law order in Lhasa ( imposed in March 1989 following outbreaks of secessionist unrest ) , although a heavy armed presence remained in the city [ see p. 37454 ] . |
| 4 | In this chapter we examine a number of different forms of short-term contract working in a number of different sectors . |
| 5 | How far these findings apply to short-term contract working in the manufacturing sector is the subject of the following section . |
| 6 | It turns out that all neurons of the primary visual cortex respond best to oriented bars or edges , though they still vary greatly among themselves as to the position their receptive field occupies in the visual field , as to the direction of preferred orientation , velocity of motion , size of bar and its polarity ( dark or light ) , and in other ways . |
| 7 | This one was recorded from the rabbit by W. R. Levick , reference 6 ; it had the receptive field plotted in the centre , and responded to bars at different orientations as shown by the responses round the outside of the figure . |
| 8 | All of Callinicos ' philosophical sophistication and matchless political experience evaporate in the face of the art of his own lifetime . |
| 9 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 10 | That is why some Americans have been bothered by suggestions from Paris , Bonn and Brussels that ( in the words of Jacques Delors , speaking in London on March 7th ) the Western European Union ( WEU ) should be ‘ the melting pot for a European defence embedded in the Community , the second pillar of the Atlantic alliance ’ . |
| 11 | Isolated for long periods amongst little-known peoples , our sole defence lay in a sort of encounter therapy , a complete vulnerability to our hosts ' ways of being and seeing . |
| 12 | Puzzle Wood is an area which has remained unaltered since it was transformed into tranquil woodland walks in the 1800's . |
| 13 | There is a major concern with the specifics of ministerial formation , but this is set within the department 's broader interests and is treated in a soundly academic fashion as in the other forms of professional preparation offered in the University . |
| 14 | Germany 's high-technology/ electronics exports in the early 1970s exceeded those of France and Britain combined . |
| 15 | However , as the project came to a close the total budget provided in the grant for support workers began to dwindle and the development officers were instructed to make careful calculations of their expenditure in order not to exceed the total available . |
| 16 | If you live north of the country and are thinking about a change of style then here 's your chance to win a fabulous hair cut in a top northern salon ! |
| 17 | Madeleine Albright , 55 , currently teaching at Georgetown University , was a political scientist specializing in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe . |
| 18 | ( Had this kind of European provision existed in the 1920s and 1930s it might and probably would have made it much more difficult for the Fascist and other extreme forms of government to take hold . ) |
| 19 | The Wolf-Man — a rich Russian identified in a tantalisingly Chekhovian fashion only as ‘ Segei P- ’ — was certainly a bit odd . |
| 20 | He was wise enough in his broadcasts to refrain from one tactic , the inspiration of that chill fear which some of his political ranting achieved in the 193()s . |
| 21 | A traditional critic may be a practising artist ; if so , there is an excellent chance that any technical assessment included in a piece of criticism will be thorough . |
| 22 | Now , with interest rates on the way down , business will be able to expand once more — from the strong base achieved in the 1980s . |
| 23 | ‘ Technology ’ in this sense has two dimensions , one measuring the familiarity of situations which decision-makers have to deal with , the other measuring the innovative judgement required in the search for a method of analysing and solving problems ( Perrow 1970 ) . |
| 24 | One afternoon , as I walked under the tall arches of the Palazzo della Pilotta , the immense , pale-pink building constructed in the time of the Farnese with millions of thin bricks , a fat middle-aged man exposed himself to me . |
| 25 | The bloody hook curved in the downy ruff … |
| 26 | Now let us take Midgley at her word and ask what Griffin , as a representative scientist specialising in the field of animal thinking , has to tell us about possibly the most basic attribute of all animals , namely , consciousness . |
| 27 | The success of the rights issue has underpinned the strong rise seen in the company 's share price since the beginning of the year as analysts are positive on the long term benefits of the acquisition to the company . |
| 28 | Donnington now produces the only beer on the Cotswolds and , with the possible exception of Uley , is the smallest working brewery to survive in the county . |
| 29 | A private buyer bidding in the room purchased two appealing lots , a large ‘ Allegory of Abundance ’ ( lot 73 ) by Domenico Piola ( £180,000 ; $288,000 ) and a Venetian ‘ Masked Ball ’ by Giovanni Antonio Guardi ( lot 80 ) for £305,000 ( $488,000 ; est. £180,000–200,000 ) . |
| 30 | Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial . |