Example sentences of "[adj] of [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's little money in this business , Nancy , little money and no thanks — but I 'm fond of seeing the young people around me . ’ |
| 2 | Japanese and foreigners alike are fond of citing the Japanese axiom that the ‘ nail that sticks out gets hammered down ’ . |
| 3 | They were also fond of aping the grand manners of servants to aristocratic households and rich farmers . |
| 4 | Do n't be afraid of using a code-driven package if this provides the fine control you need . |
| 5 | After that , she told Julia , she was even more afraid of leaving the doubtful sanctuary of the partisans ' camp , particularly as she had begun to feel rather ill . |
| 6 | Was one of you afraid of losing a tenuous hold on the other ? ’ |
| 7 | The potter-painter seems afraid of losing the necessary decorative emphasis on the surface of the shape , and his next step shows a brilliant solution . |
| 8 | Last year 's Wimbledon champ recently admitted he was afraid of losing the German beauty . |
| 9 | She discovered that she was afraid of getting close , afraid of being betrayed , afraid of finding that a relationship did not solve all her problems , afraid of feeling trapped , afraid of ‘ disappearing ’ as a person , afraid of admitting that men were not all bad , afraid of losing her friends , afraid of having no more goals in life , afraid of giving up her unhappiness , afraid he might die , afraid of feeling dependent , afraid of sexual intimacy , afraid of letting go of the past , afraid that reality would not match up to the glorious fantasy … . |
| 10 | I think it 's a sad indictment of our so called democratic system when they are afraid of having an elected head of state , that they are afraid that we might have a dictator ! |
| 11 | He was determined to restore order in the countryside , to avoid giving the impression that nobles could force him into concessions , and to silence the most determined of his critics , but he neither abandoned the task of implementing the emancipation statutes nor fought shy of enacting the additional measures to which freeing the serfs gave rise . |
| 12 | The court found a soldier , Rogelio Moreno , guilty of firing the fatal shot , although he denied it . |
| 13 | In summary , then , the Tobacco Institute of Australia was found guilty of publishing a misleading and deceptive advertisement . |
| 14 | As will be seen in Chapter four , those who , like Frederick Shaw , try to by-pass the law by publishing a directory or ‘ contact magazine ’ , could be guilty of publishing an obscene article , living off the earnings of prostitution , and conspiring to corrupt public morals . |
| 15 | Thus , for example , in dyestuffs the firms did not admit to having formed an agreement , but their behaviour in making parallel price changes had the effect of limiting competition , and consequently enabled the EC to find them guilty of operating a concerted practice for which they were substantially fined . |
| 16 | Ross objects that Moore himself was guilty of confusing a contestable moral judgement in favour of his ideal utilitarian position with an account of the meaning of an ethical expression in much the same way as were those who committed the naturalistic fallacy by offering naturalistic or metaphysical definitions of ‘ good ’ . |
| 17 | Britain was later found guilty of breaching the European Convention on Human Rights and the ruling played a key role in forcing the Government to put MI5 on a statutory footing and create two tribunals to deal with complaints . |
| 18 | In 1988 , he told an Iranian living on social security , found guilty of using a forged rent book and inflicting grievous bodily harm , that in his own country he would have had an arm chopped off ‘ or something similarly spectacular . ’ |
| 19 | League official David Howes confirmed that a sample had proved positive but , in line with normal procedure , neither the name of the player nor his club will be released unless he is found guilty of taking a prohibited substance , writes John Whalley . |
| 20 | ‘ The chair find bloody old Finlayson guilty of telling a Low Story , the bastard . ’ |
| 21 | Reaffirming the 1990 decision , which found Koons guilty of pirating the original photograph , the appeals court criticised Koons and Sonnabend for assuming that their position in the art business and the high price of the works would shield them from any legal action . |
| 22 | Counsel submitted that two persons could not be found guilty of murdering the same person unless each was acting in concert with the other . |
| 23 | His brother , Gene Gotti , had been sentenced to 50 years ' imprisonment on July 7 , 1989 , after being found guilty of running a multimillion-dollar drugs ring . |
| 24 | The 37-year-old father-of-three was jailed for 18 months after he was found guilty of cheating the Royal Bank of Scotland out of nearly £7,000 . |
| 25 | Earlier , the Winchester Crown Court jury found Taylor , of Boscombe Overcliff Drive , Bournemouth , guilty of soliciting a convicted burglar , Louis Matthews , to murder Monica Taylor in a contract killing . |
| 26 | The commuter was prosecuted , found guilty of carrying an offensive weapon , and fined . |
| 27 | THE girl found guilty of giving a religious education teacher a sweet spiked with the hallucinogenic drug LSD has branded the schoolpals she says tricked her into handing it over as ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 28 | A nurse has been found guilty of assaulting a blind woman of eighty eight . |
| 29 | The Sun newspaper was offering to fund a private prosecution against a doctor whom it believed to be guilty of raping an eight year old girl . |
| 30 | At best they are guilty of ignoring the whole phylogenetic perspective on human psychology and , at worst , are frequently guilty of distorting , censoring and trivializing psychoanalytic insights . |