Example sentences of "[adj] in [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A university , as Western civilisation has known a university , is an institution which is peculiar in a precise and definable way . |
| 2 | In our judgment the answer has to be ‘ No ’ and it would be peculiar in the extreme if Dr. Hayes could in effect be ordered to give evidence of their contents merely because he was no longer in Crown employment . |
| 3 | This has been obscured because the connection between accumulation in the national context and the growth of the transnational capitalist class has been rather different in the First and the Third ( and also now the Second ) Worlds for a variety of reasons , of which corruption is one . |
| 4 | But Eastern Europe is different in the sustained and omnipresent nature of its pollution . |
| 5 | Hubbub , shoving and ten good ideas before breakfast — the character , in short , of the 100 days that have just passed — need to give way to something different in the 1,361 that are left . |
| 6 | It was indeed clear in the twenties that the medical profession had something important to say to mothers . |
| 7 | Wilshere said that had he been a juror in this case , he would have voted for sending Field to trial ; his conduct had been cruel and brutal in the extreme and ‘ the violence to this poor creature in her diseased and irritable state ’ increased the symptoms and hastened her death . |
| 8 | He remembered what he had put on his personal qualities ' file : ‘ Judgement not always reliable in the political and commercial area ’ . |
| 9 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 10 | Built around the village of Nurburg , it provided work for some of Germany 's unemployed in the 1920s and was finished in 1927 . |
| 11 | a northwest-southeast trending belt of inversion maxima and minima displaying culminations in the southwest of Quadrant 49 , the central part of Quadrant 48 and over the Cleveland Hills High in the central and southern parts of Quadrant 41 ; |
| 12 | Through its length the route is waymarked in the brown and cream livery colours of the Midland and Great Northern Railway Company . |
| 13 | Behaviour on the terraces was also thought to be deteriorating in the 1930s and crowd incidents — involving pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and occasional confrontations between spectators and the police — were exciting the same interest . |
| 14 | Those interested in an authoritative and detailed account are referred to the books cited , but are also advised that the whole issue is one on which sides have been taken , and disinterested views are rare . |
| 15 | With sections touching on the Spanish Luftwaffe and Training for War , this book will be snapped up by all those interested in the largest and most colourful fleet of warbirds in the world . |
| 16 | It views the subject as a holistic entity , suggests that it encompasses consciousness as well as behaviour , and is interested in the interpersonal as well as the individual aspects of this consciousness . |
| 17 | The journalist is interested in the unusual and the dramatic , while the sociologist is looking for general patterns and regularities within institutions . |
| 18 | Both writers are primarily interested in the ontological and epistemological questions raised by the Catholic view of God , and both found in nervous tension a justification for modest technical experimentation as well as a tool for exploring aspects of reality which would otherwise have been difficult to treat outside the context of philosophical discourse . |
| 19 | The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in . |
| 20 | REGRESSION therapy became popular in the 1960s and early '70s but was later largely discredited , mainly because it is so open to abuse , writes Victoria Macdonald . |
| 21 | Kingsley Amis … he was more popular in the Fifties and Sixties . |
| 22 | But like Rome and Compostela it began to be popular in the tenth and eleventh centuries . |
| 23 | Suffice it to say here that , during enculturation , individuals acquire , first , an image of themselves as helpless and dependent in a hostile and malevolent world that it is largely beyond their ability to control and , second , a set of habits and expectations that lead them to seek and expect aid and comfort from others in times of distress . |
| 24 | One is that it is doubtful in the extreme whether one can assume that the legislature always intended the tribunal to be the arbiter as to what the contents of the bracket ought to be . |
| 25 | The area was increasingly important because British trade with the Turks increased eight-fold in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 26 | This trade-off may be acceptable in the military and aerospace fields , but not in the commercial field . |
| 27 | Squatting toad-like in a blue and white china soap-dish with a Greek key design was a worn cake of common household soap , coarse-textured and yellow and marked with dirty thumbprints from careless usage , which stung her face and probably corroded it . |
| 28 | The remedial action that had to be taken was painful in the extreme but it saved ICI Fibres and put it in a position of strength for the future . |
| 29 | In both cases the shock had to be overwhelming and painful in the extreme if it was to generate the civilizing consequences of respect for , and maintenance of , the great taboos of civilization . |
| 30 | Business and government were last so chummy in the 1960s and 1970s . |