Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The note destroyed the intimacy between the two . |
| 2 | Once we have tasted the intimacy of a whole group being with the Father and hearing his voice , there is placed in the believer a hunger for this that will not go away . |
| 3 | It lit up her face with the intimacy of a shared confidence , as if they were old sparring partners . |
| 4 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 5 | How can I be so curmudgeonly , so rude , to an organisation which makes it possible for me to enjoy the serenity of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal , the bone-chilling bleakness of Housesteads , the intimacy of the walled garden at Wallington ? |
| 6 | Interestingly , the exhibition identifies two paintings in particular as possessing this quality of intimacy : William Nicholson 's and Victor Pasmore 's portraits of their respective in which the intimacy of the marital relationship , it is supposed , finds direct pictorial expression in the paintings themselves . |
| 7 | The full stage production has the advantage of scenery — the exterior and interior of the home in the Boston area — but loses the intimacy of the in-the-round presentation at the Studio theatre . |
| 8 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 9 | Webb was one of the key figures in the restructuring of the Football League following the breakaway of the Premier League . |
| 10 | SOCRATES and Plato may be unlikely corner men for an aspiring heavyweight champion , but Lennox Lewis , the man reluctantly carrying the tag of the next Frank Bruno , is a lover of philosophy , and admits to being ‘ one of those deep-thinking kind of guys ’ . |
| 11 | Loretta turned to Simmons , feeling it was not an auspicious moment to trouble the porter with a sensitive request . |
| 12 | In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth . |
| 13 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 14 | I think the defence as a whole unit has played tremendously well over the hols . |
| 15 | At 11 o'clock de Castelnau , by now in receipt of further intelligence which seemed to presage the total collapse of the defence on the Right Bank , was back in Joffre 's office . |
| 16 | Emerson got a carbon copy of his first try after a swift counter attack , Stevens , came across from his wing into the centre to slice through the defence for a fine individual score , and left winger Paul McAteer raced in from 20 metres . |
| 17 | Mitch Cook wrong-footed the defence with a low free-kick and Cusack stole in to side-foot home . |
| 18 | Mitch Cook wrong-footed the defence with a low free-kick and Cusack stole in to side-foot home . |
| 19 | In May 1990 border troops were transferred from the Defence to the Interior Ministry . |
| 20 | The moral seemed obvious : the reversal of the onslaught on wages and the defence of a minimum wage , if not the establishment of a living wage , could be secured by an alliance among unions . |
| 21 | We should also recall that the nature of the war , sieges pursued by both sides and the defence of a long frontier stretching from Le Crotoy in the east to Mont-Saint-Michel in the west , dictated a kind of war in which heavy cavalry played relatively little part other than in defence . |
| 22 | In 1917 he could refer Garvin to a speech made in 1905 where he stated his ideal for the British Empire : ‘ we think of a group of states , all independent in their own local concerns , but all united for the defence of their common interests and the defence of a common civilisation , united not in an alliance — for alliances can be made and unmade — but in a permanent organic union' . |
| 23 | In the case of some such biographies the biographer may be concerned with the defence of a dead person , which is sometimes the case with biographies written by loving sons or daughters . |
| 24 | VAN HALEN have come to the defence of a 19-year-old fan arrested for wearing one of the band 's T-shirts . |
| 25 | The conflict in Tbilisi , however , had led to the recall of troops for the defence of the embattled Gamsakhurdia , and to a resulting lull in hostilities in South Ossetia . |
| 26 | COLIN KEITH , a hero of last year 's victory , has been forced to pull out of Scotland 's team for the defence of the European Championships in Aix-en-Provence from 28 April-1 May . |
| 27 | Franco 's hostility to intellectuals of any persuasion meant that intellectuals the world over were driven into the defence of the Spanish Republic . |
| 28 | Others , such as the Prime Minister , Juan Negrín , advocated struggling on , in the hope that the situation in Europe would degenerate into an open conflict with Hitler and Mussolini , and that this , in turn , would oblige the western democracies to come to the defence of the Spanish Republic . |
| 29 | The defence of the first is an assertion of the second . |
| 30 | Most of his interventions in Parliament were concerned either with the welfare of his Cheshire constituents or the defence of the Calvinist religion . |