Example sentences of "[coord] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the open sea , Joseph Ritter — always there beneath the text or in the shadows of Boswell 's narrative — mystifyingly lost Johnson 's spurs overboard . |
| 32 | Of course , there was the continual ringing sound of the quarryman chipping away the stone at Tilly Whim or in the bowels of the earth under Cowleaze . |
| 33 | The life may take a different form to that experienced by most of us , and may not be rewarding in our terms , or in the terms by which society judges these things . |
| 34 | Although the emphasis gradually changes , as the child gets older , from learning the language system to using language as a resource to learn about other things , there is no reason to believe that there is an abrupt change at the point of entry to school in the learning strategies that the child employs , or in the characteristics of adult behaviour that provide the most help . |
| 35 | Because it is on that occasion that you will already have , and will on your final visit , have made up your mind as to the nature of the northern part of the village of Skelton , the nature of the land immediately surrounding it , whether it be a paddock , or a small field , whether it be more associated in the minds of some with the open country , or in the minds of others with the village . |
| 36 | Vietnam will not sleep — either in world events , or in the minds of those sent out there twenty-five years ago as war correspondents . |
| 37 | If anyone had been there , thought Dalgliesh , there was plenty of opportunity for concealment behind the hunks of concrete or in the crevices of the sandy cliff . |
| 38 | In brittle bone disease , collagen is abnormal in strength or in the links between the fibres . |
| 39 | Editing of cartographic data files is necessary because of errors or deficiencies in input or in the results of data processing . |
| 40 | As young men the members of it were apprenticed to practised warriors , taught the profession of arms ; even as children they learned to follow the chase , to hunt boar and stag and wolf , not to mention all the lesser game of the forest ; they learned how to handle and appraise a hawk ; and in the evenings , in their father 's halls , or in the halls of other great lords to whom they had been sent to learn their profession , they listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess . |
| 41 | As subsequently printed , the purpose of aid programmes in Southeast Asia was ‘ to demonstrate that the local national governments are able to bring benefits to their own people and thereby build political support , especially among the rural population ’ , or in the words of the Country Report prepared for the director of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program : ‘ to ensure the existence of governments … which represent the legitimate nationalist aspirations of those Indo-Chinese people who do not desire to see communist-orientated governments in Indo-China ’ . |
| 42 | In the modern period such stalemates could occur in the struggles of the bourgeoisie to break the grip of the feudal aristocracy under an ancien régime , or in the struggles of the proletariat in an industrial society to destroy capitalist control . |
| 43 | Prior to World War I , a majority of spinsters faced an often lonely and marginal life in their parents ' home or in the households of a male relative . |
| 44 | Although they vary either in their particular concerns or in the foci of their campaigns — even the Responsible Society , which states that it does not take part in demonstrations and public protests , campaigns through its literature — it was ‘ permissiveness ’ or their particular interpretation or conception of permissiveness that was the galvanizing force behind their development . |
| 45 | Sessions took place either on bureaux premises or in the offices of black community groups . |
| 46 | Pupils may eat and drink in the Refectory , or in the classrooms by arrangement with members of staff . |
| 47 | The eggs , even before they hatch , require great care , reducing the time a parent bird can spend finding food for itself and keeping it sitting on the ground or in the branches of a tree where it is exposed to much more danger than it would be in the air . |
| 48 | It is estimated that there are around 9,000 women who work on the streets or in the bars of Olongapo as prostitutes or ’ hospitality workers ’ . |
| 49 | Yet even as an ardent Darwinian , keen to prove by minute observation how seeds were adapted to travel on wind , water or in the maws of animals , he continues to write like an angel and to soar like a philosopher . |
| 50 | He could n't see him by the house or in the trees at the bottom of the big lawn . |
| 51 | There was no answer anywhere , no solace for him anywhere , not in the pronouncements of the other clergy , nor in the speeches of politicians , and certainly not in the daily litany of murder and worse than murder that the newspapers carried . |
| 52 | No director has any interest in the preference shares or debentures of the company nor in the shares of any of the subsidiary companies . |
| 53 | Erm , bearing in mind that Leicestershire currently I think er reserves two places for secure accommodation and in the answers to my question , we have fifteen currently either needing or having secure accommodation with five being remanded because there is no place . |
| 54 | I hope that Germany , which has stood firmly in favour of a common foreign and security policy in the intergovernmental conferences that have just concluded and in the discussions on this week 's Maastricht treaty , will listen to its own exhortations and ensure that , whenever the decision is taken on recognition , it is made collectively , not unilaterally . |
| 55 | this has inaugurated a new kind of critical atmosphere and has been gathering conviction at the institutional and managerial level just as much as in the studios and in the discussions around art . |
| 56 | To their fellow disciples they quoted the words of Jesus , ‘ all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the psalms concerning me. ’ ( v.44 ) The Word of God declares Moses to be the writer of Genesis and if evolution is true than he is guilty of fabricating a pack of lies . |
| 57 | Once , Swan flew higher than ever before and they came to an enormous billowing cloud that was shining in a pale golden light , and in the folds of this cloud Little Billy could make out creatures of some sort moving around . |
| 58 | Her eyes searched among the possessions and in the folds of the curtains for familiarity but there was nothing to reassure . |
| 59 | The boundaries of the concept are implicit in the frame structure and in the constraints on the values of the slot fillers . |
| 60 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |