Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | MUCH of the advance publicity that surrounded Hook , Steven Spielberg 's adaptation of J. M. Barrie 's Peter Pan story , concentrated on the ageing directorial wunderkind 's affinity for the subject of a boy who never grows up . |
| 2 | So that 's what , that 's the way I 'm hoping that we can proceed , as I say , yes with your assistance and then if we can get through that business , then equally tomorrow morning , we 'll be doing a similar thing , we we 'll issue another revised programme which will er take in some of the outstanding stuff that 's fell off . |
| 3 | And suddenly , despite fitzAlan 's merciless vow of retribution , a fatalistic calmness descended on her , bringing a return of the cool impassivity that had served her so well in the past . |
| 4 | This chapter describes the various roles that the Bank takes on , and puts them in the context of the overall powers that it enjoys , particularly in relation to the supervisory activities carried out and the possibility of the emergence of a European Central Bank . |
| 5 | In the case of Venus thermal tides make a very large contribution and it can be shown that it is this component of the overall circulation that may drive the 4–5 day zonal circulation and thus speed up the axial spin ( section 4.2 ) . |
| 6 | Some males are able to diagnose vaginal thrush in their wives or girl-friends within seconds of the start of sexual intercourse because of the immediate reaction that is set up . |
| 7 | Because innovation is so often thought of in purely product feature terms , these connections are especially important : they are the almost invisible understanding of the immediate situation that can spell ultimate success or failure in the marketplace … |
| 8 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 9 | Er to come before two o'clock we 've got part three of the strange things that people do around Nottinghamshire to pass the time . |
| 10 | King Fahd 's comments , made during a visit to Saudi Arabia by Mubarak , suggested that " if President Saddam were to reconsider the matter seriously he would find that it is in Iraq 's interest , and in his interest personally , and in the interest of the Arab nation that he withdraw from Kuwait " , and that " if something wrong was done , we should not try to redress it by another wrong " . |
| 11 | There are secrets of the Nizari Ismailis that are never spoken of — never spoken of ! |
| 12 | Can the Minister say whether the Government will agree to a Europewide eco-labelling scheme , to try to eliminate some of the misleading claims that are made on behalf of some products , which prejudice products that are environmentally safe ? |
| 13 | The Shropshire parish of Myddle lies some 160 miles away from London but at least fifteen of the ninety-one families that paid the hearth tax there in 1672 had one member or more who had been to the capital city . |
| 14 | Of course , it might still be said on behalf of the 1981 arrangements that making houses bid for bills , when buying or selling , is a genuine step towards market pricing of bills . |
| 15 | In closing , I want to take note of the familiar lament that science and technology have created not just a cornucopia but terrible dangers as well . |
| 16 | They are worth a great deal even today , because of the familiar insinuations that Eliot was as much a political reactionary as a religious bigot . |
| 17 | The Medical Research Council will no doubt consider particular claims on scientific merits to counter the fact that Britain has achieved great success in science because of the increasing sums that the Government have made available for that purpose . |
| 18 | ‘ The Guild can , through its members , encourage producers to stay ahead of the competition and produce products of the increasing quality that will inevitably be required . |
| 19 | He finds his run unenjoyable and frustrating , not to mention worrying because of the increasing risk that he might receive a knee injury , or worse . |
| 20 | It had been thought among the citizens of the Southern Capital that the new pharaoh , Tutankhamun , whose own Chief Wife was a daughter of Nefertiti , might have renovated the Death Halls of her mother . |
| 21 | My last charter had begun ; I had one week to work , then it would be back to Masquerade , and then to the long winds of the southern ocean that led to the uttermost ends of the earth , and thus to happiness . |
| 22 | ‘ Advances in telecommunications technology promise to deprive Federal , state and local law enforcement officers and the public of the incalculable benefits that can be obtained only by court-authorised wire-tapping . |
| 23 | one of the nicest things that happened to me since I 've been widowed is having Neil to look after not only is he an exception |
| 24 | The last characteristic of the industrial world that I would like to mention is the whole area of achievement . |
| 25 | Lord Hanson , head of the industrial conglomerate that bears his name , earned £1.38m and Sir Paul Girolami , head of Glaxo , the rival drugs group , £1m . |
| 26 | One of the curious anomalies that this gave rise to was the difficulty of placing an institution such as the BBC into their scheme of things . |
| 27 | Belton has also bought African Exodus by Chris Stringer , authority on human origins , and Robin McKie , science correspondent of the Observer : a systematic popular presentation of the controversial thesis that modern humans evolved relatively recently in Africa and spread from there to other continents ’ . |
| 28 | One of its themes will have to be the confusion in our morality that the epidemic has exposed , and this has been much in evidence in the past few days in response to the ludicrous concert in commemoration of Freddie Mercury , and then the renewal of the controversial theory that Aids may not be linked to HIV at all , but instead , to cite one example , to promiscuous sexual activity that reputedly attacks the immune system . |
| 29 | It is , however , the work of the remaining Russians that intrigues even more and most notably the Surrealist Home and the Sky : the Life of Plants , which is a kind of film-set by the Moscow-born Igor Orlov and the Form and Continuity by Nikolai Ovtchinnikov , who welcomes us to the show and is illustrated on the front page . |
| 30 | The lords compelled the peasants to hand over a considerable portion of the agricultural goods that they produced as tenant farmers on small strips of land , and also to perform customary services directly for the benefit of the lord . |