Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day of the battle dawned a hot May morning . |
| 2 | The significance of the user applying a similar strategy to library catalogues has not been realized . |
| 3 | She raised Skogen to her face and through it she saw Ghost of the Tree turn a quizzical and penetrating look upon her . |
| 4 | Each day they became fewer until my image of the tree became a pink and brown blur , it being blossom time . |
| 5 | In many ways , the area at the top of the tree parallels a structure called the ‘ Spectrum of Response ’ which I described in 1985 . |
| 6 | The Archbishop should be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the failure of the efforts of the Church to create a better society . |
| 7 | The portico of St Paul 's in London was let out to shopkeepers , and the main body of the church became a cavalry stables . |
| 8 | The laws of the Church made a man look outside his kindred for a wife , and the dynasts made virtue of necessity and constructed elaborate alliances by their marriages . |
| 9 | All members of the church have a contribution to make to the preparation , especially in the light of our growing awareness of how different vocations within the church are complementary . |
| 10 | Debate over the security of the Church found a focus in the Convocation controversy , largely triggered by Francis Atterbury 's famous tract , Letter to a Convocation Man of late 1696 , where he argued that the only way to stem the growth of heresy and blasphemy was through Convocation , the Church 's own deliberative and legislative body . |
| 11 | All that vanished with the invention of the printing press a few years later , but many of the books in the Corviniana were made in Italy at that time . |
| 12 | Among the issues which they pursued were proposed NIHT rent increases , resettlement grants , poor soundproofing and finishing in their accommodation and the refusal of the NIHT to provide a communal television aerial for Rossville Flats which would enable the tenants to receive Radio Telefis Eireann ( the Irish television network ) . |
| 13 | The banning of the ordeal symbolized a triumph for rational argument over the old magical formulas . |
| 14 | And on either side of the bottom step a stone beast crouched . |
| 15 | Out to sea the beam of the lighthouse swept a great arc every fifteen seconds ; on one side of the headland were the lights of the town and harbour , on the other it was just possible to make out a line of cliffs receding into the darkness . |
| 16 | The purchase price has been agreed at £5000 , and the form of the conveyance follows a conventional pattern . |
| 17 | When General Motors took a 40% share of Isuzu there were rumours of the Trooper becoming a Vauxhall , but it did n't . |
| 18 | From the inside of the hut came a thumping and screeching as the cassowary tested her dungeon . |
| 19 | In the centre of the hut stood a tall coke stove , blackened from use , deep in dust , and its chimney stack climbed to the ceiling and through its open hatch there was the glow of fuel working out a second day 's burning . |
| 20 | In order to store a piece of information , it is placed in the SDR ; the address at which it is to be stored is placed in the SAR , and the control unit of the computer sends a ‘ write ’ signal to the store . |
| 21 | Yet the need to harness the ability of the computer to monitor a dynamic situation far faster than is possible with manual methods was as pressing for SGB , with a Group payroll at the time approaching £13 million , as for the very large organisation able to make substantial investment in computerised personnel records . |
| 22 | Original works include posters and handwritten music as well as a recording of the artist reading a poem in 1937 . |
| 23 | Since the family were exiled from France there could be no question of the Prince having a political role within the country , even though there was no lack of latent Bonapartist feeling among all sections of society . |
| 24 | In a second phase of training presentation of the tone preceded a nausea-inducing injection of LiCl . |
| 25 | This works by detecting differences in the magnetic field of the soil using a magnetometer . |
| 26 | The bidirectional reflectance of the soil has a considerable effect on that of the canopy ( , ) , see Table . |
| 27 | He opened a drawer of the desk to extract a folder of papers . |
| 28 | My pleasure at the success of the operation turned a bit sour when the others calmly walked up the road and photographed the animal with standard lenses — and it did n't even bother getting up . |
| 29 | All departments were recommended on the launching of the FMI to establish a ‘ management accounting system ’ to be integrated as far as possible with ‘ existing systems for the public expenditure survey , estimates , and appropriation accounts ’ ( Efficiency and Effectiveness , 1982 , app. 3 ) . |
| 30 | Incidentally , Dutoit dampens the tam-tam at the end ( he 's not the only one ! ) , despite Rachmaninov 's clear instruction that whilst the rest of the orchestra play a quaver , the tam-tam should go to the end of the bar ( notated dotted crotchet ) with the implication that it should be allowed to carry on beyond . |