Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lochinver was a magnet , largely because of the strange mountains I knew to be in its vicinity , and I longed to go there . |
| 2 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 3 | One of the major problems I 've encountered with this review is actually keeping hold of the guitar long enough to form my own opinion . |
| 4 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 5 | At the end of this necessarily lengthy examination of the decided cases I have found nothing which causes me to depart from the view I expressed before embarking on that examination as to the appropriate procedure to be followed under section 7(3) and section 8(2) considered simply on the basis of the statutory language . |
| 6 | Not that day or on any of the countless occasions I resolved to , because I was sharing my house with Francis again . |
| 7 | The reason the process of telling the truth seems less complicated than I 've said is simply that we are n't conscious of most of the mental processes I 've been describing . |
| 8 | Many of the Muslim women I spoke to told me that their husbands were unfaithful to them usually with white women ( see for example p. 123 of ‘ Sisters in Struggle ’ ) . |
| 9 | Often the family is disrupted by a split during the sportsman 's upbringing , as in the case of footballer Lennox Smith , who , when aged 16 , had to undergo the turbulence of his father 's leaving ( his case is representative of about a quarter of the black sportsmen I encountered ) . |
| 10 | But at the moment it 's also one of the only ways I can steer the bike , especially in faster corners . |
| 11 | Twenty and thirty-pound nets are not uncommon and long ago I lost count of the double-figure nets I 've had from the rivers named above and others such as the Vyrnwy and Banwy , two small rivers which feed the upper Severn . |
| 12 | Start by playing these combinations with one note then apply some of the melodic permutations I gave you in part 1 of this series . |
| 13 | It is clear that the judge was unaware of the additional matters I have listed . |
| 14 | Like most of the Peruvian children I had seen , the toddler appeared self-sufficient already . |
| 15 | Erm paragraph twenty one , we 'd certainly oppose any move to give local authorities the right to cease homes of travellers erm especially in view of the shortage of the good pitches I that is just totally and I do n't think that that 's on , I hope we can oppose that . |
| 16 | C-fos and c-jun are of interest , though , not merely because they provide a key mechanistic link between early events at the cell membrane and nuclear protein synthesis , but because they only become active in cells showing plastic changes , and they can be measured and localized with exquisite sensitivity by variants of the autoradiographic techniques I have already described . |
| 17 | Of the surviving compositors I interviewed , one was from a family of 9 children , another from one of 8 , one had at least three sisters , and the last was one of only two , whose father had died young . |
| 18 | Counsel for all the appellants and for the Secretary of State were unanimous in their view that the appeals are not in a criminal cause or matter , and on a brief consideration of the relevant authorities I agree . |
| 19 | For this reason , and because many of the young women I spoke to said that they never saw images of young women who looked anything like themselves , the book includes photographs , taken by Sally Feldt . |
| 20 | ‘ You certainly are different from most of the young women I meet , Miss Levington , ’ he observed thoughtfully . |
| 21 | Thus while most of the blues-derived techniques I have mentioned appear to set the music in opposition to mainstream musical language ( including that of many contemporary pop songs ) , they are developed in such a way as to lay stress on individualistic virtuosity and personal expression , achieved through ‘ professional ’ mastery of instrumental technique ; and this could be seen as at least compatible with the traditions of bourgeois art . |
| 22 | If our tea and lunch breaks could be structured on the lines of the ancient Egyptians I am sure that by 10.30am each day there would be a smile on the face of each and every member of staff ; and if we could ensure that all our members were treated by their employers in the same way , our membership figures would double instantly . |
| 23 | ‘ Talking about work , as we were just a moment ago … perhaps you would n't mind explaining to me why you want to reject some of the new designs I 've just shown you ? ’ |
| 24 | He came and stood beside me and picked out one of the new abstracts I 'd done at home . |
| 25 | If it 's erm if it 's a school teacher as in primary schools where they 're going to teach a lot across a range of subjects , one of the new measures I think is going to help and that is the introduction of the sixth subject , erm Bachelor of Education Degree , because maths , English and science will be the core three subjects and the other three subjects will be of choice , so there 's an opportunity there for one of those subjects to be religious education and it will be taught in greater depth to those teachers . |
| 26 | Barbour has brought out the flyweight Durham jacket ( £90 ) which , despite the description , is harder wearing but heavier than most of the other jackets I have tested . |
| 27 | It also contains more spontaneously-seeded ash trees than any of the other towns I studied . |
| 28 | Caroline Spry , the Channel 4 commissioning editor responsible for series like Out on Tuesday and Women Call the Shots , thinks it 's no longer possible to use the word in its old sense any more ; most of the other women I spoke to agreed with her . |
| 29 | One of the other things I found that people are conflicting in the paper erm is of people having to travel further erm if I can just yes , on pa , on page three , paragraph this is the choice that seems of the area and the travel and on page four , paragraph one the version says that local people will still get a choice of i in the London hospitals . |
| 30 | I think all I think most of the other things I the only er one I I would like to raise is that it was agreed that the new committee should be recommended to appoint a press secretary . |