Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humanistic hands These styles started in Italy in the fifteenth century and were based on the Carolingian minuscule . |
| 2 | In particular , Bede had a direct influence on the Carolingian renaissance of the ninth century through his pupil Egbert , who became Archbishop of York and trained Alcuin , who under Charlemagne founded the Frankish schools that did so much to stimulate learning on the Continent . |
| 3 | The growth of independent towns in the twelfth century lent force to the revival of public courts on the Carolingian model ; while Mediterranean contacts ensured a warm welcome for the learning of Bolognese Roman lawyers in the early decades of the century . |
| 4 | It provides a point of reference for those starting on the standard-setting road by identifying objectives for care bases on Henderson 's classification of the components of nursing . |
| 5 | Although Bazille has figured as a peripheral figure in several recent museum exhibitions on the Impressionist epoch and was the subject of a 1978 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago , he has never been judged as completely on his own as he is in the current show at the Brooklyn Museum , N.Y . |
| 6 | Soon there were to be further strains on the Anglo-Turkish relationship in Egypt . |
| 7 | It 's a piece of sound theatre designed to scare the shit out of his companion , waiting his turn on the front-room floor . |
| 8 | In his home at Denbigh Terrace , Richard Branson flicked off the television , breathed deeply on the tangible aroma of excitement in the air and allowed a broad smile to crease his face . |
| 9 | With consolidation we are working on the tangible information that is available . |
| 10 | In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees . |
| 11 | Since the days when he first settled at Yarrundi to farm sheep and cattle on the fertile Liverpool plains , Stephen Coxen had accumulated a substantial tract of land amounting to about 12,000 acres and about as many head of livestock . |
| 12 | O'er the tall Mountain on the fertile Mead : |
| 13 | Most of the towns were on or near the coast and they exploited their site advantages , capitalizing on their access to sea routes and on the fertile soils of their hinterlands . |
| 14 | Agriculture flourished on the fertile soils of Kosovo and Metohija . |
| 15 | But with the accession of Sethos I ( probably the " new king " of 1:8 ) attention once again focusses on the fertile delta region . |
| 16 | Today on the fertile plains of Central America cattle graze peacefully . |
| 17 | It is one of the world 's most unequal societies , with rich landowners on the fertile lowlands and illiterate Indians ( about half of the population , speaking 20 separate languages ) scraping a living in the Mayan highlands . |
| 18 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 19 | Since the long years of the Pax Mongolica ended many banners have fluttered over Kiev , almost impossible to defend in its position on the fertile flatlands east of the Carpathians . |
| 20 | This is because night vision relies mainly on the monochrome rods instead of the centrally placed colour-coded cones . |
| 21 | Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained . |
| 22 | Flushed with the success of a comparatively trouble-free ascent of Great Slab/Bow-Shaped Slab combination I picked out a ‘ sheep ’ on the wolfish East Buttress — the classic VS climb Curving Crack . |
| 23 | This is an interestingly eclectic argument which recalls Gadamer on the ‘ fusion of horizons ’ ( the reader 's and the text 's ) , Marcuse on the utopian possibilities of high culture , and Sartre on the necessarily progressive implications of major literature . |
| 24 | However , too heavy an emphasis on the affective dimensions of care-giving can obscure the sheer physical and emotional labour involved ( as the current rhetoric of ‘ community care ’ indeed does ) . |
| 25 | On the closed-circuit monitors , he saw the technicians taking their places at the instrument banks . |
| 26 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 27 | Recent issues of the journal Nature have featured new research on the sea-level rise which is likely to give us the biggest clues : the rise at the end of the last Ice Age . |
| 28 | Realizing there was nowhere to run in time , the Marines concentrated their fire on the crouching figures behind the guns , but they were too well protected . |
| 29 | A couple of blows rained on the crouching Time Lord . |
| 30 | on the riveted steel … |