Example sentences of "on [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The villa with its ceremonial painted chamber , uncovered by chance a quarter of a century ago on the Marchese 's lands , had been walled up again . |
| 2 | On the saint 's two feast days , in May and September , the phial is shown to the public and handled by the Archbishop , whereupon the congealed blood liquefies . |
| 3 | Little information has survived about the scale of the pilgrimages , usually at their greatest on the Saint 's Day , 3 April , but it seems to have been in the usual boisterous medieval tradition , both sacred and profane . |
| 4 | Instead of the almond eyes of the soon-to-be-beatified , the gaping mouth of welcomed suffering superimposed on the Saint 's visage was my own . |
| 5 | Ewa Kuryluk , in her study of female creativity , Veronica and Her Cloth , focusses on the saint 's veil as a key symbol of the act of representation : she created the vera icon or true image of Christ 's face , when she wiped his face and it was miraculously printed on the cloth in blood , sweat and tears.5 The body of art is born of the body itself , and women have a special relation to the fecundity , through their ascribed — and actual — part in the reproductive cycle . |
| 6 | Going on the Cinema 's maxim about what you imagine you 'll see often being more frightening than what you actually do see , the production team on ‘ The Daleks ’ chose wisely not to show the mutants inside the casings , save by suggestion and the odd teaser . |
| 7 | Despite the kindness on the uncle 's part , however , the nephew was permitted many liberties at his expense . |
| 8 | Swanton 's presentation of the poem is an exercise in detailed précis and commentary ; the only complexity of any credit that is found added to " " pure narrative at its simplest and barest " " is a little irony in the incredible moral comment passed by the narrator on the clerk 's desires : ( In this he was wrong ! : this might , however , be translated " This caused him grief ! " ) |
| 9 | Here he must have had further contact with Scott , who became Surveyor to the Fabric of the Abbey in 1846 , particularly in connection with the Broad Sanctuary houses , which Scott built on the Abbey 's land between 1852 and 1854 . |
| 10 | Not only are there vines as far as the eye can see from its brand-new winemaking centre in Vertus , but the company also owns nearly 310 acres of its own vineyards , most of them sited on the Côte des Blancs . |
| 11 | It is estimated that there are still about 20 hectares in production , mostly in the Aube and in Vertus on the Côte des Blancs . |
| 12 | His water-colours acquired an increasingly remote and sometimes visionary quality , deriving in part from the delicacy of texture and colour which he achieved through a technique based on the miniaturist 's use of hatching and stippling , developed to an extraordinary degree of refinement . |
| 13 | Which of the Pareto-efficient points on the frontier is most desirable will depend on the dictator 's value judgement about the relative importance of David 's and Susie 's utility . |
| 14 | Yes chairman , that er we er would be prepared , the County Council would be prepared to put in a statement to the effect that er it would be w prepared to amend the key diagram to reflect a a single er star on the diagram er to reflect the A fifty nine relief road . |
| 15 | In fact , all those , yes , all those , I did briefly mention all those things on the diagram er that we had before . |
| 16 | The acquisition search service provided by MAS is based on the list of companies for sale which are held on the Accountants ' Business Network database jointly shared by the major accounting firms . |
| 17 | It is not unreasonable that the investors should want the managers ' views on the accountants ' report , but management 's advisers should try to restrict this warranty to the facts in the report and exclude any opinions given by the accountants . |
| 18 | In the museum display of these materials ( such as the treasures of Tutankhamun 's tomb ) , stress may be laid on the objects ' discovery by British archaeologists , thereby helping to legitimize the implicit pseudo-evolutionary claims of historical advance as civilization ( Gidri 1974 ) . |
| 19 | These changes in society seem irreversible , especially when the household 's standard of living comes to depend more on the wife 's income in dual earner households ( 60 per cent of all households with two adults under retirement age in 1987 , compared with 52 per cent in 1973 ) . |
| 20 | On the wife 's appeal : — |
| 21 | 923 the court was concerned with three guarantees entered into by a husband and wife to cover the indebtedness of a family company of which both were shareholders and directors and with three charges on the wife 's house executed by her in favour of the bank securing the same indebtedness . |
| 22 | If however , the mortgagee is prepared to rely on the wife 's covenant , the husband can be released from liability by the mortgagee , with the wife alone remaining liable . |
| 23 | Er with , with , you asked Martin about his dependants and he said he had n't got any but you did n't question him on the wife 's dependants , or his wife 's dependants . |
| 24 | John re-elected : John Wright , 49 , of Saltburn , who is chairman of the Cleveland branch of Nalgo , has been reelected as the North of England 's representative on the union 's national executive council . |
| 25 | It has negotiated an agreement with the Transport & General Workers ' Union which places Driver Hire on the union 's fair agency list . |
| 26 | Mr Pickering , who farms at Hafod y Bwch , Rhosytyllen , just off the Wrexham by-pass , is chairman of the governing body of LLysfasi College of Agriculture , Ruthin , a former chairman of Denbighshire NFU and once served on the union 's ruling council in London . |
| 27 | The decision followed demonstrations on the university 's main campus . |
| 28 | Application for admission to the first year of these courses should be made on the University 's direct entry form directly to the University of Ulster . |
| 29 | Application for entry to the Certificate in Foundation Studies in Art and Design and Higher National Diplomas should be made on the University 's Direct Entry form which is available at all schools in Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | Large , somewhat extravagant celebrations were planned at Beida , perhaps to take students ' and teachers ' minds off the immediate economic situation and to focus attention instead on the university 's great traditional heritage . |