Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 6lb line I can bend into a fish and know that there is some bend remaining ; that I have not used all of the shock-absorber effect of the rod . |
| 2 | The immediacy of the D-18 transfers wonderfully to strumming ; it 's big and it 's grand , but the brightness and the zinginess mean it 's best played with a modicum of right-arm restraint . |
| 3 | Against his steady progress I worked the cameras frantically , images and sequences flooding my mind , until suddenly he was up , axes raised against the white of the scurrying clouds . |
| 4 | What should that placid little people know of the rattle and rush of an express train , typical as it is of the nerve-wasting haste with which we Westerners live our lives ? |
| 5 | This is the habit of a few of the gall-causing insects . |
| 6 | It was difficult to believe that the boxes had been removed , then replaced and even more difficult to credit that a match from either of the chained boxes had been struck , then carried lit and precariously flickering into the Little Vestry and used to burn the diary . |
| 7 | However the seemingly obvious agricultural reference of the symbolism of the marriage poruva and the rotation of the chained couple was not explicitly recognized by my Pul Eliya informants . ) |
| 8 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 9 | The standard way to think of the manager-employee relationship is again as principal and agent respectively though as we will see shortly , the relationship can be reversed . |
| 10 | Let us turn to a different aspect of the manager-employee relationship . |
| 11 | Iris Murdoch 's war-time communism had given place , well before her first novel ever appeared , to an interest in Sartre 's Existentialism : a natural stepping-stone , in the 1940s , along a well-trodden path that leads out of the simplifying preconceptions of Marxism ; and though earlier partisan interests flickered back half into life in the 1960s , during the Vietnam war , she had already abandoned Marx , and publicly , before the 1950s were out . |
| 12 | ( Incidentally , it is interesting to note that this occurred only five days after the discovery of the planetoid Chiron , the astrological meaning of which includes the collaboration of previously separate and antagonistic disciplines . ) |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Theoderid did fight for the Romans against the Sueves in Spain in 446 , and in 451 he provided the most substantial portion of the confederacy which faced Attila and the Huns at the battle of the Catalaunian Plains . |
| 14 | They campaigned for the Romans , for instance at the battle of the Catalaunian Plains . |
| 15 | Writing in the sixth century the Gothic historian Jordanes knew of only one Roman squadron at the battle of the Catalaunian Plains . |
| 16 | The battle of the Catalaunian Plains was proof that the imperial policy could work , if only for a limited period of time . |
| 17 | The immediate result of the battle of the Catalaunian Plains in 451 had been the succession of Theoderid 's eldest son , Thorismund . |
| 18 | Chantries were not limited to the laity ; some of the more senior clergy certainly availed themselves of the system and numerous chantry chapels survive in most of the monastic-foundation cathedrals to abbots and priors . |
| 19 | ANOTHER victim of evil Dr Tom Courtney has come forward to tell of the horrific ordeal he put her through . |
| 20 | The two women had not been able to help much by way of descriptions apart from recounting details of the horrific masks the burglars wore and that one appeared to be rather thin ( the one with the broken leg ) . |
| 21 | And what mother of young children , whether she owns a family pet or not , has not felt even more frightened of neighbourhood Rottweilers and Dobermans when she reads of the horrific savaging and killing of children by uncontrollable animals ? |
| 22 | PAUL Murnin has been told that he will never play again because of the horrific injury sustained against Crusaders earlier this season . |
| 23 | Watching a video replay of the horrific tumble , he said : ‘ Of course I 'll be back , it 's nonsense to say I will not ride again . |
| 24 | And , soon , in this great new age of student protest , the National Guard — in a repetition of the horrific violence ordered by Chicago 's Mayor Richard Daley only a few months before — used bayonets and tear gas to disperse anti-war demonstrators at Kent County University , Ohio ( in May 1970 ) . |
| 25 | What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion . |
| 26 | For people who must be detained for the protection of the public because of the horrific nature of their crimes , we should be designing units which will genuinely help them to change to whatever extent is possible . |
| 27 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 28 | Although Cold War ideology and initial public ignorance in the West of the horrific power of nuclear weapons at first muted the public pressures behind a renewed expression of the unacceptability of indiscriminate means of warfare , the growth of the popular movement for peace over the past twenty-five years and especially in its recent phase must now lead to a reaffirmation of the principle and its application to nuclear weapons . |
| 29 | If the Piper Alpha disaster or one of the horrific plane crashes are coming to mind , think again . |
| 30 | When bringing patients out of the hypnotized state I usually count to three . |