Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is the habit of a few of the gall-causing insects . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They campaigned for the Romans , for instance at the battle of the Catalaunian Plains . |
| 7 | Writing in the sixth century the Gothic historian Jordanes knew of only one Roman squadron at the battle of the Catalaunian Plains . |
| 8 | The battle of the Catalaunian Plains was proof that the imperial policy could work , if only for a limited period of time . |
| 9 | The immediate result of the battle of the Catalaunian Plains in 451 had been the succession of Theoderid 's eldest son , Thorismund . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I set off , unsure of the brittle formations . |
| 14 | ABOVE Archaeologists are becoming more aware of the need to provide access on excavations for tourists , local people and for representatives of the funding bodies . |
| 15 | Her breasts were crushed and pinched by callused fingers , her thighs lifted to meet the demands of the muscular buttocks thrusting against her . |
| 16 | With the exception of the muscular changes , which appear to be irreversible , resolution is rapid , and the lungs appear almost completely normal within six months of experimental infection , though a few worms may still be present . |
| 17 | The Question is not one of correct position , but of correct coordination ( i.e. of the muscular mechanisms concerned ) . |
| 18 | De Soto and his researchers , which include economists , sociologists and anthropologists and lawyers , have worked out some of the stark costs of formality in Peru : if a group of humble families gather and ask the government to give them an empty plot of land to live on , they must fill out a maze of forms and go to scores of ministry , municipal and other government offices , a process that averages six years and 11 months . |
| 19 | Before the cuckoo abandons its offspring to the care of the foster parents , there is one other action she usually carries out . |
| 20 | If you are going to pay candidates ' travelling expenses one of the advance preparations will be to organize these beforehand , ensuring there is cash available or that someone will be there to sign the necessary cheque . |
| 21 | One of the outstanding problems for conservationists these days , is to reconcile the different uses to which human beings aspire to put the oceans . |
| 22 | Moore , a British civil servant and one of the outstanding pioneers of the Golden Age . |
| 23 | Subsequently — just to select some of the outstanding incidents — there were major riots at Hull in 1976 , Gartree in 1979 and Albany in 1993 . |
| 24 | Er , er , it 's dreadful is n't it , that we 've lost two of the outstanding footballers of this or any other age in one year . |
| 25 | Huge though the payment was , it was widely regarded as a bargain , partly because most of the bill was met by insurers and partly because the amount was a fraction of the outstanding claims against the firm . |
| 26 | All that has been written above about the identification of the goodness of Christ 's teachings with the objectives of the creation of the Created God , can be applied equally to the teachings of the outstanding figures of all religions and of all religious history . |
| 27 | An important feature of this study was the use of the daily prices of call options on the outstanding contracts for each index to calculate the implicit market estimates of the subsequent price volatility for each of the outstanding contracts . |
| 28 | Our only aim is to give you ever more news and views from some of the outstanding writers on the game . |
| 29 | A popular feature of previous Festivals have been the ‘ Irish Writers ’ Evenings ’ , where we have brought some of the outstanding writers and poets in this island to read from their work . |
| 30 | As Elector of Hanover George I had been at war with Charles XII of Sweden , one of the outstanding soldiers of his time , since October 1715 and England now became involved due to the frequent presence of an English fleet in the Baltic , which the Swedes were inclined to regard , as the English did the Channel , as a private sea of their own . |