Example sentences of "and [adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But recent reality had also taken its toll : his father 's lamented death , his guitar teacher 's suicide , and that of a cousin ; the presence of his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein , now reduced unhappily to senility in his mother 's house ( at which he would surprise Leonard by encountering him suddenly , in odd moments of clarity , saying , ‘ Oh , yes , you 're the writer , are n't you ? ’ ) created other pressures . |
| 2 | There is nothing illegal nor immoral in a club chairman 's demonstration of ball skills but the contrast , in a day , between the image of a shy , reclusive , multi-millionaire property tycoon and that of a terrace tearaway was too sudden to digest . |
| 3 | Comparative size of human brain ( right ) and that of a bottle dolphin Tursiops truncatus ) . |
| 4 | ( ii ) In the context of their own writing and that of a range of published writers , pupils should learn that , in evaluating the success of a piece of writing , different criteria need to be applied to different types ; for example , a personal letter may be valued for its warmth and humour , a report for the clarity of its organisation , and so on . |
| 5 | WHAT a difference between my experience and that of a Swindon woman who receives a letter 90 minutes after it was posted . |
| 6 | All Barbara could tell me when she rang this morning was that the police had found Paul 's body and that of a tramp , ’ he paused , ‘ with injuries to their throats . ’ |
| 7 | In 1915 the National Conference estimated the cost of a pauper to be 14s 0d per week and that of a criminal 11s 10d net , but a state pensioner , ‘ a British subject , who is required under the Act , to be a respectable and provident person ’ was granted between 1s 0d and 5s 0d per week only . |
| 8 | A small part of law work , and that of a very low status , is concerned with the working class . |
| 9 | The Duke turned Friar in Measure for Measure cultivates at least two different prose-styles , a plain and business-like one for his benevolent deceptions , and that of a moralist disappointed with the world — a persona within which he can also rise to more serious denunciatory verse as the occasion warrants ( for verse within this prose role see III.ii. 19–39 ; 261–82 ; IV.ii. 108–13 ) . |
| 10 | It was mine , and that of a small cadre of supply-side intellectuals . ’ |
| 11 | In contrast to the similar criterion 1a for whole numbers , there was no difference in success rates between identifying the place value of a column and that of a digit . |
| 12 | I shall also consider the subject from two points of view : that of a critic and that of a practising novelist . |
| 13 | ‘ I know no difference between this case and that of a mandamus . |
| 14 | The potential of a point charge is given by eqn ( 2.22 ) , and that of a charge distribution by eqn ( 2.24 ) . |
| 15 | That a creature of his should fall into mortal sin , and that of a violent kind , was astonishment enough , but that this pliable mortal should ever undertake personal action of any kind came as an even greater shock . |
| 16 | Julia also has to decide between a scholarly career as a university lecturer and that of a ‘ lady novelist ’ . |
| 17 | When Boswell sought to establish a distinction between ‘ the licentiousness of a single woman , and that of a married woman ’ , Johnson intensified his analogy , comparing the loose single woman to a thief , and the randy married woman to a thief who first murders the victim , and says that among women the infection of licentiousness spreads from the single to the married . |
| 18 | The analogy was drawn between the efficacy of geomorphic processes and that of a giant , a man and a dwarf attempting to cut down a forest . |
| 19 | Despite the identification so far of only one temple , and that of a dubious nature , something of the religious interests of the inhabitants of Carlisle has survived in the form of inscriptions . |
| 20 | She had deliberately recorded on film the link her mind had established between her sister 's death and that of a fellow-student of Morpurgo 's twenty years before . |
| 21 | The pension of a single retired person mainly dependent on state benefits is £58.88 and that of a couple is £101.50 . |
| 22 | There was , the Board felt , a need to reconcile two ‘ separate images ’ of a degree course in business studies , ‘ that of intellectual rigour presented in the university pattern , and that of a new range of studies designed to meet the needs of the business world ’ . |
| 23 | It is illuminating to note the difference between the average response to an icon and that of a member of one of the orthodox churches . |
| 24 | The effect of an adverse pressure gradient is generally destabilizing — it decreases the Reynolds number at which corresponding developments occur — and that of a favourable gradient is generally stabilizing . |
| 25 | Unlike the previous case , the behaviour of a marginally unstable system and that of a vigorously convecting one do not have an obvious common feature . |
| 26 | The tributes to P C Patrick Dunn mounted today in Cato Road , the Clapham Street where he died , as the police investigation of his killing and that of a suspected drug dealer in the house opposite , continued . |
| 27 | The parallel between this way of thinking , and that of an engineer designing an air-conditioning system , is obvious . |
| 28 | Were this my last hour ( and that of an octogenarian can not be far off ) I would thank God for permitting me to behold so much of the excellence conferred on individuals . |
| 29 | Clearly differentiating between your own expertise and that of an expert is a critical executive skill |
| 30 | The MD will normally be an executive director , with a contract setting out his or her powers and duties , and terms of employment ; thus the MD has a dual role — that of director and that of an employee . |