Example sentences of "us in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The micro-processor , enabling previously labour-intensive work to be carried out by robots , will give us greater leisure ; the leisure industry is labour-intensive ; therefore , paradoxically , instead of reducing the number of jobs , the micro-processor has actually given us the potential to create more careers than it destroys — but only if we plan the leisure it gives us in a comprehensive and professional way . |
| 2 | And thanks to Tom chasing up membership that actually brought us in a hundred and ninety nine pounds seventy er throughout the year . |
| 3 | He informed us in a haughty spirit that he would give my people thirty days to go back home , collect all their stock , and move to the reservation , saying , ‘ If you are not here in that time , I shall consider that you want to fight , and will send my soldiers to drive you on ’ . |
| 4 | IN THE course of our lives , events take place , with which the passage of time , we come to realise are like milestones ; they have pointed us in a new direction , often posing a challenge which in the providence of God , when accepted , leads us deeper into his life and service . |
| 5 | The painter Jean-Baptiste Chardin shatters our ‘ knowledge ’ of the world by presenting it to us in a new way , as if we were children and his bowl of fruit stood just above our eye-level . |
| 6 | For this reason I am deeply committed to the cause of raising our profile , and you will all be aware of the initiatives that are under way to promote us in a wider role . |
| 7 | Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful … |
| 8 | Suddenly a hail of earth , stones , metal fragments , pieces of exhaust pipe and car door came down on us in a dust-covered mass . |
| 9 | ‘ They played Ards on the first day of the season and wiped the floor with us in a 3–0 win . |
| 10 | They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game . |
| 11 | Those aspects of union which are of enduring worth are available to us in a European union . |
| 12 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 13 | We did some more research and we found out that in return for doing this you had to pay the minister a fine , so we found a minister who was very excited by the idea of marrying us in a seventeen century house , and in fact , on the morning of the wedding he was more worried about what he was wearing than what I was ! |
| 14 | ‘ I think we had reached about 11,000 feet when the barrage opened up over Valetta and , against the white puffs , I saw seven biplanes heading directly towards us in a shallow vic formation . |
| 15 | Examining these theories from pragmatics will involve us in a substantial digression from our main concern : which is to account for our intuitions of coherence and thus gain insight into the needs of the language learner , who after all aims to be able to produce coherent discourse , not isolated sentences . |
| 16 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 17 | ‘ The dark had descended on us in a howling storm , as it will when the world ends . |
| 18 | He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj . |
| 19 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 20 | She crashed out a few chords and started to talk to us in a different voice through her ‘ control ’ , who was ( of course ) , a Red Indian — White Cloud or Black Feet or something like that . |
| 21 | I shall , of course , establish whether we can use elements of the legislative battery that is available to us in a different way from the way in which it has been used until now . |
| 22 | Much medieval painting has come down to us in a fragmentary condition , and often in a very poor state of conservation . |
| 23 | Anyway , in order to get our interest at the start of each lesson he usually involves us in a silly game of some sort , and I still clearly remember the drama lesson when , thanks to David Smith ( alias ‘ Daz ’ ) , the ‘ warm up ’ game went horribly wrong . |
| 24 | In listing the objectives that shape the exhibition , Whitney museum curator Elizabeth Sussman said her team of curators searched for ‘ the best new work that speaks to us in a compelling manner and in some cases challenges conventional ideas about artmaking . |
| 25 | Mr Browning paced about and then said , ‘ You place us in a difficult position , Wilson , and one we can hardly approve . |
| 26 | To me that puts us in a difficult position when trying Germans , whose crime was obeying their superiors ’ orders , whatever our horror at what those orders led to . ’ |
| 27 | McHale said last night : ‘ Middlesbrough have left us in a difficult situation because they wo n't be able to tell us if we can have Ian until tomorrow . |
| 28 | Ideas of salvation and conversion were of course inextricably linked in Rose of Lima 's culture ; and this clear , driving sense of purpose in her life must not be underestimated if she is to reveal anything to us in a historical sense . |
| 29 | I was standing in the bows looking forward when suddenly our gently hissing bow-wave turned into a glowing mass of green fire , which reflected from our hull and bathed us in a ghostly light . |
| 30 | Then conscience would not so much be a faculty of intuiting truths as a God-given power within us which — if put in control — will steer us in a particular direction , when it comes to choosing between ourselves and others . |