Example sentences of "be in [art] nature of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given his military background , such a task should have been in the nature of coals to Newcastle , but in the event he was scrutinising his reflection in the mirror above the fireplace . |
| 2 | Much subsequent historiography has been in the nature of post-mortem investigation . |
| 3 | Much of it has been in the nature of self-examination : not least because the achievement of a high rate of economic growth became the central aim of political endeavour . |
| 4 | And it has been in the nature of documentary television to also exploit the subject of mental handicap in a sensational fashion . |
| 5 | The court held that the erratic payment of stock dividends by companies to shareholders ( even though stock dividends were received in 1962/63 and 1963/64 ) paid out to the life tenant , was such that the payments in the hands of the life tenant were in the nature of capital . |
| 6 | It 's in the nature of monks not to be stupid . ’ |
| 7 | Occasionally and inevitably they go over the top — but that 's in the nature of risk . |
| 8 | Welll Cabinet 's are always under strain it 's in the nature of poltics , but I expect John Patten to be back at work within the course of this month , he 's just gone on holidasy when he returns he 's going back to the office . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ It is in the nature of youngsters to try things . |
| 10 | It is in the nature of long-hand and typescript that corrections and annotations are visible , as in Out , whereas in Verbivore there is very little of Brooke-Rose 's characteristic variation on the same phrases . |
| 11 | It is in the nature of sea cliffs to remain largely hidden from view until you are more or less in contact with them , but for much of this side of Stennis this is not the case , for the gully descends to a non-tidal terrace descending beneath the cliff . |
| 12 | It is in the nature of Forester 's aim that he does not . |
| 13 | That is in the nature of things . |
| 14 | To disentangle the yeomanry from the middling and lower gentry — and indeed from the richest peasants — is more difficult , but this is in the nature of things since yeomen emerged from the ranks of the husbandmen , while the gentry did not form a closed caste , and in many cases there was little to choose between their respective scales of wealth . |
| 15 | Because the sceptic is in the nature of things , if he 's really consistent and systematic , committed to tolerating , well , all these other opinions , to tolerating all sorts of preposterous absurdities and monstrous attitudes . |
| 16 | But that is in the nature of art and artfulness : the establishment of laws so that we can break them . |
| 17 | It is in the nature of metaphor to present concepts as unanalysed totalities , without making clear the relations between the entities . |
| 18 | We do not take ‘ wrong turnings ’ ; it is in the nature of turnings to be wrong . |
| 19 | But on the present approach the search for universal standards is irrelevant to the objectivity of right and wrong ; it is in the nature of standards , which must alter with changing conditions and vary in stringency and applicability to particular cases , to be both a help and a hindrance to discovering the objective worth of a particular act . |
| 20 | It is in the nature of protest movements to paint issues as black and white . |
| 21 | And Harsnet : We do not ‘ waste time ’ ; it is in the nature of time to be wasted . |
| 22 | The most dramatic difference in the two pictures as seen by the remote observer is in the nature of radiation he receives from the object . |
| 23 | Although stylistics is chiefly interested in encoding variants , it is in the nature of language , as a multicoding system , that the many-one mappings go in both directions : |
| 24 | It was in the nature of things that the trading-manufacturing element should tend to cluster in towns and industrialised villages , although cottage industry was widely dispersed , especially in the north and west , where population was dense and common land extensive . |
| 25 | A different kind of continuity was in the nature of news . |
| 26 | There was even the suggestion that it was in the nature of God 's goodness that there would be a cure for every disease , an optimism that was not always in the best interests of physicians to share . |
| 27 | Como soon discovered that it was in the nature of winners to enjoy their winnings , as Barbarossa stayed in the north in an attempt to subjugate all the city states . |