Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In particular , Bede had a direct influence on the Carolingian renaissance of the ninth century through his pupil Egbert , who became Archbishop of York and trained Alcuin , who under Charlemagne founded the Frankish schools that did so much to stimulate learning on the Continent .
2 Humanistic hands These styles started in Italy in the fifteenth century and were based on the Carolingian minuscule .
3 The growth of independent towns in the twelfth century lent force to the revival of public courts on the Carolingian model ; while Mediterranean contacts ensured a warm welcome for the learning of Bolognese Roman lawyers in the early decades of the century .
4 It provides a point of reference for those starting on the standard-setting road by identifying objectives for care bases on Henderson 's classification of the components of nursing .
5 Although Bazille has figured as a peripheral figure in several recent museum exhibitions on the Impressionist epoch and was the subject of a 1978 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago , he has never been judged as completely on his own as he is in the current show at the Brooklyn Museum , N.Y .
6 Soon there were to be further strains on the Anglo-Turkish relationship in Egypt .
7 It 's a piece of sound theatre designed to scare the shit out of his companion , waiting his turn on the front-room floor .
8 In his home at Denbigh Terrace , Richard Branson flicked off the television , breathed deeply on the tangible aroma of excitement in the air and allowed a broad smile to crease his face .
9 With consolidation we are working on the tangible information that is available .
10 It is one of the world 's most unequal societies , with rich landowners on the fertile lowlands and illiterate Indians ( about half of the population , speaking 20 separate languages ) scraping a living in the Mayan highlands .
11 Today on the fertile plains of Central America cattle graze peacefully .
12 O'er the tall Mountain on the fertile Mead :
13 Most of the towns were on or near the coast and they exploited their site advantages , capitalizing on their access to sea routes and on the fertile soils of their hinterlands .
14 At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself .
15 But with the accession of Sethos I ( probably the " new king " of 1:8 ) attention once again focusses on the fertile delta region .
16 Irrigation is necessary to sustain the crops which grow on the fertile , loess-covered lowlands of one of Europe 's richest grain-growing regions .
17 Agriculture flourished on the fertile soils of Kosovo and Metohija .
18 Since the long years of the Pax Mongolica ended many banners have fluttered over Kiev , almost impossible to defend in its position on the fertile flatlands east of the Carpathians .
19 Since the days when he first settled at Yarrundi to farm sheep and cattle on the fertile Liverpool plains , Stephen Coxen had accumulated a substantial tract of land amounting to about 12,000 acres and about as many head of livestock .
20 In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees .
21 This is because night vision relies mainly on the monochrome rods instead of the centrally placed colour-coded cones .
22 Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained .
23 Flushed with the success of a comparatively trouble-free ascent of Great Slab/Bow-Shaped Slab combination I picked out a ‘ sheep ’ on the wolfish East Buttress — the classic VS climb Curving Crack .
24 This is an interestingly eclectic argument which recalls Gadamer on the ‘ fusion of horizons ’ ( the reader 's and the text 's ) , Marcuse on the utopian possibilities of high culture , and Sartre on the necessarily progressive implications of major literature .
25 However , too heavy an emphasis on the affective dimensions of care-giving can obscure the sheer physical and emotional labour involved ( as the current rhetoric of ‘ community care ’ indeed does ) .
26 The new Vigilant lost no time in making her mark when in June 1966 the Queen , after formally opening the new east wing of the London Custom House ( restored after wartime bombing ) embarked on the Vigilant at Custom House Quay for the short journey to Westminster Pier .
27 On the closed-circuit monitors , he saw the technicians taking their places at the instrument banks .
28 He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television .
29 I put the phone down on the greedy little tyke .
30 Recent issues of the journal Nature have featured new research on the sea-level rise which is likely to give us the biggest clues : the rise at the end of the last Ice Age .
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