Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [noun] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desirable , that is , only to seekers after adventure ; to the majority of others it is the last place on earth deserving a visit . |
| 2 | In the majority of cases it is preferable that there should be service of the application upon the other side . |
| 3 | While it is undoubtedly true that there are advantageous settlements negotiated at the door of the Court , the actual cost to the defender in settling at that stage is significant insofar as in the majority of cases it is the defender who will have to meet the whole cost of preparation for the Proof by both parties , including attendance of witnesses , Counsel 's fees and so forth . |
| 4 | In the majority of cases it is something that is given free of charge . |
| 5 | Because of the weakness of data it is difficult to come to definite conclusions . |
| 6 | No two coalfields were the same , but if a general pattern can be discerned from the variety of experience it is that during the first half of the nineteenth century each region largely generated its own workforce from the natural increase of its population , but that the spectacular later developments drew not only upon local men who left the farms or rural crafts and industries in large numbers but also upon the surplus population of counties from all over the British Isles . |
| 7 | In the case of orthography it is only in comparatively recent times that spelling has been standardised into ‘ correct ’ forms , it being , in former centuries , very much at the whim of the writer as to how a word was spelt , and it was not unusual for several styles — ‘ king ’ , ‘ kyng ’ , ‘ kynge ’ are examples — to be used in the same document , or even sentence . |
| 8 | However , in the case of Mercury it is likely that most of any strike-slip faults are the result of the tidal slowing by the Sun of Mercury 's axial rotation . |
| 9 | In the case of Mercury it is estimated that , just as is the case today ( Figure 8.2 ) , the slightly higher cratering rate than on the Moon has been a feature of the last few 1000 Ma . |
| 10 | In the case of architecture it is the idea that is seminal — little or nothing of the form is taken over ; but in sculpture what was to become the dominant type of Greek statue through the archaic period , the naked young man , kouros , owes a direct debt to Egyptian models . |
| 11 | All have some money , though in the case of Glamorgan it is disappearing fast . |
| 12 | A second consequence is that malperformance is particularly likely to be revealed by differential treatment ( in the case of corruption it is of course assumed that it is not revealed ) . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , in the case of psychosis it is still unclear precisely what these additional factors are ; unlike , say , cardiovascular disease where it is possible to point to very particular things , such as smoking and diet . |
| 14 | In the case of body this , as we have already seen , is extension ; in the case of mind it is thought . |
| 15 | In the literature of duality it is the outcast or victim who has dealings with a double , and in the second of the two novels Charles Wychwood is an outcast whose condition copies that of Thomas Chatterton , who committed suicide in 1770 at the age of 17 , having invented a medieval monk , Rowley , and written poems for him . |
| 16 | In the presence of malignancy it is known that different tissues can respond in different ways . |
| 17 | When we have to compare the values of numbers it is important to know which has the greatest , and which has the least value . |
| 18 | And the kind of sound it makes depends on the kind of object it is . |
| 19 | The English Department in the late 40s and 50s , like the University , was smaller in scale and , although excellent , very different from the kind of place it is today . |
| 20 | Will we have regular reports of what the diversification unit set up by Scottish Enterprise is doing , its remit and the kind of results it is recommending ? |
| 21 | According to the hylemorphic theory of the scholastics , each individual thing or substance is a combination of ‘ matter ’ ( hyle ) and ‘ form ’ ( morphe ) , and it is because something has the form it has , that it is the kind of thing it is . |
| 22 | If , now , we place him in the pantheon of Afro-Asian leaders who decisively influenced the course of events it is because he was a survivor , to whom the drama of revolutionary struggle was an end in itself . |
| 23 | In order to assess the arguments over the variability of V it is necessary to see just how a change in money supply is transmitted through to a change in aggregate demand . |
| 24 | The early stages of the rise of Venice arc obscure and ill-documented ; but when it comes into the light of day it is ruled already by a duke or doge popularly elected , yet normally chosen from , and dependent on , the great families of the Rialto , the chief island of the archipelago on which Venice is crazily and romantically constructed . |
| 25 | However , since those changes were not finalised at the date of going to press and further revisions are possible in the light of comments it is not appropriate to review them here . |
| 26 | Collins only wants a wife because he feels that in the eyes of society it is about time for him to be married and to have settled down in life . |
| 27 | The temperature in Bardufoss regularly reached minus 30° C here on the outskirts of Corlu it is frequently plus 35° C at midday . |
| 28 | Moreover , with such confidence in the methods of science it is not surprising that educated men of the second half of the century were immensely impressed with its achievements . |
| 29 | Consequently , while Parliamentary sovereignty is ‘ an instrument well adapted for the establishment of democratic despotism ’ , on a true understanding of the interlocking nature of the concept of sovereignty with the principles of the rule of law it is conducive to the promotion of liberty . |
| 30 | If any one activity is thought , in the public mind , to represent the essence of librarianship it is undoubtedly classification and cataloguing : the organization of library materials into a system for their displayed storage and the easy retrieval of the subject content of the collection . |