Example sentences of "that behind [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 2 | I see that behind the bluff little moustache and the liquid , fish-liver eyes — in my photograph the eyes are turned towards the prince of Wales ( himself a rather ghostly figure under a solar helmet ) — shelters another presence . |
| 3 | They know that behind the posing , the lippy interviews and Piotr 's cocky , and somewhat questionable , backstage assertion that ‘ music only began in 1980 , everything before was just rubbish , ’ at the core of all truly great bands are , well , truly great songs . |
| 4 | Whilst not denying the symbolic role of leaders , radical elite theorists are more concerned to establish that behind the diversity of official power holders in every liberal democracy there is a defacto centralization of ‘ real ’ decision-making power in the hands of a core executive : the locus of the power elite . |
| 5 | So that behind the changes of direction , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , this has always been a constant , the feeling of disgust in the pit of the stomach . |
| 6 | All our lives , we shall know that behind the veils of the transcendent is a world of freedom waiting for us , with its meadows of delight . |
| 7 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 8 | So we think : is she saying that behind the glamour and the adulation , especially from young girls , she is really just one of them ? |
| 9 | However , not only is the wind downwind of a sail affected but also that behind the board , since the sail curves the wind and it takes a few board lengths for it to revert to its normal direction . |
| 10 | This was the proper enterprise of the loving wife , to defend her man ; the men performed their acts of authority and occupied the seats of visible influence , but you did n't have to be especially keen-eyed to see that behind the card-players and the drinkers , the officials in their pompous uniforms , the clerks with their mounds of bureaucratic forms , the farmers and the peasants , women were standing . |
| 11 | For example , Marx 's economic theory insists that behind the surface phenomenon of wildly fluctuating market prices for goods and services there lies an underlying and controlling structure of values , which are determined not by the supply and demand forces which obsess ‘ bourgeois ’ economists , but by the laws of the labour theory of value . |
| 12 | In the case of Romania , people suspected that behind the arguments about economies of scale and equalized standards of living lay more sinister purposes . |
| 13 | She did not know as she smiled innocently at the flowers that behind the cigarette smoke was the cause of future sorrow in her life . |
| 14 | Yet another , Bertrand Blier , senses that behind the clowning ‘ there is a terrible sense of anguish . ’ |
| 15 | The form alone would be as nothing , a shell , but with the knowledge we have that behind the form is the reality — that behind the ritual on the physical plane there is a spiritual significance . |
| 16 | Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ . |
| 17 | But when the appeal of fire-spewing guitars and exploding basses started to pall , Kiss were forced to prove that behind the pan-stick and pyrotechnics lay a band with staying power . |
| 18 | As they rounded the edge of the building , he could see that behind the house was a vast garden . |