Example sentences of "characteristic of [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terminal and internal groups can also be distinguished , as an absorption band at about 11.0 µm is characteristic of a vinyl group and indicates . |
| 2 | The heart shape that is characteristic of a barn owl 's face was just beginning to show through . |
| 3 | This is characteristic of a Cockney accent . |
| 4 | Spenser 's preoccupation is characteristic of a Renaissance humanism which believed literature could move right readers to moral purpose . |
| 5 | This sort of interviewing could well be characteristic of a community survey where the researcher went from person to person linking up kinship networks , occupational groups , recreational groups , religious bodies , and so on . |
| 6 | This concentration of digestion at the incisor tips is highly characteristic of the prey assemblages of the category 2 species ( Fig. 3.22 F-I ) , and must be linked with heavier digestion combined with the high retention rate of the incisors in the jaws ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , most of the digestion occurring while the incisors are still in place in the jaws ( Fig. 3.22 H ) : in the long-eared owl samples , four times as many in situ incisors are digested as isolated incisors and three times as many for Verreaux eagle owl ( data from Table 3.13 ) . |
| 7 | And , in an argument utterly characteristic of the mercantilist view of a conflict-ridden world , Norris raised the bogey of the old rival France ; he claimed that France 's naval power had been so strengthened by her own involvement in the slave trade that if Britain discontinued it not only would her commercial prosperity decline but she would lose naval predominance . |
| 8 | Hot ionised gases , and the impurities they contain , also produce spectral lines that are characteristic of the plasma temperature . |
| 9 | This bottlenecking is characteristic of the life cycles of all many-celled animals and most plants . |
| 10 | The kind of novel learning environment that is characteristic of the pilot CPVE schemes now being implemented , which breaks down the traditional barriers of subjects , compartmentalized lessons and didactic teaching , may well spread rapidly into other areas of the school 's work . |
| 11 | This condition is characteristic of societies dominated not only by kinship but also by feudalism or slavery ; it is also characteristic of the peasant village . |
| 12 | The self-criticism that Neale volunteers is characteristic of the Blake training , but one of the features that some critics find most disturbing . |
| 13 | This was to be characteristic of the Béarnais nobility throughout the Hundred Years War . |
| 14 | The political theory of liberalism was derived from a variety of sources : the facts and necessities of the national rising ; the commonplaces of the eighteenth-century natural law school and Montesquieu ; the historically tinged constitutionalism and the generalized feeling for reform that was characteristic of the Godoy epoch ; the more radical brand of constituent reform that found strong press support in 1808 ; the influence and example of France ; the works of Bentham . |
| 15 | It had been noted previously that certain phonological features characteristic of West Belfast where both Clonard and Andersonstown were located were also characteristic of the mid-Ulster dialect spoken in Lurgan ( as opposed to the Ulster-Scots dialect of Belfast 's northern and eastern hinterland ) . |
| 16 | It is characteristic of the trade wind belts of the Pacific , but does not occur in monsoon or Doldrum areas there , and is either very patchy on , or absent from Indian and Atlantic Ocean reefs . |
| 17 | The fact that all three babies had been born with an incurable heart condition was characteristic of the Rollerson side of the family , but Maud preferred to blame her husband , and the marriage suffered as a consequence . |