Example sentences of "[art] [adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fig. 123 the violent diagonal of the hero 's body , twisting back as he throws himself across , lies over the counter-diagonal of the bull , carved in low relief on the background but it too turning its head out and back . |
| 2 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 3 | TO DISTRIBUTE AMONG THE NEEDY OF THE PARISH |
| 4 | Unlike other professors at Oxford , the Professor of Poetry is elected by the MAs of the University : that is to say , not only by the dons , but also by all the old members of the University who have paid the appropriate fees and undergone , either in person or in absentia , a short ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre . |
| 5 | For this object thus much is effected by works of imagination : — that they carry the mind out of self , and show the possible of the good and the great in the human character . |
| 6 | The railway is currently under construction and will be using the trackbed of the long-closed Newbury Railway , previously standard gauge and originally Brunel 's broad gauge . |
| 7 | One of the proposals to relieve traffic congestion on Buxton Road seemed to envisage — details were difficult to obtain using the trackbed of the railway line together with a 100 feet wide portion of the field to create an urban motorway . |
| 8 | Du Camp reports Gustave 's plans for ‘ A Winter in Paris ’ — an extravaganza incorporating the luxury of the Roman Empire , the refinement of the Renaissance , and the faerie of the Thousand and One Nights . |
| 9 | The programme provided for the discussion of various topics on the first two days , as told in the preceding chapter , and for Saturday , January 18 , it read : Proposal to form the National Deaf Association , on the American lines , the objects of which will be the protection , and the educational and social elevation of the deaf of the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Everyone else finally dispersed on that Sunday , each having played a part in writing the Leeds Congress into the history book of the deaf of the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | Somehow , the aircraft had not been adequately lashed down on the low loader and as the lorry moved forward the Firefly rolled off its trestles on to the bed of the lorry damaging the undersides of the aircraft in the process , the aircraft was then reloaded and secured and thankfully the reset of the trip to Duxford was uneventful . |
| 12 | Nine o'clock tomorrow okay ? the things that we 've talked about you know the complete of the company worker and you 're happy with those |
| 13 | The words were scrawled on the frontal of the marble high altar . |
| 14 | There are several splendid houses near Long Melford that would make for a gentle afternoon 's potter through the rooms and possessions of the rich of a few centuries ago . |
| 15 | Labour 's promises of a better life depended absolutely and solely on the further success of the global economy further to enrich the people of Britain by means of the same flow of wealth from the poor to the rich of the world . |
| 16 | Going around listening to the fat and the rich of the land confessing their secret sins , and secretly mocking us every time we reach a stone wall and can go no further ? |
| 17 | Later , with the shutters closed against the night , the four of them sat within the ingoing of the great fireplace of the hall , on two cushioned benches on either side of the glowing , hissing log fire . |
| 18 | In 1975 , for instance , journalists arriving in Beirut would invariably be told by the Lebanese of the halcyon days which had just ended , of the peaceful Phoenician land in which Christians and Muslims had shown the world that historically religious antagonists could live in peace . |
| 19 | It says much for the sang-froid of the practised musician that , despite the intrusion of a bomb hoax , both Dame Joan and the orchestra resumed the published programme as if no interruption had occurred . |
| 20 | Lost in the Musick of the whirling Flail , |
| 21 | He urged the unemployed of the north to ‘ get on your bike ’ and look for work , as his window-cleaner father had done in the thirties . |
| 22 | They turned into World 's End , and opened the door into the peaceful garden where the faithful of the Moravian sect lie buried . |
| 23 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 24 | In psycholinguistics , an item 's meaning , it is said , can be analysed into a number of semantic markers — components or features also found in the meanings of other items , eg the -ly of an adverb such as clearly — and a distinguisher , which is the residue of meaning after the markers have been deducted ( clear ) . |
| 25 | Leave the dim of the bucket about 1–2in above soil level . |
| 26 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 27 | For example , if R = ( Rij ) is the reciprocal of a lower triangular matrix L then unc where a , b , c , … must be nonzero ; otherwise unc and R does not exist . |
| 28 | Since an element in the reciprocal of a matrix M is defined as the ratio of the cofactor of the corresponding element in M to the determinant |
| 29 | The reciprocal of a persymmetric matrix is not in general also persymmetric ; e.g. unc A persymmetric matrix can be treated as symmetric for the purpose of reciprocation , but otherwise it is not special . |
| 30 | and a half , one over two the reciprocal of a half if you turn it the other way round it 's two over one |