Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , as I watched all this from the very end of the slow queue , I had thought it would be me who would have been regarded the potential menace as I was at the wheel of the most outrageously styled and priced supercar ever . |
| 2 | It is the combined effect of all these forces , together with the political isolation of the most vulnerable in society , which is leading to a disenfranchisement of one part of the population from full citizenship . |
| 3 | A common feature of these studies is the association of a more cuboidal cell shape with differentiated cell phenotype and expression of the genes for cytochromes and albumin . |
| 4 | It 'll be interesting to see how a major label tries to curtail their waywardness , but for now you 're wide awake in a dream thinking of a more menacing early ACR , what with horns like scythes , found voices babbling , shouted , hoarse semi-raps and two funky drummers . |
| 5 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 6 | There is no conception in Adorno of listeners coproducing musical meaning directly , at the moment of creation ; clearly this has to do with his undervaluing of performance and overvaluing of the written score , as well as with the centrality in his thinking of a relatively narrow , homogeneous musical culture , in which variations in musical interpretation were not significant . |
| 7 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 8 | This was all very much in line with the current thinking of the more policy-minded Indirect Rulers : Margery Perham , and even Lugard , supported the formation of regional councils along these lines . |
| 9 | Thinking of the almost natural way in which particularly young middle-class girls , but by no means only they , repressed all behaviour and thoughts concerning sex , one could say , that in many respects the preceding middle-class generations had to restrain their sexual — and possibly other — urges and inclinations , because these controls functioned quite blindly , beyond the conscious control of the individuals concerned … . |
| 10 | Common sense said otherwise , but the unheeding kindness of the very poor took little account of that , Sally-Anne had found . |
| 11 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 12 | Little relative movement between the Indian and Eurasian Plates seems to have occurred between the Middle Eocene and Early Miocene , but isostatic readjustment of the presumably thickened crust resulted in a withdrawal of the sea on the adjacent Indian continental lowland . |
| 13 | There was now the added problem of his huge work schedule , and she was being viewed as the girlfriend of a very successful actor — when time allowed . |
| 14 | An episode of a singularly disquieting nature recently came to the notice of our reporter , concerning the unaccountable disappearance of one Richard Hamnett , a young Englishman . |
| 15 | There then follows the weirdest episode of a pretty weird two days . |
| 16 | The film included a suggestive ten-minute episode , set in an eighteenth-century brothel , in which a male customer chose a female prostitute , helped her undress in a bedroom and finally got into bed with her , and a frankly explicit ten-minute episode of a newly wed bride and groom set in a hotel bedroom . |
| 17 | Whilst it could only be considered such with the wisdom of hindsight , it was nevertheless seen at the time as a geographically limited episode of a much wider-ranging struggle . |
| 18 | An episode of the highly successful TV comedy The Likely Lads was based entirely on the two working-class Geordie protagonists not being told the result of a recorded game . |
| 19 | Three and a half years ago I described my experience of a meeting I attended for briefing on the brave new world of budget holding , the wild card of the recently published NHS Review . |
| 20 | Play and experiment of a more or less directly sexual nature is natural and normal among younger children and , provided it takes place in non-frightening circumstances between children of roughly the same age there is generally no harm in it at all . |
| 21 | This ‘ core ’ curriculum will make a useful and important contribution , but its elaboration pointed to trends which are as troublesome as the perception of a currently inadequate training provision . |
| 22 | It is vital to emphasize Tel Quel 's perception of the implicitly political nature of avant-garde writing : Ricardou shared the group 's belief in the ‘ critical function ’ of oppositional works . |
| 23 | The beautiful step of the verse , the cogent movement of thought and feeling throughout , the sensitive perception of the little balanced in the great and their mutual dependence , the extraordinary directness , here and there quite naked , achieved in spite of the complexity of the whole conception ; … |
| 24 | The directors must act in accordance with what they believe to be an appropriate balancing of the sometimes conflicting interests , but the court can not intervene merely because it disagrees with the way in which the directors have weighted those interests . |
| 25 | Edward had had to defer rather than abandon his plans , however , and in 1356 he sent Lancaster to Normandy with a small force of no more than 1,000 archers and 1,400 men-at-arms , which included supporting contingents from Normandy and from the Breton garrisons . |
| 26 | The ultimate sanction of oppositional nationalism is to claim legitimation for its own armed force against the armed force of the allegedly containing state . |
| 27 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 28 | They compelled officials to investigate matters they would much prefer to keep out of : all for the administration of a basically unworkable rule . |
| 29 | The increased role of councils in the local administration of a nationally organized welfare state had meant that an increased proportion of local spending was funded by central government grant , as well as centrally approved loans for capital spending . |
| 30 | The preliminary findings of a congressional panel established to investigate the " October Surprise " allegation — the claim that members of the Reagan-Bush election campaign conspired to reap political advantage in the 1980 presidential election campaign by preventing the administration of the then ( Democratic ) President , Jimmy Carter , from obtaining the release of US hostages held in Iran — were released on July 1 by the panel 's head , Lee H. Hamilton , a Democratic representative for Indiana . |