Example sentences of "in passing [art] " in BNC.

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1 Generally , though , the effect is one of stillness , of supreme design : it is only in passing a family raising picks over their heads to break the deep brown clods that you consider the huge effort which has made this landscape .
2 ‘ And beneath from the pebbles in passing a spark
3 However , we have already noted in passing a complication in the case of psychological facts .
4 The ethnic Albanian ministers had been tendering their resignations one by one since late March [ ibid. ] , and in passing a vote of confidence in the Kosovo government the provincial Assembly was apparently acting to prevent the government being left in the hands solely of its ethnic Serb members .
5 We have already mentioned in passing the state policies regarding the arts in Germany , the USSR and China ; there have been writers who followed the party lines by giving attention to those artists favoured by patronage , while neglecting others .
6 Turning back towards Hradčany Square once more , note in passing the statue of St Wenceslas by Č .
7 It was with this in mind that a unanimous Parliament supported not a conspiracy of Tory landowners , but Attlee 's postwar Labour Government in passing the 1947 Agriculture Act , which laid the foundations for the great agricultural revolution of our times .
8 I have mentioned in passing the potential advantages for schools and colleges with the arrival of the Education Reform Act ( 1988 ) .
9 Moreover , while Ms Heneson does mention in passing the other categories of AIDS victims — Haitian immigrants , IV drug users and transfused haemophiliacs — she refers to AIDS as the ‘ latest manifestation of Sodom and Gomorrah , ’ which betrays a serious ignorance of current Biblical scholarship , and she emphasises ‘ sexually hyperactive , urban gay men ’ .
10 In passing the NZRFU are evidently planning to overhaul their media relations systems — with Mains as a central figure — and one plan is to invite the media in their many forms to a cocktail party next month , and have the All Blacks there as waiters and drinks-carriers .
11 We have also noted in passing the important and increasing role which public authorities have come to play in many countries in the bargaining process .
12 In practice , a number of dealers had not succeeded in passing the little BIDS exam , and obviously had n't bothered to cheat their way through it either .
13 The previous instrument , a small electric organ presented in 1937 , was no longer adequate , but it had certainly proved its worth , when in 1946 W.L. Wyatt , then head boy , in passing the examination for the Diploma for the Royal College of Organists , had achieved a Distinction , probably without precedent for a boy still at school .
14 However , the case of In re Mew and Thorne ( 1862 ) 31 L.J.Bank. 87 shows that even in the middle of the last century the rule was not absolute : in that case Lord Westbury L.C. in construing an Act had regard to its Parliamentary history and drew an inference as to Parliament 's intention in passing the legislation from the making of an amendment striking out certain words .
15 But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation .
16 This is reinforced if the intention of Parliament in passing the Act was that deficits on internally generated revenue would most likely be incurred , not merely casually , but deliberately as a consequence of treating transport as a social service .
17 Erm what we 're trying to do here is to get the clerical sections more involved in the projects , and in passing the paper backwards and forwards .
18 In passing the bill Bourassa successfully resisted pressure from the separatist Parti Quebecois for an immediate referendum to capitalize on the post-Meech Lake disenchantment felt by many francophone Quebeckers towards anglophone Canada .
19 According to this case law , the announcement of the competition is considered as a proposal to conclude an individual contract of employment and the participation in the competition as an acceptance of this proposal , the conclusion of the contract being subject to the suspensive condition of the candidate 's success in passing the competitive examination .
20 honesty and a reduction in passing the buck
21 He words his request in a particularly ironic way : We may note here in passing the same coarse innuendo as in Dame Sirith , where the money is paid to the dame " " To buggen sep and swin " " .
22 The regulation provides further that LCH has no obligation to check a tender or documents received from a selling member , and that its act in passing the tender or documents to a buying member is not to constitute acceptance .
23 Indeed , I suppose , I even want to raise in passing the thought how single-minded should a poet be .
24 Constipation develops gradually in some children as a result of a progressive decrease in the frequency of bowel movements and a progressive increase in the difficulties in passing an excessively firm stool .
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