Example sentences of "a tribute to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queensland author Neil Phillipson recalled the incident in his 1974 biography Man of Iron , which he called a tribute to a ‘ living legend ’ . |
| 2 | It is given in translation here as a tribute to a brave man who fought under British leadership for the freedom of his country . |
| 3 | John Parkinson offers a tribute to a famed astronaut |
| 4 | Pels-Leusden in Berlin , and Wolfgang Werner 's Berlin and Bremen galleries and Edwin Vömel in Düsseldorf are collaborating on a large-scale project designed as a tribute to a largely undiscovered sculptor , Hermann Blumenthal ( 1905–42 ) . |
| 5 | The flight was a tribute to a fellow enthusiast who died earlier this year from cancer . |
| 6 | Was the gesture a tribute to an old woman facing with dignity and courage a last tragedy ? |
| 7 | One of the major retrospective strands of this year 's Festival is a tribute to the French film director Bertrand Tavernier , whose latest film THESE FOOLISH THINGS starring Dirk Bogarde and Jane Birkin , has received critical acclaim and a warm reception from audiences . |
| 8 | But the playing , under Peter Stranger , is fluent and stylish , a tribute to the high musical standards of the Music Theatre programme at the Banff Centre in Alberta ( where the piece originated ) . |
| 9 | But the text could serve equally as a tribute to the man himself . |
| 10 | Given their atrocious living conditions , it is a tribute to the tenacity of the Saratov peasantry that even this number appeared . |
| 11 | It is a tribute to the importance of her personality that her advisers have spent much time on her image . |
| 12 | It has already lasted longer than the one two years ago , a tribute to the organisational powers of the independent miners ' union , which unites the various strike committees that sprang up in 1989 . |
| 13 | As a tribute to the Godfather of hip hop , Afrika Bambaataa , it demonstrated a due respect for the past , while signalling her intention to become a force in the future . |
| 14 | It was , above all , a tribute to the formidable political ability of Mary of Guise . |
| 15 | It is a tribute to the efficacy of Daynurse ( recommended by his driver ) , and the restorative powers of malt whisky ( a present for his 50th birthday ) that the campaign did not take a more visible toll . |
| 16 | It was disappointing , given the stress in these new regulations on quality of courses , the needs of the area and the amount of students ' contributions , that an even higher proportion of grant-aid could not be given : but the Ashby Report itself had talked of only 75% and that as a maximum , so any advance on this was an achievement , and a tribute to the District 's work . |
| 17 | Set in the most spectacular surroundings , it is also known as the ‘ Village of the Glaciers ’ , a tribute to the two glaciers which stretch from the mountain gorges to the valley floor . |
| 18 | His first volume of poems published in 1764 is essentially a tribute to the gardening skills of his patron , William Shenstone . |
| 19 | The widening at the top is a tribute to the towers of the Sforzas , who were also fond of this sort of fungal shape . |
| 20 | National Trust members Jerry Hall , Susan Hampshire , Angela Thorne and Gavin Campbell were joined by Trust staff in a tribute to the charity 's President , HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother , for her official birthday parade in June . |
| 21 | It was in any case something of a miracle — and a tribute to the tenacity of the Lebanese — that their Covenant worked for as long as it did . |
| 22 | It is a tribute to the Boots system that they are still by far the most common ex-library books . |
| 23 | Growing at a rate of about ten metres a day , by May 1903 the spine was no less than 310 metres high , rearing up above St Pierre like a memorial obelisk , a tribute to the thousands that had died below . |
| 24 | The job of promoting the LP was made simple for Red Rhino when the band decided to call the album ‘ George Best ’ in a tribute to the flamboyant Manchester United and Northern Ireland winger . |
| 25 | And what first-class entertainment it was — a tribute to the hard work and team effort put in by staff and children from the top four classes . |
| 26 | By the time this mill was built , it was possible to use an iron windshaft and gears instead of the all-timber machinery that had for centuries been such a tribute to the skills and ingenuity of millwrights and carpenters . |
| 27 | After Brunel 's death , and in more prosperous times , work was recommenced on a modified design , as a tribute to the great man whose career as an independent engineer had begun with this project , and the bridge was finally opened to traffic in 1864 . |
| 28 | Subsequently , the floods came down and went over the whole bridge , topping the rails , and it was a tribute to the efficiency of both its design and erection that the bridge withstood this successfully . |
| 29 | Neither the 1911 Act nor the 1956 one contained provisions to allow the system of stamps to be short-circuited , so the fact that such short-circuiting eventually became feasible was a tribute to the maturity of the industry . |
| 30 | A TRIBUTE TO THE PEOPLE OF WORLD WAR II |