Example sentences of "and [art] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer Lodge was in mourning , dark drapes were closed against the pale , spring sunshine and the gloom within the rooms was accentuated by the soft sound of women weeping . |
| 2 | The oscilloscope picture shows the plug voltage and the voltage across the mosfet switch . |
| 3 | Here , at the site of the most devastating explosion in human memory , we wished to demonstrate both the unity and the fragility of the earth by blowing soap bubbles across the crater . |
| 4 | One significant point was noticeable : very few of the European deaf have any knowledge of a manual alphabet and the spelling on the hands by the British and American representatives caused many to pause and gaze with an added interest . |
| 5 | The user is then able to make a detailed search of the database , armed with the knowledge of its potential contents and the spelling of the terms involved . |
| 6 | Such programs have a dictionary disk and the spelling in the document is compared to that in the dictionary and corrected where necessary . |
| 7 | In general , what the nouveaux romanciers would jettison from modernism was the privileging of interiority and the portrayal of the awakening artistic sensibility : although writer figures occasionally appear in the fiction of Robert Pinget and Nathalie Sarraute , we find a rejection of the élitist preoccupation with the artist as a unique individual possessing a heightened awareness of reality . |
| 8 | National campaigns , like the support for Edward VIII during the abdication crisis of 1936 , and the portrayal of the BUF as a peace movement in the later 1930s , either fell on deaf ears or were only partially successful in changing the focus of fascist politics from the parish pump and the anti-immigrant concerns of the East End of London to wider issues . |
| 9 | In a doorway , wedged between a Guardian leader writer and a Kleinian analyst , Alan Headleand and his ex-tutor Otto Werner from the LSE were debating with a fine abstraction and a noble disregard of interruption the question as to whether or not a television programme was a primary product or a service , and whether , by implication or extension , Charles 's production company , Global Information Network ( Telex GIN ) was allied in ideological terms with the manufacturing or the service industries : with equal commitment Esther Breuer and Jules Griffin ( colleague of Liz Headleand ) were discussing the nature of ancestral voices in schizophrenic patients and in the Homeric and Biblical epic , and the portrayal of the Holy Ghost in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts . |
| 10 | Christopher Hitchens in Washington and the despondency of the Democrats . |
| 11 | The Republican militias were assisted in their efforts to defend Madrid by the discovery of a copy of the Nationalist plan of attack on the body of an Italian soldier ; a substantial delivery of Soviet arms , munitions and aircraft ; the arrival of the first contingent of International Brigade volunteers ; and the tenacity of the civilian population . |
| 12 | He was an outstanding craftsman in wood , and the panelling for the organ and the Headmaster 's Chair are just two examples of his work . |
| 13 | There was an abundance of help ( ‘ both seen and unseen ’ as one elder put it to me ) ; there was constant anxiety about the weather ; there was joy of meeting old friends and making new ones ; there was the amazing efficiency , imperturbability and the reticence of the treasury ; and the true pleasure of finding things for people . |
| 14 | It was a fundamental difference as to the methods to be used to acquire the surplus , and the time-scale of the transformation of agriculture into large-scale units , that divided them . |
| 15 | Briefing sessions should provide advice on : who is responsible for overseeing the removal — the employer or the employee ; choosing a contractor ; packing goods ; storage facilities on arrival ; and the time-scale of the removal process . |
| 16 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 17 | Scientific analysis , the assembly of technical and investment ‘ packages ’ and the acquiescence of the target population in the measures ordained are the result . |
| 18 | There would be a play-off between the Premier Division 's second-bottom club and the second-top in the First Division . |
| 19 | There seemed to be no jealousy , no discontent among them ; and the gaiety of the scene was such that I for a moment doubted whether unhappiness had any place in Rasay . ’ |
| 20 | Sugar have provided the right vehicle for Mould to tether his current world-view to , providing ( with Mould 's guitar and the tightness of the rhythm section ) a set of beautifully hard-knuckled rock arrangements that give him the clout he needs to reinforce the feeling inherent in his vocals . |
| 21 | With the reading of Hippolytus and the cracking of the outer shell of his cheerful , hard-working , no-nonsense self , introspection was running riot and ‘ spiritualism ’ — by which he clearly meant dabbling in affairs of the spirit rather than solely a preoccupation with the dead — had , by the summer of 1929 , taken a firm grip on him . |
| 22 | Central to their economic strategy was a commitment to reduce public expenditure ( except for the law and order budget ) and the breaking of the power of the trade unions . |
| 23 | According to the Bible , Samuel 1:5 , the Ark was desecrated by being placed in the Temple of Dagan , and Samson destroyed both the temple and the statue of the god in retribution before dying there himself . |
| 24 | This influenced the spirit and the formulation of the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 , so that the main tasks of country planning were viewed as being the exclusion of urban sprawl from rural areas . |
| 25 | However , with the comparatively recent revolution in geological views on the matter , and the promulgation of the theories of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading ( Ollier , 1981 ) , ocean basins seem to have become some of the less stable features of the earth 's crust . |
| 26 | Apart from the grandiosity of the plan , and the exaltation of the mood of Jubilate Agno , the work reveals the man in all his undefended innocence : ‘ For I blessed God in St. James 's Park till I routed all the company ’ . |
| 27 | And the finding of the suit a few years ago was the start of the hunt that they now have every year , ’ she explained matter-of-factly as though it were the most usual thing in the world . |
| 28 | Reforms of national insurance and the abolition of the pensioners ' earnings rule will effect most of the working population , claims the Treasury in this month 's Economic Progress Report . |
| 29 | A year later , in the year of the Beeching Report on the railways and the abolition of the death penalty in Britain , the pound had shifted to the equivalent of £8.56 today , so £2732.24 for a 289 Cobra means £23,388 in 1990 . |
| 30 | At the beginning of that period the devastating experience of the First World War and the abolition of the monarchy had created a hiatus in the self-confidence of the bourgeoisie which necessitated the founding of the legitimacy of the state on welfare principles ( Offe , 1984 ) . |