Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pintsch had become an addict of the hobby early in the thirties , as had most of his friends . |
| 2 | Another adviser saw the purpose of the self-appraisal chiefly in terms of providing documentation and allowing schools to explain what they are doing : |
| 3 | When he woke from an exhausted sleep Greg had — he felt — one piece of the jigsaw definitively in place : the letter from Walter Machin to Hilda dated 2 June 1939 was a fake . |
| 4 | Finding Faith Today is a major report on evangelism , based on research carried out by the Bible Society on behalf of the Church Together in England . |
| 5 | We all moved out of the church down to the lake which glistened brightly , though the island itself was still mist-shrouded . |
| 6 | Carefully , crouching to hold the jar low against the ground lest the wind whip any of the powder back towards him , he sprinkled the contents of the jar across the end of the dirt road just before the gate . |
| 7 | He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket . |
| 8 | Queen 's Bench Masters ' Practice Direction of 25 March , 1988 requires that where an order is made transferring an action from the Queen 's Bench Division to a county court , the party having carriage of the order by himself or his solicitor shall forthwith produce at the Filing Department of the Central Office the order transferring the action and shall file : ( 1 ) a copy of the order transferring the action ; ( 2 ) a statement of the names and addresses of the parties and of their solicitors ; ( 3 ) copies of any pleadings served ; ( 4 ) if he is the plaintiff and has not served a statement of claim , particulars of his claim together with a copy for each defendant ; ( 5 ) if he is the defendant and only a counterclaim is transferred and no counterclaim has been served , particulars of the counterclaim together with a copy for the plaintiff ; ( 6 ) where money has been paid into court , a copy of the notice of payment into court ; ( 7 ) a statement of the index numbers of any affidavits filed . |
| 9 | A striking price is arrived at which will be in excess of the minimum offer price if the issue is oversubscribed otherwise at the minimum tender price , and the issue is allocated in proportion to the size of the bids regardless of the price bid ( except those that underbid the striking price ) . |
| 10 | Last night trained officers were trying to coax details of the ordeal out of the victim in an attempt to build a picture of the rapist . |
| 11 | One of the projects close to commercial realisation uses optical fibre to sense a current flowing in a conductor . |
| 12 | by carrying some of the profit forward from last year to this year . |
| 13 | Any edging of the conflict either towards war between Syria and Israel or towards a peace settlement spelt danger for Jordan . |
| 14 | Certainly the Catholic Church had a vested interest in Aristotelian philosophy , but much of the conflict ostensibly between science and religion turns out to have been between new science and the sanctified science of the previous generation . |
| 15 | Look — ’ he held one of the globes out to Pascoe . |
| 16 | The stored program concept , the realization that instructions can be encoded and held in the store of the computer together with the data being operated on , is an important one for two reasons . |
| 17 | To most westerners it may appear as a mere decorative embellishment reflecting the ubiquitous presence of the Cobra all over India , or possessing some remote significance in terms of local superstition or religious belief . |
| 18 | Of the rest , over 500 are listed as road cars , so the thought of the Cobra purely as a racer is something of a myth . |
| 19 | Half fill the pot with moist soil , and put some damp rotting leaves or damp dead bark on top of the soil together with a slice or two of potato . |
| 20 | ‘ If you agree , Admiral , I suggest that Vincent contacts Greek Intelligence after Theodore has finished that list and furnishes them with a list of the towns together with the appropriate names and addresses . |
| 21 | Farm workers also gain intrinsic satisfaction from working with living and growing plants and animals and they share a sense of achievement when they are finally brought to maturity , the sequential nature of production allowing workers to be involved in all of the stages through to completion . |
| 22 | If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances . |
| 23 | Because of Hooke 's law , when a material is strained the stress in it varies from nothing at the beginning of the operation up to a maximum at the final strain . |
| 24 | In the past Gates had claimed to have heard rumours of the operation only on Oct. 1 , 1986 , less than seven weeks before it became public . |
| 25 | But there are signs of haste in the recording or editing process — at 23'04 ’ in the first movement ( eight bars after fig. 69 ) the first piccolo appears to play G and A flat together , as though two takes have been momentarily overlaid ; then there is a stray timpani stroke at 9′52″ in the third movement , what sounds like a stray clonk on the xylophone at 3′54″ in the finale , and , most unfortunate of all , a discrepancy of tuning between the timpani and the rest of the orchestra later in this movement ( at 4′25″ , in the return of the introduction ) . |
| 26 | Irina took one of the cakes out of mid-air . |
| 27 | Figures like these have taken much of the fizz out of brewers ' forecasts . |
| 28 | While the rest of the humans bent down by one of the flat tyres it strolled up to the gate , fiddled the teeth of the pliers on to the padlock , and squeezed . |
| 29 | BY THE end of this month the International Stock Exchange will have a clearer idea of the problems ahead of it in its establishment of a clearing house for the settlement of share deals . |
| 30 | One of the problems still to be solved is the production of the right formulation to keep the BTI near the surface where anopheline larvae generally feed . |