Example sentences of "[adj] grace " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sacrament is to do with with God 's free grace being available to all . |
| 2 | He will not for a moment allow that the doctrine of justification through free grace , received by faith , can lead to antinomianism ( Rom. 6:1ff ) . |
| 3 | In her first published work , in 1645 , Cary defended free grace while condemning the ‘ licentious ’ antinomianism with which it was often associated . |
| 4 | In 1660 he defended free grace in two public disputations at Allhallows against John Goodwin [ q.v. ] , the champion of free will . |
| 5 | He himself published a work extolling the riches of free grace for the saints . |
| 6 | Scene of superfluous grace , and wasted bloom , |
| 7 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 8 | He had a calculator to help , but tried to keep his temper , his blood this side of boiling point and a little , at least , of social grace by listening at the same time to a Schubert piano sonata on a portable radio alongside . |
| 9 | Not only do Christians have the necessary basis for such a concept , but we know that we are commanded to live out a standard unselfishness , far surpassing a mere social grace . |
| 10 | John 's manner was off-putting to the faint-hearted , but as I slowly got to know him , realised his lack of physical and social grace covered an ultra-soft centre , and I came to love the man . |
| 11 | But before that , back to the subject of dieting : social grace or psychological torture . |
| 12 | The narrow inner door had been invisible in the uniformity of the panelling , and its latch had made no sound as it was lifted ; but suddenly there was a man framed in the doorway , a lean , wiry , lightly-built creature , stepping out of the wall with a conjuror 's aplomb and a deer-hound 's lanky grace . |
| 13 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 14 | There was another grace , less strange than Francie 's but truncated . |
| 15 | Thus ‘ Somebody Knockin' ’ would have sat happily on ‘ Exile On Main Street ’ ( as would ‘ Cutting The Rug ’ and half the rest of the album ) , ‘ Time Gone By ’ has all the shambling grace of The Faces and everything is beef with tunes , guitars with feeling and amplifiers with revolvers and somehow it all sounds fresh as dew . |
| 16 | But , having been blessed with long , slender legs and what Paul described as a model-girl 's figure , she was used to being stared at , so she walked past them with her normal slightly coltish grace , her composure intact . |
| 17 | For he has this grace , that he is happy to eat fish fingers or Chinese takeaway or to cook the supper himself . |
| 18 | He graciously appeared to Abraham , who had no claim on him , and offered to give him a posterity like the stars of heaven : Abraham responded to this grace by an act of faith which issued in a life of obedience . |
| 19 | This image seems to be as appealing to romantic capitalists as it is to millenarian marxists , both of whom see it as a sort of primitive grace from which the modern world has fallen ( e.g. Diamond 1972 ; Wolf 1981 ; Durdin 1972 ; MacLeish 1972 ; Montagu 1976 ) . |
| 20 | As a gentleman amateur with a place at court , Cavendish was not himself fully a member of ‘ a profession worthie some grace ’ ( as he described music in his dedication ) . |
| 21 | He began to run about in front of her , to turn , to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace . |
| 22 | After we finished that poem , late in the evening of 2 November , we went walking through the streets of Salamanca for most of the night , for the poem had persuaded us that something remarkable was really happening to us , that some kind of poetic grace had been bestowed upon us . |
| 23 | From here on , the likes of Tashan must be discussed not in terms of ‘ spirit ’ , passion , emotional commitment , but ether , wire , the ocean , the paintings of Chirico , peculiar grace . |
| 24 | In 1798 , then , at the conclusion of Tintern Abbey , we find phrases indicative of the future — ‘ blessings ’ , ‘ zeal of holier love ’ , ‘ Shall e'er prevail against us ’ ; in Resolution and Independence ( 1802 ) we hear of ‘ peculiar grace . |
| 25 | It was Newton , curate of the parish , who wrote the now hackneyed evangelical hymn ‘ Amazing Grace ’ . |
| 26 | Out of this deep sense of the ‘ once and might have been ’ , which threw the wonder of salvation into sharp relief , he wrote the hymn , ‘ Amazing Grace ’ . |
| 27 | In the hush , broken only by the scraping of the shovels in the dirt and the soft thuds as it landed on the coffin , she sang ‘ Amazing Grace ’ . |
| 28 | And if his whistling Amazing Grace is supposed to keep our spirits up , he needs a refresher course in building team morale . |
| 29 | The couplet is both resentful of the Friend 's sexual betrayal and appealing : ‘ Lascivious grace , in whom all ill well shows , /Kill me with spites , yet we must not be foes . ’ |
| 30 | There was a perfect grace which architects had been working towards through the seventeenth century and which seemed to peak in its purest form at about this time , not without a little Royal influence from Holland ! |