Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 There is a good deal of evidence elsewhere in the Digest to show that in civil-law dispositions too intention was regarded as the key to application of a condition or a term ; and this goes back as early as Pegasus .
2 The hunters , usually dominant males , spend a great deal of time together in the process .
3 Adams ( 1985b ) illustrates this kind of difficulty in showing how a subject with good vision in the right eye , but perception of light only in the left eye , could easily bump into a half-open door before realising it was there .
4 Sadly , the gloom of World Cup failure prevails ; Denmark 's 1–0 defeat of Albania earlier in the day rendered even the most optimistic mathematician 's calculator redundant .
5 She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward .
6 One day their terms of reference will be agreed and there 'll be no mention of happiness anywhere in the document .
7 Preliminary estimates suggest that insurance claims could reach between £200 million and £300 million after taking into account the damage to buildings , the cost of reconstruction and loss of business both in the City and at Staples Corner .
8 Hering realized that disease was the result of imbalance somewhere in the body and that if a true cure was to be effected , the imbalance had to be corrected .
9 The relative initial velocity of channel activation by cGMP was plotted against the concentration of cGMP either in the presence ( i ) or absence ( ○ ) of calmodulin .
10 This was the first departmental review under new procedure agreed with Heads of Departments earlier in the year .
11 Tomorrow morning it 'll be dry wit hazy sunshine but increasing cloud is likely to give outbreaks of rain later in the afternoon .
12 It is the nature of the work that produces a tendency among men to see it as essential and elemental , all those images of men down in the abdomen of the earth , raiding its womb for the fuel that makes the world go round .
13 It was a unique happening to find thirteen acres of land together in the site and it 's not going to occur again .
14 A blotch of green light registered the psychic throb of life deep in the interior of the hulk .
15 One way to bring these different aspects of quality together in a concerted way is through total quality management , discussed later in the chapter .
16 All I had to show for it , as I mopped my brow , were sympathetic words of congratulation back in the pavilion — and the club 's Cricketer of the Year award .
17 Archaeology and history combine to show that jade was rated more highly than gold among some of the most sophisticated and highly civilized peoples of antiquity both in the Old World and the New.l To understand the appeal of jade it is essential to handle the material itself .
18 When a taxi-driver took the band to the wrong side of town earlier in the day , the Franks simply sat on a nearby wall , chilled out and waited for ‘ someone else ’ to panic and discover their whereabouts .
19 If we sample one of these cavities in which the process is er which produce boils er are going on , almost inevitably we find this organism staphylococcusorius and offspotulates have been clearly fulfilled with organism and this disease most notably by a bunch of of medical students who are subjected to all sorts of tortures by their professor of microbiology back in the nineteen fifties .
20 There was a trace of amusement now in the softness of his tone .
21 Given the alternative of storage internally in the mind or externally in a file ( paper-based or computer-based ) external records are much superior for literal reproductions at least in western societies ( there is anecdotal evidence concerning illiterate traders in other cultures who seem to have remarkable memories for detailed facts and numbers connected with their personal business ) .
22 The work of Feyerabend and Kuhn suggests that unqualified talk of progress even in the natural sciences is going too far .
23 ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’
24 Somehow he had missed the announcement that Tubby was in command of one of the Dublin Black and Tan units — he had enough to do maintaining the morale and the strictly military role of his own division in Cork without spending time scanning the lists of appointments elsewhere in the country .
25 The gain is in the emotion of love not in the greed of wanting some other person 's love which is only a form of acquisitiveness and immediately defiles love .
26 The white marble figure of Bacchus now in the ilex walk at Ham House in Richmond , for example , is almost certainly that mentioned in a 1672 inventory — ‘ For 1 Pedastall for ye figure Bacchus ’ .
27 ( 2 ) Chattel mortgage legislation does not apply to a genuine contract of hire even in the case of a sale and leaseback .
28 The National Gallery , Washington , already owns two smaller views of the ‘ The Castle of Nymphenburg ’ and ‘ A view of Munich ’ , donated by the Kress Foundation in 1961 , but these are less ‘ important ’ , being replicas of originals now in the Residenzmuseum , Munich .
29 Meanwhile black youths looking for novels that reflect their own experience have had to make do with poetic accounts of life back in the Caribbean , or black gangster pulp imported from the States .
30 These restrictions on testation had disappeared over the greater part of England early in the fourteenth century , but they survived in the province of York till 1692 , in Wales till 1696 , and in London till 1724 .
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