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

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1 Owner Gordon King acquired the aircraft from Aces High in an exchange arrangement for an original B–25 nose section , to replace the panoramic camera nose fitted to N1042B ( see July 's FlyPast , p58 ) .
2 We put the staff in costumes instead of uniforms and we were the first to really ‘ love ’ children while other restaurants tolerated them . ’
3 The exhibition catalogue contains two essays by Dr Barnett on Kandinsky 's works in private collections and on the works on paper together with an examination of the theoretical basis of the artist 's work by Armin Zweite entitled ‘ Free the line for the inner sound : Kandinsky 's renewal of art in the context of his time ’ .
4 Certain objects admit of both verbs however and the contrast in meaning is highly revealing , as the pair of examples below from the Brown University Corpus shows : ( 136 ) … such comments as the following which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects …
5 She merely packed the pair of Purdeys away in a trunk in the attic , locked the trunk , and told no one , and it must have been assumed that they were sold with the rest of his things .
6 ‘ Sex was a means of access both to the life of the body and the life of the species . ’
7 Tell you what you can have a pair for Christmas instead of a computer .
8 One year , in June , we found a pair of swans still at Toftingall .
9 He wore a natty black business suit and a pair of sunglasses just like Rex 's .
10 mm , not bad are you gon na get erm a pair of trousers then from Mark 's ?
11 The Teesside TransPennine link is part of a series of changes now under way or in the pipeline for local services : — Northallerton and Thirsk will get hourly trains to York , Leeds , Manchester and Liverpool instead of two hourly ; — One train a day in each direction will take in Stockton , Hartlepool and Sunderland , terminating at Newcastle ; — The Monday to Saturday Darlington to Hartlepool service , barely used and regularly cancelled , will be axed next month .
12 The Teesside TransPennine link is part of a series of changes now under way or in the pipeline for local services : — Northallerton and Thirsk will get hourly trains to York , Leeds , Manchester and Liverpool instead of two hourly .
13 One of the recent visitors to Giverny was Roy Lichtenstein , who in 1969 had used Monet 's Rouen and Haystack series as the basis for a series of lithographs. then in 1991 he used the water-lilies theme of the Nymphéas for a series of works employing a new technique , the decorative machine turnings made by abrading metal in shining whirls , which , while looking like water have the reflectiveness of stainless steel .
14 The National Bowl is one of what we hope will be a series of venues all over Europe and we hope this one will become the first stop for major artists as they come to Europe
15 It invariably turns out that an operator makes a series of decisions partly on the basis of what is currently displayed ( on-line information ) and partly on the basis of other material obtained from his knowledge of the system performance , his briefing and his operating instructions ( off-line information ) .
16 Inspect the dpc 150mm ( 6in ) above ground level — a series of holes just above the dpc at 150mm intervals will indicate that a chemical dpc has been added .
17 A series of alerts all over the mainland came as the IRA yesterday declared a 72-hour Christmas truce for Northern Ireland .
18 A series of documents both in the First and in the Second Book of Maccabees reflects — I believe quite authentically for the majority of them — the decline of Syrian power in Judaea , but does not offer any precise clue to the intentions of Antiochus IV in Hellenizing Jerusalem .
19 From 1904 he was Connexional Evangelist and conducted a series of missions all over Ireland .
20 GMT ) on Feb. 24 , and consisted of a series of feints together with a three-pronged attack across a 480-km front .
21 Framed in the grimy windows is a series of pictures rather like a personal film show : fleeting dramas of everyday life , and sometimes the astonishing beauty of an untouched landscape .
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