Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two also produced criticisms of the experiments that saw nothing . |
| 2 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 3 | But it was the natural kindness of the Duke that helped me most . |
| 4 | There should have been a lifespan of twenty years for H3 , but other priorities had been higher , and every four years since 1973 there had been a doctoring of the patient , a new lick of paint on the inside , an attempt to reinforce the roofing against damp , new wiring to carry the power of the computer that ran their lives . |
| 5 | All the studio guys used hopped-up Fenders , and all the rock players used Marshalls , but ultimately there was nothing on the front of the amp that said my name . |
| 6 | The true cats of the genus Felis have a different attachment of the larynx that robs them of this ability . |
| 7 | He came across as a weak , indecisive leader wracked by doubt and in danger of drowning in the complexities of the problems that faced him . |
| 8 | It should be recognised that many of the problems that face us are not a result of the National Curriculum ; they have existed in the curriculum for decades . |
| 9 | This objective , though still sought as the panacea for all stratigraphical ills , has caused many of the problems that afflict us today . |
| 10 | Political ecologists-Greens-are radicals in the true sense of the word , going to the roots of the problems that beset our planet ; resource depletion , militarism , the exploitation of the Third World and so on . |
| 11 | He reiterated one of the problems that dogged him throughout life , which was fatigue ; for although he had on the whole a ‘ tough ’ constitution — at least he liked to think so — and tremendous will-power , he had driven himself very hard over the past twenty years . |
| 12 | When you went to the pictures you did n't want to be reminded of the problems that dogged you outside the cinema : jobs , children , money and so forth . |
| 13 | Remember however that current affairs and news programmes are rooted in the moment and the particular local concerns of the country that produces them . |
| 14 | As he dragged on his coat , she spoke , tentative , out of the misery that consumed her . |
| 15 | He moved at once , for he would not lie here on the floor before this ancient evil creature and , although it was awkward and painful to stand up because of the ropes that bound his arms , he did so in a swift fluid movement and stood eyeing the Robemaker . |
| 16 | He could hardly stand , he had to cling to one of the arms that helped him up . |
| 17 | She drank in the clean masculine smell of him , revelling in the power of the arms that held her so tightly , the tenderness of the hands that caressed her heated skin . |
| 18 | And yet , the technology really does have much to offer the professional graphic artist , compositor or printer if he or she can afford the time to sweep aside some of the hype that surrounds it . |
| 19 | Here 's another : an Arts Council-funded photographic project called What She Wants ( with a grant of £14,000 , half the sum requested ) is inviting women to submit intimate pictures of men , and a report of the session that produced them ( ‘ Did he let you do everything you wanted ? ’ ) . |
| 20 | MITI believes that such exports should be of less concern to advocates of managed trade than consumer goods , because components increase the competitiveness — and therefore the export potential — of the industries that buy them . |
| 21 | Holly searched for the next opportunity to strike again at the administration of the camp that held him . |
| 22 | This it manifestly does , but it is aware that it is not unique in doing so ( whence the many references to Tristam Shandy and Jacques le fataliste , archetypes of the novel that undermines its own stated project of telling a story ) . |
| 23 | Without a sound the men of Ruthyn , more than half of those leading the pursuit , fell with the impetus of the arrows that pierced them , heeling out of their saddles like a breaking wave , downhill from the forest . |
| 24 | A photography , after all , has a great capacity not to look like its subject : ‘ I 've hundreds of photographs of the Queen that look nothing like her . ’ |
| 25 | They can be studied as examples of uses of the medium in the context of the society that produced them . |
| 26 | I might argue that a particular capitalist economist is so embedded in the political and economic structure of the society that employs him that he fails to represent adequately the challenge levelled by ‘ political economy ’ to the perspective he purveys , and thus fails to take into account multiple points of view . |
| 27 | To Clara , it was always painfully conspicuous , an indictment of a way of life ; she knew nothing of the history of slop basins , nor of the society that evolved them and their joyless name , but the sight of one affected her like some shameful family secret . |
| 28 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
| 29 | She was fascinated by the Saloon , set out for dinner with silver and glass ; she hovered over the display of figureheads ; but it was the rigging of the clipper that caught her imagination most . |
| 30 | Even if John 's own feelings were more idealistic than political , it was his feelings about South African treatment of the blacks that prevented him from going back . |