Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , Erika had enjoyed it , very much so ; the proud little manager , looking at the other guests , the intimacy of the talk with her mother , and , knowing her mother 's pride in her children , she had been touched by her concern about the special sports school . |
| 2 | Lying in bed , Pilade still asleep in her arms , she remembered the journeys she had made with the Brownings and the pleasure the intimacy of the carriage had given her . |
| 3 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 4 | The full stage production has the advantage of scenery — the exterior and interior of the home in the Boston area — but loses the intimacy of the in-the-round presentation at the Studio theatre . |
| 5 | But if she takes her job too seriously , and acts in this way towards her own children at home , she will lose the intimacy of the relationship and seem a very impersonal and unkind mother . |
| 6 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 7 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 8 | The intimacy of the enforcement relationship is a characteristic of compliance systems where the control of a distinct population of potential violators is directed to ‘ organizations or persons in organized activities [ rather ] than to individuals apart from them ’ ( Reiss , 1980:31 ) . |
| 9 | Interestingly , the exhibition identifies two paintings in particular as possessing this quality of intimacy : William Nicholson 's and Victor Pasmore 's portraits of their respective in which the intimacy of the marital relationship , it is supposed , finds direct pictorial expression in the paintings themselves . |
| 10 | The intimacy of the Stuart brothers with George III was much disliked by the House of Commons . |
| 11 | He justified his secrecy to himself as a necessary precaution , but , lying somewhat deeper , there was a wish to preserve the intimacy of the link with Heather that they represented , a desire to conceal both his possession of them and his pursuit of what they meant . |
| 12 | There was something about the moment and the intimacy of the setting that was driving Merrill to a sharp crest of awareness . |
| 13 | Each offers a unique atmosphere , from the grandeur of the Renaissance Palace at Stirling Castle to the intimacy of the Gallery at Aberdour Castle . |
| 14 | Firstly , one comes to notice the title , ‘ 73 ’ , which appears rather perplexingly anonymous considering the intimacy of the poem . |
| 15 | He took her hand , lifting it to his lips , brushing his mouth softly across the palm , until her whole being shivered with the intimacy of the contact . |
| 16 | Her lips parted , inviting him to deepen the intimacy of the kiss . |
| 17 | How can I be so curmudgeonly , so rude , to an organisation which makes it possible for me to enjoy the serenity of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal , the bone-chilling bleakness of Housesteads , the intimacy of the walled garden at Wallington ? |
| 18 | Webb was one of the key figures in the restructuring of the Football League following the breakaway of the Premier League . |
| 19 | SOCRATES and Plato may be unlikely corner men for an aspiring heavyweight champion , but Lennox Lewis , the man reluctantly carrying the tag of the next Frank Bruno , is a lover of philosophy , and admits to being ‘ one of those deep-thinking kind of guys ’ . |
| 20 | More television and radio , telephones that go everywhere with you , and in particular the defence of the nation , all take a toll on the frequency spectrum . |
| 21 | Labour also moved towards more concern for the consumer , towards an acceptance of the need for legal curbs on the power of the unions , and the party 's need to confirm itself as the defence of the law and order sought by working-class citizens . |
| 22 | The defence of the British Isles was , and only could be , conducted by the Government in London . |
| 23 | The defence of the format of these books is that they were written as part of a struggle . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher will have to be satisfied with the assurances she will receive from Mr Bush , who will tell her that , since defence cuts are politically inevitable , it is far better for modest and planned reductions to be proposed by his cabinet and the Pentagon than for swingeing cuts to be imposed by the US Congress , which is already chafing at the thought of the US budget deficit being deepened to pay for the defence of the wealthy Europeans . |
| 25 | THE Bush Administration stressed four legal justifications on Wednesday for its invasion of Panama : the protection of American lives , the defence of the Panama Canal , the backing of the country 's ‘ democratically elected ’ officials , and the pursuit of an indicted US drug criminal — namely , General Noriega . |
| 26 | Few strategists would gainsay the primacy of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — upon which the sovereignty of the realm depends ; though , paradoxically , the United Kingdom has usually been so secure behind its sea walls that Home Defence has been accorded the lowest allocation of resources . |
| 27 | It rose to its highest point of 5.4 per cent in 1984 , falling back again to 4.7 per cent in 1988 , and with a threat of a further decline to the lowest point since the Second World War of 4.4 per cent in 1989 — despite all the Conservative Party 's claims to be the party that looks after the defence of the realm . |
| 28 | As far as the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — was concerned , the country was , paradoxically , more secure and yet more vulnerable than it had ever been . |
| 29 | Until the RAF was carrying atomic bombs , the First Pillar of British grand strategy — the defence of the United Kingdom — depended upon the US Strategic Air Command . |
| 30 | Sandy 's view of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — was chillingly realistic : |