Example sentences of "[art] place of the " in BNC.

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1 The interpretation of imagery , the circumstances of production , the place of the work in the artist 's career , the historical context , the precise information about the work 's appearance and condition , these are things that can be fully discussed in a monograph .
2 It could be argued that the myths of Ulster protestantism and the institution of the Orange order take the place of the more centralized clerical organization of Roman catholicism in providing some element of overall religious unity among protestant loyalists .
3 However , that myth is not quite the one which appears to have penetrated everyday life , perhaps because the place of the victory is located within the borders of the Southern state .
4 ‘ Our boys ’ were being nurtured in the belief that they were the leaders of tomorrow , the ‘ happy few ’ who would one day be running whatever had now taken the place of the Empire .
5 But the tide runs deeper than that , and it is surely at one with the desire to reassert the place of the human figure at the heart of all forms of creative life .
6 He has declared himself general co-ordinator of a new Parliament of Popular Power which , although it has no legislative authority , appears destined to take the place of the country 's National Assembly , which was dissolved last month .
7 If students in the 1990s have difficulty in distinguishing all the political parties and coalitions that sprang up in Petrograd after the February Revolution , how could a peasant in 1917 be expected to assimilate them in the place of the Tsar , who at least represented a more easily understood form of political authority ?
8 He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists .
9 Stone shows no awareness of the place of the Royal Commission 's recommendations within the politics of the postwar debate on the disintegration of the family , which was almost as much a preoccupation of the 1940s and early 1950s ( the Commission was set up in 1952 ) as it was during the 1980s .
10 The Asiatic mode of production is characterized by the importance of the State and the place of the State in the conceptualization of property .
11 More important , however , is the central fact that in the elevation of the place of the gens in their system , they consummated the fatal union between what we have called their rhetorical and their historical use of anthropology .
12 The mixer tap takes the place of the existing bath taps , and can be used either to fill the bath or provide a shower .
13 It so happened , entirely by coincidence , that Coghill lent Lewis a copy of Williams 's novel The Place of the Lion at precisely this moment .
14 The excitement of The Place of the Lion is in its power to shake the reader up — to make us feel that the world is not the place we thought it was .
15 In The Place of the Lion , the Platonic archetypes of which objects and creatures in the world are but reflections or repetitions actually appear .
16 At the very moment Lewis was finishing The Place of the Lion , Williams was reading The Allegory of Love with great admiration .
17 Many readers of The Place of the Lion would be unable to convict the heroine of ‘ sin ’ at all .
18 The man with the acoustic guitar and stupid headgear launches into an awful rendition of Dire Straits ' Sultan Of Swing , out-of-key hummings taking the place of the Knopfler guitar solo , while his florid chum scampers down the aisle embarrassing travellers to such an extent that they all toss loose change into the jumbo jamjar .
19 But look at the new companies which take the place of the old order , says Mr Chandler : almost all have followed the first-mover formula and grown big .
20 In some parts of the country it has been the practice to sell freehold land for building , and to take the price in the form of a perpetual rentcharge created by the purchaser ; this practice took the place of the more common building lease .
21 Then the pair of them returned to the place of the burnt-out patch and in the relative safety of that refuge huddled there as the bush fire swept down on them .
22 Her husband , who had a bristly white moustache , wore in winter a hand-knitted Balaclava helmet , a long cloth coat , and boots ; in summer , a cap took the place of the helmet , and a light jacket the coat .
23 Then the kitchen ; and the small scullery , bathroom , and lavatory , which had taken the place of the older , larger scullery .
24 At Bethel , the place of the vision of the stairway to heaven , God promised him that he would be with him , that he would keep him wherever he went , that he would bring him back to the Land , and would not leave him .
25 It is in Michel Foucault that we can find a broader view of the place of the pathological female in the modern medical paradigm .
26 But there still appears to be a need to create a family environment and increasingly , the dog is taking the place of the child .
27 A small one allows air in to take the place of the liquid and also supplies the jet of water for rinsing the inside of the spray containers .
28 Thus the Rocko-Vario outfit ca n't take the place of the individual screwdrivers .
29 You should then find that one of the buds near the break point becomes dominant over the others and can be trained to take the place of the original leader .
30 Our kings and emperors , who take the place of the almighty ruler in this world , are set above all other pastors ; and it is entirely incongruous that those whom Christ , mindful of his flock , has constituted princes of this earth [ i.e. bishops ] , should be under the dominion of any but those who excel all mortals by the blessing of God and the glory of their crown .
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