Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally the inherent constraints of the archaeological evidence , our caution about the relationship between the archaeological record and the activities that formed it , and the limited research which has been carried out determine the cohesion and balance of a work of this type . |
| 2 | It is a body that simultaneously defines the continents and divides them from each other ; at the same time it knits together some of their distant and improbably linked civilizations , as well as their anthropologies and histories . |
| 3 | In other words , in each image Picasso synthesizes information obtained from viewing the subject from various angles , and , relying on his knowledge and memory of the structure of the human figure , he gives a complete and detailed analysis of the nature of the forms that compose it . |
| 4 | Tripoli was reported quiet yesterday , seemingly proving that Col Gaddafi is able to bring out the crowds and send them home at will . |
| 5 | Harvesting of clean white worm simply involves picking up the pebbles and dipping them in a small container of cold water . |
| 6 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |
| 7 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 8 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he shrieked , twisting about madly on the ropes that suspended him . |
| 9 | Then they cut the ropes that tied me and I was able to get to my feet . |
| 10 | I heard Bernice coming just in time to fold the photocopies and stuff them inside my jacket . |
| 11 | The rink 's owners say it simply is n't making money — the clubs that use it are trying to form a consortium to keep it open . |
| 12 | For most of the time the plaintiffs seemed to miss out on the need to prove their reliance on the accounts and had they addressed this early enough , the case might never have come to court . |
| 13 | Without scrutinising the accounts and checking them against stock , Ian could think of no way of discovering whether Williams was telling the truth about the number of candles held by the Cathedral . |
| 14 | ‘ Then Robert would have stamped out the flames and carried me still smouldering into the thicket . ’ |
| 15 | He saw the daft circles they made as a wind lifted the flames and turned them ; he saw their hysterical galloping back and forth , and saw the cherry-red line crackling across the stumps of corn , towing its apron of smoke . |
| 16 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 17 | The bosses of a troubled firm and the shareholders that appoint them choose between chapter 11 and workouts . |
| 18 | The dado complements the patterns and draws them together . ’ |
| 19 | What are the signs that tell us whether or not we are making genuine progress in a particular area of study ? |
| 20 | When we escape from the physical and the chains that bind us , we see the eternal and infinite being within us , then suddenly the mirror lake shivers and the images are stilled in frozen crystals . |
| 21 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |
| 22 | Had to cut the rashes or the sprots and theekit them that way . |
| 23 | " In any art festival it is difficult to have fee expression by the artists and expect it to appeal to all the different social groups . " |
| 24 | Detectives say a man followed her into the toilets and raped her . |
| 25 | Youngest of the three were the ‘ Pre-Puberty ’ boys aged ten to thirteen ; they were to be taught ‘ the true facts of their origin , of their life development , and of the dangers that surround them … ’ . |
| 26 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 27 | A.C.G. Hastings was reprimanded by High Commissioner Girouard for using military means to effect the subjugation of the cannibal Tula tribe ; to redeem himself he volunteered to subdue the equally unruly Awok without firing a shot , and did so — by reminding them of the fate of the Tulas and giving them two hours to surrender their weapons . |
| 28 | Flimsy metal rails and plastic counters jar with the handsome Neo-classical forms of the galleries ; large panels have been built in the entrance of the three main galleries , blocking the views and making them look smaller , and because space is at a premium , the paintings are sometimes crowded together . |
| 29 | As a result of these value conflicts litigants had no respect for the courts and manipulated them . |
| 30 | In addition to the firearms that tell us about and the door opener , was any other equipment issued to the officers ? |