Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] " 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 | Meanwhile the Goths drove the Britons from Bourges , but the comes ( count or more precisely companion ) Paul , who led a force of Romans and Franks , attacked the Goths and took their booty . |
| 5 | Tripoli was reported quiet yesterday , seemingly proving that Col Gaddafi is able to bring out the crowds and send them home at will . |
| 6 | Harvesting of clean white worm simply involves picking up the pebbles and dipping them in a small container of cold water . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The operator then turns a handle to allow three or more spears to puncture the cans and allow their contents to run into the bottom of the hopper . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he shrieked , twisting about madly on the ropes that suspended him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then they cut the ropes that tied me and I was able to get to my feet . |
| 13 | I heard Bernice coming just in time to fold the photocopies and stuff them inside my jacket . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We believe in citizenship , not subjecthood — in the ability of all individuals to exercise power over the institutions that govern their lives . |
| 18 | The Masters were to hear the suits and decide which could go forward . |
| 19 | ‘ Then Robert would have stamped out the flames and carried me still smouldering into the thicket . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He reported that if a house caught fire nobody attempted to put it out because they were all concentrating on protecting the cats , forming up in lines to prevent the panic-stricken animals from running into the flames and burning themselves . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The bosses of a troubled firm and the shareholders that appoint them choose between chapter 11 and workouts . |
| 24 | The dado complements the patterns and draws them together . ’ |
| 25 | What are the signs that tell us whether or not we are making genuine progress in a particular area of study ? |
| 26 | First , the hon. Gentleman is terrified of saying anything that would upset his trade union paymasters ; secondly , he is afraid to do anything that would remind the electorate of the chains that bind his party to those paymasters — the bosses of the trade unions . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |
| 29 | Had to cut the rashes or the sprots and theekit them that way . |
| 30 | " 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 . " |