Example sentences of "in [art] [noun sg] of things " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even McDonald 's is getting in the swim of things by giving away plastic mermaids with kiddy hamburgers . |
| 2 | But Mary had been touched by it as a girl and , as her goat herds had taken her high in the woods , she had often come across Kitty in the course of things . |
| 3 | We shall meet in the course of things , I think , and we will do so on just the footing we have always known . |
| 4 | It 's not a big deal in the scheme of things but you get an awful lot of hassle when all your mates are going to university , or start bringing home the bacon . |
| 5 | Perhaps we just have to accept it is God 's will that the unorthodox individual is doomed to years of frustration , ridicule and failure in order to act out his role in the scheme of things , until his day arrives and mankind is ready to receive his message . |
| 6 | Many are concerned with the Soviet Union 's place in the scheme of things ; with the poets ' sense of revulsion at what a nation could have done to itself ; with an intense probing of the values of nationhood and nationality . |
| 7 | In a sincere attempt to display the importance of God in the scheme of things , Berkeley sought to rebuild the ‘ new philosophy ’ on the more solidly religious foundations of a complete and thoroughgoing spiritual immaterialism . |
| 8 | It was as if a genius creator , after six days ' labour , had become uninterested in his achievement and had delegated responsibility for the rule and administration of his work to a band of bureaucrats — a tireless bunch of imbeciles , lacking compassion , who justified their role in the scheme of things by ceaselessly inventing trials for man , to keep him on his toes . |
| 9 | She was n't important … not in the scheme of things , whatever that meant . |
| 10 | He savoured the office , its history and its place in the scheme of things . |
| 11 | Always conscious of the power in female-male relationships , I was bitterly aware of my own inferior position in the scheme of things . |
| 12 | But the teachers are in charge in the scheme of things proposed here . |
| 13 | The reassurance that there is a place for all of us in the scheme of things should help a little . |
| 14 | But although the argument over who were the real world champions was emphatically settled in favour of Nick Farr-Jones 's side , the political machinations before , during and after the tours have made it painfully clear that rugby is a sideshow — albeit one with significant political influence — in the scheme of things in South Africa . |
| 15 | ‘ Less than admirable though they may be , Vincent , deviousness and low cunning have their place in the scheme of things . ’ |
| 16 | These specially created ideologies more often than not give the believer a clear place in the scheme of things , by providing a definite identity . |
| 17 | Each chapter would show the place of a particular form of policy response , or independent activity , in the scheme of things ; it would comment on experience to date and record new initiatives . |
| 18 | And anonymity — just another tourist with a rucksack , unimportant in the scheme of things , an observer , not a participator . |
| 19 | But I ended by clarifying Jesus 's role in the scheme of things by quoting , as far as I could remember , from a hymn , ‘ He came down on earth from Heaven , he died to save us all . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Shall we say I 'm reminding you of your place in the scheme of things , ’ he said , narrowing his eyes . |
| 21 | ‘ Six months is neither here nor there in the scheme of things . |
| 22 | Prejudice and bias have no place in the scheme of things . |
| 23 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 24 | What I 'm suggesting really , is let's get it on the agenda for budget review whenever the next meeting is , to be considered in depth , and if that gives an extra couple or three weeks for officers to write the report , fine , if it goes beyond the next policy and resources a week or two wo n't matter in the scheme of things , it 's detailed consideration I 'm looking for , rather than a fast fix in ten minutes at the next P and R. |
| 25 | I 'm in the middle of things right now , but we should be able to snatch a word in half an hour if that 's OK with you ? |
| 26 | Anyway , with Eric on his way , I did n't think it would be a good idea to start another War only to have to abandon it in the middle of things and start dealing with the real world . |
| 27 | The first time because he had allowed himself to be called away in the middle of things and had n't been able to supervise the men properly . |
| 28 | I mean they do n't , er , in the middle of things . |
| 29 | A small discrepancy has appeared , a faint crack in the ordinariness of things . |
| 30 | I adored it — the glamour , the feeling of being in the hub of things which I love — I love clothes — I used to make up every day and make myself look nice and meet people … to me it was n't work , every minute of it was enjoyment … |