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Barbican


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Barbacan

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Our common sense is often our worst enemy," said Marcus du Sautoy , the Oxford maths professor who will be appearing in the Barbican season.
  • (2) Three winners will each receive a pair of tickets to the Observer Ideas festival at The Barbican in London on Sunday 12 October 2014.
  • (3) A new strand, BBC Arts At ... will feature tie-ups with the Royal Academy of Arts , Opera North, the Barbican, the British Museum and the National Galleries of Scotland.
  • (4) It included Louise Jeffreys, director of arts at the Barbican, and Anthony Whitworth-Jones, a former boss of both Glyndebourne and Garsington.
  • (5) It’s thoroughly appropriate that the last large-scale piece he completed was a community and children’s opera, The Hogboon, which will receive its first performance at the Barbican in London in June ; it’s based on an Orkney legend of supernatural beings who inhabit the prehistoric burial mounds that are found all over the islands, and who are entirely benign.
  • (6) Or the planes that fly behind the towers of the Barbican against a cloudy blue sky; even the notebooks on the floor of my workroom, which stand out as coloured rectangles against the floor.
  • (7) A 1960s cultural complex, the Lincoln Centre is, like the South Bank and Barbican centres in London, based on the theory that it's a good idea to group several venues in one place, and had similar problems of awkward circulation and hard-to-use public spaces.
  • (8) The 1992 retrospective at the Barbican finally demolished the patronising view of Gill as a Catholic sculptor, setting him in the mainstream of modern British art.
  • (9) Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, the architects behind projects including the Saatchi Gallery and Barbican Arts Centre, have been appointed to develop the wider plans.
  • (10) The big surprise of the tour though was the fact that the Barbican probably isn't Brutalist either."
  • (11) In a statement issued on Wednesday, Gergiev, the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg for more than 25 years, said: I am aware of the gay rights protest that took place at the Barbican last week prior to my concert with the LSO.
  • (12) · Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture is at the Barbican, London EC2, until May 21.
  • (13) Although no one could compare to Nusrat, the group remain formidable, and can be seen next month as part of the Barbican Centre's Ramadan Nights, which also features Sufi street singer Sain Zahoor, a more classical Arabic Sufi group, the al-Kindi Ensemble with Sheikh Habboush, and whirling dervishes from Syria.
  • (14) I hope that when Lyndsey Turner’s Barbican production is officially unveiled to the press, it will not be judged simply as a test of Cumberbatch’s classical skill: Frankenstein alone proved he had the lungs for the part.
  • (15) Alternatively, they can listen to the soundtrack created specifically for the show by Scottish band Mogwai, who played at The Barbican Centre in London.
  • (16) Tatchell said the new statement was not enough to call off the protest which will take place outside the Barbican on Thursday before Gergiev conducts the LSO in Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
  • (17) · Will Oldham is playing at the Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2 (020 7638 8891) on 24 November as part of Further Beyond Nashville.
  • (18) It's Saturday morning, three weeks into my research for Reading the Riots, and I get a call from a young man I interviewed a week earlier to say four more rioters are willing to meet, and are happy to travel from Stockwell to the Barbican to be interviewed.
  • (19) JW3 Jewish centre Hampstead "We would like to be mentioned in the same sentence as the Barbican," confirms Viner, "along with the Southbank Centre, or the Roundhouse or Rich Mix."
  • (20) I've done the same watching classical concerts at the Barbican or jazz in a basement club.

Entrance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.
  • (n.) Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
  • (n.) The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
  • (n.) The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.
  • (n.) The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
  • (n.) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
  • (n.) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
  • (v. t.) To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
  • (v. t.) To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
  • (2) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
  • (3) In every center the average whole-breast dose to a reference organ (5 cm thick, composed of 50% fat + 50% water) was calculated on the basis of entrance exposure, HVL, and focus-skin distance; in 63.2% of the centers doses less than 0.15 cGy were employed.
  • (4) A catheter was placed in the epidural space, with entrance through L3-L4 and its extreme in L1.
  • (5) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
  • (6) A line iterative technique is described to solve numerically the resulting coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations with physiologically relevant boundary and entrance conditions.
  • (7) Motile sperm were seen at the uterine entrance to the uterotubal junction (UTJ) in all females at 1-2 h pc, but in fewer females at later times.
  • (8) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
  • (9) Various tests to assess arthritis were performed upon each patient's entrance into the study and at specified intervals throughout the 24-month study period.
  • (10) UNCONFIRMED reports of men wounded March 18, 2014 Ed Flanagan (@edmundflanagan) Entrance to base.
  • (11) The police officers guarding the entrance to Japan's nuclear evacuation zone barely glance at Yukio Yamamoto's permit before waving him through.
  • (12) Hypoxemia was progressive from the time of entrance of the bronchoscope into the respiratory tree and continued into the immediate postbronchoscopic period when the mean fall was about 16 mm Hg.
  • (13) Rather, they will likely restrict their entrance by way of the most traditional route.
  • (14) The entrance window is 12 microns Melinex foil with a thin aluminium surface.
  • (15) The vesicles exhibited apparent "entrance" I- counterflow but no apparent Na+-dependent I- transport activity.
  • (16) Main issues of health entrancing job design are: (1) Essential approaches of prevention are to be reevaluated.
  • (17) A worker gestures at one of the entrances of the Lisbon harbour during a strike by Portuguese harbour workers, in Lisbon September 17, 2012.
  • (18) Near the entrance was a sprawling camp kitchen, with mountains of supplies, indoor and outdoor facilities and open fires on which some of the cooking was done, and all of the gigantic vats of coffee seemed to be boiled.
  • (19) These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the physiological activity observed with both PAES and PAESe may be related to their ability to gain entrance to adrenergic neurons and decrease norepinephrine synthesis within neurotransmitter storage vesicles.
  • (20) Spectral differences in image size are proportional to the eye's longitudinal chromatic aberration and the axial distance between the entrance pupil and nodal point.

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