Example sentences of "[det] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people expect this of The Smiths . |
| 2 | Arguably the most majestic covering was black Utrecht velvet ( Col. 15 ) ; Nelson 's 1806 coffin , furnished by Messrs France of London , with its gilt bronze fittings on padded velvet , was particularly sumptuous ( Col. 16 ) , but one would expect this of the crown undertaker 's work . |
| 3 | The assumption is about what lies behind our saying of a man , when he comes out with the sounds , ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ , that he is asserting that he is going to the bank , but our not saying this of the parrot . |
| 4 | Of course one can not say this of the whole story ; were one to say that one would no longer be a Christian . |
| 5 | How true of this of the Church ? |
| 6 | There could be no clearer indication than this of the blending of the concentric circular geometric and the geometric diagonal or rotated linear designs . |
| 7 | What a cruel account is this of the Vicar 's one and only love affair ! |
| 8 | Well Madam Speaker , we 'll start making progress when members opposite realise that jobs come from companies being competitive , from private enterprise being able to sell goods and services competitively and it is members opposite who believe that the state can provide employment on this of the house we believe that government agencies can assist the market to operate effectively and real jobs will come from free enterprise which members opposite stand against . |
| 9 | On the contrary , it draws attention to the dangers of introducing western technology outside , and even in the west it 's a good illustration this of the extent to which or work in countries overseas has relevance for Britain , because we have done a great deal of work on the implications for the unemployment problem of having technology which requires too much capital , which has a very ratio of capital to labour . |
| 10 | For the songwriter-pianist-producer led the blues queen to believe that she was signed to Columbia Records , when , in fact , she was actually signed to Williams and he was pocketing half of every recording fee . |
| 11 | Keeping only half of every gram is an act of will . |
| 12 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |
| 13 | ‘ I sometimes play half of a match good and half of a match bad , or not so good , and I have a feeling it gives opponents the chance to come back , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ I sometimes play half of a match good and half of a match bad , or not so good , and I have a feeling it gives opponents the chance to come back , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Third , much of the construction industry depends on formal companies subcontracting at least half of a total work programme to informals , many of whom in turn use tools produced by other jua kali artisans . |
| 16 | Grants and parental contributions would be frozen at 1990 levels and loans would eventually form half of a student 's maintenance award . |
| 17 | It owns half of a French rating agency , ADEF , and all of Nordisk , a Swedish firm . |
| 18 | Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared . |
| 19 | Half of a right angular cross is a corner , an arrow . |
| 20 | The seeds , he says ‘ are flat and one half of a beautiful red colour and the other half of a deep black … the flowers have not yet appeared in England , but from a painting done from the plant in the country , they seem to be very beautiful . ’ |
| 21 | Researchers in Birmingham and Aarhus in Denmark have found a protein called LMP , produced by the virus and thought to be involved in the cancer , in cells from about half of a sample of 84 tumours from patients with Hodgkin 's disease . |
| 22 | ( The dose of radiation that would kill half of a human population within 60 days is the LD 50/60 . |
| 23 | But the details of the incident have been lost in the mists of history and for most people all that remains is a fleeting memory of the dejected player arriving at Heathrow Airport to face a miserable future as one half of a very well worn footballing joke . |
| 24 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 25 | But within the England training camp , Carlton Palmer is half of a double act that has transformed the atmosphere in Graham Taylor 's squad , banishing the gloom of Sweden . |
| 26 | Bill used to be half of a double act with Dave Allen . |
| 27 | Simultaneously , two overweight , breathless and slightly tipsy men who were descending the station steps saw the train moving out and broke into a run , during which they managed to overtake half of a 66ft. long Mk. 1 coach . |
| 28 | The Tivoli Management Environment Release 1.6 adds configuration and change management services to the software , and is claimed to simplify and automate the process of setting up , maintaining and changing large-scale client-server networks , a task that often takes up over half of a system manager 's time , according to the company . |
| 29 | Mr Gates reckons his firm 's $100m investment in NT ( for new technology ) will win it half of a market now dominated by Novell . |
| 30 | Tivoli Management Environment Release 1.6 adds configuration and change services to the software , claimed to simplify and automate the process of setting up , maintaining and changing large-scale client/server networks , a task that often takes up over half of a system managers time , according to Tivoli . |