Example sentences of "of [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediacy of the D-18 transfers wonderfully to strumming ; it 's big and it 's grand , but the brightness and the zinginess mean it 's best played with a modicum of right-arm restraint . |
| 2 | Above right : Side view of the 1899 khaki field blouse , differing from the original 1898 pattern in having white shoulder straps . |
| 3 | Indeed , until the ecumenical era of the 1960s , few catholics in Ireland were prepared to put before themselves some of the political religious issues which would have to be resolved if a united Ireland or accommodation to a separate political entity in Ulster were to become a possibility . |
| 4 | The economic growth of the 1960s and early 1970s came to grief because of the western economic slump of the last decade and the massive increase in the Southern population . |
| 5 | The response of the 1960s and 70s to this failure to capture the essence of the traditional pub was the ruthlessly-applied corporate image and the proliferation of ‘ fun ’ theme-pubs . |
| 6 | However , he also suggested he would prefer to restrict the use of the concept of ‘ liminality ’ to those ritual periods in small-scale societies which all must pass through , and use the term ‘ liminoid ’ for those anti-structural periods personified by the ‘ counter-culture ’ of the 1960s ( 1978 : 287 ) . |
| 7 | Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research . |
| 8 | On the former GWR line to Bicester North a new station opened in October at Haddenham & Thame Parkway — the 150th new station opened by BR since the Beeching cuts of the 1960s . |
| 9 | True , the ‘ Beeching era ’ of the 1960s had brought revolution in the form of Freightliner and unit trains , the latter represented above all by the highly successful ‘ merry-goround ’ concept . |
| 10 | For the sake of convenience I shall apply the term la nouvelle critique to the complex of ideas emerging from the Paris of the 1960s , including many diverse strands : the ‘ classical ’ structuralism of the early Barthes , the poststructuralism of his later work , the deconstructionism of Derrida , and whatever name one gives to the work of Foucault and Lacan , in taxonomic historiography and dissident psychoanalysis respectively . |
| 11 | Wilson 's task was to project his party as an alternative government and associate Labour with the agenda of the 1960s . |
| 12 | ‘ Hewden Stuart increased its profits steadily through the Stop-Go policies of the 1960s and 1970s but experienced a hiccough in 1979-80 when there was a fundamental reconstruction of British industry , ’ he explained . |
| 13 | It all seems to offer a breathtaking array of choice yet in practice the schedules too often present the same glum menu of badly dubbed westerns , trivial game shows , long and justly forgotten Neapolitan comedies of the 1960s or windy discussion programmes . |
| 14 | It may be fashionable to decry Robbins — and many of the universities ' problems stem from the rapid expansion of the 1960s which followed his report — but his pertinent description of the aims of higher education is no less valid today than when it was written . |
| 15 | ‘ AH , DOING an E H Carr , eh ? ’ , was the invariable response when , at the end of the 1960s , I told people what I was up to . |
| 16 | He was Treasury Solicitor — the head of the government legal service — from 1971 to 1975 , and in his career in the Treasury Solicitor 's Office he was involved in the setting up of the intricate Prices and Incomes Acts of the 1960s and the formation of the new departments of Environment and Trade and Industry . |
| 17 | A frequently quoted example of the companies at Stage 2 is the British motorcycle industry of the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 18 | The roots of all this , it was agreed , lay deep in British history — perhaps in the moral nihilism of the 1960s , perhaps in the collectivism of the 1940s , perhaps in the decline of the entrepreneurial spirit in the late Victorian period , perhaps even in the many centuries of geographical isolation and freedom from foreign occupation behind the barrier of sea power . |
| 19 | Take-home pay rose persistently during the inflation of the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 20 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 21 | Norman Tebbit 's Disraeli lecture in 1985 spelt out his distaste for the ‘ valueless values of the permissive society ’ , of the 1960s and 1970s — represented by legalized abortion and homosexuality , fewer constraints on what is portrayed in the media and theatre , and growing disrespect for authority . |
| 22 | Roddick describes herself and her husband as ‘ children of the 1960s ’ . |
| 23 | In spite of the nationalizations of the 1960s and 1970s the stock of capital of foreign investors continues to generate about one-fifth of Africa 's gross national product . |
| 24 | Today rucsacs can be delightful to carry , a world apart from my heap of the 1960s , but in those days I really did not like backpacking . |
| 25 | We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream . |
| 26 | Community architecture had come about as a reaction to the tower blocks of the 1960s which were clearly not working : they had led to vandalism and mugging and terrifying isolation for the people who lived in them . |
| 27 | He said that he did not see the point of a central control over pay beds which was a relic of the Labour governments of the 1960s . |
| 28 | Deserts are the result of a lack of water and if there is a prolonged , fluctuating drought ( like the one that began on the northern fringe of sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the 1960s ) vast sums of money are not going to stop desertification . |
| 29 | They are the ‘ watermelon party ’ , green on the outside and red on the inside , part of the ‘ alternative ’ subculture , the libertarian siblings of a rich society , not unlike at their extreme end the American drop-out society of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 30 | The main variations are caused by the phasing in of major re-equipment programmes : Polaris in the latter half of the 1960s ; RAF re-equipment in the early 1970s ; Army re-equipment in the mid-1970s ; the Tornado programme in the mid-1980s , and the start of the Trident programme in the late 1980s . |