Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car . |
| 2 | But the experience of writing creatively — of using the sonnet form , for example , or of imitating the characteristics of a particular writer 's style — leads also to an increased critical awareness of literary technique in the writing of others . |
| 3 | Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent . |
| 4 | A radical reorganization of the General People 's Committees ( Secretariats ) , approximating in the Libyan system to ministries , was announced following a General People 's Congress ( GPC — parliament ) meeting on Oct. 8 . |
| 5 | Following the reorganization of the General People 's Committees on Oct. 8 [ see p. 39168 ] , a reshuffle was announced on Nov. 18 in which Abu Zaid Omar Dourda was re-appointed Secretary-General of the General People 's Committee , a post which he had held since October 1990 [ see p. 37795 ] . |
| 6 | The smoothness and evenness of the big engine 's power delivery helps the car 's handling and cornering ability as well and there is never any sign of wheelspin or torque steer under acceleration , which is endemic with powerful , front-wheel-drive machinery . |
| 7 | This shows up clearly in the episode of the French Academy 's competition . |
| 8 | An hour or so later , Roger honoured his cafe-culture principles and I compromised mine by patronising the plastic vulgarity of the deserted skiers ' day lodge . |
| 9 | By comparison with the ‘ insider ’ methods of the Old People 's Welfare Committees , it was also profoundly political , resembling , as later commentators put it , ‘ the abrasive approach of 1960s pressure groups such as Shelter rather than the more staid ‘ non political ’ approach' of the voluntary organizations . |
| 10 | Indeed , the proper development of the system — to make it more selective and more efficient — required the defeat of the Labour party 's sentimental plans for comprehensive schools . |
| 11 | His rearrest was upon the recommendation of an independent doctors ' commission . |
| 12 | The peeled-off clothes lie in a tumbled pile , and — at a velocity far greater than the usual speed of a naked mortal 's shy and shivering run — I convey her into the water , and out of the shallows . |
| 13 | In his annual report to the NPC delivered on April 3 Ren Jianxin , President of the Supreme People 's Court , said that the courts had " basically completed " all trials connected with the 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 14 | Kim Il Sung , 78 , was re-elected as President of the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea ( North Korea ) on May 24 , for a fifth consecutive four-year term . |
| 15 | ONLY through concrete policy changes will the quality of human life for women in Sudan be changed , Fatima Ibrahim , President of the Sudanese Women 's Union , told AI 's annual conference on Women and Human Rights . |
| 16 | Its stance has come under fire from the president of the private sector 's wood alliance , Corma . |
| 17 | He remained president of the Korean Veteran 's Association . |
| 18 | The Delegation was composed of seven women : Margarita Papandreou ( Women for Mutual Security , and Global Co-ordinator of the Delegation ) ; myself — Nawal El Saadawi ( writer , medical doctor and President of the Arab Women 's Solidarity Association ) ; Fatheya Seoudi ( Women 's Centre , Jordan ) ; Joan Drake ( Institute of Policy Studies in Washington and Madrea , Latin America ) ; Maude Barlow ( Voice of Women — Canada , Women World Parliamentarians for Peace ) ; Flora Abrachmanova ( World Democratic Federation of Women ) and Kay Kamp ( Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom ) . |
| 19 | While it was aware of the threat of a general strike of seamen in May 1911 , it saw little support for this outside the United Kingdom and the United States , where Andrew Furuseth , president of the International Seamen 's Union and a close ally of Wilson 's , had taken a leading part in the agitation for an international dispute . |
| 20 | The government had reportedly also accepted a three-point plan presented by the mediator at the talks , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Zacapa and president of the Guatemalan Bishops ' Conference , which called for a commission to document , but not punish , perpetrators of past atrocities and for the government to guarantee the rights of captured rebels and of those who had disarmed . |
| 21 | The £1 million case , and one which cost an ordinary couple £60,000 , prompted the President of the High Court 's Family Division , Mr Justice Stephen Brown , to set up a team of judges and lawyers to examine fees . |
| 22 | The newly elected president of the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo ) , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , on Dec. 23 declared 1991 a year of struggle and warned that the government 's reforms were replacing " naked racism and exploitation with subtle forms of racism and exploitation " . |
| 23 | The Countryside Commission were to sign a deal with the Duke of Devonshire in September to grant him Capital Transfer Tax exemption ( estimated to be worth £12,000,000 ) in turn for large parts of this 130km 2 in the Dales becoming a public heritage centre under the Heritage Estate arrangement introduced by Leeds MP Denis Healey in 1975 to prevent the breakup of large estates ( the MP himself having just become President of the National Trust 's Yorkshire Moors & Dales Appeal ) . |
| 24 | The advice came from the president of the National Farmers ' Union , Mr Simon Gourlay , who discussed the matter with ministers . |
| 25 | The farmers , including the president of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland , John Ross , and the union 's milk convener , Alex Brown , called on the Scottish Secretary to back Scotland 's milk producers , who were overwhelmingly in favour of the SMMB 's proposals , and help overturn the Office of Fair Trading 's findings that the plan would distort trade for milk . |
| 26 | The two were speaking as Mrs Mary Whitehouse , president of the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association , called for a clamp-down on screen violence . |
| 27 | In 1984 he became President of the British Bankers ' Association . |
| 28 | The association cause for the ending of criminalisa criminalisation , the word , of pensioner 's , who 's only fault is their poverty , it is confident that the British people will support this cause and that their protest will be , speedily bring to an end a situation which is the shame of our Country , that 's signed by the President of the British Pensioner 's and Fred the Secretary . |
| 29 | The Duke of Gloucester , as President of the British Consultant 's Bureau left Oporto today at the conclusion of His Royal Highness 's visit to Portugal . |
| 30 | The first representative of the College was the Beyer Professor of Mathematics there , Horace Lamb , an Old Boy and first President of the Old Boys ' Association . |