Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is far from notional to suggest that the activities characteristic of the rivers and playing fields of late nineteenth-century Oxford and Cambridge were load-bearing supports underpinning the moral structure of British and imperial society .
2 Different groups , using slightly different recording techniques , can end up with quite different descriptions of the response properties of the cells in the same region because they are , in fact , recording from different cell populations ( O'Keefe and Conway 1978 ; Olds , Disterhoft , Segal , Kornblith , and Hirsh 1972 ; Stryker and Sherk 1975 ) .
3 Initially , the income effect of the taxes makes the individual ‘ buy ’ less of all normal goods including leisure .
4 Expanding output would add more to consumer benefit than it would to production costs or the opportunity cost of the resources used .
5 In the absence of any distortions , the private cost or market price of a capital good also measures its social cost , the opportunity cost of the resources used to make the capital good , or the value of the goods these resources could otherwise have made .
6 Vice Chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls , declining to grant Venables the injunction he sought yesterday , said that to have done so would override the majority decision of the Spurs board , which had the right to ‘ hire and fire . ’
7 In the end there was no war and no division , the counts instead agreed that one of their number should be chosen to be Emperor , and that the Emperor should hold his title only with the majority consent of the counts themselves .
8 I see let take it from the other end , why did you have to take the insertion of the contingency fund of the estimates
9 The great pressure of the overlying sediments and the mineral-rich solutions that circulate through them cause chemical changes in the calcium phosphate of the bones .
10 At a meeting in Moscow on April 13 Jaruzelski received from President Gorbachev copies of the NKVD lists of the names of Polish internees in the three camps .
11 They show how the complexity level of the techniques used can be varied to suit the client .
12 ‘ In particular , they will be identifying any tasks which can be completed using the base skills of the craftsmen , or with minimal additional training .
13 This should be contrasted with the position where the debenture are not qualifying corporate bonds , where the base cost of the shares in Target is rolled into the base cost of the debentures , so that no gain falls into charge unless the debentures are in fact redeemed for more than their ( lowered ) base cost .
14 Another issue seen as an obstacle to investment is that of capital contributions made to a company not ranking as part of the base cost of the shares for capital gains purposes .
15 Even where the base cost of the shares in Target is reduced , for example if there is a claim for breach of warranty made by Newco against the vendors which goes to reduce the overall price which Newco pays for the shares , the position can be restored if the amount Newco receives in settlement of the claim is invested in the target company in return for an issue of further shares to Newco .
16 This should be contrasted with the position where the debenture are not qualifying corporate bonds , where the base cost of the shares in Target is rolled into the base cost of the debentures , so that no gain falls into charge unless the debentures are in fact redeemed for more than their ( lowered ) base cost .
17 To obtain the base width of the gores ( minus any hem ) , the circumference ( 3.1412 x diameter ) must be divided by the number of gores .
18 It is paralleled by a sharing of what I have called the bottom-up dreams of the businesses themselves .
19 He observed that , ‘ mixing participants with knowledge of staff development and unitised systems with staff with no previous experience allowed the views of both trainers and trainees to be obtained during the trial testing of the workshops ’ .
20 Quite possibly the ulterior motive was to convince the EEC states of the virtues of EFTA 's low tariffs , with the end objective of persuading them to return to the conference table to negotiate a multilateral trading agreement that would hold the two parts of Western Europe together .
21 Nevertheless , the patterns characteristic of the speakers ' respective social groups emerge quite clearly .
22 The middle-horns were the most esteemed of draught cattle because of their activity and hardiness ; they would also fatten at an early age if not working but the milk yield of the cows was poor in comparison with the short-horned cattle of Durham , Yorkshire and Lincolnshire .
23 Her head motionless as her hand moved up , down , side to side , up , down , side to side , the only sound the scritch scratch of the bristles against her perfect ivories .
24 The figures of crofting incomes quoted earlier exclude the money equivalent of the crops and livestock products produced for the subsistence or ‘ self-provisioning ’ of the crofters and their families .
25 Full employment Gross domestic product is a measure of the money value of the goods and services produced in the economy during a certain period of time .
26 The money side of a clergy family is terribly difficult .
27 This was definitely the scrag end of the festivities .
28 In the two figures on the right in particular the earlier striations and hatchings have given way to more discreetly and subtly modelled planes delineating the component parts of the trunks and limbs of the figures ; these planes are angled away from each other along clearly defined ridges in some passages , but softly opened up into each other in others .
29 The Victoria History of the Counties of England : a History of the County of Stafford , vol. iii , 1970 ; P. Brieger , English Art 1216–1307 , 1957 . ]
30 Each time a head of cattle was sold , the headman was supposed to certify a receipt which included the signature of the previous owner , the brand marks of the animals , and the signature of a witness .
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