Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Federal funding for the arts occupies a tiny part of the national budget , but in the last administration became a cause celèbre when the question of National Endowment for the Arts ' occasional support for provocative and sexually explicit art aroused the fury of conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms , who whipped up popular support for a move to curb or cut the N.E.A. 's budget . |
| 2 | Depending upon the date of the interview we could predict quite well whether people would name defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme , but it was the date of the interview rather than the personal characteristics of the interviewee that mattered . |
| 3 | Whether people named defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme depended a great deal upon the date of the interview and rather less upon their personal characteristics or even their pattern of media use . |
| 4 | Both literary and non-literary writing will often develop from the interaction between the pupils ' own insights and what they have read ( or heard read ) in the classroom . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there is an interesting parallel between the five-year-olds ' poor performance in the deductive mode experiments and Wimmer and Perner 's ( 1983 ) finding that the ability to reason about another person 's false belief develops between the ages of four and six years . |
| 6 | Specimen memorandum of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is a company limited by shares |
| 7 | Specimen articles of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is a company limited by shares |
| 8 | Specimen memorandum of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is an unlimited company having a share capital |
| 9 | Specimen articles of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is an unlimited company having a share capital |
| 10 | The book certainly fills a gap between the authors ' well-known researches into opera management during Handel 's time and their continuing work on London opera in the 1780s and 1790s . |
| 11 | ( a ) Until three years after the coming into force of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 , no part of this rule shall apply : |
| 12 | The president of the troops ' representative organisation , Denis Whelan , described the circular as a slur on the character of his members and he urged them not to sign it . |
| 13 | Probable misconceptions about a consultant supporter 's role have to be handled , credibility and relevance of one 's own experience need to be established in a non-assertive but authoritative way ; appreciation of the teachers ' professional expertise needs to be conveyed , together with an awareness of the difficulties that can prevent them from exercising it to its fullest extent ; and it needs to be spelt out clearly what such a group would be able to offer and what , together , one may reasonably hope to achieve — one must not raise hopes of cures for all ills . |
| 14 | In the case of a relatively small acquisition it may be sufficient just to have an appreciation of the clients ' strategic thinking . |
| 15 | The financial cost is calculated on the basis of both direct losses — as a result of reduced earnings for the timber and wood processing industries — and indirect ones in the form of the loss of the forests ' environmental and social benefits , such as their protection of soil and water resources and their tourism and amenity value . |
| 16 | The problems of temperature control are a result of the engineers ' own success . |
| 17 | If this tendency to ratiocinate in central isolation was already rife by 1917 in the microcosmic situation of the Belorussians , how much greater were the potential dangers for the future of the Bolsheviks ' wider theories as applied to the all-Russian macrocosm . |
| 18 | The first consultative draft and Structure Plan Review is not yet at hand , ie there is no indication of the officials ' initial views as to what scale of additional development should be addressed and what strategies should be adopted to guide location and timing in the period to 2005 . |
| 19 | It is enough if there be just and reasonable grounds for apprehending that unless payment be made an unlawful and injurious course will be taken by the defendant in violation of the plaintiffs ' actual rights . |
| 20 | But I 'm unconvinced by the pause Marriner inserts between the main section and trio , which seems to me to lessen the effect of the oboes ' pivotal , punning Gs that lead into the trio 's C major . |
| 21 | Moreover , in the light of the Americans ' deep-seated anti-colonialism , neutrality was the most that could be hoped for in the problems that would face Britain in converting her Empire into the Commonwealth at a prudent and realistic pace . |
| 22 | The accident began with an experiment , to see if power could be supplied to the reactors ' cooling pumps using only the momentum of the stations ' own turbines . |
| 23 | Subscription will be subject to a number of conditions precedent , including the completion of the investors ' due diligence and the putting in place of satisfactory loan arrangements and working capital facilities . |
| 24 | The unions have steadfastly tried to improve the lot of their members , often , it sometimes seems , at the expense of the workers ' own industries . |
| 25 | That was all in aid of the companies ' desperate need to make massive profits . |
| 26 | However , in the case of consumer contracts , the right of rejection would not be lost on the basis of the recognition of the consumers ' weak bargaining position . |
| 27 | Time spent on this aspect is a very sound investment in the ferrets ' future performance . |
| 28 | A version of it had been announced by Faber and Faber , as " Mr Eliot 's Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to Him by the Man in White Spats " , in the spring of 1936 ; the blurb , written either by Frank Morley or by Eliot himself , explained that " several of the poems , illustrated by the author , have been in private circulation in the Publishers ' various families for a considerable time … " |
| 29 | , Frances Mary ( 1827–1894 ) , educator and founding figure in the girls ' public day-school movement in England , was born in London 16 August 1827 , the eldest of ten children ( of whom she and four brothers were survivors ) of Robert William Buss , painter and etcher , and his wife Frances Fleetwood . |
| 30 | Easy Over also holds an engagement in the Ladies ' Open , along with True Dowry , already a course winner this season . |