Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But for a committee of aristocratic do-gooders , who are in the business of saving children from violence and abuse , to summarily dismiss a massive cash injection on the flimsy grounds of taste suggests they should n't be in a life-and-death business but rather running their local Girl Guides or church fete toffee-apple stalls . |
| 2 | In this case , however , it seemed that the nature of the disease was systematically to destroy those nerve cells essential to the control of sleep , and these unfortunate people probably represent the closest that we can expect to find in the way of a natural experiment on the long-term effects of the denial of sleep . |
| 3 | This too has taken its toll on the traditional freedoms of university life . |
| 4 | Charles Manson was not merely a symptom of the drug age ; he was the epitome of a certain sickness that gripped some sections of society , by whom he was exalted as the inspiration for the killing of so-called pigs , the word daubed in blood on the living-room walls of director Roman Polanski 's home , after the so-called Sharon Tate murders , for which the bearded prophet of the drug age is still serving life . |
| 5 | In both cases the composition and osmolarity are crucial to success and it is advisable to test any new batch on a few embryos before committing the entire culture to the treatment . |
| 6 | To see the five early seventeenth-century working miniature firearms from the workshop of Michel Mann of Augsburg and Nuremberg , a rare mechanical calculator made by Johann Schuster in 1822 , a German Royal hunting knife made in Berlin in 1699 by Jaques Munier , and a pair of mid-eighteenth-century four-light candelabra ( attributed to Christian Heinrich Ingermann ) made for Augustus III , Elector of Saxony alongside what are traditionally regarded as archetypal ‘ German ’ and ‘ Austrian ’ works , such as paintings , watercolours and prints by the German Expressionists , does indeed focus the mind on the manifold contributions to the history of art made by artists of the German speaking countries . |
| 7 | Patrick Swayze is a doc with oedipal jitters who goes to India to find himself , only to get caught up in the struggles of the native people earning a crust on the heaving streets of Calcutta . |
| 8 | This is amply demonstrated by House 's ( 1965 ) research on the rural areas of north-east England . |
| 9 | To help them to do so they list 12 tasks for scientist , such as participating in research on the economic effects of disarmament and urging editors to provide space in their journals for discussion on disarmament issues . |
| 10 | Its function is ‘ to undertake research on the economic aspects of medical care ’ , and to ‘ investigate other health arid social problems ’ , and to ‘ collect data from other countries ’ , and to publish the results of these wholly commendable activities . |
| 11 | In a letter to the Stanford committee on research , the faculty said : ‘ For years we have been able to tell visiting school children , student , engineers , scientists , laymen and the press that we are here to do basic research on the fundamental properties of matter and that we do not do any military work . |
| 12 | The committee also continues to act as adviser to the Professional Conduct Department on the technical aspects of disciplinary complaints . |
| 13 | Dudley and colleagues quote the proportions of patients managed by nurse practitioners in their department on the two days in question and annually , which were substantial ; our census showed , however , that such proportions were by no means typical but were at the top end of the range . |
| 14 | The basis of the debtor 's defence seems to be that the action is a fraud on the other parties to the contract to forbear from suing . |
| 15 | There is also a substantial research programme on the traditional architectures of different parts of the world and on the problems of transition to modern forms . |
| 16 | Secondly , the government clearly places considerable weight on the technical skills of classroom pedagogy or teaching method as determinants of teaching quality . |
| 17 | Well as she knew Mrs Geary 's concentration on the main events of the flat racing season , Nicandra persisted : " It 's to clean her diamonds . " |
| 18 | The advent of racier papers with topless models featured on the inside pages and a grim concentration on the latest doings of talentless television stars , equally talentless soccer stars and the Royal Family had taken away its market . |
| 19 | Oil- rather than coal — emerges as the dirtiest fuel in a comparative study on the environmental costs of energy sources carried out by the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment ( CSERGE ) . |
| 20 | The genera Ophialcaea and Ophiotreta were treated as subgenera of Ophiacantha by Mortensen ( 1936 ) and Fell ( 1960 ) , but H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) and Koehler ( 1922 , 1931 ) considered them to be of generic rank , a treatment followed here pending future study on the generic boundaries in this subfamily . |
| 21 | The after dinner speaker was Professor Heinz Wolff , of Brunel University , who gave a witty and entertaining talk on the possible applications of chemistry to manned space travel . |
| 22 | This competent body could provide guidance on the preferable format(s) for the presentation of information . |
| 23 | The contemporary academic debate among economists had become bogged down in a rather arid byway of marginal costing and subsidies , and provided little useful guidance on the substantive issues of the day . |
| 24 | Such support might include : more concessions , flexibility in payment of fees etc , and guidance on the financial implications of doing a course and where to get help with financial problems . |
| 25 | It is to these chapters that we turn for biblical guidance on the fundamental questions concerning God , man and the world . |
| 26 | jointly with the Institute 's Tax Faculty , guidance on the ethical aspects of taxation work . |
| 27 | Down at the far end of the valley , there was still snow on the upper slopes of the mountains ; they looked as if they 'd been sugar-dusted , with stone walls showing like fine , black veins above the treeline . |
| 28 | At the end of summer there were still patches of old snow on the sheltered slopes of the Cirque des Pessons , and I wrote my first poem about Andorra : |
| 29 | They depend as a rule on the same sorts of schematic stimulus-recognition systems and simple processing seen in less elaborate behaviour . |
| 30 | The Canadian government has banned cod fishing on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and Labrador — formerly the richest cod fishery in the world — in an effort to conserve rapidly-declining stocks . |