Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [art] [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | BROAD CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW KINDER- UND JUGENDHILFEGESETZ ( KJHG ) |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The authorities said that the shooting began with an attack on military and administrative buildings in the town centre by 1,500 fighters of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 6 | The remaining five seats , allocated for election by minority communities such as Chinese , Europeans and other Pacific islanders , were all filled by candidates of the General Voters ' Party ( until 1990 the General Electors ' Association ) . |
| 7 | A meeting between Yeltsin , Khasbulatov and the heads of the Russian Federation 's republics and regions was held in Cheboksary ( Chuvash ) on Sept. 11 . |
| 8 | The judges , heads of the High Court 's four divisions , will have to take account of advice from a lay-dominated advisory committee . |
| 9 | After delivery , the concentrations of a new mother 's sex hormones fall dramatically and the Oxford workers have shown that there is a corresponding fall in the number of a 2 -adrenergic receptors . |
| 10 | The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 introduced new principles and procedures for the management of the rural environment embodying the preferred solutions of the National Farmers ' Union and the Country Landowners ' Association to conflicts between agriculture and conservation . |
| 11 | Both Brougham and the author in The Annual Register , as supporters of the liberal Enlightenment 's battle with traditional religious authority , were prepared to defend national , and nationalist , sentiments . |
| 12 | On the heels of the National Front 's success last month in France and the triumphs of similar xenophobic right-wing parties in Belgium , Austria and Sweden , the ultra-right 's gains in the two former West German states were hardly surprising . |
| 13 | This 17-track album follows on the heels of the latest Levi 's ad , but it 's a pretty lazy compilation . |
| 14 | This right of election ( which may be exercised by the beneficiaries of a deceased partner 's estate in the event that no personal representative has been appointed ) may be excluded by agreement , eg provision for the automatic accruer of the share of an outgoing partner or for the purchase of such share with interest until payment — see Vyse v Foster ( 1872 ) LR 8 Ch App 309 . |
| 15 | 8.8 Three images of a Chinese fang ding vessel ( OA 1973.7–26.4 ) probably made in the eleventh century BC . |
| 16 | FIG. 1 Pre-operative magnetic resonance images of the two infants ' brains ( T2-weighted axial images ) . |
| 17 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 18 | As in all aspects of the new church 's life , leaders must lead . |
| 19 | What they offer is an explanation of the controlling aspects of the caring professional 's work which Hugman suggests are a contradiction with caring . |
| 20 | Classical polysyllables such as solicitude and calamity keep feelings at bay , so that the reader is led into a frame of mind where the farcical aspects of the good Captain 's behaviour can innocently rub shoulders with tragedy . |
| 21 | There are many aspects of the local authority 's role as enabler — through the provision of land , planning permission and so on — which should make it possible to exert such influence on the private sector . |
| 22 | From some dim recess of her mind came the words of a Breton fisherman 's prayer , which she had read in some book . |
| 23 | These can be summed up in the words of the Royal Society 's working party on Girls and Mathematics : |
| 24 | He was purifying the system ; he was scouring the channels of their old faith ; he was the surgeon removing the decaying parts , the foul growths , and lancing the boils of the former regime 's putrefactions . |
| 25 | On Feb. 14 the US government filed fresh corruption charges against Gotti , several other alleged Mafia leaders and six branches of the International Longshoremen 's Association . |
| 26 | New wood means stems and branches of the current year 's growth . |
| 27 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 28 | With his own hand , the king characteristically gave the fragments of the old seal 's silver matrix to one of his clerks for donation to some poor religious house . |
| 29 | She wished she had n't ; vivid fragments of the previous evening 's escapade sprang only too easily to mind . |
| 30 | Basically , I did s , well if you want a technically but I 've said it comes out of the er , identified savings of the Chief Executive 's department as already ma er made . |