Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that these two projects could form a pincer movement to circumscribe the operations of hierarchic managements pursuing the profitability of the enterprises which employ them without regard to the interests of working people , and therefore to reconstruct the impersonal possession of the means of production in the direction of ( socialist ) social appropriation . |
| 2 | In about 1516 he moved to Cambridge , where Erasmus had recently introduced the study of Greek and had asserted the supremacy of the Scriptures , ridiculing the theories of the schoolmen and their fantastic systems of interpretation . |
| 3 | The recorded tone is warm , and nonetheless very open , allowing the strands of the textures to be heard with ease — the bass , for example , is marvellously clear . |
| 4 | This was an appeal by leave dated 18 November 1991 of the House of Lords ( Lord Bridge of Harwich , Lord Ackner and Lord Browne-Wilkinson ) by the appellants , Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council , from the judgment dated 30 April 1991 of the Court of Appeal ( Dillon , Mann and Beldam L.JJ. ) allowing the appeal of the respondents , Wickes Building Supplies Ltd. , from the judgment dated 14 May 1990 of Mervyn Davies J. granting the appellants an interlocutory injunction to restrain the respondents from trading on Sunday contrary to section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 , within the appellants ' administrative area . |
| 5 | If the Home Office really wants to stop the abuse of children and the rape of women , it must pass a law allowing the castration of the perpetrators , not for a first offence , in case there is a mistake , but for a second offence — unless people are unfit to plead . |
| 6 | He was no theologian , neither a traditionalist maintaining the views of the Fathers nor a scholastic systematizing a body of doctrine . |
| 7 | The importance attached to maintaining the ‘ prestige ’ of the emirs soon translated in practice into the importance of maintaining the autonomy of the Residents , and subsequent governors of Nigeria found almost without exception that Lugard had created an administrative monster which it was beyond their power to control . |
| 8 | Whilst this court should always be quick to identify and condemn any departure from the proper procedures , the interests of the victim and of maintaining the authority of the courts require that in deciding what use to make of its powers under section 13(3) of the Act of 1960 , this court should ask itself whether , notwithstanding such a departure , the contemnor has suffered any injustice . |
| 9 | Iron the interfacing to the wrong side of the heading allowance , with its lower edge level with the marked top of the curtain and its ends touching the creaseline of the sides . |
| 10 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for reminding the House of the terms of the Geneva convention . |
| 11 | In the rise to power of individuals in the closing decades of the Roman Republic many magistrates advertised their right to office by reminding the populace of the virtues of their ancestors through portraits reproduced on the coins they were authorised to mint . |
| 12 | The wind was growing stronger , whipping the branches of the trees and shredding them of their fading leaves . |
| 13 | One drop of Methylene Blue to each pint of jar water helps to prevent fungus attacking the eggs or fry , and strong aeration keeps them clean and healthy , simulating the fanning of the parents ' fins . |
| 14 | Although the tracheation of the pupal wings has yielded important data for ascertaining the homologies of the wing-veins of the adults , there is in some orders ( e.g. Trichoptera ) a wide divergence between the two systems . |
| 15 | ‘ Unless a different intention appears , the following are rules for ascertaining the intention of the parties as to the time at which the property in the goods is to pass to the buyer . ’ |
| 16 | While the men were training and getting their eye back for archery and broadsword fighting , Lugh would be creeping up on Tara , studying the Bright Palace to find out its weaknesses ; he would be charting the movements of the guards and sentries , and counting up the number of people on watch at the Western Gate . |
| 17 | The Emperor deplored the bellicosity of language and continued to work for a peaceful settlement , using the King of the Belgians as an intermediary , at the same time maintaining close contact with the Spanish Ambassador in Paris . |
| 18 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 19 | The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out . |
| 20 | The majority of EC governments support Mr Delors in using the impulse of the moves to democracy in Eastern Europe , and the overwhelming backing for EMU shown at last weekend 's Strasbourg summit , to secure a bigger role for the parliament . |
| 21 | Apart from using the ends of the sausages in sauces , it is generally best not to cook with these meats but just to enjoy them cold . |
| 22 | A Master Alexander the theologian was indeed associated with the Dominicans of Bologna between 1221 and 1223 , whilst in due course Bishop Alexander of Stainby is credited with the foundation of Dominican houses at Chester and Derby and with assisting the establishment of the Dominicans in Oxford . |
| 23 | My father was obviously enjoying the company of the Masons ; like most people he was gratified to be seen with a well-known golfer and to be ever-so-slightly in the spotlight . |
| 24 | An obvious difference is that one who is enjoying the sight of the gibbons will be intensely aware of their small black faces and long black fingers showing up against white fur , of their swift agile leaps and the poise of their immensely long arms at the moments when they balance perfectly still . |
| 25 | He said it in English , slowly , as though enjoying the sound of the words , and he added with a secret little smile , ‘ That happened just before he was recalled at the request of Lami Dozo himself . |
| 26 | drawing the shape of the galaxies |
| 27 | This , he observed , ‘ is accomplished by lowering the head and gently drawing the tips of the antlers to and fro through the herbage . |
| 28 | Apply the second and subsequent coats , initially with the grain , with even backward and forward strokes , then with slightly less pressure across the grain , and finally with the grain again , drawing the tips of the bristles very lightly across the surface . |
| 29 | Its job is to look at all instruments laid before the Houses with a view to drawing the attention of the Houses to such instruments as are specified in its terms of reference . |
| 30 | A stretching type of exercise will encourage muscle tone without jolting the fat cells and therefore encouraging the development of the clusters of sedentary fat cells which form cellulite . |