Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun sg] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what mother of young children , whether she owns a family pet or not , has not felt even more frightened of neighbourhood Rottweilers and Dobermans when she reads of the horrific savaging and killing of children by uncontrollable animals ? |
| 2 | Mention is made of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts but there is no attempt to question their ultimate effectiveness . |
| 3 | These two problems can be overcome but at a price in terms of the overall precision and accuracy of the result . |
| 4 | Indeed , the enthusiasm and effectiveness with which statutory authorities have addressed these areas is often a good ‘ litmus test ’ of the overall quality and commitment of local services . |
| 5 | This raises the more general question of the overall policy and practice likely to influence the nature and scope of residential social work in years to come . |
| 6 | By contrast , there is remarkably little discussion of the overall pattern and content of undergraduate studies . |
| 7 | Indeed , one of the strengths of fundamentalism is that its apologetics are within the reach of the average man and woman . |
| 8 | Stone-throwing attacks were subsequently reported on the houses of the Indian-born magistrate and defence lawyer . |
| 9 | BUCKINGHAM PALACE 29 September : The Duke of York , Colonel-in-Chief of The Staffordshire Regiment ( The Prince of Wales 's ) this evening received Lieutenant-Colonel NHC Brown upon relinquishing his appointment as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion and Lieutenant-Colonel CT Rogers upon assuming the appointment . |
| 10 | In early summer 1984 , [ MS wrote to the organisers of the 77 conversion and specialist information technology Advanced Courses running in 1983–84 ( see Appendix [ I ) . |
| 11 | 261 of these SSSI were re-notified under Section 28 of the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 12 | SSSIs notified by NCC were also the subject of retained prior approval arrangements as for National Parks but , with the advent of the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act , all SSSIs notified under its Section 28 are subject to 3 month consultation over any activities specified on a list of Damaging Operations notified with each SSSI . |
| 13 | At present , 93 plants and 88 animals fall under the protection of the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 14 | In spite of the increasing sophistication and complexity of many middle-range theories of social action or behaviour , these value-components may introduce confusing elements of ambiguity and illogicality , as well as weakening the empirical reference of the theories . |
| 15 | Although Spencer worked out an elaborate scheme of social evolution , in terms of the increasing scale and complexity of societies , his political sociology was based mainly upon a fairly simple distinction between ‘ militant ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , the former being characterized by the predominance of activities concerned with defence and offence ( that is , warfare ) , the latter by the predominance of activities concerned with ‘ sustentation ’ ( that is , production and trade ) . |
| 16 | The fourth major indication of the increasing scale and complexity of the CNAA 's validation role was its acquisition of responsibility for the Diploma in Management Studies . |
| 17 | The concern of elite theorists with the circulation of elites , their changeability and development , leads to the modern argument that the new elites are based on ability to exercise strategic control over the technologically sophisticated instruments of mass society , and as a consequence of the increasing diversity and rapidity of development of these means , elites are them selves increasingly unstable . |
| 18 | Business groups had repeatedly pressed for punitive damages to be limited , complaining of the increasing size and frequency of such awards . |
| 19 | The Board decided to undertake a project on accounting for capital instruments in view of the increasing number and variety of capital instruments which have been introduced in recent years . |
| 20 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |
| 21 | So it was ‘ all change ’ on Pig Street : Solomon Mead replaced Elizabeth Titford in the little dwelling house which had served the Titford family so well over the years , and Thomas Tuck began to see what kind of commercial success he could make out of the vacated butcher and chandler 's shop next door . |
| 22 | Know the location of the nearest phone and doctor beforehand . |
| 23 | It would certainly be nice to have the display on show in Skye ; MacDiarmid had links with the island through his friendship with the poet Sorley Maclean , and the importance of the Gaelic language and culture was a recurrent theme in his writings . |
| 24 | Scottish Television invested three hundred thousand pounds in the extension to the college , which is expected to play a vital part in the future of the gaelic language and culture . |
| 25 | Also known as Hela , the goddess of the Ninth Earth and guardian of the Underworld in Norse mythology . |
| 26 | The role of the sales or market forecast in the operation of the business is also explained , particularly within the context of the budgetary planning and control process . |
| 27 | The proposed courses for the next term confirm that the college will be only using fifty percent of the available time and space for eight months of the year . |
| 28 | Each of the six murder and mystery cases in the Monday night series takes up 30 minutes , with two being shown together . |
| 29 | For the Frankfurt School , ‘ ideology ’ is a concept to be used in the political interpretation of social forces and is predicated on a Marxist theory of the political history and structure of society . |
| 30 | The idea of a National Government was primarily an idea of the political centre and right : there was hardly any support for it in the Labour party — except from Mosley , and he was moving rapidly to the right . |