Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its distance is about 15000 light-years , so that it is one of the closest of the globulars . |
| 2 | Much of the attack on the slave trade from as early as the end of the 1780s to the debates of 1806 could equally have been , and was , an attack on slavery . |
| 3 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 4 | The Urban Survival Handbook by John Wiseman ( Harvill , £10.99 ) — John Wiseman 's follow-up to The SAS Survival Handbook is a paranoic 's charter , drawing the attention of the unwary to the dangers of everything from extension ladders to Japanese wisteria and providing useful hints on how to combat them . |
| 5 | Some of the best of the comrades had been horrified by the indiscretion of Lenin in resorting to the aid of the Germans and making the trip through an enemy country . |
| 6 | Native of the largest of the continents , five letters . |
| 7 | The village school attended by my father was a Church school : it had been founded and was originally funded by the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church ( was there ever a more eloquent title ? ) . |
| 8 | He had done his initial research on jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as varied as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 9 | He had done his initial research on Jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as various as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 10 | Certainly the ball skills of the three-quarters in the tests were impressive . |
| 11 | Their internal squabbles , a symptom of this decadence , made them peculiarly vulnerable ; it was the quarrel between the Augustinians and Jesuits that opened the door to the regalist onslaught of the sixties on the privileges of the Church . |
| 12 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 13 | Only the proletariat had no material interest in nationality ; they possessed a ‘ brotherhood of the oppressed against the oppressors ’ : |
| 14 | Both were given positions near the centre of power , unlike their other brothers and sisters , who were installed in basically honorific positions , with the partial exception of the eldest of the siblings , Marin . |
| 15 | By May 19 the Lutheran World Federation was flying in essential supplies daily from Mombasa , Kenya , for the Mogadishu programmes of the UK-based Save the Children Fund and French-based Médecins sans frontières . |
| 16 | Eusthenopteron , one of the first of the crossopterygii to grow stumpy fins , which later became legs . |
| 17 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 18 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 19 | Matisse , who was one of the first of the painters of his generation to appreciate the true genius of Cézanne , had been working under his influence since 1899 , the year in which he bought Cézanne 's Trois Baigneuses from Vollard , choosing it in preference to an Arlésienne by Van Gogh , and in the figure pieces that lead up to the Bonheur , the influence of Cézanne is immediately obvious . |
| 20 | And that in fact is one of the one of the areas or one of the elements that attracts people to this particular job . |
| 21 | One of the one of the difficulties is that that that theatres up and down the country have faced over the last two years of the new target that were brought in with the eighty eight education act where schools were not allowed to make a charge it could only be a voluntary contribution now the council of Great Britain have looked at this it 's a problem cos of this decimated schools audiences . |
| 22 | it might well be that one of the one of the forms could go down there to have a morning as part of this project to do |
| 23 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
| 24 | When our marketing er executive goes round to the surgery one of the one of the things erm he he or she will determine with the with the practice is the number of booklets we 're going to print . |
| 25 | This was one of the one of the things I asked him was n't it ? |
| 26 | Is there one of the one of the women in Emmerdale Farm getting raped or something soon ? |
| 27 | A one of the one of the sentences , , how dare you authorise the withdrawal of fifteen pounds from account without prior notification ! |
| 28 | Erm I think one of the one of the exceptions is actually . |
| 29 | So one of the one of the suggestions would be then that er you should try to get a similar sort of relationship in retirement . |
| 30 | December 13 , 1956 : Dear Bunny , There are some delightful , first-rate pieces in your book , such as the one about your father and the first of the two about the Jews , but I am as always distressed by your conception of Russian history , which is all wrong , being based on the stale Bolshevist propaganda which you imbibed in your youth . |