Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] of [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | One of the trademarks of Keith 's solo playing is his double stopping , based , as he says ‘ on an old blues trick . ’ |
2 | Actors played the parts of the giants of Romania 's chequered history , like Stephen the Great , and gave a kind of historical blessing to the new General-Secretary . |
3 | Victorian scholars were divided in their views of the precise nature and order of the stages of man 's evolutionary progress . |
4 | The match was reminiscent of the problems of schools ' football — the big school with 11 good players will always beat the village school which has only six or seven . |
5 | If the success of the election hinged on any one province , it was Kompong Cham — the home of Hun Sen , the prime minister of the Phnom Penh government and the area from which one in six of the members of Cambodia 's constituent assembly will be returned . |
6 | The importance of the study of elites , as a way of assessing political attitudes and change , is well established , but there is little know of the social background of the members of Indonesia 's parliamentary bodies , the People 's Representative Council and the Supreme Deliberative Assembly . |
7 | Like Brown , he struck a populist tone by attacking the " status-quo paralysis " in Washington , but combined this with a partisan attack on the Bush administration for its neglect of home affairs in general and of the interests of America 's middle class in particular . |
8 | Esh Winning could only muster 110 , mainly because of the efforts of Leadgate 's professional Nolan McKenzie , who took 7–57 in 21.4 overs , and then the West Indian scored 42 to see his side home . |
9 | He sat as one of the justices of King 's Bench in Easter term 1271 but never became a regular justice of the court . |
10 | After a century 's diagnosis of the ills of London 's health service many in Britain will welcome almost any prescription that stops 15% of the population consuming 20% of NHS resources . |
11 | Mary Daly 's indictment of male power and brutality similarly allows little space for a consideration of the patterns of women 's lives , or the strengths and capacities that these might have enabled them to develop . |
12 | Fear of the repercussions of Aristide 's eventual return prompted some hardline members of the military and anti-Aristide conservatives to make moves to reject the compromise agreement . |
13 | However , in light of the findings of Descombes et al. |
14 | This chapter is not a systematic analysis of the areas of women 's invisibility in sociology ; rather , it is an attempt to suggest some of the areas and ways in which it is manifested , some of the reasons why it occurs , and why , from the point of view of sociology ( and women ) it matters . |
15 | to develop pupils ' knowledge and understanding of the areas of man 's religious search for ‘ meaning , value and purpose ’ outlined in the Arrangements document ( 1.1 ) . |
16 | The concept of the rural sector being exploited by the urban one retains some potency in such a centralized nation as Japan , and rural resentment at some of the decisions of Japan 's urban-oriented rulers is widespread . |
17 | The Royal Navy created by Henry VIII was manned by merchant seamen who fought the great naval battles which cleared the seas and made possible future trade with the East , while these same seamen , under letters of marque , plundered the bullion and seized the vessels of the enemies of England en route from the New World . |
18 | This trading concern , based in Winterthur and Bombay was started in 1851 by Salomon Volkart ( 1816–1893 ) and was so successful that it was soon founding banks and insurance companies , and was one of the stalwarts of Switzerland 's growing influence in world business affairs . |
19 | They pointed out that the information provided by such an analysis of the components of shareholders ' funds did not seem to be useful and was difficult to interpret . |
20 | The practical interconnection between gender , ethnicity and class can be seen in some of the ethnographies of women 's lives that have been recently produced . |
21 | With this great gift of the torah the people are in possession of the secrets of God 's heart , and have the means to make of Canaan a new Garden of God . |
22 | Restraint on overheads has been one of the secrets of Headline 's success . |
23 | ‘ Fewer than 30% of the CEOs of America 's 150 largest corporations even try to affect the policies of their own Government , ’ claims the author . |
24 | ONE of the pioneers of cinema 's golden age , producer Hal Roach , died last week aged 100 . |
25 | A remarkable film of 1955 , Rebel without a Cause , claimed as ‘ new realism ’ when it was first screened , showed delinquent boys and girls in the mid-teens proving their worth in ‘ chicken ’ contests whose violence , distorted as it is by social pressures , does express a genuine personal pride : the dares and challenges of the groups of Hell 's Angels today , leading to criminal actions , have a distant debased origin in the concept of honour . |
26 | As you know because of the activities of benefit 's action over a couple of years , Social Fund in Harlow was quite good because we urged people to apply and Social Fund was then based on the year before 's applications , but this does n't apply now . |
27 | Umar al-Abairsh , therefore , took a grave view of the activities of Ahmad Delo and his presumed army . |
28 | The Allied forces had a reasonably clear idea of the dispositions of Baghdad 's forces , while Saddam 's intelligence was less complete . |
29 | At the start , this strategy was to show the electorate that the Prime Minister was ‘ a very nice person ’ , tell them of the horrors of Labour 's tax policies and hope that in the twinkling of Mr Heseltine 's eye — aided by the applause of some celebrities and a giant ( and inexplicably awful ) stage set — the Conservatives would be back in government . |
30 | One of the advantages of CMC 's new development is that it can learn from its operator . |