Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb pp] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church of San Clemente in Rome ( a remarkable complex of buildings built on three levels with a Mithraic temple in the lowest level ) has recently been the site of considerable research and investigation . |
| 2 | WASHINGTON , D.C. After the most highly publicised recruitment process in the history of American museums , the National Gallery of Art 's Board of Trustees announced on 28 April that Earl A. Powell III will take over from departing director J. Carter Brown , who has led the fifty-one year old institution for the last twenty-three years . |
| 3 | A second focus for integration has been through the design of materials based on one subject discipline but specifically planned to feed across the curriculum . |
| 4 | This hardly tallies with the sentiments expressed in a letter in the possession of the College in which Coleman , writing on 24 February 1813 , gracefully declined an invitation to become President of the London Veterinary Society : ‘ Gentlemen , I received your letter , and it gives me great pleasure to see so much zeal for the improvement of the veterinary art in Gentlemen , whom any & every Teacher might well be proud to call his Pupils — I shall most willingly grant the use of the College Theatre for the examination and discussion of such points as may be considered by you most important for the advancement of the Veterinary Science … you rightly observe that a number of minds concentrated on one object can not fail to improve any art far beyond the reach of any individual and I have no doubt that the Public will ultimately derive great benefits from your united exertions . |
| 5 | Affirming that " practically every leader agrees that negotiation is the key to reconciliation , peace and a new and just dispensation " , and in support of the government 's " declared intention to normalise the political process … without jeopardizing the maintenance of good order " , de Klerk announced changes which he said removed some of the most important obstacles to negotiation , namely ( i ) the lifting of the ban on the ANC , the PAC , the SACP and a number of subsidiary organizations ; ( ii ) the release of those imprisoned for membership of one of these banned organizations ( but not members imprisoned for politically motivated crimes involving violence ) ; ( iii ) the abolition of the media emergency regulations and of the education emergency regulations , although restrictions would remain on " visual material pertaining to scenes of unrest " ; ( iv ) the removal of restrictions imposed on 33 organizations under the state of emergency , including the National Education Crisis Committee , the United Democratic Front ( UDF ) , the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and an extreme right-wing group , Die Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging van Suid-Afrika ; ( v ) the lifting of personal restrictions imposed on 374 people already released from detention ; and ( vi ) a six-month limit on detention without charge under the emergency regulations , with detainees henceforth being entitled to legal representation and their own choice of medical attention . |