Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.

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1 Clearly there is considerable pressure on the various parties to the negotiations .
2 However , horns were generally seen as desirable , especially for harnessing plough oxen , and it was not until the eighteenth century that Scottish farmers began to breed selectively for the polled factor in order to make the cattle of Galloway easier to manage on the long droves to the London markets .
3 Furthermore , the unfavourable climate may have repercussions on the general attitudes to the black population in the United Kingdom .
4 We now have in place a new estates officer for Cherry Hinton er can I ask that that there is a special report brought to the housing committee er before the summer recess on the possible solutions to the problems that have been identified ?
5 Lowering her gaze from the intense sunlight reflected on the upper walls to the leaded doors , she placed a foot on the first stone step .
6 Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus .
7 To see the five early seventeenth-century working miniature firearms from the workshop of Michel Mann of Augsburg and Nuremberg , a rare mechanical calculator made by Johann Schuster in 1822 , a German Royal hunting knife made in Berlin in 1699 by Jaques Munier , and a pair of mid-eighteenth-century four-light candelabra ( attributed to Christian Heinrich Ingermann ) made for Augustus III , Elector of Saxony alongside what are traditionally regarded as archetypal ‘ German ’ and ‘ Austrian ’ works , such as paintings , watercolours and prints by the German Expressionists , does indeed focus the mind on the manifold contributions to the history of art made by artists of the German speaking countries .
8 In the letter , Mr Graham said the consultation paper on the planned changes to the law made ‘ a fundamental mistake ’ in trying to compare problems created by travellers with those caused by traditional gipsies .
9 I am aware that the association has provided a review paper to OFFER on the perceived barriers to the development of CHP , and the issues raised are primarily matters for OFFER .
10 In ordinary language , this ordered pair can be rendered as follows : the satisfaction of readers is dependent on their judgement of the processing effort required to derive a reading as well as on the perceived effort put into the writing of the text ; the reader 's judgement of the author 's satisfaction is similarly dependent on the perceived costs to the writer as well as the notion of the writer gaining satisfaction from the reader 's effort and enjoyment of the text .
11 The basis of the debtor 's defence seems to be that the action is a fraud on the other parties to the contract to forbear from suing .
12 Copies of the relevant documents must be filed at court and served on the other parties to the proceedings ( FPCR , r17 ; FPR , r4.17 and see 7 below ) . ]
13 Copy statements and documents must be served on the other parties to the proceedings and on any guardian ad litem appointed .
14 Fascinated by photography , he embarked on the three journeys to the Middle East that were to make his reputation .
15 ( 3 ) That ( per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. and Lord Griffiths ) on the true construction of section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 the taxpayers were assessable on the extra cost of providing the benefit , and from the point of view of expense incurred it could not be said that its provision involved significant extra cost to the school ; that ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) reference should be made to Hansard to resolve the ambiguity in section 63 , and that the Parliamentary history disclosed that the Act of 1976 was passed on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 thereof was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concerning education for teachers ' children , on the marginal costs to the employer and not on a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; and that section 63 should be construed accordingly ( post , pp. 1036C–E , F–G , 1039B , C , G , 1040B , 1042C–D , 1063A , H — 1064A , C , 1067A ) .
16 While many social workers told us they were relieved it was not they , but the courts , who would be arraigned in the tabloids if they ‘ got it wrong ’ , this simply passed on the same worries to the courts .
17 The most beautiful song of the evening was a long lament , a Bedouin song about a desert journey from Siwa on the Libyan borders to the Nile .
18 HAVING read the June edition from cover to cover , I can find no notice or article , either from the Secretary of the RFU or the Editor , on the proposed alterations to the Courage League and Pilkington Cup regulations which will affect all clubs in the country .
19 If , therefore , human beings as a whole progressively delayed the age at which they reproduced , the ‘ death-genes ’ would , over the course of the generations , be gradually filtered out — for the very simple reason that people most affected by ‘ death-genes ’ would die before reproducing , and hence would be unable to pass on the fatal genes to the next generation .
20 ‘ I think that it is tremendous that the Australian Wine Bureau is offering so many people the chance to play tennis competitively at great venues and I am looking forward to passing on a few tips to the winners — before joining them in a celebratory glass of Australian wine . ’
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