Example sentences of "of [noun] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It will be overseeing the installation of a small-scale hydro-electric generating scheme bringing heating and lighting to the village of Mango in the foothills of the Karakoram range . |
2 | She did a good deal of field-work in the pubs of commuterland , achieving in her story ‘ Summer Schools ’ ( also in the 1958 volume ) an almost ‘ Gothic ’ horror . |
3 | Heads of state and government of the 12 member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) met in Luxembourg on June 28-29 to take stock of progress in the negotiations on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and European political union ( EPU ) which had opened at the Rome summit in December 1990 [ see pp. 37905-06 ] . |
4 | Despite the fact that the Criminal Law Revision Committee and the Policy Advisory Committee have recently considered the question of homosexuality , there appears to be little possibility of change in the conditions of lawful homosexual conduct . |
5 | We showed him two films , and gave him evidence of change in the motives of men affecting trouble spots and putting things to rights , socially and politically in many parts of the world . |
6 | However , it is not justifiable to discuss a problem from the angle of insanity if there is no indication of insanity in the facts of the problem . |
7 | In John Ray 's The wisdom of God manifested in the works of creation ( 1691 ) , there was a sense of exultation in the wonders of nature . |
8 | The surest sign of progress will be the rattle of coins in the coffers of Irish lesbian and gay film-makers everywhere . |
9 | A loss of expertise in the areas of sexual assaults , child offences and missing persons--previously the province of policewomen . |
10 | Importation seems the most likely answer for many of these metals , but the existence of scrap in the forms of late Roman silver coinage , plate and , increasingly , Germanic silver may easily have satisfied the demand . |
11 | Searches may be made through subject headings ( though these are too broad to be really useful ) , or more effectively — at least in the pure and applied sciences — through keywords or combinations of keywords in the titles of books listed . |
12 | The less simple translation is that the battle continues between economic reformists and those hardliners , led politically by the prime minister , Li Peng , and ideologically by the 86-year-old Chen Yun , who believe that quick reform leads only too quickly to bourgeois liberalisation and peaceful evolution — witness the student democrats in 1989 in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square and the collapse of communism in the countries of Eastern Europe . |
13 | Most memorably , Warr declares his belief in the ability of the common people to secure their own liberation : ‘ There are some sparks of freedom in the minds of most ’ , he wrote , ‘ which ordinarily lie deep and are covered in the dark as a spark in the ashes . ’ |
14 | The only published study that can be directly compared with the Gardner report is that by Mc Laughlin et al on workers at nuclear facilities in Ontario ; they found no increased risk of leukaemia in the children of fathers working in these facilities . |
15 | The most significant sites in North Shields are Chirton Industrial Estate , originally comprising 110 acres , which was acquired by the council and transferred to North East Trading Estates , and Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate , comprising 132 acres bought from the Duke of Northumberland in the mid-1960s by Property Security Investment Trust Ltd . |
16 | Father , we thank you for those you have placed in posts of responsibility in the governments of the world and of our nation . |
17 | There is no indication that there was any direct connection between the twelve ( of whom it is said in Acts that they stayed in Jerusalem ) and the advent of ministry in the churches in the gentile world . |
18 | The New Testament , despite its talk of God condemning the wicked to an eternity of weeping and gnashing of teeth in the fires of hell ( a level of violence , as one commentator has put it , surpassing anything spoken of in the Old Testament ) , has yet more challenges to offer , and not just in the Passion narratives . |
19 | A professional register organised by the British Agrochemical Standards Inspection Scheme aims to raise the professionalism of personnel in the eyes of farmers and public . |
20 | It is submitted that the legislation in Hungary performs the role of midwife in the throes of the emergence of commerce , markets , and business with a commendable degree of success . |
21 | In the remainder of this paper , therefore , I shall review some of the evidence that is becoming available on adults ' styles of interaction in the settings of home and school , and on the influences that these styles have on children 's learning . |
22 | His will to win has become a compulsive passion , a virtue that makes him a figure of loathing in the eyes of opposition fans . |
23 | Whatever their relations had been in life , this was no sacred invitation , since it coincided with her loss of faith in the consolations of religion . |
24 | Those who see the appearance of humanities in the programmes of scientific institutes in London or the provinces as an intrusion might sometimes in fact be seeing a take-over bid . |
25 | The Lutheran Church , Benedictines and White Fathers also favoured the use of Swahili wherever possible , depending on where the mission was stationed ; it met with a certain amount of resistance in the provinces around Lake Victoria and in the north . |
26 | At our council meetings he always drew exquisite portraits of birds in the margins of the agenda paper . |
27 | For any moment of weakness in the fortunes of a great house — the minority of William the Conqueror , the early years of Fulk le Réchin — provided the perfect opportunity for castellans to establish their hereditary rights , or to exercise for their own benefit prerogatives which had hitherto brought profit to the princes . |
28 | I have to assume it 's because they produce this call only very rarely , since I have spent quite literally thousands of hours in the woods at night . |
29 | Another American , Malivai Washington , overcame Keil 's resistance in the third round and the stubborn efforts of Fitzgerald in the quarters before bowing out in just 73 minutes in the semi-final to Edberg . |
30 | Through Hollywood , and the globalization of the movies , via Madison Avenue , from where Ewen 's ‘ captains of consciousness ’ created the modern advertising industry , to the more geographically diffuse but ideologically monolithic television net ’ working conceptualizers , the transnational capitalist class in the United States has assumed leadership of the culture-ideology of consumerism in the interests of global capitalism in the twentieth century . |