Example sentences of "of [adj] and [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Between the summer of 1869 and the winter of 1871 his lectures included courses on metrics , a field fundamental to the consideration of Greek music ; on two tragedies , Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers and Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex ; and on lyric poetry , which in Greece was originally and characteristically sung poetry and which included the dithyramb , that special kind of sung poetry originally employed in the orgiastic worship of the fertility god , Dionysus , and conventionally regarded as ancestral to Greek tragedy .
2 During the period between the Fascist ascendancy of 1934 and the collapse of Mosley 's hopes in March 1937 , Joyce 's personal life had undergone a change which seemed to be for the better .
3 Fine Gael had a PV of 27.1 and a PS of 30.7 .
4 There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal .
5 A coalition consisting only of Labour and a party to its left would have immense trouble foisting the trauma of withdrawal on Israel .
6 A total output of about 25,000 army and air force decrypts per month from Hut 6 was increased to about 48,000 each month between the autumn of 1943 and the end of the war .
7 in respect of each and every incident of loss 3% of the cost ( as at the date the claim is notified to the Society ) of re-building as new the whole of the Private Dwelling and its outbuildings
8 You will need a document for any kind of transaction because you will have to prove to the authorities legal ownership of each and every work of art .
9 If our tea and lunch breaks could be structured on the lines of the ancient Egyptians I am sure that by 10.30am each day there would be a smile on the face of each and every member of staff ; and if we could ensure that all our members were treated by their employers in the same way , our membership figures would double instantly .
10 But the division of labour within the enterprise is not a juggernaut which crushes out all trace of ‘ skill ’ or peculiarity in the wage-labour of each and every branch of production , and neither can the ‘ capitalist ’ attain the Taylorist ideal of total control over labour .
11 the first £50 of each and every claim for loss of or damage to the caravan or equipment
12 the first £50 of each and every claim for loss of or damage to personal effects contained in the caravan or towing vehicle
13 It saves time and effort on the part of the typist not to have to put commas at the end of each and every line of an address and full stops at the end of an address and after the date .
14 Section A : excludes the first £15 of each and every loss of deposit claim and £25 in respect of all other claims .
15 the first part ( Excess ) as shown hereunder of any amount otherwise payable in respect of each and every occurrence of loss or damage ( other than by fire lightning explosion theft or attempted theft ) occurring while such motor car is being driven by any person who is
16 We shall love all men , not in weakness , not in sentimentality , but with the strong love that unites all to seek the good of each and the happiness of this whole country .
17 The faintly stoned Indian vocal line does n't help , and somehow this seems to me like a cross between ‘ What Time Is Love ’ and ‘ Fools Gold ’ with the charm of neither and a lot of other unnecessary junk .
18 The FT Government Securities index currently stands at 88.18 against a high for the year to date of 89.75 and a low of 85.11 ( see panel ) .
19 Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 .
20 Most of the swing to the Conservatives between the summer of 1986 and the summer of 1987 occurred during the winter of 1986–7 , and there was relatively little swing in the last few months before the election .
21 The war of 1808 and the movement for independence in the colonies was to complete the defeat of Spain 's effort to create a mercantilist empire .
22 In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) .
23 The smell of damp and the whisper of cobwebs combined to create an eerie , haunted feeling .
24 He must be a physician , having books of physick and a herbal by him .
25 Rudston is basically a farming community , but mechanisation and modernisation have resulted in much less employment than of old and the majority of people now travel out of the village to work .
26 When he died in 1980 , the brothers decided to buy the landscaping division and concluded the deal almost four years later , when Waterers was losing money on a staff of 12 and a turnover of £400,000 .
27 The following example explains how a bar of 12/8 translates into a bar of 4/4 , a bar of 6/8 translates into a bar of 2/4 and a bar of 9/8 translates into a bar of 3/4 :
28 This mediation of ethics makes indirect one 's access to the problem of the relationship between the religious faith of some and the morality of the many , particularly on the issue of the freedom of the individual versus the intervention of the state .
29 Hunt more than earned his championship : he earned it against the envy of some and the bloody-mindedness of others .
30 ‘ A bit of this and a bit of that .
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