Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It is stated to this Meeting that the Lint Miln is keep 'd in very bad order , and that it is insufficient to manufacture the Lint of the Parish independent of the Lint of the whole Island . |
| 2 | The effect of changing the excitation from stack A to stack B is to produce alignment of the stator and rotor teeth in stack B. This new alignment is made possible by a movement of the rotor in the clockwise direction ; the motor moves one " step " as a result of the excitation change . |
| 3 | In pollution control work , however , there is none of the sacredness of the policing of the traditional code ( Lemert , 1972 ; Manning , 1977 ) , and it is more difficult to dramatize the threat of pollution than to portray the symbolic assaults on the community from criminals , addicts , vandals , and other sinister figures on the fringes of the moral order ( Manning , 1980 ) , notwithstanding the missionary zeal of some proponents of regulatory reform in the USA . |
| 4 | In the second instance public criticism of the policing of the urban disorders and riots of 1981/82 , coupled with mounting evidence of systematic discrimination against the black community , created a situation in which the practices of the ‘ copper on the beat ’ came under close scrutiny both from within the force itself and from various watchdog bodies . |
| 5 | These observations , though few , have provided critical evidence of the depth of the causative fault ( 14–15 kilometres ) , while evidence from the main shock showed the fault to be a strike-slip fault . |
| 6 | Shackleton , Ries , and Coward ( 1982 ) made estimates of the depth of the main Variscan decollement in southwestern England based on cleavage attitudes and shortening , and concluded that a thin-skinned model was appropriate and that the granites are rootless . |
| 7 | The durability of the Royal Scotsman over five long seasons of operation , with the top tour price now only a short step away from £3,000 was proven by 1989 , but even as this book was being prepared for press , there were changes in the wind which may prove to be a sterner test of the depth of the elitist train-tour market . |
| 8 | The Crown Prince was just six years old when his father came to the Imperial Throne , and from that moment on all communication — even the most personal — between himself and the Kaiser took place through the formal intermediary of the Chief of the Military Cabinet . |
| 9 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 10 | Firstly the general observation of land-use change from the centre of Nottingham , in the determination of the limits of the Central Business District or CBD . |
| 11 | The fact that " educated females " were the desired targets of the newspaper advertisement suggests that the " philanthropic " nature of the experiments of the 1860s was uppermost in the minds of the employers . |
| 12 | Annual population estimates give a rather different impression of the phasing of the pace of the urban-rural shift over time ( Champion , 1981 , 1987b ) . |
| 13 | After several attempts at attracting attention with the knocker he walked round the side of the cottage to the back garden . |
| 14 | He walked back around the side of the cottage to the open kitchen window , where the two girls were putting the packed food into a basket . |
| 15 | She dressed hurriedly , made herself a snack , took the bike and wheeled it round the corner of the cottage into the front garden . |
| 16 | He struck a fine short iron over the bunker and right into the heart of the green at the 12th , and at last a putt found its mark from perhaps eight feet . |
| 17 | For weeks on end in 1942 and 1943 and early 1944 , before the Western Allies had launched their invasion of Normandy , the progress of the battle on the eastern front had been the principal item in the national newspapers , whatever their political complexion . |
| 18 | The immediate result of the battle of the Catalaunian Plains in 451 had been the succession of Theoderid 's eldest son , Thorismund . |
| 19 | Before the mid-650s the Anglian frontier had also been extended to include Iudeu or Giudi , identified as probably Stirling ; Oswiu retreated here on the eve of the battle of the Winwaed ( HB chs 64 , 65 ) . |
| 20 | Ealhfrith must have been about 20 years old at the time of the battle of the Winwaed , after which he became king of Deira , taking over the former territory of his cousin , Oethelwald . |
| 21 | Born in 645 or , less probably , in 646 , he is first heard of in 655 , at the time of the battle of the Winwaed between the Mercians and the Northumbrians , when he was a hostage with Queen Cynewise of Mercia . |
| 22 | It is a Hall of Mirrors built in 1891 , the last room of which contains a panorama of the battle against the Swedish troops in 1648 . |
| 23 | She has three spells dealt to her at the start of the battle in the usual way as described in Warhammer Battle Magic . |
| 24 | That of the papers of the Scottish Craft Centre is substantially complete . |
| 25 | There was an article on Frank in one of the papers in the last few days , I 'll see if I can dig it out . |
| 26 | In the event , Israel walked out of the talks on the first day in protest at the presence of the head of the Palestinian delegation , Mohammed Hallaj , director of the Washington-based Centre for Policy Analysis on Palestine and a former member of the Palestine National Council ( PNC — the Palestinian " parliament-in-exile " ) . |
| 27 | Only thus can the selection and ranking of candidates be rationally managed , the nomination of the second candidate being approved in full awareness of the selection of the first , the nomination of the third being approved after the selection of the first two , and so on . |
| 28 | This implies that the problem of the selection of the risky securities to include in the investor 's portfolio has been solved and the only question to be answered is whether to lend or borrow , and how much to lend or borrow . |
| 29 | Here , apart from reliance on the rigours of a large-scale examination system , new areas of modern knowledge were set up as autonomous academic disciplines with a related German style system of professoriate , administrative hierarchy , and departmental structure , and a commitment to research — none of which was characteristic of the operations of the traditional classical curriculum . |
| 30 | Positivist criminologists ' omission of the causal significance of the operations of the criminal justice system is perhaps even more of an oddity : they sought causes of crime in the social world of the criminal , and yet omitted legal processes as being a significant part of that social world ! |