Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what mother of young children , whether she owns a family pet or not , has not felt even more frightened of neighbourhood Rottweilers and Dobermans when she reads of the horrific savaging and killing of children by uncontrollable animals ? |
| 2 | Mention is made of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts but there is no attempt to question their ultimate effectiveness . |
| 3 | These two problems can be overcome but at a price in terms of the overall precision and accuracy of the result . |
| 4 | Indeed , the enthusiasm and effectiveness with which statutory authorities have addressed these areas is often a good ‘ litmus test ’ of the overall quality and commitment of local services . |
| 5 | This raises the more general question of the overall policy and practice likely to influence the nature and scope of residential social work in years to come . |
| 6 | By contrast , there is remarkably little discussion of the overall pattern and content of undergraduate studies . |
| 7 | Indeed , one of the strengths of fundamentalism is that its apologetics are within the reach of the average man and woman . |
| 8 | Stone-throwing attacks were subsequently reported on the houses of the Indian-born magistrate and defence lawyer . |
| 9 | In looking at overall trends , Sotheby 's pointed to the strength of the decorative arts and jewellery , while noting an improvement in results at Impressionist and Modern sales . |
| 10 | BUCKINGHAM PALACE 29 September : The Duke of York , Colonel-in-Chief of The Staffordshire Regiment ( The Prince of Wales 's ) this evening received Lieutenant-Colonel NHC Brown upon relinquishing his appointment as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion and Lieutenant-Colonel CT Rogers upon assuming the appointment . |
| 11 | In early summer 1984 , [ MS wrote to the organisers of the 77 conversion and specialist information technology Advanced Courses running in 1983–84 ( see Appendix [ I ) . |
| 12 | 261 of these SSSI were re-notified under Section 28 of the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 13 | SSSIs notified by NCC were also the subject of retained prior approval arrangements as for National Parks but , with the advent of the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act , all SSSIs notified under its Section 28 are subject to 3 month consultation over any activities specified on a list of Damaging Operations notified with each SSSI . |
| 14 | At present , 93 plants and 88 animals fall under the protection of the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 15 | In spite of the increasing sophistication and complexity of many middle-range theories of social action or behaviour , these value-components may introduce confusing elements of ambiguity and illogicality , as well as weakening the empirical reference of the theories . |
| 16 | Although Spencer worked out an elaborate scheme of social evolution , in terms of the increasing scale and complexity of societies , his political sociology was based mainly upon a fairly simple distinction between ‘ militant ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , the former being characterized by the predominance of activities concerned with defence and offence ( that is , warfare ) , the latter by the predominance of activities concerned with ‘ sustentation ’ ( that is , production and trade ) . |
| 17 | The fourth major indication of the increasing scale and complexity of the CNAA 's validation role was its acquisition of responsibility for the Diploma in Management Studies . |
| 18 | The concern of elite theorists with the circulation of elites , their changeability and development , leads to the modern argument that the new elites are based on ability to exercise strategic control over the technologically sophisticated instruments of mass society , and as a consequence of the increasing diversity and rapidity of development of these means , elites are them selves increasingly unstable . |
| 19 | Business groups had repeatedly pressed for punitive damages to be limited , complaining of the increasing size and frequency of such awards . |
| 20 | The Board decided to undertake a project on accounting for capital instruments in view of the increasing number and variety of capital instruments which have been introduced in recent years . |
| 21 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |
| 22 | So it was ‘ all change ’ on Pig Street : Solomon Mead replaced Elizabeth Titford in the little dwelling house which had served the Titford family so well over the years , and Thomas Tuck began to see what kind of commercial success he could make out of the vacated butcher and chandler 's shop next door . |
| 23 | To consolidate his hold on Georgia , Alexander had been moving east to the Persian-controlled shore of the south-western Caspian and west to the Turkish-controlled shore of the south-eastern Black Sea . |
| 24 | It paid well enough , especially the small link from the Somerset coalfield , but as Dyos and Aldcroft point out , at their busiest the inland waterways of southern England carried only 15 per cent of total traffic and never rewarded those who invested in them in the way those of the industrial Midlands and north did . |
| 25 | Know the location of the nearest phone and doctor beforehand . |
| 26 | It would certainly be nice to have the display on show in Skye ; MacDiarmid had links with the island through his friendship with the poet Sorley Maclean , and the importance of the Gaelic language and culture was a recurrent theme in his writings . |
| 27 | Scottish Television invested three hundred thousand pounds in the extension to the college , which is expected to play a vital part in the future of the gaelic language and culture . |
| 28 | Also known as Hela , the goddess of the Ninth Earth and guardian of the Underworld in Norse mythology . |
| 29 | The role of the sales or market forecast in the operation of the business is also explained , particularly within the context of the budgetary planning and control process . |
| 30 | The proposed courses for the next term confirm that the college will be only using fifty percent of the available time and space for eight months of the year . |