Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) The targets set must be attainable and should represent the average output of the average operative or gang working under average conditions without loss of quality of work . |
| 2 | None of the washed-out white or saffron yellow of the grain- or maize-fed animal here . |
| 3 | If any readers know anything of the current whereabouts of Tin Tin , Milly Molly Mandy , Jennings and/or Derbyshire , Rupert Bear , any of the Famous Five or Secret Seven , Billy Bunter , My Naughty Little Sister ( presumably now in freelance tax-free employment round the back of King 's Cross ? ) or any of the many others , I 'd like to hear about it . |
| 4 | Local committees or associations fluctuated drastically in numbers in different periods of antislavery history despite the proclamation of the Liverpool society in 1823 that ‘ the present age ’ , in making the organisational discovery of the local philanthropic or reform association , had made the era noteworthy ‘ for the rapid and surprising improvement which has taken place in the moral character and disposition of mankind ’ . |
| 5 | It was estimated that there were around 50,000,000 Europeans who spoke one of the 40-60 regional or minority languages as defined by the convention . |
| 6 | In recent years the officers ' freedom to divorce professional judgement from political calculation has , in many authorities , diminished sharply , and today 's chief officers are increasingly coming ‘ to see their role as less than that of a neutral professional or technocrat and more that of a bureaucratic politician ’ ( Laffin and Young , 1985 , p. 51 ) . |
| 7 | the division of a multi-coloured original or line copy into the basic ( or primary ) process colours of yellow , magenta , cyan and black . |
| 8 | An exclusive purchasing agreement obliges a retailer to purchase its supply of a particular good or set of goods solely from one manufacturer . |
| 9 | Mr White , meanwhile , is chronicling the doctor 's undergraduate days at Oxford and , in tabloid-Press prose , writes of college balls where ‘ the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would in all probability be the daughter of a baron or duke , wrapped in the best silk ’ , while on the river ‘ the navigators of punts … and those on the grassy banks lifting a glass of champagne to their lips ’ strike Mr White as ‘ an earthly paradise in freeze-frame ’ . |