Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , cast in bronze , we have an Industrial Elephant , with a factory chimney , belching smoke , on its back , which would seem to be more to do with the advent of the Industrial Revolution than a comment on the British Raj . |
| 2 | He was only too well aware of the Talmudic dictum that a handful does not satisfy a lion , but he was neither apologetic nor guilty over it . |
| 3 | Along with this has often gone a general rejection of the idea of a First Philosophy , more secure than , or prior to , the sciences , and an acceptance of the naturalistic doctrine that a philosophical account of knowledge should be permitted to use empirical information drawn from the sciences . |
| 4 | The " mature man " was thus placed at a distance equally from the " blind " drive of the capitalist marketplace and a democratic process defined in quantitative or mechanical terms . |
| 5 | It may have been the combination of the early hour and a squeamish stomach , but during the whole of our short stay on the island I had a most peculiar feeling of being transported back through time to another age . |
| 6 | ‘ We have one of the most up-to-date units around with some of the best equipment and a natural extension to this is an egg donation service . |
| 7 | He is a Member of the Baltic Exchange and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers . |
| 8 | Kalinigrad ( formerly Königsberg ) , the base of the Baltic Fleet and a highly militarized zone , was separated from the rest of Russia by Lithuanian territory . |
| 9 | Because of the General Election and a possible change of government and housing policies it was decided to adjourn the debate to a later date . |
| 10 | As the Director of Leeds Polytechnic put it in 1971 : ‘ the very existence of the new polytechnics must signify the end of the general assumption that a liberal education is the only peak to which a higher education can aspire ’ . |
| 11 | This rise is dramatic , as is illustrated in figure 6.6 , which shows a steep rise in this age-group in the first half of the twentieth century and a levelling out at about 15 per cent from the 1980s well into the next century . |
| 12 | It was a failure to recognize the potential of the black community and a failure to use it . |
| 13 | HOLY Week is a time when many people look around for devotional reading , and I suppose we should be grateful to the Observer for drawing attention to a ‘ dirty ’ book on sex for Catholics which has been written by the 30-year-old retiring editor of the Catholic Herald and a friend . |
| 14 | Coached by Place , representatives of the Loyal Standard and a few other workmen 's organisations , were instructed how to claim attendance at the Committee and to present the reasonable face of trade unionism . |
| 15 | Recall that the spectral reflectance curve of vigorous , healthy vegetation shows a dip in the red region of the visible spectrum and a peak in the short-wave infrared ( Figure 5.8(a) ) whereas the corresponding curve for water shows a decline from visible green through visible red to a low in the short-wave infrared . |
| 16 | It is frequently said that like changes have not been seen since the invention of the printed book but a good argument can be made for comparing the IT revolution with the invention of writing itself . |
| 17 | A CSCE mission was nevertheless permitted to visit Nagorny Karabakh on Feb. 12 , and on Feb. 17 Hassan Hasanov , the Azerbaijani Prime Minister , arrived in Brussels to attend a session of the European Parliament and a meeting of NATO 's Political Council , where he spoke about the background to the conflict . |
| 18 | The principles that we want are no discrimination , a closer approach to the market , consideration of more environmental matters at the centre of the European Community and a sensible CAP that is designed to support efficient farmers and the proper backing of the rural economy . |
| 19 | The insights gained from computational models of visual perceptions are facilitating the interpretation of findings of physiological studies of the visual cortex and a picture is emerging of a modular system in which different attributes of the image are processed in different cortical areas before the information is passed on to higher order systems . |
| 20 | We were interrupted by the distant sound of the clanking lift and a sudden burst of footsteps and voices in the corridor . |
| 21 | Thus it was at London , Bristol , Liverpool , Hull and Glasgow in the last years of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century that a " lagged response " to the great increase in trade was concentrated . |
| 22 | Sequent says there are to be three versions of NT : the client , an inexpensive four-processor retail iteration of the Advanced Server and a 16-processor OEM-only version of the Advanced Server . |
| 23 | Sequent says there are to be three versions of NT : the client , an inexpensive four-processor retail iteration of the Advanced Server and a 16-processor OEM-only version of the Advanced Server . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , however , Hugh Collum , chairman of the 100 Group and a member of the Cadbury Committee , offered an opposing view . |
| 25 | John , the eldest of the four brothers , made 41 runs and Peter , the youngest of the cricketing quartet and a member of Ireland 's U21 squad shortly to tour Denmark , carried his bat for 51 in the 39 run victory over St Johnston . |
| 26 | In January 1990 George Thambiraja , an EPRLF leader in Trincomalee , deputy chairman of the Provincial Council and a founder of the TNA , was killed in an ambush , followed by the killing of the deputy Speaker of the Provincial Council , S. G. Ganeshamoorthy . |
| 27 | None of this , of course , is to be confused with the idea that all of the causal laws of science , or even many , are in the given way analogues in form of the ordinary belief that a particular causal circumstance necessitated a particular effect . |
| 28 | But it 's only the width of the front door and a window . |
| 29 | The effects of the Great Depression and a renewed possibility of war in Europe in the 1930s made most Americans all the more determined to isolate and insulate themselves from the quarrels and atavism of the nations of Europe . |
| 30 | This year LASMO is delighted to have Lady Barbirolli , widow of the great conductor and a famous oboist herself , as chair of the judging panel for the first competition evening . |