Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian 's blue eyes slipped to Caroline 's face again ; for an instant , she saw something more deadly than disdain in their depths , and she thought again of the coiled black and gold power of the tiger . |
| 2 | Some of the French dairy breeds , particularly in Brittany , have very old origins and they have links with the Channel Islands breeds which , some believe , are linked with the typical brachyceros types of the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa . |
| 3 | Ralph Metcalfe , that great sprinter of the early thirties and adversary of Jesse Owens , was not , I suspect , enamoured of being known as the ‘ Midnight Express ’ . |
| 4 | With the word of the General absolute and discipline high oil the list of Army priorities he inevitably came to the subject before long . |
| 5 | The text tools are n't of the usual bold and italic — they affect how you put text onto the page . |
| 6 | Moreover , under the shadow of the great metallurgical and textile factories , small-scale enterprise and handicraft production grew at a pace comparable to that of heavy industry . |
| 7 | The relative value of doing so measured against the cost of the associated hard and software , however , rules it out for the present time at least . |
| 8 | Even here much of the relevant economic and employment data is by ‘ travel-to-work ’ area , and it is noteworthy that the Newcastle travel-to-work area , which includes both North Shields and Cramlington , extends up into Northumberland and down to include the Derwent Valley in County Durham , but does not include South Tyneside and Wear side . |
| 9 | Given recent scandals about absenteeism in hospitals of many types and sizes in Italy , the carabinieri are doing spot and frequent checks — in one hospital in Naples recently , only 40% of the relevant medical and nursing staff were actually in … and , as a result on that occasion , about 80 people were arrested and charged with absenteeism and dereliction of duty . |
| 10 | I am following carefully what my hon. Friend says and , like my hon. Friend the Member for Normanton ( Mr. O'Brien ) , I am aware of the deep personal and constituency interest that he has in the matter . |
| 11 | He invested widely in a number of the new industrial and trading concerns of the early 1690s and , in partnership with the goldsmith banker Sir Stephen Evance and others , used his international trading connections to handle the government 's military remittances , first to Ireland ( 1690–1 ) and then , between May 1691 and October 1694 , to the Continent . |
| 12 | Worsening economic conditions , the growth of the new socialist and trade-union movements , together with the perceived failure of traditional programmes of philanthropy , all contributed to widespread alarm in official circles about the immorality of the unrespectable poor , or ‘ the residuum ’ . |
| 13 | For the local researcher , the implication is that the surviving field monuments of the prehistoric period are only a part , perhaps a small part , of the contemporary Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape , and that local topographical changes of soils , relief , and sedimentation might have buried or removed other more important parts of such settlement evidence . |
| 14 | Thereafter , despite the high unemployment years between 1929 and 1932 , trade union membership remained remarkably resilient and recovered sharply during the improving trade situation of the late 1930s and trade unions were drawn more centrally into negotiation with national employers negotiations and with the National government . |
| 15 | This ongoing conflict serves as a useful example of the interrelationship of the various legislative and common-law powers . |
| 16 | In Cameroon pidgin , for example , josnau ( a derivative from ‘ just now ’ ) is a marker of the present progressive and nau nau a marker of the present perfect denoting the immediate past as in : |
| 17 | For Cargill , one of the leading agricultural and commodity companies , the problem was entirely different . |
| 18 | This paper tells how AEA has been transformed from its early mission-orientated governmental role to being a commercially motivated , competitive , customer-driven enterprise — and one of the leading scientific and engineering services businesses in the world . |
| 19 | MAS can also undertake a restricted search of the main on-line and CD based company databases to identify candidates . |
| 20 | In the Griffiths Report , published in 1983 , a hierarchy of general managers was advocated for the NHS , weakening the influence of the nominated regional and district ‘ authorities ’ . |
| 21 | Lest there be any doubts about this , consider the Maastricht Declaration on Voting in the Field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy : ‘ The Conference agrees that , with regard to Council decisions requiring unanimity , Member States will , to the extent possible , avoid preventing a unanimous decision where a qualified majority exists in favour of that decision . ’ |
| 22 | In assessing the likely effectiveness of the Common Foreign and Security policy , it is important to look at the examples of joint European Community foreign-policy ventures to date . |
| 23 | There can be little doubt that under the terms of the Common Foreign and Security policy , there would have been no European response to Saddam Hussein 's aggression . |
| 24 | As does the whole concept of the Common Foreign and Security policy , they represent a way of thinking which sees military capability as relatively unimportant beside the dream of a powerful and independent European Union , speaking with one voice and free from American interference . |
| 25 | The decision-making process for implementation of the common foreign and security policy has still to be examined … |
| 26 | Attached to the conclusions were a report " on the likely development of the common foreign and security policy " and declarations on former Yugoslavia , the Middle East peace process , and relations between Europe and the Maghreb . |
| 27 | They have broken the mould of the old structuralist and determinist urban sociology . |
| 28 | Now the bounds are becoming blurred and they take on rather broader questions of the social good and morality , personal and public . |
| 29 | With the firm establishment of the Social Democratic and SR parties early in the new century , membership in one or other of them offers an alternative guide . |
| 30 | According to Doug Wolfe of the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration ( NOAA ) , Exxon 's definition of " recovery " of wildlife is questionable ; and Michael Fry , a seabird expert hired by the trust which is overseeing a ten-year restoration programme , claimed that " Exxon selectively funded studies with an apparently unlimited budget to prove specific points " . |