Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Nigel was teaching drama so the project had already moved out of the Humanities department in a rather unsystematic way .
2 Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year .
3 Better than this modern rubbish , ’ only to be confronted with a leather clad Sandie , writhing about the Top Of The Pops floor with an equally leather clad Smiths behind her engaged in a bitter battle over individual volume .
4 In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards .
5 But the argument might as well be put the other way round : his inability to formulate counterfactuals is just one consequence of the difficulties attendant Upon a theory of such scope and grandiloquent abstraction .
6 It is about eight inches in length and runs from the urinary bladder , through the prostate gland , under the front of the pelvis , and , passing through the corpus spongiosum , it ends at the tip of the glans penis in an opening called the urethral meatus .
7 Mr Graham is to provide committee members of the Police Committee with a breakdown of how Cheshire 's officers are deployed .
8 A statement forms part of the res gestae of a case if it is made contemporaneously with or shortly after any act or occurrence in issue in the proceedings so as to form part of the same transaction .
9 Professor Philip Swallow , Head of the English Department at Rummidge University , had been elected Dean of the Arts Faculty for a three-year term ; and since the duties of this office , added to his Departmental responsibilities , drastically reduced his contribution to undergraduate teaching , he was by tradition allowed to appoint a temporary lecturer , at the lower end of the salary scale , as what was quaintly termed ‘ Dean 's Relief ’ .
10 Anyone who includes fines as part of the runnings costs of a vehicle is undeserving of the luxury of a car .
11 SPAG commissioned the IIRS to undertake tests on six areas of the tailings lake at a cost of £400 .
12 The surgeons and robotic engineers hope to replace part of the surgeons activity with a robot .
13 Eight other items followed including an ‘ oriental ’ item from Kent , brollies as equipment ( and how effectively ) from Norfolk and four youngsters from Surrey managed to cover the vast floor area of the sports centre with a lively item using novel equipment — batons with rubber balls at each end .
14 Conversely , in respect of the solids content of a suspension in a plastic container not totally impermeable to water vapour , the check specification could more logically be 95–110 per cent .
15 In presenting a geomorphological approach to glaciers and landscape Sugden and John ( 1976 ) utilize a simple systems approach as a vehicle for the explanation of complicated ideas because they believe ‘ in the value of a systems framework as a powerful explanatory tool ’ .
16 An example of this would be the operation of a lettings policy in a school .
17 Easter Day 1945 found him in the darkness of a cattle truck in a German railway tunnel ; there was a true resurrection moment when prisoners were allowed out in to the sunshine and flowers of the railway cutting .
18 I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent …
19 He paused to light the green-brown dirigible of a partagas perfecto with a flickering windproof lighter .
20 THE brutal murder of a child leaves a firm trace on the mind of a police officer like an indelible pen .
21 Flashman is now the subject of a police enquiry as a result of a complaint by Sun photographer Paul Welford after a scuffle following the Football League hearing at a West End hotel on Monday .
22 The police are called upon to perform many public services ( for example , see Punch 1979b ; Punch and Naylor 1973 ) , which is true even of a police force in a divided society like Northern Ireland , as the last chapter showed .
23 Dictionaries are the results of a lexicographers analysis of a language .
24 To this extent it may be correct to say that there is a rule of law against the application of an exceptions clause to a particular type of breach … and in Photo Production v Securicor Lord Diplock recognised that the parties are free to modify their contractual obligations " within the limits that the agreement must retain the legal characteristics of a contract " .
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