Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More probably it was the product of the average scientist 's well-known unwillingness to get rid of anything if he thought that it might come in useful at some time in the future . |
| 2 | An official statement said that the postponement had been agreed " in the light of the current situation in Lebanon and the urgent need to revive the efforts of the Arab League 's tripartite committee " [ for October 1989 Lebanon peace accord agreed in Taif , Saudi Arabia , see p. 36986 ] . |
| 3 | You will the house will note , the house will note Madam Speaker that the phraseology of the honourable gentleman 's original question was how many jobs have been lost , in fact jobs had risen and he did n't even have the grace to welcome that . |
| 4 | Mr James 's account of the 1st Duke 's military career is competent and factual . |
| 5 | One of the southern authority 's main potable supply rivers , for example , consists in dry weather of more than 50 per cent effluent ; and another river flowing through a major city in the northern authority is over 90 per cent effluent . |
| 6 | Sardines are threatened with extinction in the Gulf of Gabes , one of the southern Mediterranean 's richest fishing grounds , because of overfishing and chemical pollution . |
| 7 | The exedra is one of the last of the Rococo garden 's major features to be completed . |
| 8 | A search of the British-owned chain 's 1,700 hotels around the world was ordered when two guests sued for damages . |
| 9 | However , to emphasise the importance of the 1992 campaign 's closing phase is probably to overlook longer-term forces . |
| 10 | Further minor straws in the wind were Archbishop Makarios ’ request for British help in Cyprus in December 1963 , which drew in most of the Strategic Reserve 's 3rd Division before a hand-over to the United Nations could be negotiated ; and the quelling of the military mutinies in newly independent Tanzania , Kenya and Uganda in January 1964 , at their governments ’ request , by Commandos brought on the aircraft-carrier Centaur from Aden and by units of the Strategic Reserve in Kenya . |
| 11 | The debt owed by these nations totals $630 billion — about half of the developing world 's total debt . |
| 12 | He is Manager of the Royal Air Force Veteran 's Team , Veterans ' Representative of the Royal Air Force Athletic Association Executive Committee , Secretary of the Eastern Veterans ' Athletic Association and Distribution Manager of the Royal Air Force 's own Athletic magazine . |
| 13 | Most of the stately saloon 's 74,000 miles were done before the Second World War . |
| 14 | The broadcast opened with a clear statement of the Liberal Party 's principled opposition to the National Curriculum ; Colin Ward writes that ‘ no party opposes it ’ . |
| 15 | One of the Liberal Democrats ' best chances of winning a new seat in next week 's general election lies in Hereford . |
| 16 | As leader of the Liberal Democrats ' largest and wealthiest faction , Mr Takeshita wields enormous clout . |
| 17 | He 's not standing this time and has been replaced by one of the Liberal Democrats ' top backroom boys Sir William Goodhart . |
| 18 | On the first day of the session 372 of the 426 deputies present voted to elect Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , hitherto Chair of the Presidium of the People 's Great Hural and a member of the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) , as Mongolia 's first President . |
| 19 | A two-day plenum of the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) was held in Ulan Bator , the capital , on July 29-30 . |
| 20 | The 21st congress of the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP — the principal component of the government coalition ) was held in Ulan Bator on Feb. 26-29 . |
| 21 | Jasray , 60 , a free-market economist and former head of a union of private co-operatives , had been nominated on July 15 by the fourth plenum of the Mongolian People 's Democratic Party ( MPRP ) which won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections held in June [ see p. 38962 ] . |
| 22 | Copies of the transitional government 's broad economic programme , which had been under discussion by the Council of Representatives in October and November , became freely available to the public in early December . |
| 23 | While the new president , Algirdas Brazauskas , was leader of the Baltic state 's Communist party , it was also he who led the split with the central authorities in Moscow in 1989 and supported the country 's moves to independence . |
| 24 | As a reader my assumption has always been that nothing ‘ happens ’ : Africans and their descendants were not , in any sense that matters , there ; and when they were there , they were decorative — displays of the agile writer 's technical expertise . |
| 25 | Seven more of the Russian Federation 's 16 autonomous republics ( ASSRs ) and six of its autonomous oblasts and national okrugs issued sovereignty declarations during September and October . |
| 26 | The Committee declared that the decree infringed the powers of the Moscow soviet and of the Russian Federation 's legislative bodies , and ordered its immediate suspension . |
| 27 | On April 27 it was reported that Russian Minister for Nationalities Valery Tishkov and Horst Waffenschmidt , German representative for immigration , had initialled a protocol on co-operation in the restoration of the Russian Germans ' autonomous republic on the Volga , which had been eliminated under Stalin in 1941 . |
| 28 | But the ideas in it still form the core of the Russian government 's alternative economic plan . |
| 29 | When Vienna emancipated the serfs of Galicia in May 1848 , the Governor-General of the Russian Empire 's south-western provinces reported unrest among Ukrainians on the tsar 's side of the Galician border . |
| 30 | With the establishment in July 1988 of the Palestinian Women 's Higher Council , Palestinian women took a very important step in ensuring the consolidation of their advances . |