Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were three salient and interconnected issues for the CNAA and its institutions at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 2 | He was Treasury Solicitor — the head of the government legal service — from 1971 to 1975 , and in his career in the Treasury Solicitor 's Office he was involved in the setting up of the intricate Prices and Incomes Acts of the 1960s and the formation of the new departments of Environment and Trade and Industry . |
| 3 | The six steam locomotives helping to run the train services between Swanage and Harman 's Cross during the special weekend cover over half a century of British steam locomotive development — from Victorian times during the time of Gladstone and Disraeli through to the ‘ new dawn ’ of the 1960s and the era of the present Queen and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . |
| 4 | And so we took advantage of the tender and the contractor being in th in the area , to extend the water pipeline from its current location at the football stadi erm er pavilion , through to the cemetery . |
| 5 | This was a conference where images of the macabre and the grotesque mingled with the moving and the tragic ; where the children and the handicapped were feted as survivors of a silent holocaust ; where people went to learn the difference between pro-life and pro-death , between cloning and twinning , between a blob of jelly and a living foetus , between a terminated pregnancy and murder and to learn how to counter difficult questions . |
| 6 | The capsule containing the two arching semicircular canals that are found in either side of the skull of the proto-fish and the lamprey has been improved considerably by the jawed fish . |
| 7 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 8 | The first was the division of Western Europe after 1957 into the European Economic Community of the Six and the rest . |
| 9 | forced mergers of sole practitioners are not in the interest of the professional or the public ; |
| 10 | Yet obviously his two great assets — his understanding of the defensive and the devotion he inspired among the troops — ideally suited him to the task there . |
| 11 | Menstrual taboos , even in their Jewish expressions , are replete with an ambivalent fusion of the sacred and the taboo . |
| 12 | You may have heard too much of Moby 's ‘ Go ’ by now , but there can be few complaints otherwise : Meat Beat Manifesto , DJ Carl Cox , Nightmares On Wax , Orbital etc , provide a mixture of the subtle and the hardcore in aid of peace . |
| 13 | In Committee when we discussed the needs of the disabled and the need for a code of good practice , the Minister 's response , as it was to everything else to do with consumer interest , was " It will be all right on the night " . |
| 14 | At present we are living through a curious combination of the technology of the late 20th century , the free trade of the 19th and the rebirth of the sort of interstitial centres characteristic of world trade in the Middle Ages . |
| 15 | The village reached its peak in the middle of the 19th century-when the population reached 846 and the occupations listed in the census of the time show it to have been totally self-sufficient . |
| 16 | Ruether 's interest ( as that also of Bultmann ) is in Jesus ' message , a message in her case held to concern the coming of the kingdom , the vindication of the poor and the creation of a just social order . |
| 17 | Certainly if Twiggy had given up her day job as a Saturday girl at Vincent 's of Queensway , she might never have become the face of the sixties and the household name she is today . |
| 18 | Benjamin ( 1975a , pp. 83–4 ) , like Weber , observed that the autonomy of the aesthetic and the separation of spheres more generally result in a ‘ shrinkage of experience ’ , or what Weber called the creation of a class of ‘ specialists without heart ’ . |
| 19 | It was a stunning performance , and certainly one of the finest that the league has ever produced . |
| 20 | The hotel business was a virtual monopoly for the Reid family in Funchal at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century , the only real rival being Jones ' Private Family Hotel ( Jones ' Bella Vista Hotel ) which had been opened in 1880 and had a large garden ; it is now the Seminary which overlooks the new Post Office . |
| 21 | Our third theme will be the way in which the questions these developments raised were illustrated towards the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the present century in the work of Albert Schweitzer ( 1875–1965 ) , Johannes Weiss ( 1863–1914 ) , William Wrede ( 1859–1906 ) , Martin Kähler ( 1835–1912 ) and Ernst Troeltsch ( 1865–1923 ) . |
| 22 | Modern sociology is usually thought to have its roots in the work of classical sociologists who worked at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 23 | Sadly , one of the grimmer interpretations of the word ‘ experience ’ loomed in ugly manner over the last few days of the tour and may overshadow some of the good that the trip has produced . |
| 24 | From the 1200s onwards Lothar 's family , the Conti of Segni , occupied the west slope of the Viminal and the area behind the forum of Nerva and they had property and influence in the rione Monti , where the Colonna and the Frangipani were also settled . |
| 25 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 26 | I think he was convinced the green was fast , but maybe he had forgotten we were coming out of the rough and the topspin ran us through the green . |
| 27 | This rather skeletal account of the phenomenon of hysteresis , suggesting a connection between the time paths of the actual and the equilibrium unemployment rates , needs to be substantially fleshed out . |
| 28 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 29 | For sheer daftness there 's no beating the British Tank Malling ( Cannons , Panton Street and Oxford Street , 18 ) which postulates a ludicrously megalomaniac semi-Fascist politico ( Peter Wyngarde ) , backed by criminals , the police , bishops and the judiciary in his attempt to bring moral regeneration to the country , while at the same time feeding the dirty sexual desires of the great and the good who back him . |
| 30 | The next move was to find a chairman from the ranks of the great and the good , someone of acknowledged independence who combined the qualities of Solomon and Job . |