Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village school attended by my father was a Church school : it had been founded and was originally funded by the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church ( was there ever a more eloquent title ? ) . |
| 2 | He had done his initial research on jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as varied as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 3 | He had done his initial research on Jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as various as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 4 | Certainly the ball skills of the three-quarters in the tests were impressive . |
| 5 | Thus , the abolition of the new-town development corporations in England in the late 1980s has strong implications for the mobility of the poorest in the cities : they will not find a great deal — if any — of non-owner-occupied housing beyond the conurbations . |
| 6 | Albert Funnel , a child in Brighton in the 1900s , evokes the long shadow of the workhouse over the lives of the elderly in the decades before Old Age Pensions : |
| 7 | The majority of the fry are eaten but I think that this is a case of survival of the fittest in the confines of a community tank . |