Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 2 | The Urban Survival Handbook by John Wiseman ( Harvill , £10.99 ) — John Wiseman 's follow-up to The SAS Survival Handbook is a paranoic 's charter , drawing the attention of the unwary to the dangers of everything from extension ladders to Japanese wisteria and providing useful hints on how to combat them . |
| 3 | 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 ? ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only the proletariat had no material interest in nationality ; they possessed a ‘ brotherhood of the oppressed against the oppressors ’ : |
| 7 | By May 19 the Lutheran World Federation was flying in essential supplies daily from Mombasa , Kenya , for the Mogadishu programmes of the UK-based Save the Children Fund and French-based Médecins sans frontières . |
| 8 | But in the longer perspective the events of 1963 had demonstrated a profound dialogue of the deaf between the strikers , who had chanted " Charlot , des sous ! " |
| 9 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 10 | Family work , as in most social work , is often concerned with balancing the power of the strong with the rights of the weak . |
| 11 | In each case it may be possible to provide additional practical and problem-solving skills by integrating either one or both of the following into the programmes ( this could be particularly important for those students wishing to enter Higher Education ) : |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | This clause and the adoption in Wihtred 's laws of the West Saxon term gesith for noble in place of the eorlcund of the laws of Aethelberht , Hlothhere and Eadric perhaps strengthen a possibility that some degree of collaboration attended the drawing up of these codes . |
| 14 | Born in 645 or , less probably , in 646 , he is first heard of in 655 , at the time of the battle of the Winwaed between the Mercians and the Northumbrians , when he was a hostage with Queen Cynewise of Mercia . |
| 15 | In the event , the crossing of the very new with the very old has produced an entirely new race of roses that combine the softer colour and fragrance charms of the old with the advantages of the modern forms . |
| 16 | The significance of removal of the dead from the communities in which they had lived should not be underestimated . |
| 17 | The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it . |