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

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1 A general feeling of pessimism over the future of the talks emerged from a meeting in Tunis on Nov. 21-23 between Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) leaders and members of the Palestinian negotiating team .
2 On them , giant painted images of the gods walked in a stately procession .
3 Another phospholipase A 2 -derived lipid , platelet-activating factor , also has some of the properties expected of a retrograde messenger .
4 The small green space in the centre of the woods looked like a chapel already .
5 In recognition of the problems caused as a result of these routes passing through the urban areas of Harrogate and Knaresborough , the County Council has designated both roads as key routes for improvement in both the structure plan and the T P P which is the Transport Policy and Programs document of the County Council .
6 This was one of the problems tackled at a bumper symposium held in Brighton last month on cosmology , particle physics and astrophysics .
7 The complexity of the problems encountered in a particular task , project or strategy is a function of the variables involved — their number , their clarity or ambiguity , the rate at which they change , and , overall the extent to which they are distinct or tangled .
8 Signs of the times appeared in a number of different places .
9 There could be 2x + y , where x is the number both of the members appointed to a board of directors by the owners of the company , and of the trade union members ; and y the number of directors to be co-opted .
10 According to the rules then extant , a national strike could only be called by the NUM if it had the support of at least 55 per cent of the members voting in a secret ballot : the union prided itself on its democracy in this context .
11 Drs Smith and Bothwell appeared to represent a minority view amongst our sample ; most of the respondents appealed to a different set of work orientations which emphasised personal involvement with patients ' problems , ‘ family doctoring ’ and continuity .
12 It is accepted that not every ‘ foul ’ committed in breach of the rules amounts to a crime , and it seems to be assumed that players do , and may lawfully , consent to physical force over and above the minimum permitted by the rules .
13 A proviso stipulated though , that should the working produce a profit ( nett ) of £10,000 a year , then be could at the beginning of any of the sub-terms enter as a partner and receive one-third of the nett profit instead of the aforesaid one-quarter ; and to pay a third of the expenses .
14 A range of objectives for watershed experiments was identified by Ward ( 1971 ) and these extend from specific black box approaches to comprehensive studies in which there is an attempt to monitor many of the processes operating within a small area .
15 This is an interesting case to examine , of course , because in Problems of Social Policy Titmuss presented it as a clear example of a policy change engendered originally by the social debate on evacuation , and then given sudden new urgency by the ‘ decisive ’ influence of Dunkirk in July 1940 ; a marked change in government thinking — a new acceptance of the milk-in-schools scheme as a universalist social service rather than a relief measure tainted with Poor Law associations — took place ‘ five days after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk ’ .
16 It therefore seems necessary , to exploit the full power of hyper-text , to have some machine model expressing semantic detail of the documents held with a full abstract specification of the data-types involved and a multi-level architecture similar to that of a DBMS .
17 The lengths of the outings varies from a gentle stroll to long mountain days , details of which are shown on maps in the now familiar pen and ink style of Mark Richards .
18 Stopes 's fundamental conception of the role of the clinics led to a heated political debate during the inter-war years as the issue was fought within political parties and in parliament .
19 Thousands of the Hunters flew in a hysterical dance over the ascending chaos .
20 This is particularly important if any query arises upon any of the answers given at a later date .
21 At present , company law reflects a model of a company as a creature of the shareholders acting as a body , but this does not reflect economic reality as perceived by the market .
22 At present , company law reflects a model of a company as a creature of the shareholders acting as a body , but this does not reflect economic reality as perceived by the market
23 What is the logic that dictates that the shareholders should be entitled to the corporate surplus , instead for instance of the employees or management , with the entitlement of the shareholders reduced to a fixed return on capital ?
24 Instead , the orbit as a whole twists a little further round each time , so that a true drawing of the planet 's course should really look more like one of the patterns produced by a children 's Spirograph toy .
25 The singing of the birds stopped for a moment , and then started again .
26 One of the birds flapped towards a tall , dead elm , whose limbs had been stripped by fierce winds until only two remained , like gnarled horns , rising from the top of the trunk .
27 Niko Tinbergen found that the red colour of the spots acted as a stimulus ; no spot on a yellow model had very little response from chicks .
28 The menu panels enables all of the functions performed on a daily basis under MVS to be done under OS/2 , Micro Focus says .
29 Proof of a demand by the plaintiff for the return of the goods met by a refusal of the defendant is one of the common ways of producing evidence of conversion for it tends to show that the defendant 's detention of them is wrongful .
30 If a bill of lading was issued either by a carrier or by its employee or agent whose authority included receiving goods and issuing bills of lading , the carrier was liable for damages : a ) to the owner of the goods covered by a straight bill of lading ; or b ) to the holder of an order bill who gave value in good faith , and who relied upon the description of the goods or upon their shipment on the date shown .
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