Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE CHARRED hulks of vehicles beside the highway on the approaches to Maan , 130 miles through the desert south from Amman , remain as mute but eloquent reminders of the limits of public tolerance of an unpopular government when no other expression of opinion is possible . |
| 2 | Baudrillard 's biography provides a clear example of the limits of extreme objectivism as an approach to mass commodities ( compare Anderson 1983 : 32–55 on post-structuralism in general ) . |
| 3 | Phizacklea and Miles warn of the limits of any strategy premised on the assumption ( made in the 1970s by the TUC and the Labour Party ) that ‘ the way to eliminate working-class racism was to provide counter-arguments to common racist beliefs ’ , to push out of workers ' heads an ideological baggage primarily produced by the dominant class and replace it by ‘ the truth ’ . |
| 4 | John Banville has been hauled in to applaud what he calls a ‘ wholly successful testing of the limits of literary art ’ , but all we are really being asked to approve is the author 's ventriloquial skill . |
| 5 | The large question of the limits upon royal power will be discussed in a later chapter , but it can be said now that , although the Crown put pressure upon both Houses , they were capable of obstinacy and independence . |
| 6 | Most of the experiments on this topic have , however , been conducted with human subjects and I shall begin by reviewing this work before turning to an analysis of the relatively few further studies that have used animal subject to pursue the phenomenon revealed by Lawrence . |
| 7 | The abilities of the computer will remind some readers of the experiments in many school resource centres using , instead of the Dewey Classification and a simple card catalogue , one or other variety of post co-ordinate indexing , frequently with optical coincidence punched cards . |
| 8 | It is true that many of the experiments in this area were grossly inadequate in method : they failed to ensure that the individuals they studied were similar , apart from the single factor being scrutinized ; they relied unduly on mothers ' memories for information about early events ; their various findings could not be compared because of disagreement about what should be counted as ‘ early weaning ’ or ‘ harsh training ’ , and so on . |
| 9 | Each side claims that its estimate of the chances of nuclear catastrophe is more accurate . |
| 10 | Three of the papers in this collection examine the relationship between these two professions from a historical perspective . |
| 11 | As becomes clear from most of the papers in this collection , this particular view of human nature is not one shared by many other societies . |
| 12 | A sub-theme running through many of the papers in this collection concerns the politics of data ; data for sale , data for citizenship , data as power , data as a cost … |
| 13 | As many of the papers in this section reveal , the new technologies are providing information specialists with the ability to improve access to collections for academic research , especially via networks , to enhance the quality of texts , and to develop more powerful means of analysis . |
| 14 | In this context , we now see the problems of systematics condensing around two major , interrelated questions , which form the two main themes running through most of the papers in this book . |
| 15 | This is particularly so in the case of the topic of the papers in this volume — namely peace as a social value . |
| 16 | Many of the papers in this volume set the human agent within a cosmology , a total moral universe of meaning . |
| 17 | ‘ Traditional climatic geomorphology as represented by most of the papers in this volume has to a large extent glossed over this paucity of knowledge of fundamentals ; it may be said to have proceeded , like Davis 's work , to premature generalization on the basis of quite vague ideas on the underlying process relations . |
| 18 | Reacting to these latest disclosures on Jan. 27 , the ANC secretary-general , Cyril Ramaphosa , accused President de Klerk of having full knowledge of the operations of anti-ANC death squads . |
| 19 | Which most kids are , with 82 million of the games in global circulation . |
| 20 | Which most kids are , with 82 million of the games in global circulation . |
| 21 | First he takes black and white photographs of the parchments in ultra-violet light . |
| 22 | Many of the villages in close proximity to Sherwood Forest have also played a role in the legendary tales of our hero . |
| 23 | ‘ Some of the fears about large-scale immigration could in fact be self-fulfilling , since an antipathetic attitude towards incomers could create the conditions of dissatisfaction and unhappiness amongst immigrants that will cause both a high turnover and disharmony between Shetlanders and immigrants … ’ |
| 24 | The administration also took note of the fears of American oil companies that their interests might suffer elsewhere in the Middle East as a result of the nationalization of the British company . |
| 25 | In Gower 's case at least , these failings may have more to do with the way the government sought to conduct its review of investor protection : ostensibly on the basis of the talents of one man . |
| 26 | I remember that when Philip and I first made our way through London to a shop which was depicted in an advertisement , in spite of the crowds on either hand all along our route , in spite of the full directions of our elders , we were as much elated by our achievement as if it had been an arduous discovery made after a journey in a desert . |
| 27 | What was frightening was that this new mass entertainment seemed altogether outside the established auspices of middle-class culture and seemed unconstrained by any of the sanctions of proper society . |
| 28 | The conductor program sets most of the controls on automatic pilot . |
| 29 | They loved the sound of swishing the sheaves made as they were stooked , the clash of the tresses of hard grain against grain , the sight of the rich ears of corn leaning delicately out on the shoulders of the stooks . |
| 30 | That most terrible of the stories of divine punishment out of all mortal proportion to the offence appears often in the fifth century , like the punishment of Act aeon , and evidently had a powerful meaning for the time . |