Example sentences of "[pron] of [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's .
2 Only three well-executed monuments have been identified as by Stanley , all of them of the 1740s and obviously reminiscent of those by Scheemakers .
3 Four minutes to stand before 7,000 of her peers , to say nothing of the thousands of invalids , shift-workers and bored housewives who might well be tuned in to BBC2 .
4 About thirty in each suite to differ and a master key and as I say there was five suites and they had to make a key that 'd open everyone of the fifty-five .
5 Initial charges are up to 5 p.c. depending which of the 14 underlying funds are chosen .
6 STOCK broking analysts are about to start making choices about which of the 10 water authorities being floated in early December are worth investing in .
7 To find which of the five is the most fragrant , we 'll be holding a studio sniff-in on Morning Edition at 8.45am on Saturday August 31 .
8 In which of the five types of landscape is each of these local changes ?
9 Clarity is needed about which of the five models ( the training model , the liberal model , the therapy/social control model , the social purpose model or the socialist/community action model ) is being adopted and evidence is needed about the outcomes of the work as seen by participants .
10 It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel .
11 When he is shown a pair of faces and has to decide which of the two is a celebrity , he performs at chance level , even though he performs almost as well as normal subjects on this task when the faces are replaced by their names .
12 Which of the two ?
13 Which of the two was in the eye of the beholder .
14 The more immediate problem , however , was which of the two Boards ( trade or education ) should have overall authority for the juvenile side of the exchanges and Churchill may well have sensed that a controversy was brewing .
15 Which of the two alternatives represents greater success ?
16 Which of the two supermarkets do you think would be the most successful , and why ?
17 Centred on one Sir Colenso Rigeon , a caricature of Wright , it concerned the decision as to which of the two men should be saved from death — a sixpenny doctor ( ’ an honest decent man , but is he any use ? ’ ) or a scoundrel of an artist ( ’ a rotten background , but he 's a genuine source of pretty and pleasant and good things ’ ) .
18 In the case of Irish union the pre-existing parliaments are nowhere expressly abolished ; on the other hand , it is nowhere stated , or implied of necessity , in any of the union legislation , that one of the pre-existing parliaments was continued under a new style and , indeed , if this view were to be adopted , one is left with the question as to which of the two pre-existing parliaments it is which has survived .
19 Benny was also putting off telling her own parents about the accident , but she had to decide which of the two nuns to talk to on Eve 's behalf .
20 In the survey , people had said which of the two factors was more important to them .
21 It is difficult to establish which of the two scientific theories could hold sway .
22 Which of the two was it ?
23 It will simply be a case of which of the two areas can muster the greatest amount of support in order to secure the development for their own area !
24 ( Which of the two horses , if either , was responsible for the accident is not stated . )
25 So , the first question the CDA would always have to put was : which of the two objectives did those advocating rescue want ?
26 The reader is also invited to ponder which of the two proofs gives him the greater personal satisfaction .
27 In another experiment , subjects were woken either five or fifteen minutes after REM sleep had started , and asked to estimate which of the two intervals had been used .
28 Since this shot occurs in two different scenes , maybe he tried it both ways , but it looks the same in each , tough repeated inspection fails to disclose conclusively which of the two possibilities it actually is .
29 Where a fraudster has tricked , first , the signer of the document , in order to induce the signature , and then some third party , who is induced to rely on the signed document , which of the two victims is the law to prefer ?
30 It can not be an informed decision unless the person who has provided the specimens of breath knows that there are two possible specimens which can be substituted for them and has been given the opportunity of making representations as to which of the two types of specimen it should be .
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