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

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1 WITH a huge ‘ bear squeeze ’ under way , agonised screams could be heard in the vicinity of the futures pits of London yesterday .
2 One of my most memorable experiences at this time was an outing organised by the magazine Studio International in october 1969 in which we toured the artists studios of the East End .
3 This was the artists concoctions of dream landscapes , borrowed myths , symbolic objects and classical figures of kings and fairytales .
4 Thirdly , the Convention may be silent both as to the substance of a particular issue and as to the law by which it is to be determined , in which case it is a question of construction whether the Convention covers the point or merely leaves it to be dealt with under the law applicable under the conflicts rules of the forum .
5 Since a Convention rule covering an issue displaces the need for resort to the conflicts of laws whilst the non-coverage of an issue necessitates recourse to the applicable law as determined by the conflicts rules of the forum , it may become necessary to decide whether an issue on which the Convention contains no express provision is covered by implication , applying any canons of interpretation laid down by the Convention itself , and if not , whether recourse is to be had to general conflict-of-laws rules or to any particular conflict rules laid down by the Convention .
6 And then the last item on the NOTES pages of Curve 's itinerary comes back to me : ‘ At a few shows , mainly the universities , alcohol is going to be a problem ’ .
7 Some of the more important include George Blake , who worked for MI6 ( see Chapter 2 ) ; John Cairncross , who betrayed Ultra secrets from the Government Code & Cipher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park during the war to the Russians ; John Vassall , a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty ; Frank Bossard , who gave the Russians details of British and American guided weapons systems ( which must have amused them greatly as the Russians were far ahead of the West at the time ) ; and William Marshall , who had worked as a cipher clerk at the British Embassy in Moscow .
8 Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident .
9 ( Many of those letters go unanswered by the personnel departments of large companies who would be horrified by such discourtesy in would-be employees . )
10 In the 1980s , the personnel departments of many organisations are a lot slimmer than they were in the 1970s .
11 Ideally , the authors might before beginning the study have gained informed consent from the personnel departments of all the hospitals likely to be approached .
12 In China the personnel departments of some ministries are staffed entirely by party members , while in other ministries the personnel departments are actually party offices .
13 This is why Mrs Dole got the Labour Department to look at the personnel records of nine big companies around the country .
14 Equally , the degree of unionisation of the workforce seemed to have little impact on the personnel practices of manufacturing establishments in their use either of fixed-term contract workers or agency workers .
15 The ALA pushed on , with its School Library Manpower Project , funded by the Knapp Foundation , investigating the personnel needs of the new multi.media services they were advocating .
16 Amongst those arrested were Rolando Abiog , chief political officer of the NPA General Command 's special operations department ; Virigio Maceda , deputy chief of NPA special operations ; Antonio Lacaba , head of the NPA intelligence department ; Rey Claro Casambre , political director of the general command ; and his wife , Corazon Casambre , head of the personnel aspects of the general command .
17 The biogas projects of India and China are now well known : sewage animal waste is fermented to give a combustible gas ( methane diluted with carbon dioxide ) .
18 Every employer in Britain , including charities , small businesses , medium-sized and large businesses , must contribute to the skills needs of the country .
19 For 1,000 years the Venetian Republic stood in the forefront of naval power and development , and down the generations ships of every kind , warlike and peaceful , simple and grandiose , displayed themselves to the world in these waters .
20 But the story could not be shut up with him , and before another week had passed they had been forced to commit to the Tower six more persons , four friars minor , Stephen Lene , parson , and the prior of the friars preachers of Winchelsea .
21 A comprehensive galley , which includes a microwave oven , gives the operators standards of comfort not hitherto associated with lifeboats , and offers the prospect of ( Continued on page 92 ) survivors being given more than the traditional hot cup of tea !
22 It 's odder still when the money comes not from the anonymous depths of the Eurocurrency market , but from the savings accounts of Americans living in Ohio .
23 Saga publishes a booklet , Saving and Spending on Longer Holidays Abroad , which not only details the savings householders of any age can expect to make while they take an extended holiday , but also gives advice to pensioners on how to ensure they get their pension while they winter abroad .
24 O. clavigera can easily be distinguished from O. globifera by the following characters : the plates of the dorsal side are thin not as well developed as in O. globifera ; the spinelets of O. clavigera often have an enlarged rugose tip , those of O. globifera are all of one kind , low and rugose , nearly granuliform ; the apical and oral papillae of O. globifera are shorter and not as rugose as those of O. clavigera ; the oral shield is more regularly rhombic in O. globifera than O. clavigera and the tentacles scales of O. globifera are large rounded while those of O. clavigera are small and spine-like .
25 The thumb was out as I resolutely walked along the road shielding my eyes from oncoming lights and wistfully following the tails lights of cars that sailed by .
26 The play is inspired by the stories of the women bondagers who worked vast agricultural lands in East Lothian and the borders areas of Scotland .
27 Why they came into existence , whether those about which one has information represent the now-visible signs of a systematic attempt by the Ottomans to provide in the provinces muftis of a high standard , appointed by the central government , or whether , on the other hand , they came into existence in a more haphazard way , more by individual than by systematic " governmental " initiative , is difficult to say .
28 Above left A stone tribute to the craftsmen builders of Brasenose College , Oxford .
29 6.2 The Publisher shall be responsible for commissioning any artwork and obtaining stills shots from the video components of the Work for use in the preparation of the books components of the Work and the cost shall be borne by the Publisher .
30 The methods sections of the potentially relevant reports were then extracted with reference to results and identifying material ( authors , title , journal , institution , and country of origin ) removed .
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