Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manners of the Inhabitants annihilated whatever tender ideas of pleasure my Fancy rather than my Memory had pictured to my Expectation . |
| 2 | Almost without exception , if any comment is made it includes a reference to the immense improvement in the health and manners of the children and to their gains in weight … |
| 3 | Internal evidence in regard to such details as the use of motor cars or the social idiom and manners of the characters suggests the first two decades of our century but the wise reader will accept a certain anonymity as an integral part of the fiction . |
| 4 | But Mason insists on his ‘ entirely objective intentions ’ : the music is ‘ a guided tour around a chorus of the main English and Welsh lighthouses ( and Fog Signal characters and Equipment ) , from the Solway Firth to the Farne Islands , some of which were notated ‘ in the field ’ … each lighthouse is portrayed solo , in turn , with accompanying pre-echoes and after-images of the others ’ . |
| 5 | Under the title ‘ How we will revive the lost arts of the tabloids ’ , Pilger laid down the criteria : ‘ dramatic , uncropped pictures which the old Express displayed with such flair ; original well-written investigations which the Sunday Times ’ Insight Team pioneered ( I count the old Sunday Times as a great popular paper ) ; and the use of writer-photographer teams which Picture Post and the Mirror used with such power . ’ |
| 6 | The tactics of the supermarkets are starting to rub off on newsagents . ’ |
| 7 | This will help them combat the tactics of the batsmen who these days look more like knights of old with their protective clothing . |
| 8 | Newcomers to the Left could be forgiven for not being acquainted with the tactics of the Communists and with the tortuous and unedifying relationships within the United Front . |
| 9 | Opposition to the ban has forced Governor Wiyogo to apologize publicly for the heavy-handed tactics of the authorities . |
| 10 | The failure to sign the tripartite agreement was attributed uniquely to the duplicitous tactics of the governments of Britain and France , and his final articles for Ce Soir , a series entitled " La France trahie " , provided Nizan with the opportunity to vent his anger on fascist spies , infiltrators and collaborators undermining the fabric of French society . |
| 11 | In fact the tactics of the provos today are the same as those used in the 1940's by the Zionists . |
| 12 | But the union congress also passed a motion condemning the tactics of the airlines and the government , particularly the use of air force planes and foreign pilots to break the dispute . |
| 13 | Management yesterday began suspending ambulance staff in retaliation to the work to rule tactics of the unions . |
| 14 | The scene was set for confrontation and as these confrontations continued without an end in sight , it became clear that the usual tactics of the unions were not going to work . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , a resolution acknowledged that " all CIS member states are the legal successors of the rights and obligations of the former Soviet Union " . |
| 16 | Even though this is a DOS program is has many of the characteristics of a Windows user-interface — drop down lists , dialog boxes and so on — and it is very easy to use with a mouse . |
| 17 | Erm it is a contribution by those er road patterns and the characteristics of the lanes , Church Lane in particular , Northfield Lane , that contribute to the quality of the environment . |
| 18 | Here we are concerned with essential characteristics of the goods so that , for example , in a hire purchase case Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 936 , a car was defined as being a vehicle capable of moving under its own power . |
| 19 | One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter . |
| 20 | Self-conscious clarity about our epistemic methods , in that case , would require a perspicuous representation of the characteristics of the forms of discourse in question . |
| 21 | The defensive characteristics of the distributors are illustrated in the healthy performance of W H Smith and Menzies during a period of recession . |
| 22 | Electrical stimulation deep within the colliculus produces eye movements , even when very low-level currents are used , but the characteristics of the movements vary between species . |
| 23 | The theory of heredity as it existed in the 1940s , then , was one of genes linearly arranged along chromosomes , influencing the characteristics of the organisms in which they found themselves , and being transmitted via egg and sperm to the next generation . |
| 24 | Each case was examined and classified according to sixteen variables which describe some of the circumstances of the incident and the social characteristics of the persons involved . |
| 25 | You must understand the habits and characteristics of the crops you plan to grow and how they can best be fitted to the potential of your land . |
| 26 | It should be clear , however , that the more that the tax is tailored to the characteristics of the taxpayers , the greater the administrative costs will be . |
| 27 | I want to talk about the use of computers in actual research , and the features of that use which derive from the special characteristics of the humanities . |
| 28 | In that sense , their political attractiveness is not likely to be as great as that of present policies which emphasize training , selecting and matching , and which address themselves to the individual qualities and characteristics of the teachers themselves . |
| 29 | Alternatively , the discrepancies might be due to characteristics of the tasks used to assess the different types of linguistic ability . |
| 30 | This feature relates solely to the characteristics of the states comprising the membership of international society and is essential to explaining and understanding the international arenas where non-state actors operate . |