Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is very unlikely that Francis had been summoned to Rome : much more likely that he brought himself there seeing the opportunity of such a gathering .
2 A bigger headache , unlikely to go away even if the Gulf threat evaporates , is the weakness of both the yen and the dollar .
3 Instead , God gives the priests the remainder of all the sacrificial offerings , first-fruits and firstlings .
4 Breeze and Gay had printed their handbills with great care , and had painted their board most beautifully — with the result that on the following Sunday afternoon the entire population of Overclyst and Clyst St George filed past Sunset Cottage in slow procession , gazing open-mouthed at the birthplace of such a surprising scheme .
5 Yet I hold the town close to my heart , for it is the birthplace of many a dream and memory : it is winter , it was always winter and cold , I am alone on the beach building a secret world , a sand landscape of hills , mountains , ravines with bridges , towns and harbours .
6 Private money is to be used for the funding of all the projects and considerable effort is to be placed on greater fund-raising and promotion over the period .
7 Apart from Henry , the direction of all the bowlers was poor and far too much was over-pitched .
8 And 69 Members ( including the tellers ) voted for an amendment that would have made permanent television conditional on the provision of such a channel .
9 The provision of such a variety of telecommunication and travel facilities makes it impossible for any community however large or small to develop in isolation .
10 The plaintiffs submit that if maladministration includes the provision by an employee of a negligent valuation , then the result would be anomalous because , as is common ground , the provision of such a report by an independent surveyor could not be maladministration .
11 I see no justification for concluding that if the service provided involves the use of professional skill and judgment , the provision of such a service to the society can not also constitute action by the society .
12 The provision of such a valuation is in relation to the grant of a further advance because that is its raison d'être .
13 However , the provision of such a small resource on a cost-effective basis is open to debate , particularly when small facilities would be required for those with functional illness , physical illness and social problems .
14 The provision of such an overview is the responsibility of the company 's marketing and corporate planning functions .
15 A few rich families began to emerge at the top of such societies and the numbers of poor cottagers grew significantly , but the old-established middling families long remained the backbone of many a rural community .
16 Erm and he then saw that the political authority of the landlords as the backbone of all the other systems of authority .
17 The scheme , drawn up after pilot projects by a steering group under Duncan Graham , chairman of the National Curriculum Council , had the support of all the teachers ' and heads ' unions as well as the local authority employers .
18 Miloš did not have the support of all the Serbian chiefs , especially those , like Dean Matija Nenadović and Petar Moler , who had crossed into Austrian territory with Karadjordje in 1813 to return later to share in Miloš 's success .
19 He said the proposed village enjoyed the support of all the residents near the Skipbridge site , apart from one farmer , and Hurworth parish council .
20 DARLINGTON Conservatives say they are pleased with election canvassing returns showing they have the support of half the townspeople they contacted .
21 This was his own view , because the timespan of all the deaths was so close .
22 For Marx and Engels the existence of such a stage , or something like it , seemed essential in order to show fully the purely artificial and relative nature of both relations of production and private property in capitalism .
23 Again , some wrongs , such as fraud , in their essence involve a guilty state of mind , and in such cases the extreme youth of the wrongdoer may be inconsistent with the existence of such a state of mind .
24 I was not conscious of the existence of such a committee until I received the report …
25 The existence of such a statement confirms that the child has greater special educational needs than most other children with such needs .
26 A consequence of the existence of such a link is that excitatory conditioning will be retarded when an inhibitory CS is used to signal the occurrence of the US .
27 Realistically , though , you would need to have strong evidence that the existence of such a right is part of your particular deal with your employer , and that you have been denied satisfaction from your work in a clear and unjustifiable fashion , before you could pursue litigation with confidence .
28 The existence of such a market guarantees the reversibility of such a claim but not the disposal price or value .
29 The sterility of absolute atheism completely denies the realisation of any hopes of the existence of such a power , and this can not be acceptable .
30 The existence of such a body is seen as giving more appropriate recognition to the commercial and practical realities of an auditing services market dominated by a small number of large accounting firms . ’
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