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

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1 Carrie said , thinking of the things Hepzibah had told her , how he 'd worked all his life and had no help from anyone , and he looked at her with surprise .
2 That said , I appreciate the force of the points Mr has been making .
3 Order is eventually restored through the good offices of the interpreters Kelly and Jack , but no sooner are the terrorists under control than there is a second attempt to sabotage the convention by characters from television who demand representation .
4 In post-war years , Crabb had taken part in the salvage operation following the loss of the submarines HMS Affray and HMS Truculent .
5 As a result of the changes Richard Prebble , who had been dismissed for disloyalty in November 1988 by David Lange , Palmer 's predecessor [ see p. 36294 ] , returned to the government .
6 In a psychoanalytic study of the Amazons Bernice Schultz Engle points out that according to tradition they ‘ cared nothing for womanly arts , spent ten months of the year farming , pasturing cattle , and especially in training horses .
7 By legislating for the emancipation of the serfs Alexander II had achieved more than either of his immediate forebears , but he had also upset peasants , nobles and intellectuals .
8 And there had stood Emily in the middle of the hallway , holding aloft a shiny red apple , her pretty tomboy face wreathed in happy smiles , not a trace of the tear-stains Lisa had been so worried about seeing .
9 And the sins of the fathers Will
10 Yes , this , this is your , your neck of the woods Debbie , what 's , what 's happening ?
11 According to the Acts of the Apostles Peter took the lead in opening membership of the church to Gentiles .
12 These were made possible by the faith and industry of Gurney 's friend , the musicologist Marion Scott , who had preserved his manuscripts , and the editorial expertise of the composers Gerald Finzi [ q.v. ] and Howard Ferguson .
13 London-based Personal Workstations Ltd is now offering the XI extension to XVT 's graphical user interface toolkit for £275 : developed by Orca Software , Colorado , XI allows portable database applications to be created that take advantage of the environments XVT supports .
14 At the foot of the stairs Ronni darted him a quick look .
15 At the foot of the stairs Merrill turned to face him .
16 When they were in the little hall at the foot of the stairs Francis said : ‘ Is father 's studio locked , Cathy ? ’
17 At the foot of the stairs Claire paused and looked up .
18 In it were copies of the records Karr had brought back with him from Mars : Berdichev 's personal files , taken from the corpse of his private secretary three days before Karr had caught up with Berdichev himself .
19 In the saltatorial Orthoptera , and in beetles of the subfamilies Halticinae and Sagrinae , the hind femora are greatly enlarged in order to accommodate the powerful extensor muscles which are used in leaping .
20 On the Saturday evening she dressed carefully in her favourite of the outfits Thomas had bought her : the white silk shirt with its lace collar and cuffs and a full blue skirt .
21 It is now thought to have been Richard , rather than his son Robert , who gave Godgifu , sister of the æthelings Edward and Alfred , in marriage to Count Dreux of the Vexin .
22 In the case of the ordinary LLB , 12 ordinary subjects are necessary and in the case of the honours LLB , eight ordinary subjects and five honours subjects .
23 An overall difference of impression between Marx 's notes and Engels 's book is that in the case of the notebooks Morgan 's framework is totally subordinated to Marx 's wider concerns , while in Engels 's book we get the impression that Morgan , for great chunks of the book , actually takes over Engels .
24 ‘ It would be interesting to see how he equates his claim in the case of the jobs Nestle decided to take to France .
25 Did n't you like the smell of the cows Kirst ?
26 The chairfman of the magistrates Mr John Wright told Dines his offences were serious .
27 Hayes makes some relevant remarks , but even more apposite here is the computationally-informed work of the psycholinguists G. A. Miller and P. N. Johnson-Laird , who have studied the basic perceptual procedures in which our linguistic abilities are grounded ( Miller & Johnson-Laird 1976 ) .
28 The work of the painters Bob Thompson and Jan Muller seems , somehow , fated to be linked .
29 Far below he could see the lacework shadow of the Forth bridge on the glittering estuary and the long dark lines of the cruisers Edinburgh , Southampton , and further out , the destroyer Mohawk , under way for Rosyth after convoy duty .
30 At the local cathedral grammar school he was exposed to the distinctly Protestant influence of the masters Anthony Rush [ q.v. ] and John Gresshop , and he proceeded to Oxford .
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