Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shuddered as the switchback roared overhead , but stood watching as a small train meandered through a series of paths , and laughed at the joyful screams of the children on the dodgems . |
| 2 | Models of this kind , where the construction of meaning dominates — and influences — the perception of the marks on the page , are often called ‘ top-down ’ models . |
| 3 | They are tolerant in their bridle adjustment ( as distinct from the sophisticated 110 degree , swept-delta steerables to be found in Chapter Eight ) , and the newcomer is unlikely ever to require to alter the settings of the rings on the bridle legs . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the bulk of the provisions on Statutory Maternity Pay , previously contained in the Social Security Act 1986 , are now to be found in ss 164–171 and Sch 13 of the 1992 Act . |
| 5 | Given Labour 's stormy internal debates on foreign and defence issues since 1951 and despite the recent defeat of the unilateralists on nuclear disarmament , Washington was understandably anxious to gain some advance impressions of Labour 's likely behaviour if it were returned to power . |
| 6 | C. , 1976 ) the court indicated that while it would determine the existence and the scope of the prerogative power , it would not review the propriety or adequacy of the grounds on which it had been exercised . |
| 7 | There was evidence that potential sub-licensees were deterred by the level of royalty sought and by the non-exclusivity of the licences on offer . |
| 8 | They heard the diesel engine , the quick rattle of the wheels on rails and then the caterpillar of carriages that rose above the stone walls , the small windows flashing in the sun as they were quickly drawn across their view and gone . |
| 9 | This plan was dogged by misfortune and the loss of the plates on a trip to London was never rectified . |
| 10 | If this were not enough , it is clear that control of fiscal policy would also be transferred to the Community level as a result of the rules on budget deficits . |
| 11 | To judge from the very wide circulation of the decisions on these details , in contrast to the almost total lack of circulation of the earlier decrees , this concentration of effort was the right policy ; but it took at least another two generations before the aim , which Anselm in 1102 had been confident could quickly be reached , was achieved . |
| 12 | A third study of the effects on dreaming of watching a film successfully demonstrates the limitations of this technique and also indicates some important factors in determining what becomes incorporated into a spontaneous dream . |
| 13 | The composer Satie confessed to his friends that his music was probably inspired by a study of the friezes on ancient Greek vases . |
| 14 | In the l9th century many of the — social and intellectual elite were adherents of phrenology : the study of the bumps on the human skull as a guide to character and development . |
| 15 | Ginny had driven this route dozens of times , in the last year to Paulstock and before that eight miles further south to Carinish Court , which lay in a fold of the hills on the Paulstock side of Abbotsfield . |
| 16 | The agent will give a demonstration of the goods on sale , and visitors can examine them and try them out . |
| 17 | The format of a charter party bill of lading differs from that of a liner bill of lading in that the latter stipulates the terms of carriage of the goods on the bill of lading itself . |
| 18 | She laughs , great horse-laughs that turn the heads of the walkers on the beach ( all venturing out again , now the rain 's gone off ) and set their dogs to howling . |
| 19 | They lacked the bitterness and sterility of the debates on Party discipline , Communist affiliation and the United Front which took place at subsequent Party Conferences . |
| 20 | This is called habituation : the nervous system has become familiarized with the particular set of stimuli which are the pressure of the fabric of the clothes on touch receptors in the skin , or of the glass rod on the planarian 's body ; the stimuli can thus be disregarded , no longer a factor to be taken into consideration in assessing the current state of the environment . |
| 21 | The other is the effect of the neighbourhood of the Celts on Massalia , and through Massalia on the Greeks in general . |
| 22 | Before the US Justice Department brought its indictment of the Libyans on 14 November , 1991 , the intelligence community 's working theory was that the bombing of the Boeing 747 had been a co-ordinated effort of Syria , Libya and Iran . |
| 23 | But whether or not I am right about a Niemecz on paper 60 rpm for the machine 's flywheels , the tempo relationships of the pieces on all three machines ' barrels are a constant and it is interesting to see that the tempo range for pieces either minuet-like in character or specifically called minuets ( in available manuscripts or because of the music 's original sources ) roughly corresponds to the ranges of minuet tempos metronomized by Hummel and Czerny for Mozart and by Czerny for Haydn . |
| 24 | They called him a dunce at school , yet he knew all the words of the records on Sweetheart 's wind-up gramophone , and every song Buddie 's friends played when they got together with their instruments in the big downstairs room . |
| 25 | As a teenager , I laughed off an incident when a nappy horse attempted to deposit me on the wrong side of the railings on a motorway bridge . |
| 26 | " One day a neighbour opposite came to tell me my little boa was hanging over the other side of the railings on our landing . |
| 27 | Investigation by the writer revealed a likely site for this machine on the western bank of Muckle Gill , just above the ford ( shown on the O.S. map ) about 40 yds. upstream from the gill head , and by the side of the workings on what we now call Benson 's Lode . |
| 28 | The appeal was decided on the comparatively short point that although undue influence had been exercised by the husband upon the wife , it had not been shown that the transactions were to the manifest disadvantage of the wife , in which circumstances the court held that the wife could not be relieved from the effect of the charges on her home . |
| 29 | Of particular concern to most of the members of the FFA was the effect of the drift-netters on the albacore tuna resource , which plays a major role in many Pacific economies . |
| 30 | In order to analyse the effect of the mutations on CytR interaction with deoP2 in an alternative approach , we performed in vivo titration experiments . |