Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] of [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He longed for the austerities of the mission field . |
2 | The same procedure for verification was followed as for the records of the meetings . |
3 | And they were the sort of corsets that gave you the the straight boyish look that was necessary for the clothes of the twenties and the early thirties which were cut on the cross . |
4 | Was he right then when he told the people of Scotland , ’ Do n't vote for the proposals of the Labour party because they do not contain any responsibility for raising revenue . |
5 | It is common ground that it is for the governors of a voluntary aided school to decide who is to be admitted as a pupil and to lay down the admissions policy of the school . |
6 | It was once a retreat for the monks of the Celtic Church . |
7 | Rather like the English WILL O'THE WISP , this light bobs at eye level and invariably presages death or mishap to any traveller who follows it , mistaking it for the lights of a welcoming farmhouse . |
8 | It is a criminal offence for the directors of a bank to withhold information to which the Bank is entitled as supervisor . |
9 | The meeting stented £10 for the Directors of the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow , " wishing to Contribute for so laudable a Plan , " and a like sum next year . |
10 | Progress was slow , but by the mid-eighteenth century success had been achieved in both methods of calculating longitude : the Greenwich astronomers had worked out the tables for the movements of the moon and an English watchmaker , John Harrison , had made a chronometer that kept such perfect time that it could meet the requirements of any sailor . |
11 | The directions are those that would be expected if the pigeons use the sun as a compass , making allowance for the movements of the sun through the day . |
12 | Industry spread over the lower-lying parts of the towns , leaving the hills for the residences of the well-to-do , but this was not a conscious piece of ‘ zoning ’ . |
13 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
14 | ‘ Except for the findings of the inquest . ’ |
15 | Lee was looking for the bits of the fence that were buried in the grass . |
16 | The General Secretariat carries out the decisions of the Council and provides financial and administrative services for the personnel of the League . |
17 | The nature of this particular situation added an emotional element that made the task even more difficult , and many subjective statements were made about the transformation , statements that appeared to reflect the concern of the analysts for the recipients of the service ( for instance , making old people comfortable in their last few years , and providing caring services for terminally old people ) . |
18 | 4 Walk for the Forests of the World , Sponsored walks throughout the country organised by WWF to save our forests . |
19 | Walk for the Forests of the World with the WWF on October 4 |
20 | Your life expectancy as a male today is seventy four years , and for the females of the species , and we love them , your life expectancy is eighty years . |
21 | It is , however , worth noting some symptomatic cracks in the uniformity of their scorn for the products of the Culture Industry . |
22 | Alongside mass production , according to this approach , went mass consumption , so that the system could be sustained by general state-inspired ( Keynesian ) economic management , which encouraged a continued growth of demand for the products of the generally centralized industries with their large production units . |
23 | Delegates called for the ARC to conduct urgent genetic research to find new uses for the products of the malt and barley industries . |
24 | He surely recollects the precedents set in the steel and coal industries , in which the Community was involved in Europewide initiatives to limit the impact of the decline in demand for the products of the companies concerned . |
25 | which is more than can be said for the products of the human |
26 | The episteme rather delineates what Foucault calls a ‘ cluster of transformations ’ ; these , he suggests , enable the substitution of ‘ differentiated analyses for the themes of a totalising history : |
27 | It assumes a high regard by teachers and pupils for the themes of the last three chapters — imagination , experience and thinking . |
28 | They can not exercise it without regard for the wishes of the German people , but neither can the German people act as if the ‘ German question ’ concerned nobody but themselves . |
29 | That displays an arrogant contempt for the wishes of the majority . |
30 | By refusing a referendum on Maastricht this Government has declared that it has no respect at all for the wishes of the electorate . |