Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wothorpe House , because of its ruinous state , its unusual design and its proximity to the site of Wothorpe nunnery , is also a victim of such mythology , but it was merely a dower house for widows of the earls and marquesses at Burghley . |
| 2 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 3 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 4 | In the January 1972 hearings of the Select Committee on Expenditure of the House of Commons , repeated requests made by Members of Parliament for a list of the programmes subject to analysis and for copies of the reports so far prepared were denied . |
| 5 | Conversely , developing your skill with the nuances of essay-writing style can enhance the effect of the points you make , and enable you to steer comfortably through complexities of the arguments you present . |
| 6 | For clients of the services for mentally ill people , protection of conditions of employment to work toward that outcome is important . |
| 7 | In the Pacific , just as in ancient Greece and Rome , dolphins have been traditionally regarded as messengers of the gods . |
| 8 | These involved the experimental subject in observing three-dimensional figures on a VDU , and then answering questions about aspects of the figures that were knowable — but hardly at an intuitive level . |
| 9 | The upper unit has an average porosity of 12% , formed largely of voids between fragments of the breccias , together with some contribution from fractures . |
| 10 | Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 11 | During the First World War , Turkish bureaucracy and a locust plague produced a famine in Lebanon of such proportions that an American woman resident in Beirut was moved to describe for readers of The Times how she : |
| 12 | The Clinic is offering a 25 per cent discount on a facial and manicure package for readers of the Clothes Show Magazine — male and female ! |
| 13 | It called attention to a need for safeguards of the rights of prisoners , disabled people , women and immigrant workers . |
| 14 | It concludes by drawing lessons for effective policy to bring about equality of opportunity for each sex , and by reviewing the evidence for effects of the changes to date on family formation in Britain . |
| 15 | But as presenters of The Gladiators , she and John Fashanu are more wooden than The Woodentops . |
| 16 | for descriptions of the strategies on offer see Change on page 29 . |
| 17 | It also provides poorly for origins of the workers … 116 are shown coming from outside the county , which was Lancashire : 106 are from the county , but this does not disclose which were from the district around Coniston . |
| 18 | The tergopleural muscles are very variable in development and include the axillary muscles ; the pleurosternals are short fibres linking the pleural and sternal apophyses while the pleurocoxals act as abductors of the coxae . |
| 19 | The behaviour of the body as a whole will then emerge as a consequence of interactions of the parts . |
| 20 | Some indication of the fortunes made out of slaves , sugar and cotton can be obtained from the size of estates of the traders in Bristol and Liverpool and London . |
| 21 | While a number of discussions of the roots of urban unrest in the United States have noted the salience of political marginality in determining participation in violent protests ( Skolnick , 1969 ; Fogelson , 1971 ; Edelman , 1971 ; Knopf , 1975 ) , this issue has received relatively little attention in Britain . |
| 22 | He is responsible for presenting to the council and its committees all matters of business which are brought to his notice , either from members of the public , members of the council or from the officers themselves , and of recording the decisions , either by way of minutes of the committees or of reports of the committees which are subsequently presented to the council . |
| 23 | In January 1990 new laws were approved abolishing state supervision of activities of the churches and allowing religious education in schools . |
| 24 | The statement of affairs annexed to the statement of proposals of the administrators of Atlantic under section 23 of the Insolvency Act 1986 , showed a deficiency in Atlantic 's assets of some £279m . |
| 25 | But they argued on the basis of British press reports that despite the considerable identity of views of the participants to the talks ‘ the Romanian leaders do not wish to be involved in any Western plan for the establishment of a ‘ neutral ’ Afghanistan ’ . |
| 26 | It trained , armed and gave financial support to the Contras , a motley group of opponents of the Sandinistas , led by former Somocista National Guards . |
| 27 | On July 12 the Chamber of Accounts of the Alpes-Maritimes département had issued an interim verdict holding Médecin responsible for irregular payments of over F13,000,000 ( approximately US$2,400,000 ) in public funds to a Paris finance house during an exercise in 1986 to restructure Nice city council 's debts ; he had been given until Sept. 17 to explain himself , ahead of a final ruling due in November . |
| 28 | Rosenau 's ‘ pre-theory ’ consists of a set of definitions of the sources of foreign policy , three measures of the type of state ( size , economic development , and political system ) and two analytical dimensions ( issue areas and permeability ) , which together define a matrix for investigating foreign policy . |
| 29 | ( 3 ) An alternate Director shall ( except when absent from the United Kingdom ) be entitled to receive notice of meetings of the Directors and shall be entitled to attend and vote as a Director at any such meeting at which the Director appointing him is personally present and generally at such meeting to perform all functions of his appointor as a Director and for the purpose of the proceedings at such meeting the provisions of these Articles shall apply as if he were a Director . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) An alternate Director shall ( except when absent from the United Kingdom ) be entitled to receive notice of meetings of the Directors and shall be entitled to attend and vote as a Director at any such meeting at which the Director appointing him is personally present and generally at such meeting to perform all functions of his appointor as a Director and for the purpose of the proceedings at such meeting the provisions of these Articles shall apply as if he were a Director . |