Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the streets they affect the manners of a pantomime dame to gain attention : they pinch men 's buttocks , purposely make buffoons of themselves , but are quick to take offence . |
| 2 | ‘ The manners of a bull elephant , ’ was Monica 's elegant description . |
| 3 | The risks of a court case also have to be in the forefront of your mind . |
| 4 | The main threats to the group are political , including the risks of a trade war , selective US taxes on foreign companies , and VAT on UK food . |
| 5 | LAG worried on three fronts : the side-step taken by the Bill on extending solicitors ' rights of audience ; the gamble on the redistribution of High Court business when the county courts are already over-stretched ; and the unknown risks of the conveyancing changes until the new code is published . |
| 6 | I believe that my hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the risks of the devolution proposals which have previously been put before people . |
| 7 | Medical Services counter the risks of the AIDS virus , hepatitis and other contagious diseases associated with used sharp medical instruments , such as hypodermic needles , with a service for their safe collection and disposal . |
| 8 | The General Staff was left with unenviable task of deploying a smaller army than was needed in such a way as to reduce the risks of the Sandys Reformation . |
| 9 | These real arts of the field man 's work can only be acquired over a long period , and they must be practised and refined by an officer on his own in the course of his work . |
| 10 | Commenting on the prize , Lord Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , said : ‘ Literature is one of the greatest arts of the United Kingdom and perhaps our finest gift to the world . |
| 11 | The dregs of a flu virus resulted in the usual effervescence of soprano Lorna Anderson , being clouded over . |
| 12 | Deploying all of the ritual tactics of a US bid battle , Chevron , founded by the Rockefeller family , filed a lawsuit to remove Pennzoil as a shareholder claiming it had violated anti-trust laws with its share purchases . |
| 13 | Irish referee Brian Smith was forced to act as peacemaker when fighting broke out among the rival front rows on more than one occasion , and once again the Aussies were frustrated by the spoiling tactics of the home side . |
| 14 | An English scholar who visited it in 1887 – 88 found that the atmosphere was mediaeval ; politics and progress were scarcely mentioned , and the talk turned mostly on mysticism , metaphysics and religion ; the most burning political questions were those connected with the successors of the Prophet Mohammed in the seventh century of our era ; only the most languid interest in external affairs was aroused by the occasional appearance of the official journals . |
| 15 | Even though this is a DOS program is has many of the characteristics of a Windows user-interface — drop down lists , dialog boxes and so on — and it is very easy to use with a mouse . |
| 16 | But , of course , others insist that it could never be humane in practice because the essence of the cruelty is not only in causing a painful and prolonged death but , rather , in the harrowing chase of the animal , and moreover , of an animal which has not evolved with the typical biological characteristics of a prey species . |
| 17 | It has all the ugliest characteristics of a state institution , a prison perhaps . |
| 18 | Characteristics of a user interface |
| 19 | Thus while the change in a physical property can be used to locate T g , the transition bears many of the characteristics of a relaxation process and the precise value of T g can depend on the method used and the rate of the measurement . |
| 20 | This port , founded as late as 1 130 , very quickly came to enjoy all the characteristics of a boom town . |
| 21 | It is well known that the personal characteristics of a participant observer affect their research practice ( see Hunt 1984 ; Warren 1988 ; Warren and Rasmussen 1977 ; Wax 1979 ) , and that being female brings its own problems in the field . |
| 22 | According to Kuhn , an analysis of the characteristics of a crisis period in science demands the competence of the psychologist as much as that of an historian . |
| 23 | Two other characteristics of the sample population require some comment : the incidence of employment , and of domestic help . |
| 24 | The young people who developed this style rejected the finery and the slightly effeminate characteristics of the art college mods and the hippies for clothes that were more related to their working class background . |
| 25 | Habitats with extreme climates and little vegetation have small mammal faunas with low species richness and low equitability , but these are also the characteristics of the prey assemblages of some predators , particularly , for instance , short-eared owls and great grey owls . |
| 26 | The outline of the paper is as follows : Section 2 highlights some basic characteristics of the UK fertilizer industry ; Section 3 outlines a theoretical framework based on a model originally suggested by Dixit ( 1987 ) ; Section 4 derives expressions for the policies ; Section 5 calibrates the theoretical model with data from the UK fertilizer market ; Section 6 presents an assessment of the actual policy outcomes compared with those suggested by the theoretical framework ; and finally , Section 7 reports the results of sensitivity analysis . |
| 27 | Characteristics of the UK fertilizer industry |
| 28 | Characteristics of the UK labour market |
| 29 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 30 | It was in this intellectual environment that the characteristics of the functionalist style were fashioned . |