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

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1 ( He gave examples in an Appendix , for he was a scholar of the age of the Enlightenment and frankly admired the arts of the native peoples of the islands . )
2 In the combat tactics of the early days , however , the French shone , for this was a form of warfare ideally suited to their individualistic temperament ( though , later , it was to be the cause of grievous losses ) .
3 The campaign tactics of the two contestants differed markedly .
4 With his main enemy removed , Scapula might have cause for congratulation , but this was soon forgotten in the savage guerrilla-type tactics of the untamed Silures , whom Scapula had unwisely threatened to exterminate .
5 The strategies and tactics of the public relations service are always sharply focused and aligned to the marketing objectives when brand public relations work is done .
6 Of course , even if consideration is restricted to essentially short-term factors , Mrs Thatcher 's poor performance in the ballot can not be attributed solely to the strategy and tactics of the respective campaigns .
7 I AM not worried by the tactics of the Tory Whips during the Maastricht debate because any government has the right to expect members elected on its manifesto to push its business through the House .
8 Information that has now come to light about the political gulags and the Gestapo tactics of the secret police has certainly done much to underline the totalitarian essences of even the ‘ soft ’ regimes .
9 ‘ It was n't technology that doomed nuclear power in the US , nor was it the dedicated obstructionist tactics of the anti-nuclear forces , effective though they were .
10 The agenda specified the election of sixteen members to each of the ten Conciliar Commissions — the successors of the preparatory ones .
11 It included , along with clauses concerned with tolls and mercantile rights , a grant of freedom for the town and all dwellers in it ; the abolition of the judicial duel , unpopular with merchants ; the use of inquest in its place ; and an enlarged competence for the échevins or boni homines , the successors of the Carolingian scabini , re-established in the town at the very beginning of the century .
12 There has always been a wide discrepancy in the superego between the infantile image of the parents and the later one in which the characteristics of the real parents predominate .
13 Table I describes the general characteristics of the two groups studied .
14 The characteristics of the two groups of patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome are given in Table I.
15 Obviously there must be a third type , hovering somewhere in the middle , but you will be able to work this out for yourself by considering the following characteristics of the two extremes .
16 As the smoking characteristics of the two sexes become more and more alike , the rates of smoking induced diseases are drawing closer together [ 6,7 ] .
17 Table III shows the characteristics of the 186 asthmatics according to need for bronchodilators .
18 The various characteristics of the individual waves were analysed by the computer program .
19 The purpose of the present prospective study was to analyse 109 controls and 778 patients with reflux oesophagitis , who were divided into five categories according to the endoscopic findings , evaluating the following parameters : ( a ) symptoms of gastrooesophageal reflux ; ( b ) determination of the location of the squamous columnar junction by endoscopy , and the location of the distal and proximal end of the lower oesophageal sphincter by manometry , and ( c ) to determine the characteristics of the mechanical defects of the lower oesophageal sphincter in all groups .
20 The reference interview should ascertain both a clear subject profile and also other characteristics of the required documents or information , such as any constraints on date , language , source or level .
21 The research will thus delineate the social profile of these deliberative assemblies , and also show whether the characteristics of the 1987 members differ significantly from those of 1982 .
22 Where anything resembling an analytic survey was attempted the outcome is prone to reveal more about the background and interests of the author than the matter in hand , describing the aristocracy and gentry in detail while displaying markedly less understanding of the composition and characteristics of the lower orders .
23 In order to classify the pixels it is necessary to know in advance the number and spectral characteristics of the land-cover classes that are present in the area covered by the image .
24 The Characteristics of the Synoptic Gospels
25 The characteristics of the various types of volcanic eruption are considered in the general texts mentioned above .
26 In the following paragraphs we look in more detail at the reasons which have encouraged a number of large manufacturers to start making or make greater use of temporary workers , at the terms and conditions under which these temporary workers are engaged , especially the forms of contract which are used , and at the characteristics of the temporary workers themselves .
27 It must have been reassuringly familiar to him for it had many of the characteristics of the stone-built villages of the West Riding .
28 The sources of monoclonal antibodies , the characteristics of the fluorochrome conjugates , and other details of this two colour staining procedure have been reported previously .
29 The characteristics of the 24 stimuli that were chosen for this experiment are described in greater detail in Chapter 7 .
30 Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent .
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