Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public conflicts of recent years have involved confrontations between different political ideologies : the resistance from the Clay Cross Urban District to the Conservative Housing Finance Act ; the rejection by Merthyr County Borough of the Conservatives ' withdrawal of free milk for schoolchildren ; the resistance of a number of Conservative education authorities to the Labour commitment to the introduction of comprehensive secondary education ; the resistance of Labour local authorities to the Conservative government 's legislation on the sale of council houses ; and the forms of creative accounting developed in the mid-1980s by some local authorities to evade expenditure restraints . |
| 2 | At the international level by world revolution which , by breaking the isolation of the workers ' states , will provide an effective antidote to bureaucratization . |
| 3 | " We can not close the report without mentioning the great satisfaction expressed by the Mayor and Corporation and Inhabitants of the Town of Stockport at the re-establishment of the School , and the high sense they entertained of the liberality and kindness of the Goldsmiths ' Company . " |
| 4 | But a great deal of the poems ' subject matter is justly described by Philip Larkin [ q.v. ] in a review of the Collected Poems : ‘ It was , variously , neurosis , insanity , disease , death , horror , terror . ’ |
| 5 | The incest taboo lost its firm ground with the lifting of the parents ' repression and is now only half-heartedly observed . |
| 6 | By the end of the campaign , political interest , watching BBC-TV news , and a Labour identity made people somewhat more inclined to name defence as the Conservative Party 's main theme , however ; and those who had frequent discussions about politics developed a particularly clear perception of the Conservatives ' focus on defence issues ( Table 7.11 ) . |
| 7 | The bulk of the chicks ' diet consists of leaf-eating caterpillars from oak trees , particularly those of the green oak tortrix , and these are at their best in the few weeks after the leaf buds come out . |
| 8 | If this is so , then the issue should be formulated as one of whether the existence of corporate power is sufficiently objectionable to defeat the prima facie justificatory force of a rights ' claim . |
| 9 | ( a ) Until three years after the coming into force of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 , no part of this rule shall apply : |
| 10 | By the creek , the main force of the islands ' fighters was gathered for the simultaneous assault on Belmont , which was shaking the ground even at this range , like the bass drum of a ceremonial band . |
| 11 | Service companies The attractiveness of service companies in the administration of a solicitors ' practice will by and large depend upon the perceived fiscal advantages at any particular time ( see Chapters 5 and 10 ) . |
| 12 | It is not the purpose of this or the following chapter to present a comprehensive guide to the administration of a solicitors ' practice or to advise as to the ways in which its profitability can be increased . |
| 13 | It would have included responsibility for the finance , organization and administration of the Magistrates ' courts , and for criminal legal aid . |
| 14 | If it chooses to get one from one of its employees , then it seems to me that the preparation of that report by one of its employees is as much a part of the administration of the societies ' business in the field of making advances as is consideration of the report by the assessor required by section 13(1) ( b ) . |
| 15 | The ( ahem ) mirror-smooth coffee-table sheen of the Mondays ' ‘ Yes Please ’ conjures up little but complacency and water-treading : Shaun and co were once kings of the dirty , demonic rhythmscape , now the New FADs have moved in on their old manor and staked whole new claims in the still fertile soil of rock-dance crossover . |
| 16 | The usually ultra-orthodox organ of the Free German Youth ( FDJ ) , which on Monday attacked ‘ pervasive bossiness ’ by the President of the Writers ' Union , Herrman Kant , quoted a sermon in the opposition centre , Leipzig 's church . |
| 17 | The president of the Assassins ' Guild spun his short blowgun dexterously and slotted it into its holster in one smooth movement . |
| 18 | Yet another Pakistani , the former world champion Jansher Khan , was rather prematurely in the news for being rebuked by Chris Dittmar , the president of the players ' association , for allegedly being too demanding of the tournament organisers . |
| 19 | Jansher has been rebuffed in the past by the president of the Players ' Association , Chris Dittmar , for demanding too much of tournament organisers . |
| 20 | Shanks was president of the Mechanics ' Institute of St Helens . |
| 21 | The president of the employers ' federation , the Union Patronale de Côte d'Ivoire ( UPACI ) , Joseph Aka Anghui , cited rampant fraud , inefficient bureaucracy , price controls and high taxes as key problems affecting industry ; he also complained of the failure of government bodies to meet their debts to the private sector . |
| 22 | Included in the new Cabinet was Albert Nhlanhla Shabangu , president of the teachers ' union and a former critic of the government . |
| 23 | Bill Jordan , president of the engineers ' union AEU , was hissed when he told delegates a Labour government should be ready to play a positive role in a Nato that was now ‘ reaping a spectacular harvest of peace ’ from years of multilateralism . |
| 24 | Scanlon 's successor as President of the Engineers ' Union , Terry Duffy , was , in fact , a strongly right-wing figure anxious to reach an accommodation with the government , but naturally it would take him time to build up his authority . |
| 25 | Herbert Smith , President of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , maintained that the 1925 coal dispute had been ‘ an affair of outposts . |
| 26 | After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff . |
| 27 | The President of the Students ' Union meets the Vice-Chancellor of the University on a regular basis |
| 28 | In September 1981 the magazine duly appeared , coinciding with the start of my office as the sabbatical Deputy President of the students ' union at the RCA . |
| 29 | He was a proud , caring president of the Cricketers ' Association , especially during the difficult Packer years , the implications of which he read better than any . |
| 30 | The hidden agenda , which has never been properly discussed , was an attempt by American superagent Mark McCormack to muscle into the world of FI via Didier Pironi , then president of the drivers ' association . |