Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | Outside , there were the usual hospital sounds — ambulant patients moving about the ward in slippers , nurses talking at the nurses ' station , the distant squeaking wheel of a cleaner 's trolley — but in here it was very quiet . |
2 | Chip papers strewed the pavement and a buckled can of Sprite lay by the back wheel of the doctor 's Sierra . |
3 | The plaintiff pedestrian was struck on the leg by a part of the wheel of the defendant 's lorry , which came off as it was being driven along the road . |
4 | The jerk of the Zodiac 's tow rope would have slewed Golden Girl broadside to the wind but Trent was ready with the jib sheet , hauling in hard to balance wind with tow . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Note that although not required in law , corroboration of the victim 's evidence is looked for in practice . |
7 | At the international level by world revolution which , by breaking the isolation of the workers ' states , will provide an effective antidote to bureaucratization . |
8 | What was in store for them and their young but the fox 's maw , the poisoned grain and the angry scatter-shot of the farmer 's gun ? |
9 | After his proposed reorganization of the Hall 's constitution was rejected by Convocation in 1937 , he conceded a formal liberalization of the Hall 's constitution , by another statute , giving more power to the tutors , and freed the Hall from control by Queen 's College . |
10 | At a CPSU congress in early July 1990 a reorganization of the party 's leading bodies confirmed the curtailment of their role in national political decision-making [ see pp. 37299 ; 37616 ] . |
11 | Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress . |
12 | Thinking of a boy 's name is harder than thinking of a girl 's . |
13 | Thinking of a boy 's name is harder than thinking of a girl 's . |
14 | " 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 . " |
15 | The drab walls superimposed over the plush wallpapering of the Mayor 's office . |
16 | It held the faint tang of a man 's aftershave and she hugged it to her for a moment before realising how ridiculous she was being . |
17 | When a drover 's or farmer 's beasts went missing , they were liable to find their way into rogues ' hiding-places such as the deep cleft of the Devil 's Beef Tub near the source of the River Tweed above Moffat , where encircling hills seemed , according to Sir Walter Scott , to be ‘ laying their heads together to shut out the daylight from the dark hollow space between them ’ . |
18 | There is a clearly written text with an illustrated chronology of the country 's history taking it up to 1992 . |
19 | Fully annotated , glossary of technical terms , chronology of the artist 's life and the dates of the pastels , bibliography and exhibitions . |
20 | There 's very little information here for the new(ish) reader about family , upbringing , education , township , larger historical context , or simple chronology of the poet 's fifty-six years . |
21 | Meanwhile , in a little-known episode of the Community 's history , Greenland in 1984 , following unanimous agreement among the Member States , became the only state to be allowed to withdraw from the EEC ; in doing so , it reduced the EEC 's land surface area by half . |
22 | Lancaster University has begun a new phase in its campaign to become the repository of the world 's most important collection of Ruskin drawings , manuscripts , books and memorabilia , with the opening of a special exhibition ‘ Ruskin , Tradition and Architecture ’ at the university 's Peter Scott Gallery ( 4–29 May ) . |
23 | In effect the field officer is the major repository of the agency 's knowledge of each district . |
24 | This included the computerisation of the organisation 's archive , of which I was in charge . |
25 | Since the computerisation of the world 's money and equity markets , real time services have become crucial to successful trading . |
26 | THE smash-hit musical City of Angels will stage a midnight performance on July 11 to raise money for Aids as police still hunt the killer of the show 's assistant director . |
27 | A host of small British firms sells small computers and this activity consumes a great deal of the country 's talent in electronics engineering . |
28 | Cheese making demanded a great deal of the wife 's time , up to 5 or 6 hours per day . |
29 | Unlike the honey bees , a great deal of the vervet 's signalling system is learned . |
30 | It is the underlying implication of the existence of a providing ‘ god ’ which lies at the bottom of a great deal of the world 's misery . |