Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borowski 's magnificent collection of ancient seals , figurines , ivories , mosaics and sarcophagi , spanning six millenia , is laid out chronologically , in one continuous trek specifically arranged by American designer Clifford LaFontaine to emphasise the inter-relationships of cultures and ideas . |
| 2 | Although this is not easy , because comparisons are often made upon data emerging from different initial observations as well as different responses , it does seem to provide an approach whereby the effects of learning can be discerned and differences between the judgments of experts and the inexperienced identified . |
| 3 | He or she controls and co-ordinates the activities of committees and planning boards , oversees the working of academic departments and liaises with outside bodies . |
| 4 | It puts a whole new perspective on the study of the past , placing the lives of ordinary people at the centre , rather than the activities of monarchs and politicians . |
| 5 | It can be seen straight away that the Faculty has an enormous task merely trying to help members keep up-to-date with all these changes , to help them interpret some of the more obscure elements and , wherever possible , to pool their combined knowledge to match the tax authorities ' ability to pool their knowledge of the activities of taxpayers and their advisers . |
| 6 | ‘ Political work ’ teams monitor the activities of monks and nuns . |
| 7 | The press of the Gold Coast also reflected and stimulated the activities of nationalists and of the burgeoning political parties . |
| 8 | Again , the assumption has been that this took place in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , because that is when documents mention the activities of lords and peasants in these areas . |
| 9 | Assistance was provided by traditional in-service education , by the activities of advisers and inspectors and , at one time , by activities which were sponsored or encouraged at teachers ' professional centres . |
| 10 | From this perspective , the remedy lies not so much in providing personal help as in attempting to reconcile the activities of women and the values of society more effectively . |
| 11 | The cause of their horror is a law being prepared behind the scenes by a parliamentary group , entitled ‘ Law on the Activities of Museums and Museum Organisations on the Territory of the Russian Federation ’ . |
| 12 | We need to lift the problem to a higher level of generality , encompassed by the expression ‘ social control , ’ in a benign sense , in order to provide a unifying concept within which the activities of police and other agencies can be co-ordinated . ’ |
| 13 | Modernisation came mainly through the activities of foreigners or Serbs who returned from exile . |
| 14 | It supervises the activities of banks and other financial institutions |
| 15 | It issues notes ; it acts as banker to the government , to the commercial banks , to various overseas central banks and to certain private customers ; it manages the government 's borrowing programme ; it supervises the activities of banks and other financial institutions ; it provides support to prevent banks getting into difficulties ; it operates the government 's monetary and exchange rate policy . |
| 16 | It has a watching brief to keep its eye on the activities of banks and other financial institutions which are required to submit monthly returns to the Bank . |
| 17 | In section 2.3.2 we made a distinction which is often made between the activities of banks or , more strictly , ‘ institutions comprising the monetary sector ’ and the activities of NBFIs . |
| 18 | Coordinating This is the task of harmonising the activities of individuals and groups within the organisation , which will inevitably have different ideas about what their own goals should be . |
| 19 | Controlling This is the task of measuring and correcting the activities of individuals and groups , to ensure that their performance is in accordance with plans . |
| 20 | It was by no means uncommon for teachers to switch from one type of grouping to another as the activities of individuals and groups of children changed . |
| 21 | The very efficiency of any improvement speeded up the lowering of the land as the peat dried and ‘ wasted ’ through the activities of bacteria and fungi . |
| 22 | Constant factors " C " might include the activities of competitors and company price competitiveness and product acceptability . |
| 23 | It was all too easy for opponents of the move towards greater political party involvement in national leadership to label the activities of politicians as corrupt , self-seeking , individualistic and anti-social . |
| 24 | The growth of ethology can continue only if we find a way of talking about human experience that opens the whole range of the activities of men and women to inspection . |
| 25 | Politics describes a specialized field of activity concerned with the whole machinery of government ; law correspondingly refers to the whole apparatus of the machinery of justice ; religion to that which concerns the activities of churches and churchmen . |
| 26 | Concerns of this kind , as Pamyat' demonstrated , could sometimes take a xenophobic or anti-semitic form , but they also helped to provide the impetus behind a growing environmentalist movement centred around issues such as the pollution of Lake Baikal in Siberia and the defence of villages that had been declared ‘ perspectiveless ’ by central planners . |
| 27 | The panel on doctrine are to be congratulated on their wise handling of the response of presbyteries and kirk sessions to the proposed new statement of faith . |
| 28 | The response of airports and airlines to the Channel Tunnel has been coloured by the impending deregulation of air transport in Europe which is expected to lead to a substantial fall in fares and a rise in business over the next few years . |
| 29 | When extending the analysis to model the response of households and firms , we need also to consider how fiscal policy itself is determined . |
| 30 | The response from designers and knitters included plenty of suggestions for improvement in the basic shapes and version 2 of Designaknit was born a few weeks later . |