Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] of [noun prp] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of prime importance for the history of Roman attitudes to Greek art are the activities of Paullus ' successors , Quintus Caecilius Metellus ( later named Macedonicus for his victories in Macedonia ) and Lucius Mummius . |
| 2 | The Institute is understood to be investigating the activities of Sting 's auditors Moore Sloane , which closed down in September . |
| 3 | The longstanding allegation of police complicity in the activities of Airin 's criminal syndicates made the arrest particularly sensitive . |
| 4 | Not until October 14 , when a U-boat penetrated the defences of Britain 's ‘ safest harbour ’ at Scapa Flow and killed the Royal Oak and more than eight hundred of her sailors , did the chill of autumn begin to bite . |
| 5 | This is why the experts of Jesus ' time criticized him for healing the sick on the Sabbath , accepting social outcasts , or infringing the fine points of the law . |
| 6 | In addition , it might be noted that British fascism had not substantially changed the attitudes of Britain 's major political parties and it could be argued that there was still much equivocation in government as to whether or not Mussolini or Hitler represented the biggest threat . |
| 7 | The twentieth century has witnessed the realisation of these objectives , perhaps even beyond the horizons of Paracelsus 's fertile imagination . |
| 8 | The Gang , headed by Mao 's wife Jiang Qing , had been held responsible for the excesses of China 's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution . |
| 9 | The expansion of the reading public called into being a commercially viable and increasingly sophisticated press , and provided the context for the masterpieces of Russia 's golden age of literature . |
| 10 | There is considerable difficulty in ascertaining precisely what was Kim 's relationship with Moscow , since the accounts of Kim 's early life and guerrilla activities contain wide variation , not to mention ideological ‘ realignment ’ to fit in with the nature of Kim 's foreign policy in later years and the state of his current relations with Moscow and Peking . |
| 11 | And the accounts of Tatham 's kidnapping and death had been very worthwhile reading . |
| 12 | Management delegation and consultation within companies has its wider reflection in the institutions of Japan 's democratic polity . |
| 13 | Contrary to popular opinion this row of picturesque houses huddled against the castle wall did not house the alchemists of Rudolf 's court , but the craftsmen of the castle . |
| 14 | Harriet , albeit with misgiving , had bowed to the wishes of Liza 's doting father and their headstrong mercurial daughter . |
| 15 | Actors played the parts of the giants of Romania 's chequered history , like Stephen the Great , and gave a kind of historical blessing to the new General-Secretary . |
| 16 | The new story centres on the attempts of Scarlett 's grandfather , hopefully to be portrayed by Sean Connery , to get Rhett Butler and Scarlett together . |
| 17 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 18 | Men dreamt dreams of salvation and the human imagination created divine myths and received the signs of God 's grace . |
| 19 | LAST weekend 's deaths of three family members in the freezing wind and snow of the Cairngorms has focused attention once more on the dangers of Scotland 's mountains . |
| 20 | Jimmy Knapp , leader of the rail union RMT , said : ‘ This drives home the dangers of BR 's programme of de-staffing stations which is gathering pace . ’ |
| 21 | Those whose interests were prejudiced by the events of 787 are likely to have joined the ranks of Offa 's enemies , and it was later believed that Archbishop Jaenberht even plotted with Charlemagne against Offa to guarantee him free entry into Kent if he should invade . |
| 22 | The exercise took 12 months to complete and the atmosphere of uncertainty did little to boost morale among the ranks of BT 's middle managers , even though thousands opted to go under a generous voluntary redundancy programme . |
| 23 | After all , if this week 's polls are anything to go by , she may be joining the ranks of Britain 's retired pensioners in 1992 . |
| 24 | The ranks of Britain 's unemployed grew by 80,000 in December , the biggest monthly increase for ten years ; the unemployment rate rose to 6.5% , its highest level since June 1989 . |
| 25 | The manifestations of Boltwood 's psychic powers started at the age of five when he talked to invisible people who turned out to be dead friends of his mother . |
| 26 | It is renewed ( in the sequel , Rupert of Hentzau ) for a further period when , after an interval of some years , the machinations of Michael 's nephew Rupert lead to the King 's death and loyal Sapt appeals to Rassendyll once more for help . |
| 27 | International acclaim was preceded by fame on British television as the motor-scooter rider Byron , who delivered a weekly monologue reflecting the views of Britain 's youth in the BBC satirical series Not So Much a Programme , More a Way of Life . |
| 28 | But let's hear the views of Leicester 's Brian Little . |
| 29 | Generously , but also nostalgically : the national culture thus founded reaches an immediate peak in the Weimar classicism of Goethe and Schiller at the end of the eighteenth century , but the innocence and cultural purpose of that epoch are strengths no longer to the fore among the Germans of Nietzsche 's own day — the modern barbarians and " cultural philistines " ( Kulturphilister ) of the Wilhelminian Reich . |
| 30 | The sons of Mayall 's first marriage were all initiated into the firm at an early age ; a son-in-law ( a doctor ) acquired a mill as a dowry ; and a remaining daughter married a Nonconformist minister . |