Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high . |
| 2 | But clearly being a spare time hairy was proving too difficult for the NME of the early '70s . |
| 3 | Changes were afoot in the world of Britpop but even so , the NME of the '50s was still a big band paper first and foremost , and one that saw its typical reader as a working musician rather than a fan . |
| 4 | HAVING BEEN a close follower of The Lone Groover and loon pant ads in the NME of the '70s , I had formed a lasting impression of The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly as an impenetrable fortress of wit , intellect and sneering clever-gits . |
| 5 | Studies in the Coinages of the Eleventh Century ( 1981 ) , pp. 211ff ( a die chain between imitative coins with different mint names ) ; R. Reece , Coinage in Roman Britain ( 1987 ) ( the study of site finds ) ; T. R. Volk in G. Depeyrot , T. Hackens and G. Moucharte ( eds . ) , |
| 6 | Suddenly , for the aircrew , the endless backdrop of the ocean was violated , cut by the appearance from under the Hercules of the straight , man-made lines of Titron . |
| 7 | This is a progress which has found its haven in the achievements of Mrs Thatcher , and the Patrick of the Eighties will have to deal with that . |
| 8 | Kirkman saw Nkrumah as ‘ the Rousseau of the African revolution … |
| 9 | Oscar , I said , let me take you to Coney Island , it 's like Brighton , I think , the Brighton of the New World . |
| 10 | If people coming down from the North wearing British Coal Rugby League jumpers think they 're travelling away from home and the event is rather special , imagine the feelings of an Australian as he goes up that long concourse to the Vatican of the inflated rubber bladder . |
| 11 | Hundreds of clergy and laity , both Roman Catholic and Protestant , lost their lives in the Germany of the Third Reich . |
| 12 | The station was described by Koebel as the Waterloo of the southern hemisphere , handling more passengers than all the other Buenos Aires terminals together . |
| 13 | It was the Lourdes of the 13th and 14th centuries . |
| 14 | It is perhaps the best example on the Bodensee of the successful marriage between the demands of a growing holiday trade and a carefully guarded past . |
| 15 | In fact the USSR 's oil production did not peak in 1980 and a production level higher than the Jeremiahs of the late seventies predicted , was achieved . |
| 16 | More than that , the Donny of the '90s is sufficiently mature and ( deep voice ) masculine to cause Tom Jones sleepless nights worrying about his own sexuality . |
| 17 | This field either contains the PSN of the last entry in this bundle assigned on that basis ( restricting the range of the search ) or contains a negative value indicating that there are no more entries of the kind in this bundle . |
| 18 | The South does n't stand out in the resulting map ( figure 5.2 ) , although none of the States of the former Confederacy falls in the top 40 per cent on their ranking , except Florida whose population character and structure has changed very substantially in recent decades as a result of immigration , especially of the elderly . |
| 19 | The States of the Northern Tier |
| 20 | The magnificent late twelfth-century font in the great church of San Frediano at Lucca shows Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea ; and he and his troops are dressed up much as Frederick and his knights must have appeared to the Lucchese of the 1160s . |
| 21 | The accident occurred on the Saturday of the annual Popular Flying Association ( PFA ) rally at Cranfield . |
| 22 | Find the H.C.F. of the following : |
| 23 | Find the H.C.F. of the following sets of numbers : |
| 24 | This latter item was of special importance to the Castells of the early 1980s . |
| 25 | Similarly , as the discount houses take up Treasury bills from the tender on the Friday of the previous week , net payment will be made to the Bank from the rest of the banking system . |
| 26 | The tribal customs of Wimbledon were , in Henry 's view , as worthy of study as the totems and taboos of the Aborigines of the Northern Territory . |
| 27 | By the Tuesday of the first week , Cassie knew that she could not stay at Rose Cottage any longer . |
| 28 | Taiwan suffered one of its periodic earthquakes early on the Tuesday of the following week , mercifully less severe than many and leaving Taipei itself badly rocked but suffering only superficial damage and few casualties . |
| 29 | He also added that there was an element of fear involved — vendors must respond to Microsoft , he said , because the firm may well become ‘ the IBM of the 1990s and beyond ’ . |
| 30 | He also added that there was an element of fear involved — vendors must respond to Microsoft , he said , because the firm may well become ‘ the IBM of the 1990s and beyond ’ . |