Example sentences of "general of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a battlefield , she robbed a dead general of a leatherbound book grasped so tightly in his frozen fingers that two of them came away with it . |
| 2 | The ‘ compunctions of conscience are in general of a far more fleeting nature ’ . |
| 3 | John Hayes , secretary general of the Law Society , said he regarded the entire matter as up for debate . |
| 4 | Which would suggest that it might be rash to release Mr Sisulu , who has been secretary general of the ANC since 1949 , at this stage . |
| 5 | Luke Rittner , secretary general of the Arts Council , said inflation had outstripped grant aid by 6 per cent , and ‘ a failure by government to recognise this situation will be a cruel slap in the face to an arts world that has done so much to adapt to the market economy of the 1980s ’ . |
| 6 | And when the teams and flag are reunited on the summit , a message from the Secretary General of the UN will be read out . |
| 7 | The Attorney General of the day ( one Shawcross ) , informed an inquiring MP that ‘ it is not contemplated that any legislation will be necessary to give effect to the terms of this Convention ’ because ‘ I think we are entitled to say that the law of this country has always been in advance of the laws of most other countries in regard to human rights ’ . |
| 8 | One important Communist still eluding capture was Jose Weibel , Secretary General of the Young Communists , and the Joint Command decided to try and locate him through his brother Ricardo , a bus driver . |
| 9 | The man who succeeded him as Secretary General of the Young Communists , Carlos Contreras Maluje , was picked up after putting up a struggle in the street . |
| 10 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 11 | Roy McIver , secretary general of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ( COSLA ) says the level of non-payment is giving ‘ cause for concern , ’ with cash flows less favourable than under the old rating system . |
| 12 | Letters or articles advocating a switch to political pluralism ‘ would be an act against socialism , ’ according to Mr Tran Cong Man , Deputy Secretary General of the Journalists ' Association . |
| 13 | It was the latter which so struck Henry Detterding , the Director General of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company , who resolved to build himself a ‘ Butterfly ’ house and commissioned Maufe . |
| 14 | According to one team-mate , Mr Michael Pattison , Secretary General of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors , ‘ he is an old style classical Corinthian style sportsman on the cricket and rugby field . |
| 15 | The latest massacre coincided with the ending of a four-day visit to Burma by Mr Jan K Eliasson , Secretary General of the United Nations , who is seeking a solution to the refugee problem . |
| 16 | The decision by the Financial Times to back Labour for the first time since 1966 was attacked by Sir John Banham , director general of the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 17 | The dispute was only resolved in July 1986 when Senor Perez de Cuellar , Secretary General of the United Nations , arranged a package deal whereby France paid the New Zealand government £4.5 million in addition to what it had privately paid to Pereira 's family and the £5 million it also had to pay Greenpeace in October 1987 . |
| 18 | Mme Catherine Lalumière , secretary general of the Council of Europe , explains : ‘ Adoption of the Council as the framework for the Pharmacopoeia rather than the creation of a European pharmacopoeia was a quite deliberate choice . |
| 19 | Many odour problems arise in connection with processes which are required by s.9(1) of the 1906 Act to be registered annually with the Director General of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 20 | RIGHT : Major-General Sir Frederick Smith ( 1857–1929 ) , a student at the College from 1873–1876 , later director general of the Army Veterinary Corps . |
| 21 | At Engineers ' Hall we listened to experts like D. A. D. Reeve , chief executive of the Severn Trent Water Authority , D. Gaulter , director general of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors , and W. T. Devenay , director of water , Strathclyde Regional Council . |
| 22 | The call came from the director general of the Office of Fair Trading , Sir Gordon Borrie , in a hard-hitting review of this 16 years ' work , at a recent Institute of Directors ' branch meeting . |
| 23 | A fortnight after the pastoral letter , exiles and reformers met in Zambia , and Chihana , secretary general of the South Africa Trade Union Coordinating Council , was mandated to return to organise a ‘ national conference of democratic forces ’ . |
| 24 | Leapman also cited , as evidence of the crisis Adie faces , the preference of John Birt , the deputy director general of the BBC , for ‘ specialist reporters over old-fashioned ‘ firemen' like Ms Adie ’ . |
| 25 | The main speakers include Hugh Collum of SmithKline Beecham ; Claus-Dieter Ehler-mann , director general of the EC 's DGIV , and Christopher Holyoak , controller of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development . |
| 26 | Similar themes were taken up in the Collins lecture of 1988 by Richard Francis , Director General of the British Council . |
| 27 | Two days before the meeting , the IDA flew in yet another independent expert , Dr Robert Murray , Secretary General of the Permanent Commission and International Association of Occupational Health and a consultant in occupational health . |
| 28 | ‘ The tight control of public sector pay is important , ’ said Howard Davies , director general of the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 29 | At question time yesterday , Gordon Prentice ( Lab Pendle ) urged Mr Major : ‘ The revelations that the director general of the BBC has been avoiding tax on a massive scale leave a very nasty taste in the mouth . |
| 30 | He was president of the Yemeni Student Association in Aleppo , Syria , between 1978 and 1980 , and Secretary General of the Organization of Arab Students in Beirut , Lebanon , between 1980 and 1982 . |