Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the early part of the 1960s the sense that the universities needed to take their national role more seriously , as Reid had reminded them in 1948 , had been somewhat enhanced by the appointment of the Robbins Committee . |
| 2 | By the end of the 1960s the motorway network had linked up most of the commuting areas between the major conurbations and the in-filling of commuter villages between such radial transport routes had virtually been completed . |
| 3 | In contrast to the boundless optimism of the 1960s the country was still recovering from the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate and undergo-ing a crisis of confidence in both political leaders and institutions . |
| 4 | By the beginning of the 1960s the government had given up the attempt to encourage employers to take special note of the needs of older workers . |
| 5 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 6 | Throughout all the arguments and disputes of the 1960s the shadow of de Gaulle loomed large . |
| 7 | Thanks to his inspired decision to link Rank 's future with that of the Xerox copiers , by the end of the 1960s the group had profits of more than £52m , 90% due to Xerox . |
| 8 | By the second half of the 1960s the machinery of local democracy was being presented in official reports as one of the sources of problems for the effective operation of local government . |
| 9 | ( D ) Officer of the 1st The Queen 's Dragoon Guards , the recce unit of 7th Armd . |
| 10 | Since the early 1960s it had increasingly opted for linking very different issues in a single package , hoping that because the latter offered something to each of the Six the whole would prove acceptable to all . |
| 11 | Everyone will be free to enjoy themselves as they wish , but we shall be arranging a programme of optional sightseeing excursions and activities on a daily basis , which will ensure you miss nothing of the best the region has to offer . |
| 12 | We are not in the business of putting on the backs of the poor the cost of the 50 per cent . |
| 13 | Finally , in the second half of the eighteenth-century the palazzo was returned to the city and used as an extension of the town hall . |
| 14 | Since the end of the sixties the use of traditional debenture financing by British corporations has been rather limited ( see Tables 9.6(a) and ( b ) ) . |
| 15 | For me , the two glories of the current team , one of the greatest the world has seen , are two halves of rugby . |
| 16 | Letters of application should be 2 — 4 paragraphs long , and should indicate clearly which of the 4 the applicant is interested in . |
| 17 | With the urbanisation and expansion of the middle-class the pattern began to change . |
| 18 | But in the first two years of the 1990s the slump in housebuilding and property plunged the group into a hole which has turned into a chasm , as yesterday 's record £69m losses reveal . |
| 19 | At the beginning of the 1990s the spot price for uranium stood at under $10/lb , the lowest real price since it became a commodity and $20 below the official floor price for contract sales . |
| 20 | During the rest of the 1990s the number of youngsters entering the workforce each year will be smaller than at any time since the second world war ; but two-fifths will be from minorities , mostly Hispanics and blacks . |
| 21 | These satellites and more recent balloon and rocket flights show that in the first six years of the 1970s the Sun 's radiation had increased by 0.2 per cent . |
| 22 | At the beginning of the 1970s the Council had four committees and sixty-four boards and panels , and a staff of thirty-six , with an inevitably increasing workload . |
| 23 | By the beginning of the 1970s the relationship was therefore again under scrutiny . |
| 24 | By the beginning of the 1970s the sandwich course commitment was accompanied by a variety of difficulties . |
| 25 | Of the latter the advent of oxygen isotope dating of deep-sea sediment cores has probably been most significant and also very important in relation to reconstructing climatic change and glacial chronology . |
| 26 | Four of the six patients with idiopathic DU had peak acid output values above the range of the healthy volunteers but again due to the small number of the first the difference between these groups did not reach statistical significance ( p=0.08 ) . |
| 27 | the other question , how seriously do you view the likely impact of the new the budget er change come coming into force in the spring on purchases of consumer durables such as yours bearing in mind your and your customer profile ? |
| 28 | It has to be said that of the two the TriAxis appears initially the most intimidating , but doubtless Boogie would argue that if you want the features you 've got to learn how to use the machine . |
| 29 | Of the two the Almond has the poorest water quality as it serves four sewage works directly viz Whitburn , Blackburn , East Calder and Newbridge and two works by tributaries , Fauldhouse via the Breich Water and Winchburgh via the Niddrie Burn . |
| 30 | Taken by surprise and fear of the other the boy lost his balance and tumbled down the grassy bank towards the stranger but to the boy 's incredulous gaze the figure melted into thin air . |