Example sentences of "of [art] [num ord] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Here , if the cellos are equally divided , the balance will be satisfactory because of the powerful and penetrating tone of the 1st cellos on their top string .
2 Scott was awarded the highest prize , with third on the Foreign Office list , Deane and Woodward were fourth , and Street was awarded one of the fifth prizes on the same list .
3 However , the judges awarded it one of the fifth prizes for a War Department design .
4 He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design .
5 Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy .
6 Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy .
7 Some difficulties were experienced in the interpretation of SCOTVEC guidance documents , but this was to be expected as we were one of the first colleges to be involved in developing units for the HNC Pilot Scheme , and telephone communication with the SCOTVEC Curriculum Development Officers , who were most helpful , usually resolved them for us .
8 I remember going on one of the first ones with the boss .
9 I was one of the first ones to be flown out and then there was a postal hold-up so I had real trouble finding out what was going on , and also trying to organise to have him brought home .
10 Was , your room one of the first ones to be done Heather ?
11 Sugar was one of the first imports to be reprocessed and used in new products made in Britain , such as jams or biscuits or sweetened drinks .
12 Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company .
13 In my view , these figurines are evidence of the first consequences of the coming Neolithic trauma — the beginning of weaning and the loss of the primal mothers .
14 Severe recent flooding in the Andes was one of the first consequences of El Niñshow the impact of global warming , with a 0.041° C mean increase between 1963 and 1990 .
15 The ‘ Hope Dionysus ’ was one of the first acquisitions for the Met 's Greek and Roman Art Department by curator in charge Carlos A. Picon , who assumed his position in 1990 .
16 One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity .
17 JAMES CLEMENTS , a jovial rotund Englishman who runs the Sek Kong detention centre for Vietnamese boat people , could barely contain his satisfaction when telling reporters that nothing out of the ordinary happened when camp inmates heard news of the first deportations from Hong Kong .
18 The radical simplification of forms which characterizes the painting can be accounted for by the fact that this was one of the first canvases in which Braque attempted to work from memory .
19 Knowing that pickups are one of the first corners to be cut in budget guitars , I expected tameness if not lameness from the EX .
20 Managing Director of P&O European Ferries ( Portsmouth ) , Richard Martin , said : ‘ Sponsorship is often one of the first areas to be threatened during times of economic hardship .
21 The Bodrum peninsular , within sight of the Dodecanese islands of Greece , has been one of the first areas of Turkey to attract British tourists .
22 The Downs were one of the first areas of Sussex to be colonised by man and were probably quickly cleared of their original vegetation of scrubby woodland .
23 Oracle Corp 's new division set up last year to explore new technologies said that telecommunications was one of the first areas of interest , and good as its word , on May 11 , it will announce an alliance with US West Inc aimed at providing a variety of electronic services to business , schools and homes , including mail and voice messages , according to the Wall Street Journal .
24 One of the first actions of the new department was to begin consultations about local government reorganisation .
25 With letter I enclose clippings from the Gwelo and Que Que newspapers , telling of the first actions of the Mobile Force .
26 The style of the building is that of the 14th century , and it holds many monuments to previous rectors and the Bethell family , including a reference to Christopher Bethell who was one of the first whites to be killed in the Mafeking riots in July 1884 .
27 Susan , Anne 's daughter by Didier , became one of the first geniuses of the form , moulding her night fantasies into unforgettably affecting tapestries of emotion and narrative .
28 Although we have no record , the Magnolia Grandiflora from the United States that clothe the wall of the north wing of the house must have been some of the first plantings of magnolias at Lanhydrock ; I would guess that are now well inside their second century .
29 Such was his reputation that 2,000 people attended his funeral in Russia and one of the first statues in St Paul 's Cathedral in London was not of a sovereign , statesman or saint — but a simple , teetotal , vegetarian traveller who , as the inscription notes :
30 Annie now embarked on her remarkable public career , first as an associate of the atheist Charles Bradlaugh in the National Secular Society , then as a Fabian socialist and strike leader ( of the London matchgirls ) , and as one of the first members of the London School Board .
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