Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawings will be made in a modern and approved style , and when finished , will be submitted to the inspection of the subscribers at large . |
| 2 | Another feature of the Jurassic in southern Europe is the Rosso ammonitico facies of nodular red limestones characterised by a dominance of pelagic organisms . |
| 3 | After studying her for a moment in silence , he added , ‘ What possessed you to take off your shoes and come charging out of the alley like that ? ’ |
| 4 | Twenty per cent showed no evidence of chronic gastritis , and of the 80% with chronic gastritis 53.8% showed chronic active gastritis , 19.3% chronic superficial gastritis , and 6.9% chronic atrophic gastritis ( Table III ) . |
| 5 | a realization of the depth of stereotypical portrayal involved in any one text . |
| 6 | The night 's events must have given them a very clear idea of the depth of local opinion . ’ |
| 7 | As a child , reading her mother 's collection of Victorian novels , Edwardian novels , she had wondered how women could bear to renounce their position in the centre of the matrimonial stage , the sexual arena , how they could bring themselves to consent to adopt the role of chaperon , to sit at the edge of the dance on little gilt-legged chairs gossiping and watching , spectators , as the younger ones innocently paired , as the older ones not so innocently paired , in the ever-changing formations of the floor . |
| 8 | THE CHARRED hulks of vehicles beside the highway on the approaches to Maan , 130 miles through the desert south from Amman , remain as mute but eloquent reminders of the limits of public tolerance of an unpopular government when no other expression of opinion is possible . |
| 9 | Baudrillard 's biography provides a clear example of the limits of extreme objectivism as an approach to mass commodities ( compare Anderson 1983 : 32–55 on post-structuralism in general ) . |
| 10 | Phizacklea and Miles warn of the limits of any strategy premised on the assumption ( made in the 1970s by the TUC and the Labour Party ) that ‘ the way to eliminate working-class racism was to provide counter-arguments to common racist beliefs ’ , to push out of workers ' heads an ideological baggage primarily produced by the dominant class and replace it by ‘ the truth ’ . |
| 11 | John Banville has been hauled in to applaud what he calls a ‘ wholly successful testing of the limits of literary art ’ , but all we are really being asked to approve is the author 's ventriloquial skill . |
| 12 | Although these differences of terminology amount to more than semantic predilections , for they support — perhaps even generate — rival conceptions of the limits of contractual obligations , the generic idea remains a special exercise of choice by an individual , through which he deliberately incurs a binding legal responsibility . |
| 13 | The large question of the limits upon royal power will be discussed in a later chapter , but it can be said now that , although the Crown put pressure upon both Houses , they were capable of obstinacy and independence . |
| 14 | Most of the experiments on this topic have , however , been conducted with human subjects and I shall begin by reviewing this work before turning to an analysis of the relatively few further studies that have used animal subject to pursue the phenomenon revealed by Lawrence . |
| 15 | Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s . |
| 16 | The abilities of the computer will remind some readers of the experiments in many school resource centres using , instead of the Dewey Classification and a simple card catalogue , one or other variety of post co-ordinate indexing , frequently with optical coincidence punched cards . |
| 17 | It is true that many of the experiments in this area were grossly inadequate in method : they failed to ensure that the individuals they studied were similar , apart from the single factor being scrutinized ; they relied unduly on mothers ' memories for information about early events ; their various findings could not be compared because of disagreement about what should be counted as ‘ early weaning ’ or ‘ harsh training ’ , and so on . |
| 18 | Penzias conveys a vivid sense of the pace of technological evolution in our time . |
| 19 | This necessity of the pace of social and industrial change has its implications for teaching method : the student must increasingly develop and practise the skills of enquiry and discovery , in order to experience the confidence and pleasure of it and to be able to make fullest use of " recurrent education " possibilities and requirements in later life . |
| 20 | There is nothing worse than playing two superb shots to get within spitting distance of the green on that monster par five , then fluffing two chips and three-putting to end up with the dreaded double-bogey . |
| 21 | Again , this is an ideal shot when the flag is close to the edge of the green with little room to work with . |
| 22 | We were on the green for five shots , and Mr Lu was on the side of the green for two . |
| 23 | Every weekend golfer knows that awful feeling of being within 20 yards of the green in two on a 500-yard hole and taking another three shots to get on to the putting surface . |
| 24 | Each side claims that its estimate of the chances of nuclear catastrophe is more accurate . |
| 25 | Partly because of the earlier bitterness of the battle over comprehensive reorganization , more because in the new artificially contrived areas ( such as ‘ Humberside ’ , ‘ Avon ’ , ‘ Kirklees ’ , and ‘ Thamesdown ’ ) there was no tradition and no sense of local needs , political alignments became overwhelmingly important . |
| 26 | While the outcome of the battle between public and private is far off , there is no doubt that during the phase of conflict the viewer is the winner . |
| 27 | Truth , like historicity , is derived from particular discursive practices ; it operates internally as a form of regulation , as well as being the historical product of the battle between different discursive regimes . |
| 28 | The papers carried his own version of the Lambeth story , the brave young warrior grievously wounded in the thick of the battle against alien subversives . |
| 29 | Its name is associated with the site of the battle in 1388 when the men of Glarus defeated a greatly superior Austrian army and so regained their independent liberties . |
| 30 | This is the site of the battle in 1485 at which King Richard III was killed , and succeeded by Henry VII . |