Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 This kind of critique of the traditional gentlemanly and humanistic , and even new-critical , basis of English became ever more common in the course of the 1960s and later .
2 Only briefly at the end of the 1960s and again in the mid-1970s did average earnings rise significantly above the all-industry average .
3 Why is it , I wonder , that when books have things spilt on them it is always bottled sauce or gravy of the thickest and most repellent kind rather than something utterly exquisite and delicious ? ’
4 One of the friendliest and most popular bars in Stockaree .
5 But in terms of turnover in staff I would I would be fairly confident in saying we have the lowest one of the lowest if not the lowest in any direct sales operation .
6 You can usually tell a good Fender before you plug it in , and I 've got to say that acoustically the SRV is one of the loudest and most solid-sounding Strats I 've come across ( and in that I include non-trem Strats , which usually sound better under these conditions ) .
7 One of the nicest and most original features of the game is that while Doodle can take out the enemy by simply throwing his pencils , he can also use them to draw the bonuses or weapons he needs .
8 Normand undertook the bulk of the extensive and often tedious calculations ( which Dobson detested ) produced by all this work .
9 Out of the 2,300 or so public limited companies ( Aktiengesellchaften , or AG ) , only 619 have ordinary shares quoted or traded on the stockmarket ( which is 80 more than at end-1989 ) .
10 ‘ We checked my symptoms in some of the six or so books we had on the subject of birth , but none of them matched up with what I was feeling .
11 The religious observances of the inhabitants of Corbridge are well attested , not only through the structural remains of the six or so temples which lined the south side of the main east-west street near the military compounds but also through the number of dedications and items of religious sculpture which have been recovered from the site ; quite a number , though , of the dedications were made by military personnel or army units .
12 This no doubt explains why historians writing about Scotland in Mary 's minority have tended to sound more shocked about the activities of the Scottish nobility than historians of other contemporary societies , and find it harder to reconcile the idea of ideological commitment with changes of the political and even religious heart produced by additions to the pocket .
13 In addition , it is the young old — those in their sixties and seventies — who play a major part , disproportionate to their numbers , in the maintenance of voluntary organizations which contribute not only to the welfare of the disadvantaged but also to the cultural activities of the country at large .
14 Vova nevertheless has managed to make some of the funniest and most up-to-date Soviet sound recordings of the mid-Eighties .
15 He 's one of the funniest and most charming men in the business .
16 He had first met Sylvester during the early years of the war ; whilst in the Army he had sent him a letter ( now lost ) which Sylvester claims was one of the funniest and most brilliant he has ever received .
17 But for each of the thousand or so explicitly identifiable speech acts there are just as many for which there is neither a name nor a lexical indicator .
18 If you visit a biochemistry laboratory , you will often find on the wall a ‘ metabolic chart ’ , usually supplied as an advertisement by a drug company , giving the names and chemical formulae of the thousand or more organic compounds commonly found in cells , connected by arrows indicating which substances can be directly transformed into which others .
19 Heading the line-up in the 350cc class is Steve Carter , of Bury St Edmunds , one of the fastest and most consistent riders in the country .
20 It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action .
21 It further assumes that no clothing is purchased which is not absolutely necessary for health and assumes too that it is of the plainest and most economical description . ’
22 Wales , of course , will have to heed the lesson of the Irish and not assume that all their troubles are over .
23 Thus in 1676 an estimated 300 of the 3,000 or so communicants in the industrial parish of Sheffield were said to be Dissenters .
24 Although overt proclamations of the need to maintain English as a " manly " educational pursuit by no means disappeared during the inter-war period , the pages of the Review reveal few of the defensive and often hysterical avowals of the discipline 's " manliness " that had been characteristic of the earlier period .
25 The trouble is that some of the very best ‘ independent organic ’ wine-makers ( who can be some of the strictest and most idealistic ) such as Aime Guibert of Mas de Daumas Gassac or Franois Perrin of Chateau Beaucastel ( widely available ) , have chosen not to join any association .
26 Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning
27 One of the purest and most potent forms of skincare today
28 Fewer than ten of the sixty or so pubs occupying old buildings in central York have completely escaped assault by post-war ‘ improvements ’ , and in none of these is the surviving pub interior any older than late Victorian .
29 Of the 300,000 or so American troops based in Europe until the start of the Gulf crisis last summer , perhaps only 100,000 , maybe fewer , are expected to remain .
30 I have mentioned relative to the ignorance , the immorality , the grossness , the obscenity , the drunkenness , the dirtiness , and depravity of the middling and even of a large portion of the better sort of tradesmen , the artisans , and the journeymen tradesmen of London in the days of my youth , may excite a suspicion that the picture I have drawn is a caricature .
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