Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iris Murdoch 's war-time communism had given place , well before her first novel ever appeared , to an interest in Sartre 's Existentialism : a natural stepping-stone , in the 1940s , along a well-trodden path that leads out of the simplifying preconceptions of Marxism ; and though earlier partisan interests flickered back half into life in the 1960s , during the Vietnam war , she had already abandoned Marx , and publicly , before the 1950s were out . |
| 2 | De Soto and his researchers , which include economists , sociologists and anthropologists and lawyers , have worked out some of the stark costs of formality in Peru : if a group of humble families gather and ask the government to give them an empty plot of land to live on , they must fill out a maze of forms and go to scores of ministry , municipal and other government offices , a process that averages six years and 11 months . |
| 3 | Moore , a British civil servant and one of the outstanding pioneers of the Golden Age . |
| 4 | Er , er , it 's dreadful is n't it , that we 've lost two of the outstanding footballers of this or any other age in one year . |
| 5 | All that has been written above about the identification of the goodness of Christ 's teachings with the objectives of the creation of the Created God , can be applied equally to the teachings of the outstanding figures of all religions and of all religious history . |
| 6 | As Elector of Hanover George I had been at war with Charles XII of Sweden , one of the outstanding soldiers of his time , since October 1715 and England now became involved due to the frequent presence of an English fleet in the Baltic , which the Swedes were inclined to regard , as the English did the Channel , as a private sea of their own . |
| 7 | NASHWAN 'S owner and trainer yesterday decided against the only course of action that could have restored the reputation of their Derby winner as one of the outstanding racehorses of the post-war era by opting to by-pass the richest and usually most competitive race in Europe , the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . |
| 8 | Gareth Jenkins possessed one of the outstanding talents of his Seventies ' generation but injury prevented it demonstration at the very highest level and it is as a Scarlet , the epitome of Llanelli as player and coach , that he has always been seen and highly regarded . |
| 9 | Pretty Polly was indisputably one of the outstanding racemares of all time . |
| 10 | ‘ ONE of the outstanding books of this 20 years , ’ wrote Sean O'Faolain in his review of Angus Wilson 's first collection of stories , The Wrong Set , on its appearance in 1949 : He is a satirist with a lyrical touch ; trenchant , ruthless , often very funny , sometimes very frightening ; and he can write as a duck can swim . |
| 11 | Fascinating though they are , thoughts of Classic confrontations to come were put on to the back-burner by another dazzling performance from Zilzal , who stamped himself as one of the outstanding milers of recent years with a thrashing of the French champion , Polish Precedent . |
| 12 | While one of the outstanding attractions of the policy is that you receive a cash payment on your 65th birthday ( or after ten years , whichever is later ) , the benefits certainly do n't end there . |
| 13 | Trade relations between Japan and the United States improved at the start of April as the so-called " Structural Impediments Initiative " ( SII ) talks [ see p. 37319 ] produced an agreement by the two sides on a number of the outstanding points of conflict . |
| 14 | After the exile the sabbath rules were strictly enforced ( Nehemiah 13:15–22 ) , and their observance became one of the outstanding features of Judaism . |
| 15 | MICK McCarthy 's scoring exploits with Skibbereen have been one of the outstanding features of the All Ireland Club football championship campaign . |
| 16 | Of course , one of the outstanding characteristics of herbs is what might be termed their nasal quality . |
| 17 | Further south are some of the outstanding examples of the Byzantine influenced Romanesque churches of France . |
| 18 | May became one of the outstanding architects of the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | Ebles of Ventadour , the only other troubadour known from William IX 's time , came from the Limousin , and most of the outstanding song-writers of the next generation — Cercamon , Marcabru , Jaufré Rudel , Bernard de Ventadour — lived and worked within the borders of Aquitaine . |
| 20 | Notwithstanding his extreme youth , his output was prodigious and far-ranging , and , with Keith Douglas and Alun Lewis [ qq.v. ] , he must be regarded as one of the outstanding poets of World War II , so much of his work having been inspired , before his brief sortie into battle , by an internal preparation for death . |
| 21 | Graph search terminology allows us to give a breakdown of the minimum requirements of the sort of mechanism required to search this space , regardless of ( i ) how information about valid paths is retrieved , ( ii ) how the search space is constructed and stored , and ( iii ) the specific strategies used for searching that space . |
| 22 | The appeal had been based on both the Irish Constitution 's recognition of the equal rights of the mother and the unborn child , and the freedom of movement guaranteed within the European Communities . |
| 23 | These constitutional provisions had previously been called into question during a highly controversial case in February 1992 when the High Court in Dublin prevented a 14-year-old girl and her family from procuring an abortion or from leaving Ireland for nine months , even though she had repeatedly threatened to commit suicide ; the order preventing her from leaving the country was subsequently lifted after an appeal based on recognition of the equal rights of mother and child and the right to freedom of movement within the EC [ see p. 38780 ] . |
| 24 | Positional accuracy is achieved by means of the equal numbers of teeth on the stator and rotor , which tend to align so as to reduce the reluctance of the stack magnetic circuit . |
| 25 | In evaluating the market as a mechanism for disciplining management , however , it is necessary to take account of its wider impact , both in terms of the results of consummated mergers and of the overall effects of the threat of a change in control on management behaviour . |
| 26 | The observations which we shall make can be directly linked to an account of the overall possibilities of English grammatical structure ; by this we do not mean to speak of the paradigmatic relationships between different clauses , but of the syntagmatic relations which construct the clause itself . |
| 27 | An appraisal of the project follows whereby cost estimates , required capital expenditure , revenue generation and tax effects of each option are rigorously appraised and considered in the context of the overall objectives of the business . |
| 28 | In any case , additional costs will represent a small percentage of the overall costs of safety regulations , in exchange for which there will be access to a very much wider market . ’ |
| 29 | Accurate estimates of the overall costs of computer misuse in the UK are hard to come by , but various recent figures put the annual cost at somewhere between £400m and £2bn . |
| 30 | Discussions were open and informed ; each member of staff was kept aware of the overall needs of the school and the constraints upon them . |