Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] [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 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 .
3 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 ) .
4 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 ’ .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Each side claims that its estimate of the chances of nuclear catastrophe is more accurate .
13 In this context , we now see the problems of systematics condensing around two major , interrelated questions , which form the two main themes running through most of the papers in this book .
14 Three of the papers in this collection examine the relationship between these two professions from a historical perspective .
15 This is particularly so in the case of the topic of the papers in this volume — namely peace as a social value .
16 As becomes clear from most of the papers in this collection , this particular view of human nature is not one shared by many other societies .
17 Many of the papers in this volume set the human agent within a cosmology , a total moral universe of meaning .
18 ‘ Traditional climatic geomorphology as represented by most of the papers in this volume has to a large extent glossed over this paucity of knowledge of fundamentals ; it may be said to have proceeded , like Davis 's work , to premature generalization on the basis of quite vague ideas on the underlying process relations .
19 As many of the papers in this section reveal , the new technologies are providing information specialists with the ability to improve access to collections for academic research , especially via networks , to enhance the quality of texts , and to develop more powerful means of analysis .
20 A sub-theme running through many of the papers in this collection concerns the politics of data ; data for sale , data for citizenship , data as power , data as a cost …
21 Tens of millions of reprint requests are mailed each year , the authors having identified the existence of the papers from secondary sources .
22 Reacting to these latest disclosures on Jan. 27 , the ANC secretary-general , Cyril Ramaphosa , accused President de Klerk of having full knowledge of the operations of anti-ANC death squads .
23 This is a result of the operations of huge , transnational ( that is operating across national boundaries ) business corporations , the scale and scope of whose organization is such that they are able to transcend or defy the jurisdiction of states .
24 Most of the games of older children have some structure , and there is usually a scramble to be the ‘ good guy ’ .
25 Which most kids are , with 82 million of the games in global circulation .
26 Which most kids are , with 82 million of the games in global circulation .
27 Then again though i did miss most of the games in 91–92 , so maybe I 'm biased .
28 First he takes black and white photographs of the parchments in ultra-violet light .
29 Many of the villages in close proximity to Sherwood Forest have also played a role in the legendary tales of our hero .
30 One of the sentences in one of the little stories in the booklet ( in its own words filled with useful and stimulating ideas to help executives lead and inspire their people ) talks about the fine arts of management .
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