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

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1 Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit .
2 Celia Haddon , author of The Limits of Sex
3 A summary of the limits of cover under the special scheme arranged for the holidays in this brochure is shown below .
4 Again , this suggests a theory of the limits of law as a method of dealing with conflict .
5 John Stuart Mill 's definition of the limits of law to curtail individual freedom laid down a simple principle : ‘ that the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection .
6 On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare .
7 To these must be added two further issues which became more central towards the end of the eighteenth century : the problem of knowledge and of the limits of reason , and the question of history .
8 While disputing the basis of Mannheim 's critique of the limits of epistemology , von Schelting did tolerate the idea that there is some social basis of knowledge .
9 Troyna and Carrington 's dissatisfaction with simplistic assumptions about the antiracist effects of ‘ culture contact ’ and white students ' ‘ direct experience ’ of black realities , as well as their growing awareness of the limits of rationalist pedagogies , points to a need on their part to break with realist assumptions about the curriculum which still underpin their antiracist projects ( Troyna and Carrington , 1990 ) .
10 Some would see his agnosticism , his awareness of the limits to thought , as the only true basis for religious faith .
11 We will describe some of the experiments on discourse interpretation in this chapter .
12 The irony is that in all of the experiments on test-tube fusion that began in 1989 following the March announcements , and which variously claimed fusion evidence from heat or from radiant neutrons , no measurable production of helium ever took place .
13 An international comparison of union attitudes to work organisation found that British unions adopted a neutral position on this subject.8 Many of the experiments in work organisation in this country have been conducted without the involvement of workers ' trade union representatives .
14 Morrison and Low , in one of the papers in Language and Communication , refer directly to the distortions brought about by the narrowness of Krashen 's perspective .
15 Two of the papers in Science came from Japan and reported on individuals suffering from Type A syndrome , a rare variant of Type 2 diabetes .
16 In terms of the papers in front of you this morning , Chair , the position is that , that is addressed over the three year period , and the figures do fluctuate between years , so there is a , as we 'll see later in the paper , there is a , a net expenditure total in year one which increases in year two , but then is offset by a , a reduction in year three .
17 Now President de Klerk and the ANC leadership are trying to tone down the outcome of the talks in order not to appear to have pre-empted a decision before the others have had a chance to have their say .
18 He then goes on to declare that ‘ as the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operation on the stomach ’ , so sweetness and whiteness are ‘ but the effects of the operations of manna by the motion , size , and figure of its particles on the eyes and palate ’ .
19 His other publications included A Manual of the Operations of Surgery , which ran to seven editions , and articles on scapulo-humeral dislocation and pulsating tumours of the orbit .
20 Many of the operations of mind , for example high-speed addition , skilled typing , or playing a musical instrument are not readily examined through introspection .
21 The same mood continued after Monday night 's 3–0 home defeat at the hands of third-placed Pirelli — meaning that even if Alton were to win all five of the games in hand they have over the Eastleigh side , they would still be three points behind them .
22 Four years later , aided , encouraged and finally coached by his wife Margot , the dour , muscular Scotsman was ready , his chances enhanced considerably by the absence of three American sprinters , Stanley Floyd , Mel Lattany and Harvey Glance , all suffering from the ill-conceived and , in the end , totally purposeless American boycott of the Games in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan .
23 Ashington can be seen to fit very neatly into Michael Chisholm 's model of ideal land use around a settlement ; indeed , most of the villages in south-east Somerset do ( Fig. 90 ) , as do many thousands across England .
24 A military council had already decreed the execution of the five principal conspirators , but confirmation of the sentences of death would not be lawful until the Dragon Throne was occupied once more .
25 They were very aware of the fears about bed blocking .
26 Their catches are going down , and people are afraid to buy their fish because of the fears about pollution .
27 Counselling also helped him to uncover some of the fears of loss which underlay his extreme jealousy .
28 Detail was then drawn in graphically with the fine points of the markers in medium and dark colouring .
29 Photographs of the divers at work on the excavations and drawn reconstructions of the objects are also included .
30 ‘ If the company had made this kind of claim in a newspaper advertisement , I 'm sure they would have been in breach of the codes of conduct on financial and political advertising , ’ he said .
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