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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Each side claims that its estimate of the chances of nuclear catastrophe is more accurate . |
| 9 | Tens of millions of reprint requests are mailed each year , the authors having identified the existence of the papers from secondary sources . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Which most kids are , with 82 million of the games in global circulation . |
| 13 | Which most kids are , with 82 million of the games in global circulation . |
| 14 | First he takes black and white photographs of the parchments in ultra-violet light . |
| 15 | Many of the villages in close proximity to Sherwood Forest have also played a role in the legendary tales of our hero . |
| 16 | ‘ Some of the fears about large-scale immigration could in fact be self-fulfilling , since an antipathetic attitude towards incomers could create the conditions of dissatisfaction and unhappiness amongst immigrants that will cause both a high turnover and disharmony between Shetlanders and immigrants … ’ |
| 17 | The administration also took note of the fears of American oil companies that their interests might suffer elsewhere in the Middle East as a result of the nationalization of the British company . |
| 18 | Rather he sees them as an embodiment of the fears of seventeenth-century conservatives worried about the extreme forms radical religious movements were taking . |
| 19 | This included conventional proposals such as increased funding for the police , prosecution service and prisons , together with more controversial measures including the imposition of selective urban night curfews , the establishment of a national guard ( to provide a form of employment for the country 's growing pool of unemployed youths ) , the tattooing of the foreheads of convicted criminals , and the imposition of the death penalty for crimes such as murder and rape . |
| 20 | The reorganisation of local government in London Provided the forerunner of the reorganisations in other parts of the country in the 1970s . |
| 21 | Debris is removed by repeated passage of the embryos through warm ( 37 -C ) wash drops of M2 + BSA followed by a rinse in the bicarbonate-buffered culture medium ( M I 6 + BSA ) . |
| 22 | What was frightening was that this new mass entertainment seemed altogether outside the established auspices of middle-class culture and seemed unconstrained by any of the sanctions of proper society . |
| 23 | Then he says ‘ But he who tells of wars and heaven , under the sway of grown up Jupiter , of pious heroes and semi-divine leaders , who at one moment things of the holy assemblies of the gods on high and then of those deep kingdoms where a fierce dog barks , let him live in the frugal manner of Pythagoras and let herbs provide his harmless diet ’ . |
| 24 | The conductor program sets most of the controls on automatic pilot . |
| 25 | They loved the sound of swishing the sheaves made as they were stooked , the clash of the tresses of hard grain against grain , the sight of the rich ears of corn leaning delicately out on the shoulders of the stooks . |
| 26 | Much of the earlier work was done on Mediterranean terraces and these , as well as many of the terraces in other areas , can not be directly related to Pleistocene events . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , despite the necessity to protect children from being misled by the stories of ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , it should be made quite clear to them that most of the stories of good works attributed to the people involved are most likely to be true , and as these people are believed to have done much more good than most , they have been given a place in the windows of the churches and in paintings and elsewhere . |
| 28 | That most terrible of the stories of divine punishment out of all mortal proportion to the offence appears often in the fifth century , like the punishment of Act aeon , and evidently had a powerful meaning for the time . |
| 29 | This study deliberately examined the impact of the projects under normal classroom conditions . |
| 30 | Nor did any of the projects for constitutional constraints upon the Tsar 's discretion bear fruit . |