Example sentences of "of [verb] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return for a small share of the songs ' royalty earnings , the larger company takes over the day-to-day business of administering the musicians ' song catalogues while the musicians retain all copyright and control of their material ( see the ‘ self-publishing ’ section below ) . |
| 2 | It says much for the sense of humour of the untidy , bespectacled architect that after the initial shock of the Princess 's request , he accepted the relatively minor commission of building a dolls ' house for the Queen with enthusiasm , and immediately visited the Princess to discuss the project , bringing with him a mutual friend , Sir Herbert Morgan , President of the Society of Industrial Artists . |
| 3 | To reform an unconscionable decision of the courts which is unworkable in practice ; Parliament may pass an Act which has the effect of overruling the courts ' decision . |
| 4 | In the second volume of his Principles of Geology , Lyell had addressed the question of geographical distribution as a means of challenging the catastrophists ' notion of mass extinctions . |
| 5 | These agreements not only had the effect of gaining the Indians ' approval of the film but also lent it a greater authenticity . |
| 6 | The less squeamish members of the group had the delight of checking the others ' feet , while they sat with gritted teeth and eyes tight shut . |
| 7 | The application by Mr. Wadsworth on behalf of the appellants to adduce fresh evidence before this court is for the purpose of explaining the appellants ' apparently defiant behaviour towards the judge , and the first question we have to address our minds to is whether that evidence should be admitted . |
| 8 | Other comparable UK initiatives are taking place : the Royal Society of Arts is sponsoring a Higher Education for Capability programme ; the National Council for Vocational Qualifications , with its ideas on a competency based curriculum , is beginning to turn to higher education ; and the Council for Industry and Higher Education talks of developing the students ' personal transferable skills . |
| 9 | Special needs post-holders have in this way been able to develop their consultation skills with teachers , while educational psychologists who have begun to extend their remit in this way have found this to be a realistic way of meeting the supporters ' own need for ongoing support . |
| 10 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 11 | Offsetting this barrier is the possibility that the costs of imitating the leaders ' original innovations can be much cheaper . |
| 12 | Thirdly , and most importantly for our purposes , the natural-entity theory overcame the problems of the artificiality in the case of large companies of analysing the directors ' managerial power as being derived from the contractual agreement of the shareholders . |
| 13 | Instead of fostering the peasants ' bid for liberty , the commissars emasculated local peasants organizations and , by forcibly requisitioning grain , did all they could to subject the peasantry to the dictates of the State . |
| 14 | The experiment of holding a members ' team quiz , at a time when travel from outside the area might be difficult , has been agreed to be worth repeating . |
| 15 | This new sort of foundationalist , who will be considered further in chapter 6 , could escape the demands of F 2 , but only at the cost of abandoning the foundationalists ' favourite weapon , the regress argument . |
| 16 | In any kind of training a video camera offers the possibility of recording the trainees ' performance . |
| 17 | This day is open to anyone interested in the Medau method of teaching and the possibility of joining the Teachers ' Training Course , either with the next intake in October 1987 or at some future date . |
| 18 | This seems to have been done in the interests of retaining the theoreticians ' assumption of panmixia ( Charlesworth , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | I have not , of course , had the advantage of having the plaintiffs ' claim explained to me by their own counsel . |
| 20 | So before this motion is proposed may I ask Mr John of to read the auditors ' formal report . |
| 21 | The sonnets of Astrophil and Stella that follow may be the result of taking the muses ' advice or ignoring the advice . |
| 22 | Will the benefits of extending the auditors ' role outweigh extra costs ? |
| 23 | It is only recently that the municipal authorities and hospital boards have begun to discuss the possibility of changing the insurers ' conditions of funding so that they are more permissive of non-medical intervention and support . |
| 24 | Despite substantial resources , the task of preparing the awards ' entry is delegated to the most inexperienced member of the marketing team — and it shows . |
| 25 | It is common ground that the concessionary fees more than covered the additional cost to the school of educating the taxpayers ' children . |
| 26 | The abbey church of St Ricquier , built in the 790s , had galleries in its apses , and choir screens round the area of some of its altars , with the idea ( as we know from the ritual order of its Abbot Angilbert ) of dividing the monks ' and boys ' choirs ; the building must have echoed to the sound of these choirs as they answered each other antiphonally from different parts of it . |
| 27 | In particular , perhaps , there will be the question of agreeing the partners ' profit shares , the problem of which has already been touched on in Chapter 4 . |
| 28 | The latter method has the advantage of reducing the vendors ' capital gains tax liability and the purchaser 's stamp duty . |
| 29 | On June 1st Pen Kent , a senior official of the Bank of England , urged members of the newly formed Property Bankers Association to consider securitisation and other means of reducing the banks ' exposure to property , in order to create a more liquid market . |
| 30 | As special deposits are compulsory , by using them the Bank can be sure of reducing the banks ' liquid assets , and they are equivalent to an open-market sale , in that they reduce the banks ' ability to increase credit ( and hence the money supply ) . |