Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The polytechnics were having to carry into the 1970s a defence and assertion of their particular — though not necessarily homogeneous — values and procedures , and in doing so made necessary a constant reaffirmation of the vocational or service roles that had aroused fierce passions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as new institutions and new sectors had come into existence in many countries .
2 Gallaudet , a firm believer of the combined system , and by leading deaf people like George Healey of Liverpool , and by experienced teachers or missioners of the deaf in favour of the combined or sign system like Elliott , Welsh , Rhind were all largely dismissed or ignored in the Report 's recommendations , which were in essence that the Pure Oral system should be used to educate the deaf and that teachers for the deaf should be properly qualified , experienced in teaching in ordinary schools , and be in possession of all their faculties .
3 Predators form the top part of the ecological or office pyramid .
4 Alternatively , we can make the decision that decent wages should be paid to all workers who carry out their duties properly and effectively , and that this increased wage level may need to be reflected in the price of the good or service .
5 To undertake more redistribution the government will have to increase tax rates , thereby driving a larger wedge between the price paid by the purchaser and the price received by the seller of the good or service .
6 We spent some time discussing the operation of the traditional or discount market because , we said , it was in that market that the Bank of England tried day by day to influence monetary conditions in the domestic economy .
7 An important surviving example of a British Line other ranks ' regimental jacket of the 8th or King 's Regiment , c.1822 , is illustrated , and described by the Chairman of the Regimental Museum Committee .
8 So if we add an example using the N tuple technique of the exclusive or problem for example er like that we want to see how the network would solve that okay in terms of a single layer network .
9 Collections in just about every price bracket offered interpretations of the equestrian or dandy themes .
10 As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made .
11 In contrast to the Labour dominance in the larger cities , the Conservatives , sometimes in alliance with groups of independent councillors , have traditionally controlled most of the non-metropolitan or shire counties in England and Wales .
12 Histograms were classified without previous knowledge of the pathological or survival data .
13 All images were evaluated by one of the authors ( WBT ) without previous knowledge of the results of the clinical or laboratory tests , which were collected separately without knowledge of the scan score .
14 All images were evaluated by one of the authors ( WBT ) without previous knowledge of the results of the clinical or laboratory tests , which were collected separately without knowledge of the scan score .
15 All of them show as Tate Gallery director Nicholas Serota states ‘ a renewed interest in abstract painting , often based on a distilled observation of the urban or material world , and exploration of that world by means of the camera . ’
16 I suspect that the mulberry sauce — we are not told for what manner of meat it was intended — may have originated somewhere in Asia Minor and was perhaps brought to Italy after the Venetian conquest of Constantinople in 1204 A.D. It could equally have come via Persia or Afghanistan where , as in Turkey , the berries of the white or silk mulberry are dried to provide a supply for the winter .
17 The crucial point is therefore the ambit of the preliminary or collateral question .
18 Unfortunately there is hardly any usable evidence on price movements ( apart from obvious dramatic rises during famine-periods ) , though capitularies document the notion of the local or market price .
19 My partner will prohibit any member of the medical or anaesthetic staff from crossing the threshold .
20 Furthermore , in a five-match Test series one of the northern or midland venues must forego .
21 A bowler who strays wide of the off or leg stumps gives the batsman ‘ width ’ and enables him to glance , cut , and deflect , opening up scoring opportunities in a 360 degree circle around the bat .
22 Trade unions have a vested interest in the success of the commercial or government organisation to which their members belong because unless this organisation prospers , the security and rewards of their members will be restricted .
23 Other firms use researchers to do most of the contacting or cold-calling .
24 We have not yet examined the implications of the structural or cost implications of this proposal in detail , but it is hoped to have preliminary drawings and outline cost estimates available prior to any Board Meeting called to discuss this issue .
25 Budgetary information is rarely included in the accounts of a profit-oriented or Type A non-profit organization .
26 Michael wonders if he would ever gain sufficient skills in photography or desk top publishing to form part of a cooperative or enterprise .
27 In addition there would be religious festivals , a commemoration of some event in the life of the Buddha , or the founding of a monastery , sometimes even a commemoration of the appearance of a nat or spirit , and interestingly the funeral of a monk , a time of great rejoicing and festivity , for had not the holy man entered Nirvana , and he would return no more to the wearisome cycle of human rebirths .
28 The general social and political advantages of the newly enlarged audiences were obvious but in cultural terms what was really significant as far as the subsequent history of the movies was concerned was that the showmen who made and presented the movies were no longer thinking in terms of a homogeneous or class audience .
29 Do n't expect too many favours around the 26th or 28th , particularly when handling anything of a legal or business nature .
30 Millward Brown use their own proprietary system of analysis — a form of mathematical modelling — to translate the data for each individual brand into a so-called ‘ awareness index ’ ; and many of their clients have fallen into the tempting habit of using this single number as a measure of the effectiveness of a commercial or campaign , rather than taking the trouble to make a more detailed study of the data underlying the index .
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