Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other three ( Vela , the Crab and PSR1509–58 ) are all associated with supernova remnants ( SNRs ) , whereas very few — perhaps four — of the remaining 500 or so galactic radio pulsars have convincing associations with SNRs . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the assets of the remaining 30 or 300 former partners would be protected ; their stake in the firm might disappear of course , but not their home . |
| 3 | Even so , there was not one of the six hundred and forty-eight servants — man , woman or girl — who was not present . |
| 4 | In additions , I would remind members of the request from Policy and Resources to try and identify wherever possible further savings , in aid of the six hundred and seventy one thousand pound gap which currently exists between budget proposals and the expected figures . |
| 5 | Of the six hundred or so communicants , Baxter said he had good hopes for the sincerity of the faith of all but twelve of them . |
| 6 | Make a half we 'd make a half out of the six twelfths and then we 'd have three left over make a quarter so it 'd be a half add a quarter that 's what nine twelfths would come to . |
| 7 | The force of religious antagonism to slavery was maintained as part of the basis of the antislavery appeal at the level of the national Anti-Slavery Society , at the international conventions of the early 1840s and through local associations as they multiplied after 1823 . |
| 8 | He invested widely in a number of the new industrial and trading concerns of the early 1690s and , in partnership with the goldsmith banker Sir Stephen Evance and others , used his international trading connections to handle the government 's military remittances , first to Ireland ( 1690–1 ) and then , between May 1691 and October 1694 , to the Continent . |
| 9 | Gilt holding may be expected to increase again with the rising public deficits of the early 1990s and the reductions in corporate profits and equity dividend payments in a time of recession . |
| 10 | Ralph Metcalfe , that great sprinter of the early thirties and adversary of Jesse Owens , was not , I suspect , enamoured of being known as the ‘ Midnight Express ’ . |
| 11 | It was also in this period of the early Sixties that he experimented with LSD and , like most of his contemporaries , used marijuana . |
| 12 | These had now moved away from the bright primaries of the early Sixties and included many rustic shades such as mushroom brown , sage green and sludgy blue ; colours , which were more reminiscent of the old-fashioned vegetable dyes and perfectly complemented the style of the dresses . |
| 13 | Johnny Byrne was Palace 's chirpy young prodigy of the early 1960s and as such gained the prototype nickname of ‘ Budgie ’ , partly on account of his ceaseless chatter out on the pitch . |
| 14 | Yet public opinion , as it is reflected in British law , has steadfastly refused to enlarge upon the spirit of the pioneer legislation of the early 1820s and 1830s , updated fifty years later , which introduced the protection of animals against cruelty . |
| 15 | It was , in fact , the rapid inflation of the early 1970s that gave the system its bad reputation . |
| 16 | Local authorities have had powers of this nature for many years ( the origin was the 1932 Planning Act ) , but it was not until the property boom of the early 1970s that they became widely used . |
| 17 | We do not need to look far back to find the origins of the crisis — the oil crisis of the early 1970s and the proliferation of large loans at low interest rates to third world countries . |
| 18 | The organiser of The Other Story , Rasheed Araeen , has made much study of the art criticism of the early Seventies and the post-modernist theories of the Eighties , and his work looks as though it has no knowledge of the world not gleaned from art magazines . |
| 19 | ‘ Before that it was the great cup years of the early fifties but it 's all too long ago . |
| 20 | In other words , the symptoms were at their worst during the hot , dry summers of the early Eighties and started to improve in subsequent wet summers . |
| 21 | Debt crises of the early eighties and their impact |
| 22 | This involves setting targets for the growth of the money supply : the approach adopted in the Thatcher government 's medium-term financial strategy of the early 1980s that we looked at in Chapter 17 . |
| 23 | His star could only rise again with the economic stagnation of the early 1980s and , even more clearly , following the appearance of Mr Gorbachev . |
| 24 | Utah 's natural-resources boom of the 1970s was stopped in its tracks , first by the recession of the early 1980s and then by the oil bust later in the decade . |
| 25 | For the big four clearing banks , the stock of domestic provisions in relation to domestic lending ( 1.65 per cent in 1990 ) remains some way below the levels of the early 1980s and , while building societies ' mortgage losses and provision were at a record level in relation to mean assets last year ( 0.23 per cent ) , the ratio remained small in absolute terms . |
| 26 | Similarly , the claim that resources liberated by the public sector will automatically find their way into the private sector was hardly supported by the rising unemployment trend of the early 1980s and 1990s . |
| 27 | This was particularly true during the economic recessions of the early 1980s and early 1990s , when rapidly expanding social security payments , high interest rates and substantial debt interest payments meant that public expenditure totals continued to rise as a proportion of National Income . |
| 28 | Our other major domestic market , the distilling industry has come back strongly from the low levels of production of the early 1980s and appears full of optimism , if the huge rise in the share prices of quoted distilling companies is a fair yardstick . |
| 29 | The stagflation of the 1970s and the recessions of the early 1980s and early 1990s are seen by such economists as symptoms of a growing crisis of the capitalist system . |
| 30 | The development of such ‘ industries ’ has also been facilitated by improved communications and transport as well as the need to generate income in areas that have been adversely affected by the economic recession of the early 1980s or which are unsuitable for other kinds of economic activity such as agriculture . |