Example sentences of "of [noun sg] in [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her previous three books charting a century of change in the former rural village in words , pictures and verse were complete sell-outs . |
| 2 | The collapse of communism in the former Eastern block and the disintegration of the former Soviet Union represent a major new challenge the governments have had to face . |
| 3 | Pile up all the layers of seaweed in the same way as you would ordinary pressed material ( see p. 38 ) and leave them overnight , lightly weighted down with a couple of books . |
| 4 | Literary studies in action approaches the study of literature in the same way that a comparatively naive undergraduate reader approaches it : as a conglomeration of linguistic and literary forms , functions and meanings , all operating at once and all of which have somehow to be deciphered in order to gain access to the text , and explained in order to facilitate the production of adequate essays . |
| 5 | The former have invested considerable sums of money in the latter 's capital and money markets ( see Table 2.2 page 53 ) . |
| 6 | Several Acts of Parliament in the latter part of the nineteenth century extended the right of women to vote in local elections if they were otherwise qualified . |
| 7 | She had posted off a length of pale blue silk for Jennifer 's dress , and another of velvet in the same shade for Christopher 's page-boy suit . |
| 8 | And , in 1972 a ‘ clandestine advertising ’ scandal led to a Parliamentary report on ORTF ‘ abuses ’ : programme-makers had received favours from manufacturers to do ‘ product-placement ’ — the frequent use of a given make of car in the same film , for instance . |
| 9 | Yet particular religions , it might be said , are necessary to convey the meaning of Religion in the same way as particular truths are necessary to convey the meaning of Truth . |
| 10 | Sikhism sees this Mystery at the heart of religion in the same way . |
| 11 | A different approach would be to introduce Caldwell recklessness into the non-fatal offences of causing injury , with a view to labelling cases of endangerment in the same way as ‘ traditional ’ crimes . |
| 12 | Between 1962 and 1964 output per head rose by 5.8 per cent ; between 1965 and 1967 it rose by 19.6 per cent , despite a lower rate of accumulation in the latter period . |
| 13 | This further sharp decline in profitability , following on that of earlier years , and taking profits to levels well below those which had come to be expected during the boom , is the key to the sustained sluggishness of accumulation in the latter half of the 1970s and the early 1980s . |
| 14 | The BBC was influential in the setting up of broadcasting in no fewer than seventeen African countries , and the French had a similarly extensive involvement . |
| 15 | A number of laws , many of them based on principles of ‘ obscenity ’ , ‘ indecency ’ and ‘ offence ’ are designed to prevent the distribution or display of homosexuality in the same way as porn is constrained . |
| 16 | It is perhaps appropriate to stress again that where playwrights require pages of dialogue to explain every factor in the development of the plot , to create a changing atmosphere and to show how the actions affect the actors in the play , dancers can communicate whole passages of dialogue in a few expressive gestures woven into enchaînements . |
| 17 | Unemployment statistics for January revealed that the numbers out of work in the former East Germany had increased to 1,340,000 , a rate of 17 per cent ( compared to 11.8 per cent in December ) , partly because of the end of several short-time working arrangements . |
| 18 | When the closed path is in a wire loop and the loop is in motion then a force due to the magnetic field is present as well , giving rise to a finite amount of work in the same manner . |
| 19 | ‘ I think you can dispense with the formalities , Letty , curtsying would look out of place in a few rooms in a lodging house , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 20 | This week , a male view of gender politics , an investigative writer on the track of British prisoners of war in the former Soviet Union , pure seduction in the garden and deflating the opera ponces . |
| 21 | However , the-more subtle use of colour in the latter also produces a less contrived flower . |
| 22 | * What is of importance here is not so much whether or not the label ‘ perceptual ’ is appropriate as whether this task is susceptible to the effects of pre-training in the same way as the motor tasks discussed earlier . |
| 23 | … I think you can only treat them similarly if all other things are equal , if they 're discharging into the same sort of watercourse in the same sort of position . |
| 24 | The latter came into existence following the demolition of the colleges of education in the latter part of the 1970s and now number approximately 70 institutions . |
| 25 | The Austro-Marxists were also concerned to trace the later development of nationalism , and in particular its transformation into the ideology of imperialism in the latter part of the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | Buckingham was made constable and steward of all the royal land in Shropshire , Herefordshire , Somerset , Dorset and Wiltshire and was given power of array in the same counties . |
| 27 | Buckingham was made constable and steward of all the royal land in Shropshire , Herefordshire , Somerset , Dorset and Wiltshire and was given power of array in the same counties . |
| 28 | Accordingly , in my judgment the rules of natural justice prima facie apply to any such process of suspension in the same way that they apply to expulsion . ’ |
| 29 | The former were inclined to present their arguments within a mould of imaginary social history which assumed that , in his essence , man is a " unity even though human societies are different ; the latter were preoccupied with classification and were therefore predisposed to distinguish the varieties of mankind in the same way as they were accustomed to distinguish the varieties of animals , birds , plants and insects . |
| 30 | This in particular ( i ) warned that it was essential that the additional demands on resources associated with reconstruction in the Middle East , unification in Germany , the economic transformation of eastern Europe and prospects for reform in the Soviet Union should be met by reductions in the absorption of saving by governments and an increase in private saving , and that an important contribution could be made by " reassessing spending on defence and subsidies " ; ( ii ) expressed concern over delays in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations [ see this page ] ; ( iii ) welcomed the continuing commitment of eastern European countries to stabilizing and reforming their economies along market-oriented lines in spite of the added difficulties caused by the collapse of trade in the former COMECON area ; and ( iv ) also welcomed the intention of the authorities in the Soviet Union to " intensify reliance on market mechanisms and to integrate the economy into the multilateral trade and payments system " . |