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

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1 Alcon Industries was one of the great success stories of the 1960s because Bill Connor , the company 's founder , exploited an incongruity in medical technology .
2 Suffice to say that it became evident fairly soon that the existing monetary techniques of regulation were not sufficiently effective , and in 1957 a committee was set up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to inquire into the working of the monetary and credit system in the UK .
3 Lukanov 's economic reform programme envisaged widespread privatization , land reform , an overhaul of the monetary and credit system , liberalization of foreign investment regulations and a new pricing policy .
4 Of the topographical and travel works there is none finer or ranking higher than William Daniell and Richard Ayton 's A Voyage Round Great Britain , eight volumes , 1814–15 , with over three hundred superb coloured aquatint plates .
5 In February 1990 the National Federation of Workers ' Unions of Benin ( Union nationale des syndicats des travailleurs du Bénin — UNSTB ) was weakened by the decision of the postal and telecommunications workers ' union to split from the UNSTB and declare itself autonomous ( the second defection after that of the Higher Education Union in August 1989 ) .
6 In order to answer this , it is first necessary to consider the structure of the industrial and services sectors in the countries of the EEC .
7 While the ANS had been highly successful in pioneering studies of the ultraviolet and X-ray sky , the new satellite would turn to the longer wavelengths of the infrared .
8 If , he argues , the misery of large numbers of the agricultural and manufacturing proletariats at the end of the eighteenth century had been the general condition of the labouring population throughout the century , then industrialisation could not have taken place for it depended on " the home sales of articles of everyday life to a section of the labour force which was neither very poor nor very rich " but which wielded an effective purchasing power in the face of many difficulties .
9 The slump in the property market is the latest blow to the shaky budget of the Agricultural and Food Research Council ( AFRC ) .
10 Professor Stewart has been Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the Agricultural and Food Research Council since 1988 .
11 There will also be a new Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ( BBSRC ) , which will be a modified version of the Agricultural and Food Research Council .
12 There was plenty of material to work from : Latin was compulsory at Plumford Grammar School ; the English master had drummed into their memories large sections of Macaulay 's Lays of Ancient Rome ; they had read novels with a Roman background , like Rosemary Sutcliff 's Eagle of the Ninth and Robert Graves ' I , Claudius ; and they could plunder Hubert Molland 's classical library for further information as the need arose .
13 Preliminary designs for the ARI Racer show a planform not dissimilar to those of the Su-27 and Gulfstream/SukhoiSu-21GSSBJ .
14 Giral agreed to the distribution of arms to civilians , under the responsibility of the political and labour organizations .
15 Incredibly , this is still true , even at the tail-end of the cynical and materialist 20th century .
16 A crass hybrid of the profit-motive and art has been shown not to work for anyone .
17 care of the dying and procedures after death
18 This is strengthened by the fact that the methylation patterns of the UHF-1 and oligo I sequences were relatively similar , although not identical .
19 The very promising area of the professional and business market is ignored .
20 In so far as the typical client can be identified from the survey information , he is likely to be a male owner-occupier aged between 25 and 34 and be himself a member of the professional or employers and managers socio-economic group .
21 However , given a clear strategic framework , and careful integration of the strategic and field levels , the developmental CMHT provides an attractive model for the bottom-up generation of consumer responsive services .
22 The state of the stable and bedding can offer many clues — look for signs of chewing and kicking .
23 Talks on the future of Northern Ireland involving the leaders of the four constitutional parties in Northern Ireland and representatives of the Irish and United Kingdom governments [ the so-called " Brooke initiative " — see p. 39022 ] ended in failure in Belfast on Nov. 10 .
24 The rise of the outports and the parallel increase in the importance of the Irish and Atlantic trade had emphasised the growing role of the individual merchants and of small trading partnerships .
25 He says the last few months have been some of the driest since records began .
26 Cameron ( 1972 ) cultured green or blue-green algae from some of the driest and least-promising looking areas of the McMurdo Dry Valleys oasis .
27 A bit more will be said of particular features of the metalinguistic and possible-worlds proposals , but let us first consider something common to both of them and indeed to other proposals .
28 The programme will collect primary data on trade flows between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom by a survey of the wholesale and distribution sector .
29 In retrospect , the public expenditure crisis of the early and mid-1970s appears to have been mainly due to high inflation exposing weaknesses in the Plowden structure of volume planning .
30 It did , however , form an important element in the thinking of the new generation of ‘ colleges of higher education ’ which emerged out of the cross-currents of the early and mid-1970s .
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