Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's clear from the level of concentration on the brows of the muscular young men and the shoulder-padded young women in the front row that they would have happily forked out for the privilege of being present . |
| 2 | JOHN NEVILLE CRAWFORD was one of the outstanding young cricketers of the era before the First World War . |
| 3 | Indeed , the portrait must be considered one of the outstanding Roman contributions to the visual arts . |
| 4 | Nowadays the keen water gardener has become far more selective when purchasing waterlilies , either trying to obtain some of the rarer varieties or experimenting with some of the more recent introductions of nymphaea , especially some of the outstanding new varieties that have been produced in America . |
| 5 | In passing our studies have helped to clear up some of the outstanding biological problems that underlie the reproductive biology of Bufo bufo , such as why it is that the males so greatly outnumber the females , and why they are smaller . |
| 6 | One of the outstanding American innovators in the university teaching sector is Dr Samuel Postlethwait , head of the Department of Botany at Purdue University , Indiana . |
| 7 | Coleridge , Erskine and Campbell were all among the formative influences upon Frederick Denison Maurice ( 1805 — 72 ) , who ranks with John Henry Newman ( 1801–90 ) as one of the outstanding English theologians of the whole nineteenth century . |
| 8 | More than half a century after that , Sir William Temple , one of the outstanding English diplomats of the seventeenth century , had to struggle repeatedly in the 1660s and early 1670s to obtain arrears of salary and repayment for the expenses he had incurred , and he is merely the best-known of many similar cases . |
| 9 | Down was one of the outstanding medical students of his generation , and his decision to work in the neglected and perhaps despised field of mental deficiency was courageous . |
| 10 | Tom Sutcliffe , one of the outstanding deafened men of recent times , was born with normal hearing and chose the church as his vocation . |
| 11 | By the end of the 1960s many economists were critical of this policy of fine-tuning on the grounds that it added to rather than reduced the instability of the economy . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the 1960s Soviet spokesmen expected dividends from indigenous neutralist opposition to CENTO and SEATO . |
| 13 | The demographic trends outlined earlier in this chapter also played a part , as the rearing of the 1960s baby-boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction . |
| 14 | Vagrants from these populations may have explored the Southern Ocean and landed on some of the cool temperate islands , but there is no convincing evidence for their reaching Antarctica . |
| 15 | Despite the limitations of the official figures , they do provide some indication of the overall historical trends in the distribution of income . |
| 16 | The unit cell approach has the following advantages : prediction of the overall elastic moduli in terms of the phase moduli ; knowledge of the stress distributions within phases ( relevant to the prediction of failure mechanisms ) , and usable formulae in which the phase moduli and concentration can be substituted or , by working backwards from the overall moduli , from which the phase moduli and concentration can be deduced . |
| 17 | If we know the orientation function of the crystal elements in the global axes then estimates of the overall elastic constants can be made . |
| 18 | There were three reception rooms ; the first , known as the Salon Vert because of the overall green motifs in its furnishings and decorations , was occupied by the Chamberlains and the Ladies in Attendance . |
| 19 | In this experiment , only Group M is learning on Day 2 , whilst Group N is repeating similar but already learned behaviour to that of Group M. Immediately after the trial on Day 2 we took the birds and looked for the expression of one of the immediate early genes , c-jun . |
| 20 | In many respects this was a necessary response to the child population ‘ bulge ’ created by the ‘ baby boom ’ of the immediate postwar years . |
| 21 | After 1956 , with the Soviet cause politically and morally bankrupt , there came a gradual softening of the brutal Stalinist line of the immediate postwar years . |
| 22 | The retirement debate of the immediate post-war years was thus stimulated by a general awareness of the ageing of the population as a whole and of its work-force . |
| 23 | But before turning specifically to this task , we must examine a little more closely the events of the immediate post-war years . |
| 24 | Those clerics and politicians remaining closer to the rhetoric of the immediate post-revolutionary years — emphasizing opposition to the USA , the struggle against " Zionism " , the export of the Islamic revolution , centralized control of the economy and consumer subsidies to protect the poorer classes — were referred to as the Rouhanyoun ( translated as the Combatant Ulema Association ) . |
| 25 | Under this alien system the conditions of the Arab Muslim masses became ever harsher . |
| 26 | Following the serious disturbances in a number of Britain 's cities during the summer of 1985 , the Central Council of Probation Committees strongly recommended to its members that they develop policies to take account of the multiple social deprivations experienced by many probationers , particularly those living in urban areas . |
| 27 | None of the feared Mediterranean gales had sprung up . |
| 28 | Thus , some 400 of the 914 residential places available in the community were being substantially supported from such sources by mid-1988 compared with a maximum of forty-seven such places in January 1982 . |
| 29 | ( If ) At any time within a year the said Wm Roe by writing in his own band signified that he intended to have a 21 year lease from the date hereof " paying one-fifteenth part of the 1st 7 years and one-twelfth for the remaining 14 years such lease will be executed . " |
| 30 | In addition , palmitic acid , a saturated fatty acid , was shown to be the main component of the protective lipid mixtures and indomethacin pretreatment did not abolish their beneficial effects . |