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

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1 The Question is not one of correct position , but of correct coordination ( i.e. of the muscular mechanisms concerned ) .
2 American news coverage of the 1960s riots first came under academic scrutiny in the aftermath of the Watts riot , where it was generally felt that media reporting had exacerbated the conflict .
3 The flat-bottomed ark itself had a sea-scape on its side , painted up to the plimsoll-line , a dimensionless vision of the remote deeps full of strawberry-coloured fish and forests of weeds and barnacled rocks with , here and there , a plump mermaid of the kind sailors have tattooed on their arms .
4 Yellow high streets , with yellow electrical shops , and in the windows of the multiple tailors blank-faced dummies leaning discreetly forward in eggily dark worsted .
5 Nevertheless I feel that I have a responsibility to the public and to the world of art both to present your unpublished writings in as comprehensible a form as possible , and at the same time to correct some of the misleading impressions these might give , not of course about yourself , but about others , casually mentioned here and there in the course of your jottings .
6 On the third occasion , however , he was classified as C3 , one of the lowest categories available , and in May 1940 he joined the Colours as a private in that most unfashionable of units , the Pioneer Corps .
7 Indeed one of the frustrating phenomena many pressure groups of this kind experience is continuing assertions by politicians that they do matter , which is accompanied by minimal concrete action .
8 According to the Africa Economic Digest of March 18 a number of key posts went to members of the southern tribes under-represented under Habré .
9 One can not compare exactly the customs accounts from the two ports , because those for London ending in 1460 conclude at the end of July instead of the normal date of Michaelmas , so the second period employed in the comparison is that of the eleven years 1450–61 .
10 Currently a Deputy Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers and Chair of its Bureau for Machine Building , and regarded as a moderate reformer , Silayev defeated Mikhail Bocharov ( reportedly Russian President Boris Yeltsin 's favoured candidate ) in an inconclusive first round , and standing unopposed and with Yeltsin 's public endorsement in a second round he was backed by 163 of the 220 deputies present .
11 In fact , young people come out worse overall on only three out of the thirteen attributes relative to older workers .
12 Hammond and Hawes appeared as the permanent heads of the offices to be rehoused , and of the remaining witnesses eight were architects .
13 The two rifts in the Benue Trough in Nigeria went through a phase of opening followed by later closing , and of the remaining rifts ten became inactive before the spreading stage and nine are currently active and may spread in the future .
14 Of the 9,009 papers those on which a second preference was indicated were transferred in the same way as Paisley 's surplus .
15 In short , there may be some special reason for buying this set ( memories of Zampieri 's Minnie at Covent Garden in 1985 and later , perhaps , or an interest in hearing Domingo live ) , but otherwise I would find any other of the available versions preferable .
16 The overlap has two corners , one of which moves to the other under F and under R , so we find that the commutator is a pair of twisted 2-cycles , affecting only four out of the six corners involved in the moves F and R .
17 well you had the advantage of inside information , I 'm talking about the ordinary punter , if you forgive the expression , the ordinary customer you realize do n't you that there 's no clue in that sentence that management charges is limited to a small element of the six pounds thirty five
18 ENGLAND drew 3–3 with Germany in the opening game of the Six Nations Under-18 tournament at Cannock HC yesterday .
19 In each of the six lifetimes concerned , Martin had in fact deliberately rejected that path and turned to something more materially oriented .
20 One measure of the declining influence of the Soviet party was that at the last of three congresses several ruling parties ( the Yugoslav , Albanian , Chinese , Vietnamese and North Korean ) did not attend , and only sixty-one of the seventy-five parties present could be persuaded to sign the final communique without reservations although it made no reference to Soviet leadership of the movement and contained no explicit criticism of the Chinese .
21 The success of " East Coker " emphasized what the critics had been saying since the publication of the Collected Poems four years before : Eliot was the most substantial , if no longer the most startling , poet writing in English .
22 ‘ Thank you , miss , I 'm sure , ’ he said , as she unearthed a pile of the fearsome periodicals beloved by the lamented Mrs Dibdin .
23 When he swings into action on the water , Kerton is one of the fastest men afloat .
24 On the first day of the session 372 of the 426 deputies present voted to elect Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , hitherto Chair of the Presidium of the People 's Great Hural and a member of the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) , as Mongolia 's first President .
25 Derbyshire , North Wales and South Wales had about three-quarters of the working wives able to cope on their own .
26 LAST OF THE RAT-TAIL BURNERS 1877 A.D.
27 we went in the bank and I won a house on the bingo , you could of cracked me Julie said if we win we 'll go halfs I said right you are so we said right that was fine , there was four of the bleeding winners one pound fifty I ended up with
28 This therefore means that of the 4,339 hectares cultivated in Champagne 's top villages , only 4,309 hold the rank of grand cru .
29 This world of tears and the deepest emotions is where some of the sublimest felicities possible to men are hidden .
30 If you consider the markets for most convenience goods , they are established markets , in which a large proportion of the buyers have tried most of the major brands available .
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