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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In fact , young people come out worse overall on only three out of the thirteen attributes relative to older workers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ENGLAND drew 3–3 with Germany in the opening game of the Six Nations Under-18 tournament at Cannock HC yesterday . |
| 11 | In each of the six lifetimes concerned , Martin had in fact deliberately rejected that path and turned to something more materially oriented . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Thank you , miss , I 'm sure , ’ he said , as she unearthed a pile of the fearsome periodicals beloved by the lamented Mrs Dibdin . |
| 14 | When he swings into action on the water , Kerton is one of the fastest men afloat . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Derbyshire , North Wales and South Wales had about three-quarters of the working wives able to cope on their own . |
| 17 | This therefore means that of the 4,339 hectares cultivated in Champagne 's top villages , only 4,309 hold the rank of grand cru . |
| 18 | This world of tears and the deepest emotions is where some of the sublimest felicities possible to men are hidden . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Provides an understanding of some of the major processes responsible for environmental degradation by loss or deterioration of land , air or water resources , and further aims to develop expertise in the design and implementation of programmes of environment protection and management . |
| 21 | These provisions have been one of the major forces responsible for the complete change in standard terms and conditions for dealing with consumers that came in after the passing of the UCTA . |
| 22 | The advantages of these methods are that they allow for careful preparation of material and can make use of the best teachers available . |
| 23 | The committee " had secured the services of some of the best experts available " and had sent observers to examine social legislation abroad . |
| 24 | The booklet is revised annually and has become widely recognised as one of the best guides available for local groups . |
| 25 | Simon O'Connor , spokesman for the British Sports Association for the Disabled , said the town 's Dolphin Centre had gained a reputation as one of the best lei sure complexes in the country . |
| 26 | A fair proportion of the cells they recorded from gave rhythmic bursts of high-frequency firing , at the rate of some 4–12 per second , more or less irrespective of what the animal was doing ; this rhythmic activity is interesting because it corresponds with the so-called theta rhythm of the EEG , and may be an aspect of the attentional processes necessary for the learning or remembering of particular activities . |
| 27 | The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan . |
| 28 | Figure 8 shows the Utilities Screen and from here you can choose and run a variety of the helpful programs available in DOS5 . |
| 29 | All our ships have casinos and our new ships Fantasy and Ecstasy have some of the largest casinos afloat . |
| 30 | Under a third of the 23,000 litres stored was thought to have got into the supply system . |