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

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1 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 .
2 One of the largest such groups is Youth With A Mission , or YWAM .
3 The town 's main attraction is a thermal lake ( one of the largest such lakes in the world ) which as well as being therapeutic is delightful to swim in .
4 Plans for converting the catalogue to an integrated electronic system were initiated by my predecessor in 1987 , when he obtained costings for manual keyboarding of the records from Saztec Ltd , one of the largest such organizations .
5 These have understandably been strained by the collapse of BZW 's profits to £5m last year , as well as by the £110m the bank had to pay last November to buy out most of the 200 former partners who together owned a fifth of the investment firm .
6 For instance , of the 68 such buildings at West Stow , six had been used for weaving , some producing up to 100 loomweights used to tension the warp-threads of an upright loom ( Figure 2.3 ) .
7 Table 6.8 is an example of the many such rules which can be constructed ; variants sharing the same specification with respect to the feature [ low ] are conflated , so that patterns of variation on this dimension may be examined in each community in a range of phonetic environments .
8 So I think there 's an element still to come out in , in that area , er but if you look at er , er the er issue generally , there 's a lot in the White Paper on er more than I expected actually , on energy efficiency , which I think is one of the keys to getting down er levels of carbon dioxide , and there is discussion about some of the many many ways in which the role of the motor car will affect er how we reduce our C O two .
9 Of the many more books worth seeing , Electrical Conduction and Behaviour in ‘ Simple ’ Invertebrates edited by G. Shelton ( Oxford UP £40 ) researches the parts other neurobiologies can not reach .
10 In Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean such speakers will be found only in the lowest socioeconomic classes , those whose education and social contacts have hardly brought them into contact with Standard English at all .
11 The majority of the 850 former workers were asked for their opinions after a suggestion that they revert to a festive dinner — the original idea when the tradition was established in 1963 .
12 Instead of the fairway he found the edge of the rough several times , and his irons were not flying straight at the flag .
13 It is in fact the first of the great many spas you meet with in the Pyrenees , when coming from the Atlantic coast , good , so one aged guidebook has it , for ‘ nervous people , the neurasthenic , the scrofulous , the lymphatic , the dyspeptic , the rheumatic , the enfeebled , the asthmatic …
14 Wing John Timu was one of the four All Blacks in the Otago XV , North Harbour called on another six , as did Waikato , who had already upset Otago 47–13 , while North Auckland has as their captain Ian Jones , New Zealand 's most recent All Black of the Year .
15 The same two kinds of explanations could also apply to the layering of the outer few kilometres of the Apollo 17 site .
16 Towards the end of the 1970s these unions began to revive , in response both to labour needs and to frustration at the failure of the conventional political process .
17 One lawyer cited one of the first such cases to be heard in Scotland : ‘ At one point the tribunal took the case by the scruff of the neck and told the claimants to put in their claim within 14 days and gave the other side the same amount of time for their defences .
18 One of the first such histories was written by the French writer and philosopher Montesquieu in the middle of the eighteenth century under the title The Spirit of the Laws .
19 One of the first such dogs was Mrs Hall 's Stromhall Torrey CH CDex UDex TD .
20 Had a good view of the first half chances , especially in the early period and despite the opportunities looking promising the finishing was really crap — the kop seemed to feel that we were never going to score and it was a relief that Deano actually managed to put it in the net from 6 yards .
21 In a careful review of the first few years after reorganisation , a group of academics from the London School of Economics assessed the performance of the new London local authorities ( Rhodes 1972 ) .
22 ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation .
23 In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent .
24 ( One of the originators once told me that his memory of the first few weeks of the organization was of people literally waiting in turn to answer the phone every time it rang . )
25 Do you remember that paradox of love , of the first few weeks and months of Passionate Love ( it 's capitalized , like the recipe , to begin with ) — the paradox about time ?
26 Much of the debate of the first few days concerned the use of Latin in the liturgy , but the debate itself of course took place in Latin .
27 The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days .
28 But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map .
29 Written entirely in two parts , the lower of which is made of standard accompanimental figures ( mostly Alberti bass ) , it is nevertheless somewhat more expansive and faintly more interesting than the ‘ Eckard ’ The following Corrente ( which demands a keyboard compass of F' to d'' ) , while made exclusively out of the rather mechanical formulas of the first few bars , at least generates plenty of energy with its leaps and crashing octaves .
30 In apoR2 the charges of the four acidic residues forming the metal site can be partly compensated for by protonation of the two former ligands His118 and His241 .
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