Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the technology is available to transpose that part of the chromosome into a related species which will then produce offspring bearing the particular characteristic . |
| 2 | Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ? |
| 3 | The Chartist , William Lovett , quotes with approval a description , written by a labourer 's son in 1840 , of the cottage of a ( symbolic ? ) |
| 4 | The next stage of our enterprise was to convert the little stable at the end of the cottage into a turbine house . |
| 5 | The ceaseless deluge had turned the small front yard of the cottage into a swamp . |
| 6 | Remembering the old adage that forewarned was forearmed , she parked her car just out of sight of the cottage down a little side lane . |
| 7 | After having been in the thick of the battle for a number of years , Haslam found the transition to main board director in 1974 somewhat difficult to adjust to . |
| 8 | As well as evidence of the selection of a strategy , there should be evidence of the justification for selection eg the student explains why graphical techniques were used to investigate the phasing of traffic lights . |
| 9 | With these data , the analysis of the selection of a project size can proceed . |
| 10 | The first is to start with a clean sheet of paper and design all or parts of the operations of a company in the best way possible . |
| 11 | She reached out across the street and tried to get an idea of the shape of a building she could dimly see . |
| 12 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 13 | " Too beastly , and when you think of the shape of a ripe plum . " |
| 14 | Paint the edge of just one half of the shape with a little melted chocolate and bring the two halves together . |
| 15 | The aim is to be aware of the contrast between a voice volume that is too loud in ordinary circumstances and the voice volume that is suitable for ordinary conversation but using feeling instead of ( or as well as ) hearing to monitor the loudness . |
| 16 | [ … ] Thereafter , we will return to further development of the contrast between a theory of equilibrium prices and a theory of the market process . |
| 17 | I can literally push the bird out of the tree into a net or a box so I can take it home , because it ca n't see to fly off in the dark . |
| 18 | The weight , wt , given in Formula 1.1 is simply a count of the frequency of a tag sequence in the corpus , T1-T2 ; 1.2 is a modification of Bayes formula and 1.3 is suggested by Marshall ( 1983 ) . |
| 19 | The Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981 stipulates that prosecutions must be brought within six months of the discovery of a carcass . |
| 20 | It is evident from his report that the temple was deliberately demolished and the bronze statues and internal fittings broken up , but the only comment on the date comes in a brief account of the discovery of a ‘ large number of bronze and iron objects including fragments of broken statuary ’ . |
| 21 | It was unusual for a chief super to have to give evidence of the discovery of a body . |
| 22 | It is , we are told ( among other things ) ‘ a systematic description of a language ’ , ‘ the way words , and their component parts , combine to form sentences ’ , ‘ a device for generating a finite specification of the sentences of a language ’ . |
| 23 | if the themes of most of the sentences of a paragraph refer to one semantic field ( say location , parts of some object , wisdom vs chance , etc. ) then that semantic field will be perceived as the method of development of the paragraph . |
| 24 | If no common semantic element runs through the themes of the sentences of a paragraph , then no simple method of development will be perceived . |
| 25 | The construction of a generative grammar represents an attempt to formulate a system of rules for the formation of the sentences of a language . |
| 26 | The operation had been far from easy , the cable being ‘ … manhandled out of the hold of a steamer , over a pulley and round a drum which measured the speed , and then several times round a brake drum before passing into the sea ’ .5 |
| 27 | The family spent their first night in the large attic , in the bedroom that was completely timbered , reminding him of the hold of a ship . |
| 28 | This begins with her Tasso and diverges into immense variety : from poems ( manuscript and printed , by herself and many others ) , mementoes , statistics , portraits ( many of women writers ) , and data on Hindu and Arabic languages , to diagrams of the hold of a slave ship . |
| 29 | Contraband was discovered in interesting concealments such as a spare piston assembly in the engineroom of a Dutch ship ( found by Bob , our chief engineer , of course ) , and a spare drilling core at the bottom of the hold of a Spanish ship contained products more akin to a Spanish distillery than the bed of the North Sea . |
| 30 | for a week , and th that in the holds then they were all , that was , we was hauling sacks , what they used to call erm and they used to bring 'em out , out of the hold on a , on a winch , and put them on the scale and weigh 'em and that 's what they used to call catch weights . |