Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Centre for Human Ecology , with its origins in the late C.H. Waddington 's ‘ School of the Man-Made Future ’ of the 1960s and a long history of promoting environmental awareness within the University , today finds itself at the hub of current ideology . |
| 2 | He was Treasury Solicitor — the head of the government legal service — from 1971 to 1975 , and in his career in the Treasury Solicitor 's Office he was involved in the setting up of the intricate Prices and Incomes Acts of the 1960s and the formation of the new departments of Environment and Trade and Industry . |
| 3 | In this century alone we have had a succession of such images , from the stately , big-busted , Edwardian beauty , through the languid and willowy pre-Raphaelite heroine , the boyish 1920s ‘ flapper ’ , the sleekly groomed , wide-shouldered 1940s woman of the world , to the innocent , long-haired nymph of the 1960s and the colourful gypsy of the 1970s . |
| 4 | The six steam locomotives helping to run the train services between Swanage and Harman 's Cross during the special weekend cover over half a century of British steam locomotive development — from Victorian times during the time of Gladstone and Disraeli through to the ‘ new dawn ’ of the 1960s and the era of the present Queen and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . |
| 5 | All three components had a hand in producing the marked reduction in annual growth rate between the first half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s , but the dominant feature was the fall in the number of births . |
| 6 | These were three salient and interconnected issues for the CNAA and its institutions at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 7 | With the growing pressures to develop more efficient , flexible and ‘ commercial ’ state organizations , the tendency has been to transfer trading activities from departments of state to public corporations , as with the British Post Office at the end of the 1960s and the Italian railways in the mid-1980s . |
| 8 | And so we took advantage of the tender and the contractor being in th in the area , to extend the water pipeline from its current location at the football stadi erm er pavilion , through to the cemetery . |
| 9 | These , like the routines of a news bulletin , chat show or soap opera , were a mixture of the familiar and the unexpected : townscapes and landscapes , high streets and roundabouts which , even when we repeatedly travelled the same routes , were never ‘ identical ’ journeys , never entirely the same experience . |
| 10 | For all its brave talk of radicalism , the New Right depends emotionally on the attractions of the familiar and the known , constructing a romantic view of a mythical past to bolster up its attack on collectivism . |
| 11 | Existing in a working-class milieu reinforced by the still-existing perception of status can create a cocooning effect : it provides a sense of the familiar and the comfortable ( in psychological if not financial terms ) . |
| 12 | Some , like Jerome 's enemy Jovinian , saw in the ascetic movement a chasm opening within the church between an élite of the perfect and the ordinary faithful . |
| 13 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 14 | And look out for more news concerning the dedicated vintage section of the show , which promises to showcase a multitude of lustworthy collectables for the delectation of the curious and the cognoscenti . |
| 15 | But as the months passed he was reduced to the expedient of holding his meetings in the street before small groups of the curious and the hostile . |
| 16 | This was a conference where images of the macabre and the grotesque mingled with the moving and the tragic ; where the children and the handicapped were feted as survivors of a silent holocaust ; where people went to learn the difference between pro-life and pro-death , between cloning and twinning , between a blob of jelly and a living foetus , between a terminated pregnancy and murder and to learn how to counter difficult questions . |
| 17 | By May 1341 all he had got out of parliament was a resolution to collect the rest of the ninth and an offer of an extra 10,000 sacks of wool ; no new money was granted . |
| 18 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 19 | The capsule containing the two arching semicircular canals that are found in either side of the skull of the proto-fish and the lamprey has been improved considerably by the jawed fish . |
| 20 | Religious faith has become largely the province of the unreflective and the anti-rational . |
| 21 | The first was the division of Western Europe after 1957 into the European Economic Community of the Six and the rest . |
| 22 | You 've heard of the six and the Birmingham four and the Renault five this is the fucking |
| 23 | For the souls of the dying and the dead . |
| 24 | Yet obviously his two great assets — his understanding of the defensive and the devotion he inspired among the troops — ideally suited him to the task there . |
| 25 | Menstrual taboos , even in their Jewish expressions , are replete with an ambivalent fusion of the sacred and the taboo . |
| 26 | Religion , which for Durkheim involved the separation of the sacred and the profane ( as in Judaism ) , was an essentially social phenomenon . |
| 27 | Swapping of the modified and the unmodified cytosine residues within the Dcm recognition sequence ( CCUP/FCLO ) , however , abolishes the reaction ( lane 4 ; compare lane 6 for result obtained with completely unmodified duplex ) . |
| 28 | You may have heard too much of Moby 's ‘ Go ’ by now , but there can be few complaints otherwise : Meat Beat Manifesto , DJ Carl Cox , Nightmares On Wax , Orbital etc , provide a mixture of the subtle and the hardcore in aid of peace . |
| 29 | ‘ Bullrush ’ and ‘ Remember How We Started ’ are swirling , finely balanced mixtures of the delicate and the insistent ( and ‘ Bullrush ’ has this great stupid bit nicked off ‘ I Am The Walrus ’ ) . |
| 30 | Mr Premadasa 's five years in office have left Sri Lanka with a taste of the best and the worst that it can do . |