Example sentences of "of [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his was one of the many families in the streets that ran off the main road at the bottom of the hill and from whom this shop and the tobacconist 's derived most of their regular custom . |
| 2 | Pollution control work , then , is typical of the many areas of social control characterized by goals of regulation rather than repression . |
| 3 | This is a true story of one of the many tragedies of apartheid — a white South African policeman falls in love with a woman of mixed race , resigns from his job and goes to live with her in Cape Town . |
| 4 | Eventually they found a spot , away from the track but on the edge of one of the many glades in the forest . |
| 5 | The case of Nicholson v. Revill is one of the many instances in which this rule of law has been applied , and the reason upon which the rule is founded is as clear and plain as the rule itself . |
| 6 | Each of the many skills of smallholding requires its own discipline . |
| 7 | That in view of the many matters of vital interest to the Cooperative Movement , such as the excess profits duty , the threatened income tax on dividends , the state control of wheat , sugar , coal , etc. , which must come before Parliament in the immediate future , this Congress hereby instructs the Central Board to consider ways and means of ensuring the adequate representation of cooperative knowledge and opinion in Parliament . |
| 8 | OF THE many mixtures of spice used in Indian cookery , this is the most generally useful . |
| 9 | Rostov the Great , Moscow , one of the many sites to be seen from Anna Karenina |
| 10 | From this examination of some of the many patterns of family life which exist in Britain in the 1980s it can be seen that traditional views of the family are unsupported by research findings . |
| 11 | It was one of the many things for which she had Rune to thank . |
| 12 | It is one of the many ironies in our provision for old people that we offer the fit elderly cheap transport ( which they take up enthusiastically to visit their relatives ) but make no provision to enable the relatives of the frail housebound to visit them . |
| 13 | The first of the many descendants of The Promised Land . |
| 14 | At a joint news conference yesterday with Tokyo 's governor , Shunichi Suzuki , he turned quickly to some of the many differences between the sister cities , and omitted a line from a prepared statement that had said ‘ Tokyo and New York are more alike than any two cities on the face of the earth . ’ |
| 15 | As ever , Omi was in , sitting patiently at the table , writing one of the many letters with which she kept the tattered network of Brombergs and Ritters precariously bound together . |
| 16 | First , a particular instance : one of the many cases of ‘ hypercorrection ’ that were noticed . |
| 17 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Lyle carpets is also in the early stages of BS5750 ’ said Managing Director , John Stewart , as he described one of the many changes in progress . |
| 19 | Started in 1935 as the Central Council for Recreative Physical Training , it remains , in spite of the many changes in social attitudes and lifestyle since its inception , a major force in sport and recreation in the UK . |
| 20 | Given the nature of the corporation — it was formed in 1967 — its major collections are devoted to the history of the many companies from all the great steel-producing centres , which constitute the corporate body . |
| 21 | One of the many dangers for South Africa 's evolution is that each move which President de Klerk makes will be discounted in advance by the opposition . |
| 22 | So , let's get this straight : first edition collectors do buy new books , preferably hardback and preferably mint , and all things being well , here is one of the many titles for which these loyal and driven souls will this season be queuing twelve-deep : |
| 23 | Most people do not make their position explicit , partly at least because this is still one of the many questions to which we have uncertain answers . |
| 24 | One of the many functions of local councils is the care and maintenance of local parks and commons etc , used by the public for recreation purposes . |
| 25 | Certainly we do not need to try to go into the whole causal history of an event in order to specify something — one of the many sets of things — that had the property of making the occurrence of the event necessary . |
| 26 | Because of the many hours of sitting that we do , we lose the ability to squat or even the ability to sit down without falling down . |
| 27 | English Heritage chooses now to stress the responsibility of the many boroughs of which London is made up : ‘ Our policy is , in consultation with the boroughs , and over an agreed programme , to withdraw from the exercise of our powers where we are duplicating their functions ’ . |
| 28 | Percy Marlborough Stewart left to the people of Pocklington his collection of water-lilies , one of the finest in Europe , and the Stewart collection containing illustrations and objects of the many countries of the world which he visited on his hunting expeditions . |
| 29 | Because of the many controversies within the educational system , and the strong teacher organisations , those responsible are extremely reluctant to comment at all . |
| 30 | In one of the many meetings on Nov. 8-9 , Rajiv Gandhi , leader of Congress ( I ) ( which with 193 of the 525 Lok Sabha seats had led the opposition to Singh 's government and had constituted the largest single party block ) , apparently turned down an invitation from President Venkataraman to form a Congress ( I ) government . |