Example sentences of "of [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If ) At any time within a year the said Wm Roe by writing in his own band signified that he intended to have a 21 year lease from the date hereof " paying one-fifteenth part of the 1st 7 years and one-twelfth for the remaining 14 years such lease will be executed . " |
| 2 | He is the star of the 45-second Yellow Pages plug of 1982 which was screened for the following eight years , setting something of a record in advertising circles . |
| 3 | The other architects to be awarded prizes for Second Empire designs on the War Department list were Botrel d'Hazeville , whose grand scheme resembling the Louvre was given second place ; John Thomas Rochead , whose design united the two offices in an ornate single building with high-roofed corner pavilions , was awarded third place ; the brothers , Edward and William Habershon , whose scheme for one large building with prominent central and corner pavilions and mansard roofs , around a central quadrangle , was given one of the fifth equal places ; along with John Dwyer , whose treatment was very similar to Rochead 's , but less ornate . |
| 4 | When the attack finally came Madrid withstood it , thanks in part to the courage of the left-wing militias and the ordinary people of the city , and in part to the stiffening effect of the first International Brigades — foreign volunteers organized by the Comintern , who arrived at the crucial moment . |
| 5 | Bernie Grant , representing Tottenham in the borough of Haringey and one of the first black MPs , was unequivocal and unambiguous in his opposition from the very start . |
| 6 | Extensions to 3 of the first 11 zones — Dudley , Wakefield ( W. Yorks. ) and Swansea — and to one of the second 14 zones — N.W. Kent — were made between 1983 and 1986 . |
| 7 | Roger Perks , head of Baverstock , one of the first inner-city schools to opt out , received the OBE in the New Year Honours . |
| 8 | BACK in the Gdansk shipyards , one of the first Western thrillers ever filmed in Poland , Eminent Domain , stars Donald Sutherland ( Kiefer 's dad ) and Anne Archer from Fatal Attraction |
| 9 | This was more to the Swedes ' liking , taking 5 of the first 8 places , including the top 3 . |
| 10 | The term itself only began to be generally used in the early nineteenth century in Western Europe , and one of the first systematic discussions is to be found in the book by Lorenz von Stein , where the social movement is portrayed as a struggle for greater social independence culminating in the class struggle of the proletariat . |
| 11 | One thing is certain : the full four-part double canon had to be composed before the composer could write the two parts of the first fifteen bars . ) |
| 12 | Born in what was now Inner Mongolia , Ulanhu became one of the first Mongol members of the CCP when he joined in 1925 . |
| 13 | The bus stopped to pick up a passenger off one of the first terraced streets of the town . |
| 14 | One of the first official visits of the then Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , was to France , where the nuclear industry was forging ahead with a massive programme of PWRs , which were reportedly being built with record efficiency , speed and economy . |
| 15 | Exploration interest was boosted in 1979 by the results of one of the first deep wells drilled east of the Appalachian Front in West Virginia ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 16 | Digital Equipment Corp has confirmed that its November 10 announcement of the first Alpha-based machines will include five systems ranging in power from a desktop workstation to a mainframe-class machine . |
| 17 | Oil group Lasmo was one of the first major companies to report full-year results . |
| 18 | The ease of this initial approval of fields in science , where the subject culture was traditionally more sympathetic to modular course design ( including progressive assessment , behavioural objectives and all that goes with them ) , contrasted strongly with the validation experiences of the first major accretions to the Course in humanities , social sciences and teacher education . |
| 19 | One of the first major investors under this new legislation was the German motor manufacturers Volkswagen which invested DM9,600 million ( US$5,690 million ) , and took an initial 25 per cent stake in Skoda , the Czechoslovak state-owned car manufacturer . |
| 20 | Ironically in view of their later slip down the headhunting league table , the firm of Boyden was responsible for one of the first major searches , a landmark in the history of executive search and a vital precursor of the work of the Big four . |
| 21 | One of the first major changes to tram services , was to affect the Croydon area . |
| 22 | Mr Lawrence 's appointment was one of the first major changes to hit the organisation after its new corporate identity was launched in 1986 . |
| 23 | Public health had been one of the first major areas of government social intervention , beginning with the Public Health Act of 1848 . |
| 24 | One of the first major attractions was the Sir Hiram Maxim flying machine , opened in 1904 and still operating today ! |
| 25 | One of the first major presentations of the results of the first phase of the initiative was to senior staff of the Children 's Division and the Social Services Inspectorate of the DHSS . |
| 26 | One of the first major pieces of legislation controlling what information went on packets was passed as recently as 1953 . |
| 27 | The report warned that the international debt strategy could become " one of the first economic casualties " of the Gulf crisis . |
| 28 | Some of the first newly-planned settlements were established by Victorian industrialists themselves , but a long process of government legislation culminated in the passing , between 1945 and 1950 , of comprehensive Town and Country Planning legislation , including provision for New Towns and National Parks but also a characteristically negative policy toward the expansion of cities themselves . |
| 29 | Ger McKenna 's Crestar , the fastest of the first round winners , features in heat two with Oaks winner Libertys Echo and Mabel Blair 's Blackwater Lady who has every chance of making further progress for the Larne trainer . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , in a conciliatory statement following the announcement of the first round results heralding the HDZ victory , Tudjman professed caution on the issue of Croatian separatism , suggesting that a HDZ government would be content with Croatian sovereignty and greater independence within a confederal Yugoslavia , and would respect Serb interests . |