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

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1 Emili F. Miró , grandson of the artist , recently confirmed that one of the three finest collections of works by Miró is now the possession of the Japanese shipowner and real-estate dealer Katshuda .
2 Normally , this result would be explained in terms of the three causal processes of attention decrement , discounting , and assimilation .
3 Ten miles from Kathmandu we pulled into Bhaktapur , the best preserved of the three ancient cities of the valley .
4 North again , Via Manzoni ends at the Arches Communale of Porta Nuova , the most beautiful of the three ancient doors in the town walls .
5 The Khmers Rouges , by far the most active of the three external factions in the military sphere , appeared to be consolidating territorial gains made over the past year , particularly in the south , rather than trying to extend their area of occupation .
6 The formal requirements of the regress argument would be satisfied if there were beliefs of any of the three following types :
7 Although , of course , attention is paid to the class structure of society and to relations of production in this approach , the focus of the analysis is on ‘ the relative autonomy of the state apparatus as a whole and its mediatory role as between the competing interests of the three propertied classes ’ ( Alavi 1972 ) .
8 The introduction of the three pre-production prototypes into timetabled service was abandoned through ‘ a series of technical difficulties ’ .
9 Their work provides the necessary material to assess the strengths and weakness of the three traditional approaches .
10 Revisionist research has credited the revolutionary intelligentsia with a somewhat more modest role than does each of the three traditional schools of thought .
11 The party was formed in 1988 by Preston Manning on a platform of western disenchantment with the platforms of the three traditional parties , and favoured Senate reform and opposed the Meech Lake Accord .
12 While Cameroun 's economic activity returned to normal within a few months , the experience of the three attempted coups , and particularly of the last , undermined the sense of renewal which Paul Biya 's elevation to the presidency had achieved .
13 In its Report , presented in 1977 to Parliament , the working party set up by the Labour Government to develop further the idea of a Co-operative Development Agency , and broadly representative of the whole of the Co-operative Movement , declared of the three attempted rescues :
14 There are lessons to be learned from the tale of the three attempted rescues .
15 HSING-I This is the last of the three internal styles , invented by a general named Yueh Fei in the 12th century .
16 The first meeting of the interparliamentary Baltic Assembly [ see p. 38587 ] , held in Riga , the Latvian capital , on Jan. 25-26 , recommended discussion between the parliaments of the three Baltic states ( Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ) on a draft treaty aimed at developing a Baltic market , with " provisions for eventual integration into European economic structures " .
17 The Presidents and Foreign Ministers of the three Baltic states signed the Paris Charter of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) on Dec. 6 in Paris , where they were attending the opening of embassies for their countries .
18 Of the three Baltic states , Lithuania had proportionally the smallest Russian-speaking minority ; according to 1989 census figures , Lithuanians formed 79.9 per cent of the Lithuanian population , as against the 53.7 per cent of titular nationality in Latvia and 64.8 per cent in Estonia .
19 In a move likely to anger the independent-minded leaders of the three Baltic republics , the Kremlin told Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania that several laws ‘ strengthening their economic and political independence ’ would have to go .
20 In a move likely to anger the independent-minded leaders of the three Baltic republics , the Kremlin told Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania that several laws ‘ strengthening their economic and political independence ’ would have to go .
21 The administration in the United States ( which had never formally recognized the incorporation of the three Baltic republics into the Soviet Union ) on March 12 ruled out such recognition until independence had been properly negotiated with the Soviet authorities , and it called on the latter to respect Lithuania 's declaration , and on all parties to avoid violence .
22 The Presidents of the three Baltic republics held a meeting in Tallinn on May 12 .
23 Of the three broad proposals considered , this would encourage women to work on the market .
24 On balance , it is probably helpful to think firstly in terms of the three broad categories , so as to separate the main production options available , and secondly in terms of the more detailed breakdown in order to draw up a truer picture of what may be possible in practice .
25 The smallest of the three specialist colleges , it has just over 150 full-time students , of whom about half come from Wales .
26 Certainly in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries no other kadilik approached the status of those of Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne — none appears to have attained even the status achieved by Damascus and Aleppo in the sixteenth century — and it therefore seems fairly certain that the 300 akce a day given to the kadis of the three Ottoman capitals represented the highest allowances given to any kadi at that period .
27 As far as the kadiliks are concerned , the original mevleviyet kadiliks appear to have been the kadiliks of the three Ottoman capitals , Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa , this number being increased in the first Instance through the acquisition of other important cities by conquest or other means .
28 Much of the three thousand tonnes of charcoal he imports every year comes from mangrove swamps near the Indonesian coast .
29 ‘ This will give you an idea of the property , ’ he said , then , with one hand resting upon her shoulder , he pointed out the farmland area with its manager 's house and men 's quarters , the main homestead and four chalets , and the bush area adjoining the far end of the three thousand acres .
30 A preliminary round to be created to reduce the number of teams from the present 21 to 16 , consisting of the three nonfirst-class sides and seven first-class counties taken in alphabetical order of rotation .
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