Example sentences of "the [noun prp] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I were younger and had the money , I 'd go back to the Orient — to study the modern Orient , the Orient of the Isthmus of Suez . |
| 2 | Old reflexes and outsider instincts , along with its army 's need for cash ( see page 76 ) , make it want to duck great-power responsibilities and go on quietly selling dangerous nuclear technologies to the Irans of the world , and missiles and other advanced equipment to rogue regimes anywhere . |
| 3 | Joe had written to me suggesting that there was a post for me in Japan ( available through the good offices of Stephen Spender , who had just returned from there with a commission from the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Tohoku University ) to go and teach English , in the poet-teacher tradition for which it was famous . |
| 4 | Recognizing his potential ability — not as a dancer , but someone with a great deal to offer to theatre — I obtained permission from the Senate and the Dean of the Faculty of Music ( of which the ballet school was a part ) for John to be a registered student on the three-year Ballet Certificate course . |
| 5 | The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Science at the University of El Salvador argues that , |
| 6 | Discussing the need for greater student mobility and the advantages of unit courses for a ‘ national degree system ’ , the Dean of the Faculty of Educational Studies at the Open University suggested that the basis of a unit-based , credit transfer system already existed since ‘ inside the CNAA we already have one of the elements required : that , we have a national degree system . |
| 7 | Alan Johnston , the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates , and Brian Adair , the president of the Law Society of Scotland , told the Scottish affairs select committee in London that the changes were unjustified . |
| 8 | The true pastoralists , such as the Fulani , the Dinka of southern Sudan and the Masai of the east African plains were in a different category . |
| 9 | The funerary formula inscribed in tombs and on stelae invoked the king as owner of all to give offerings to a named god , so that the god could present the offerings to the Ka of the deceased . |
| 10 | The catch is this : the book has a rated WP of 45 , and when the WP of the character carrying it is reduced sharply ( by magic , etc. ) the book will attempt spirit combat ( see Guardian Spirits in New Monsters for rules ) . |
| 11 | Luca Marenzio ( 1553–99 ) has been justly hailed as ‘ the Schubert of the madrigal ’ . |
| 12 | This month sees the Orbit promotion headed by a new Iain M Banks novel , Against a Dark Background ( £15.99 ) , and while this is not set in the world of the Culture , the novella which gives its name to Banks ' collection of stories The States of the Art ( £5.99 ) is . |
| 13 | The M.D. of the company pointed out , however , that business opportunities were lost for lack of French : letters in French were left unattended and eventually thrown away . |
| 14 | So again the Kline of the couplet is the more precise or specific . |
| 15 | Here the monster is alive and well , but the children identify her as the Medusa of the legend . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the O'Rourke of the day offered hospitality and refuge to Captain Francisco de Cuellar and his crew , survivors of the wrecked galleon San Pedro . |
| 17 | Today — the Saturday of the Whitsun weekend — the shop had opened its doors to the public for the first time ; and they had got off to an encouraging start . |
| 18 | ‘ Now when I know the boys are preparing for another game and I 'm not there , I will miss it ; the familiar routine , meeting at the Petersham Hotel in Richmond on a Wednesday night , the late meal , the exchange of views as people come in ; the Thursday morning training , dashing round to golf or wherever in the afternoon , the team meeting in the evening , the Friday session , probably going to the cinema at night , the leg pulling , the nervous jokes on the Saturday of the game itself , the closing in from the outside world . ’ |
| 19 | The government and the Catholic Church had earlier accused the ELN of the kidnapping and murder on Oct. 2 , 1989 , of Mgr Jésus Emilio Jaramillo , Bishop of Arauca . |
| 20 | But Mr Murphy says there is nothing to show that Mary , who was a Church of Ireland member , was the Molly of the song . |
| 21 | In comparative terms the Courage income was not as crucial to the leading sides as it was to the Sudburys of the set-up . |
| 22 | We have to get nuclear power seen as the Volvo of the power industry : safe , efficient and reliable . |
| 23 | The BMR of a man or woman is dependent on weight , height , fitness and body composition . |
| 24 | This says that is the RHS of the constraint in which is slack variable or zero if there is no such constraint . |
| 25 | The Shias of the south , the Sunnis of Sidon and Tripoli , would not only oppose such a state , but produce more children than the Maronites , who would then be a minority in the country they had created . |
| 26 | There Sweeney fought the Hag of the Mill , she who turns a handmill . |
| 27 | The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time . |
| 28 | Well , it was n't till the Tuesday of the week after when we 'd all been to the funeral at the crematorium that Inspector Bush came in again . |
| 29 | The cruel Sylvie , the Sylvie of the drinking and drug bouts . |
| 30 | The Sylvie of the underground , the war , its risks . |