Example sentences of "of [art] country ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap . |
| 2 | In York , one of the country 's major historic and tourist centres and the city best known to this writer , the visitor 's search for some genuine experience of a better , bygone England will find little reward inside most of the old city 's public houses . |
| 3 | I asked Roger Pawsey of Cants , Mark Mattock , Gareth Fryer , Ken Grapes of the Royal National Rose Society and Robert Harkness , five of the country 's leading rose experts , to name their personal choice of the most highly scented hybrid teas and floribundas . |
| 4 | An odd diversion , perhaps , from one of the country 's leading constitutional lawyers , but he was seized of the gift , and so the poetry became assertive . |
| 5 | And with one of the country 's top competition climbers banned by his own governing body , the situation could deteriorate . |
| 6 | THE SOVIET government is introducing emergency measures to stave off a winter economic crisis , including a 15-month ban on strikes in key industries and drastic moves to ensure the normal operation of the country 's railways — above all to break Azerbaijan 's blockade of Armenia . |
| 7 | According to the justice ministry , staff at 70 of the country 's 180 prisons are on strike , compared with 22 at the end of last week . |
| 8 | Le Monde , one of the country 's most profitable publishing concerns producing special supplements and books while printing other publications , has invested a sum conservatively estimated at not less than Fr350m in a state-of-the-art printing press . |
| 9 | A quarter of the country 's highest-paid executives had pay rises of 36 per cent or more . |
| 10 | HARARE ( Reuter ) — The Zimbabwean government ordered the indefinite closure of the country 's only university yesterday after a day of violent clashes between police and students protesting against the arrest of two of their leaders . |
| 11 | In a decision which was widely predicted , Mr Patten has declared himself minded to uphold the view of the department 's inspectorate that Consortium Developments , representing several of the country 's major home-builders , had not made a sufficiently strong case for the development of 4,800 houses in what is an abandoned quarry and a conifer plantation . |
| 12 | In their imports , Steve Moria and Doug McEwan , they have two of the country 's finest forwards , and they also have Stephen and Ian Cooper on their books and have signed Chris Newton from Peterborough to back up Jeff Smith in goal . |
| 13 | EAST GERMANY battened down the hatches yesterday on the eve of Mikhail Gorbachev 's arrival in its capital , Berlin , for the fortieth anniversary of the country 's creation . |
| 14 | By linking Hungarian national aspirations , in a language reminiscent of the country 's greatest writers , to the general yearning for democracy , he struck a chord . |
| 15 | Their contributions to the serious arts of fish-frying and ice-cream making are well documented ; they have allayed indigenous suspicion about garlic ; and , in Glasgow and Edinburgh , they have established two of the country 's finest delicatessens . |
| 16 | PANAMA 'S military government yesterday stepped up its verbal assault against enemies at home and abroad after putting down a coup led by some of the country 's most senior officers . |
| 17 | Work would already have started on improving what we already believe to be one of the country 's most modern and safe grounds . |
| 18 | Arriving in East Berlin at the height of the country 's most serious political crisis for more than three decades , Mr Gorbachev had earlier in the day , in a brief encounter with enthusiastic East Berliners , spoken of the need ‘ not to panic — that 's the most important thing ’ . |
| 19 | Given this background , the minister of posts , telecommunications and space , Paul Quiles , was treading on eggshells when he met the unions this week for the second in a series of talks concerning the reform of the country 's post office , the PTT . |
| 20 | ‘ Only 11 per cent of the country 's 18-year-olds pass three A-levels , ’ says Michael Duffy , head of the King Edward VI School , in Morpeth , Northumberland . |
| 21 | He has declared himself general co-ordinator of a new Parliament of Popular Power which , although it has no legislative authority , appears destined to take the place of the country 's National Assembly , which was dissolved last month . |
| 22 | In accordance with the procedures governing Roger Hall 's comedy , they do so at regularly-spaced intervals , each entering with a gasp and clad in a ridiculous profusion of scarves , hats and rainwear , so that his droll point about the awfulness of the country 's climate can be adequately appreciated . |
| 23 | Most of the country 's 15,000 parlours are run by Japan 's Korean minority , who have been denied the right to Japanese citizenship . |
| 24 | This sudden glasnost , unthinkable a week ago , was evidently the result of the Politburo statement on Wednesday calling for discussion of the country 's problems and for media that were ‘ close to life ’ . |
| 25 | PRAGUE — An influential Czechoslovak economist , whose criticisms of the country 's stagnation have achieved cult status , returned from the Soviet Union to find his department dissolved and himself under threat of dismissal , writes Edward Lucas . |
| 26 | I returned with some spectacularly horrible photos of the country 's many problems but also with a good many showing Czechoslovakia 's stunning beauty . |
| 27 | They were underlined by Labour 's Defence Review of 1974–5 which committed Britain 's ground forces solely to the defending of continental Europe , and stripped away the last fragments of the country 's global pretensions . |
| 28 | Arresting the cycle of the country 's relative economic decline was the self proclaimed major task of the Thatcher revolution . |
| 29 | This was the first sign of the real importance Britain was to accord civil aviation , viewing it as an essential component of the country 's postwar recovery . |
| 30 | The Senegalese political system has continued to be robust in spite of the country 's current grave economic problems , and in spite of secessionist pressures in the Casimance , the area of Senegal south of the Gambia . |