Example sentences of "of [art] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government blamed the unrest on the activities of several small left-wing groups intent on creating general instability ; Douglas Bravo , a veteran of the 1960s guerrilla war and current leader of the Venezuelan Revolutionary Party ( PRV ) , was arrested on May 28 . |
| 2 | WITH the release of his most commercial film , a remake of the 1960s thriller ‘ Cape Fear ’ , Martin Scorsese 's is a name that is being buzzed all around the media . |
| 3 | John Pearson , who appears at the Wine Garden , Alton , on Tuesday , of of the 1960s decade of British blues musicians , acknowledged to be coming of age in the 1990s — their mature talents now best equipped for the task of bringing that conviction to their music that only age and experience can provide . |
| 4 | Criticisms such as these were so widely deemed effective that by the middle of the 1960s Realism was popularly held to have been superseded as the dominant approach in the discipline . |
| 5 | In the early years of the 1970s each of these groups was involved through their professional organisations in a campaign against what they saw as the damaging consequences of the 1960s liberalism . |
| 6 | In January 1965 , three days before the death of Churchill , that symbol of the past , Malcolm X , that symbol of the 1960s present , was shot by black separatists . |
| 7 | Although a number of feminist authors have tended to view some of the 1960s legislation as ‘ liberalising ’ , they have sought to distinguish the identification of such a trend from any notion of ‘ liberation ’ . |
| 8 | The company had been well placed to take advantage of the 1960s consumer boom , and was already prospering by the time Horsley joined the Board in 1963 , at the age of twenty-nine . |
| 9 | Actual demographic trends also contributed to the outward movement , as the rearing of the 1960s baby boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
| 10 | During the last years of the 1960s environmentalism also became fashionable , transforming the esteem granted to those individuals and organizations seen to be upholding ‘ environmental ’ values . |
| 11 | The addition was believed to relate to his passion for the music of the 1960s protest singer . |
| 12 | The efflorescence of rock 'n' roll , and of the 1960s rock movements , took place against the background of a new social-historical phase , that of the ‘ long boom ’ , ‘ welfare capitalism ’ and an ideology of liberal tolerance . |
| 13 | It 's the first time the diaries , film scripts and private photographs of the 1950's star who was born in Swindon have been seen by the public . |
| 14 | Lindsay ‘ Dad ’ Weir ( third from left ) and Jack Kerr ( far right ) , the two survivors of the 1931 tour of England , joined other distinguished New Zealand cricketers recently to celebrate the 80th birthday of former Test wicketkeeper Eric Tindill ( centre ) . |
| 15 | Within weeks of the 1931 Election , the Japanese invasion of Manchuria alerted public opinion to new threats of war which , within five years , were to destroy the League 's credibility as an instrument for the maintenance of peace . |
| 16 | After the initial shock of the 1931 election had been overcome , the Labour Party tried to revise its programme and to improve its organization . |
| 17 | The Afghan President Mohammed Daoud described the most recent adoption of such a protocol in December 1975 as indicating the ‘ vitality ’ of the 1931 document which remained ‘ the stable basis of friendship and fruitful cooperation ’ between the neighbour states . |
| 18 | The ambiguity in Soviet interpretations of the 1931 treaty partly derived from Article 6 which permitted both parties full freedom of action to establish any relations and alliances with third parties provided that such links do not contradict the other provisions of the treaty . |
| 19 | However , we had previously shown that a 2.3kb HNF-L promoter fragment linked to the Thy-1 gene was not expressed early in development , but rather mimicked the expression pattern of the Thy-1 gene ( 28 ) . |
| 20 | This suggested that either the NF-L gene carries a developmental specific element in the gene or that a known brain-specific element ( in the first intron ) of the Thy-1 gene has a dominant effect . |
| 21 | Under the terms of the 1939 Law of the Administration of the State , Franco could have promulgated the Law of Succession without previously presenting it to the Cortes . |
| 22 | Given the qualified success of the 1939 escapade , The Pensioner remarked in April 1940 that ‘ To exert pressure on the Government as a whole is to invite failure as is demonstrated by the fate of many petitions . ’ |
| 23 | Wartime expansion of milk consumption took place for a third reason that related more to specific practical problems than to a new attitude on the part of policy-makers : simply , the disruptions of wartime made it virtually impossible to implement the pre-war means test criteria , such as the definition of a ‘ necessitous ’ child eligible for free milk , or the distinguishing of those children receiving cheap milk for the under-fives under section 2 of the 1939 Milk Industry Act . |
| 24 | In March 1938 the Ladies learnt about the new Stableford method of scoring ( devised by Dr. Frank Stableford in 1931 ) , although within 18 months the outbreak of the 1939 War caused the suspension of all competitions . |
| 25 | The Cryptics went regularly , and , in subsequent years up to the outbreak of the 1939 war , other first-class club sides were brought by Leveson Gower and P.G.H. Fender . |
| 26 | The Western Region initially used Collett 0–6–0 locomotives of the 2251 class . |
| 27 | These were usually private charter specials from Dolgellau to Rhyl , and in the main were worked by Collett 0–6–0 tender engines of the 2251 class . |
| 28 | The language syntax is not always completely identical to that of the 6502 version , but in most cases the Z80 version is more tolerant . |
| 29 | In early summer 1984 , [ MS wrote to the organisers of the 77 conversion and specialist information technology Advanced Courses running in 1983–84 ( see Appendix [ I ) . |
| 30 | I thought that private investment could have been used more imaginatively in the period of the 1980–1 recession and was not satisfied with the Treasury 's replies . |