Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawings will be made in a modern and approved style , and when finished , will be submitted to the inspection of the subscribers at large . |
| 2 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 3 | One way of coping with the dilemma of too much or too little bottom-up acoustic information is to use broad , and hopefully robust representation primitives initially to access a number of word hypotheses bottom-up and subsequently use a word verifier for more accurate matching and rating of the hypotheses against the input . |
| 4 | Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit . |
| 5 | The rational pursuit of reduced management burdens , given the impossibility of acting in the public interest ( because of the limits on the bureaucrat 's information and the conflicting interests of others ) , is made possible by increases in the total budget . |
| 6 | THE CHARRED hulks of vehicles beside the highway on the approaches to Maan , 130 miles through the desert south from Amman , remain as mute but eloquent reminders of the limits of public tolerance of an unpopular government when no other expression of opinion is possible . |
| 7 | Man is becoming aware of the limits of the earth . ’ |
| 8 | Whereupon it was resolved : ‘ That the Society will consult the good of the Community in general and of the limits of the Society in particular , by encouraging such means as are likely to promote the study of farriery on rational scientific principles . |
| 9 | Celia Haddon , author of The Limits of Sex |
| 10 | John Banville has been hauled in to applaud what he calls a ‘ wholly successful testing of the limits of literary art ’ , but all we are really being asked to approve is the author 's ventriloquial skill . |
| 11 | It can not be a radical political culture because of the limits of its concerns . |
| 12 | At W H Smith , where attempts are being made to disperse authority to the outer reaches of the organisation , the company is hedging its bets by devising a guide to decision-making , which gives managers and employees some indication of the limits of their newfound freedom of action . |
| 13 | While disputing the basis of Mannheim 's critique of the limits of epistemology , von Schelting did tolerate the idea that there is some social basis of knowledge . |
| 14 | To these must be added two further issues which became more central towards the end of the eighteenth century : the problem of knowledge and of the limits of reason , and the question of history . |
| 15 | Although these differences of terminology amount to more than semantic predilections , for they support — perhaps even generate — rival conceptions of the limits of contractual obligations , the generic idea remains a special exercise of choice by an individual , through which he deliberately incurs a binding legal responsibility . |
| 16 | Again , this suggests a theory of the limits of law as a method of dealing with conflict . |
| 17 | John Stuart Mill 's definition of the limits of law to curtail individual freedom laid down a simple principle : ‘ that the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection . |
| 18 | A summary of the limits of cover under the special scheme arranged for the holidays in this brochure is shown below . |
| 19 | Royalty themselves , aware of the limits of the loyalty of their subjects , were able to make the necessary adjustments to their job . |
| 20 | Baudrillard 's biography provides a clear example of the limits of extreme objectivism as an approach to mass commodities ( compare Anderson 1983 : 32–55 on post-structuralism in general ) . |
| 21 | Phizacklea and Miles warn of the limits of any strategy premised on the assumption ( made in the 1970s by the TUC and the Labour Party ) that ‘ the way to eliminate working-class racism was to provide counter-arguments to common racist beliefs ’ , to push out of workers ' heads an ideological baggage primarily produced by the dominant class and replace it by ‘ the truth ’ . |
| 22 | Troyna and Carrington 's dissatisfaction with simplistic assumptions about the antiracist effects of ‘ culture contact ’ and white students ' ‘ direct experience ’ of black realities , as well as their growing awareness of the limits of rationalist pedagogies , points to a need on their part to break with realist assumptions about the curriculum which still underpin their antiracist projects ( Troyna and Carrington , 1990 ) . |
| 23 | If you bear in mind the fact that the wealth of data available makes even tighter analysis and cross-analysis solely a function of the limits of the computer , you may begin to appreciate what is not only possible , but is happening right now . |
| 24 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 25 | Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ? |
| 26 | More such studies and indications of the limits of the information are clearly necessary before settlement patterns can be fully understood . |
| 27 | Firstly the general observation of land-use change from the centre of Nottingham , in the determination of the limits of the Central Business District or CBD . |
| 28 | Some would see his agnosticism , his awareness of the limits to thought , as the only true basis for religious faith . |
| 29 | The function of their role we see as being , like that of the deviant in relation to society , the visible demonstration of the limits to ‘ legitimate ’ action . |
| 30 | The FSX 's predecessor , the Mitsubishi Fl , reminded Japanese firms of the limits to their aircraft-engineering skills . |