Example sentences of "attack on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police , who found petrol canisters nearby , suspect that the fire was the result of an arson attack on an Afro-Caribbean hairdressers situated on the ground floor . |
| 2 | They awaited the President 's decision , and in February 1965 this came , after a Vietcong attack on an American advisers " base at Pleiku in South Vietnam . |
| 3 | In An 685 King Ecgfrith decided to expand his realm still further by a large-scale attack on the Pictish lands . |
| 4 | She now called , with increasing confidence and with the backing of a sophisticated advertising campaign , for ‘ a change of direction ’ and an attack on the monopolistic powers of the state and the crushing incubus of the trade unions . |
| 5 | Almost immediately , the Ladies ' Association issued a strongly worded protest in The Daily News , signed by prominent figures like Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale , claiming that the acts were not only an attack on the civil liberties of all women but also implicated the state in sanctioning male vice . |
| 6 | There was no outright attack on the civil rights gained so far , but Nixon , mindful of the white " backlash " in 1968 , spoke out against some of the more unpopular results of greater racial equality , such as the bussing of school-children . |
| 7 | The Mercians may always have been ruled by more than one king , possibly several , before the mid-seventh century , and Bede certainly thought of Penda as king at the time of his attack on the eastern Angles in the late 630s ( HE 111 , 18 ) . |
| 8 | Williams was making a thinly-disguised attack on the French authorities who , according to captain Naas Botha , ‘ certainly made our stay something of a learning experience ’ . |
| 9 | Italians were now coming to the fore in car racing thanks to Alfa , and Nuvolari joined the team as the man to spearhead their attack on the German manufacturers . |
| 10 | This will be achieved by abolishing the court warning against uncorroborated evidence , widening the definition of rape within marriage , and using video-links so the accuser need not face the accused , an attack on the fundamental principles of jurisprudence . |
| 11 | A direct attack on the fundamental freedoms and rights of workers to organize themselves collectively . |
| 12 | It is highly courageous to launch a frontal attack on the main lines and the main structure of nature , and cowardly to advance by aspects and details ; art is really a battle . |
| 13 | GERRY ADAMS last night discounted the anger and embarrassment of Labour leaders as he used a party conference fringe meeting to defend IRA terrorism , including the bomb attack on the Royal Marines at Deal , Kent . |
| 14 | Continued attack on the upstream sides of spurs and enlargement of the meander leads to a tendency for a break through at the neck of the spur , as it becomes thin ( Fig. 9.12A ) . |
| 15 | Along with this rapprochement went a corresponding attack on the fundamentalist tenets of nonconformist morality . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've always argued — though no-one seems to want to listen — that the correct context in which to understand the attack on The Satanic Verses is that of attacks on Arab intellectuals throughout Islamic countries . |
| 17 | Approximately half a century later , Irenaeus , Bishop of Lyons , issued his violent and dogmatic attack on the prevalent heresies of the time , Adversus haereses . |
| 18 | Caldaire managing director Mike Widmer launched a scathing attack on the local authorities . |
| 19 | Many homes in the Belvoir Park estate were extensively damaged in a devastating IRA attack on the previous laboratories . |