Example sentences of "account of [art] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In suggesting programmes according to level we have taken account of a range of dimensions of difficulty . |
| 2 | Fear And Loathing In Elko , Thompson 's recent account of a night of whores , sex dolls and gunfire with Judge Clarence Thomas ( allegedly ) has yet to be optioned . |
| 3 | Previously the rate support grant had been distributed to authorities on the basis of a complex formula which took account of a number of factors , including levels of local prosperity , which influence the need for local services . |
| 4 | In planning for development , principally to increase the numbers of participants and to improve standards of performance in their sports , bodies need to take account of a number of factors . |
| 5 | Some of the other changes were intended to take account of a number of anomalies that our experience had brought to light over the years since 1969 . |
| 6 | To contribute to the development of richer economic theories that take simultaneous account of a number of issues that may arise in particular contexts . |
| 7 | SIR — In 1813 Sir Thomas Bernard published a pamphlet , An Account of a Supply of Fish for the Manufacturing Poor , which proposed to ameliorate the poverty among working people in London by increasing the supply of fish . |
| 8 | Barth ( 1975 ) provides a remarkably clear instance of the alteration of the ‘ meaning ’ of a set of objects , in his account of a sequence of initiation rituals within a particular New Guinea society . |
| 9 | The detective novel is partly a novel , an exploration of some facet of human existence , and partly an account of an act of detection used to keep the reader reading , to provide the essential storyline . |
| 10 | Only eleven years after El Cid 's death a Moorish historian named Ibn Alcama wrote an account of the fall of Valencia , which he had witnessed , under the title Eloquent Evidence of the Great Calamity . |
| 11 | There was also controversy raging about their attempt to rewrite the account of the fall of Chiang 's former capital , usually referred to as ‘ the rape of Nanking ’ . |
| 12 | By ‘ social action ’ Weber refers to action ‘ which takes account of the behaviour of others and is thereby oriented in its course ’ . |
| 13 | The distinction is not clean and complete , partly because the umbrella has some social significance and is not customary everywhere , partly because some behaviour , like avoiding other people when wanting to be alone , takes account of the behaviour of others without exactly being social . |
| 14 | Humorous account of the behaviour of omnibus ‘ cads ’ and passengers . |
| 15 | Elsewhere in this issue , Isabel Wolff reports on the inspiring life of Rigoberta Menchu , a indefatigable defender of human rights of indigenous people in Central America ; Ian Williams describes his experience in Somalia while working there as a nurse during the worst of the 1992 famine ; and we publish an extract from The Princess , an anonymous account of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia . |
| 16 | Polybius was the first to give a first-hand account of the interior of Spain . |
| 17 | It is not possible or necessary to consider this question fully here , but a consideration of the texts of Scaevola shows that in fact he too took account of the scientia of buyers when considering the availability of missio . |
| 18 | As we have no continuous contemporary account of the persecution of Antiochus IV and of the Maccabean reaction , I do not see how we can decide whether any Psalm may be labelled as Maccabean . |
| 19 | It was a brilliantly imaginative , and in parts satirical , account of the boyhood of King Arthur , loosely based on the work of Sir Thomas Malory [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | [ Charles Drage , Taikoo : an Account of the Firm of Butterfield & Swire , 1970 ; Gavin Young , Beyond Lion Rock : the Story of Cathay Pacific Airways , 1988 ; private information . ] |
| 21 | The law 's requirement for information on entry is an attempt to take account of the variety of policies operated by schools . |
| 22 | I have not attempted to give an exhaustive or systematic account of the variety of government functions . |
| 23 | The view of the House of Lords in Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1301 failed to take sufficient account of the variety of situations in which the phrase " dealing in the course of a business " appear . |
| 24 | ( For those interested in the whole question , I consider John Grigg 's account of the Duke of Windsor in the DNB to be the fairest assessment I know . ) |
| 25 | The developments which followed are too recent and perhaps too elaborate to belong in this essentially historical account of the discovery of drugs . |
| 26 | I remember an astonishingly impassioned account of the finale of Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony televised live from Berlin . |
| 27 | Fairies appear in the account of the sanctity of Wulfstan of Worcester . |
| 28 | Tallis remembered his fragmentary account of the battle of Bavduin , his incomplete memory of the legend that was ensnaring him . |
| 29 | And around this same period , an Englishman reading in the public library at Bagnères came upon an account of the battle of Toulouse in the Napoleonic wars which he thought too favourable to the French , and annotated it accordingly in the interests of accuracy . |
| 30 | ( 10 ) A synthesising question a question that pulls the questioning process together , and allows for a resolution of the problem , e.g. " Write an account of the Battle of Hastings from the viewpoint of either Bishop Odo or Harold 's standard bearer . " |