Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [noun sg] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | An English scholar who visited it in 1887 – 88 found that the atmosphere was mediaeval ; politics and progress were scarcely mentioned , and the talk turned mostly on mysticism , metaphysics and religion ; the most burning political questions were those connected with the successors of the Prophet Mohammed in the seventh century of our era ; only the most languid interest in external affairs was aroused by the occasional appearance of the official journals . |
| 2 | THE heroic era of poliomyelitis research started with the isolation of the polio virus in monkeys by and in 1908 , and culminated in the development of vaccines protecting against this paralytic disease in the 1950s. , who died on 3 March , in Washington , was one of the heroes of this era . |
| 3 | It is understandable that the previous isolation of the disease results in a sense of amazement in early recovery on the discovery that other people have not only shared similar experiences but also similar thoughts and feelings . |
| 4 | According to Kuhn , an analysis of the characteristics of a crisis period in science demands the competence of the psychologist as much as that of an historian . |
| 5 | His last work was the reorganization of the telephone system in Malta . |
| 6 | A reorganization of the Land Cabinet in Saxony-Anhalt took place on Aug. 16 , following the resignation of the Free Democrat deputy Minister President Gerd Brunner on Aug. 9 and of the Agriculture Minister four days later , over accusations that they had acted as agents for the former East German Ministry of State Security — the " Stasi " . |
| 7 | Bowie is a close enough friend of Scorsese 's to have been given a storyboard of a fight scene in the director 's Raging Bull ( Bowie loves boxing ) although he intensely disliked Marty 's latest film , the box-office smash Cape Fear . |
| 8 | But there is no doubt that the real organizational flair , the risk-taking , and the shrewd perception of the profit opportunities in catering belonged to members of the Salmon and Gluckstein families , and the real power in the company lay with them . |
| 9 | Anderson 's praise of Crisp , in contrast , reflects his different perception of the power relationship in scene four . |
| 10 | The bulk of the textile manufacturers in northern France at the same period were similarly children of what could already be considered the middle strata ; the bulk of the mid-nineteenth-century Nottingham hosiery manufacturers had similar origins , two-thirds of them actually coming from the hosiery trade . |
| 11 | We know , for instance , that the bulk of the bronze currency in circulation in the northern provinces of the Roman empire in the middle of the third century AD consisted of worn second-century sestertii only from the hoards that can be dated to those years . |
| 12 | ENGLAND claimed the bulk of the judo medals in the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland but the Commonwealth Tournament at the National Sports Centre , Cardiff , this weekend will be more open . |
| 13 | Women comprise the vast majority of the market workforce , which has represented an important political force of the opposition movement in this century . |
| 14 | ‘ Access to Enterprise ’ is primarily an educational development programme aimed at influencing the curriculum and teaching methods of the undergraduate courses in the University . |
| 15 | I was given , in my first job , responsibility for the administration of the education service in an area one-and-a-half times the size of Scotland . |
| 16 | Defeat of the Axis troops in Tunisia marked in Churchill 's words ‘ the end of the beginning ’ but for the enemy the beginning of the end and was indeed the turning point of the Second World War . |
| 17 | The distribution of power in the legislature was also fundamentally altered by the dilution of the seniority principle in the early 1970s . |
| 18 | As well as £2,000 , and a trophy presented by the Duchess of Kent , he has won a place in the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year heats in Brussels in June . |
| 19 | The president of a village tribunal in another Low Country district reported that peasants often made use of ritual to solve minor disputes . |
| 20 | On March 2 Igor Smirnov , elected President of the Dnestr republic in December 1991 [ see p. 38657 ] , imposed a curfew and conscription . |
| 21 | Professor Nikolaus Fiebiger , president of the University Erlangen in Nuremberg , has proposed an alternative that may meet with better success : to create a number of professorships that would be eliminated as older professors left the university . |
| 22 | Prince Charles , in his capacity as president of the charity Business in the Community , was to be the guest speaker . |
| 23 | ‘ I extend my hand to the new president of the Greek-Cypriot people in south Cyprus , ’ he said , deliberately choosing language which challenges the legitimacy of the Cyprus republic . |
| 24 | He served as president of the Library Association in 1954 . |
| 25 | VISCOUNT Leverhulme , president of The Boat Museum in Ellesmere Port , has opened a new entrance and shop at the waterways museum complex . |
| 26 | NICOLAI GRAKHOV , PRESIDENT OF THE ROCK CLUB IN BORIS YELTSIN 'S HOME-TOWN OF SVERDLOVSK , WAS A RECENT SPEAKER AT THE IRISH INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SEMINAR . |
| 27 | Franco Piro , president of the finance commission in the lower house of Italy 's legislature , plans to investigate the banks ' role in the Federconsorzi fiasco . |
| 28 | Re-read Accidental deletion of a paragraph mark in Task 20 |
| 29 | Malondialdehyde is a stable end-product of the prostaglandin pathway in platelets . |
| 30 | The deep , deep shit to which Selwyn had referred concerned the collapse of a marina development in which her father had invested heavily . |