Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking the mean of the contributions from the 68 and 90% population fractions produced the expression : |
| 2 | Moreover , the isolation of the men of the wetlands led to inbreeding . |
| 3 | At least one well-documented zodiac has now been claimed by its author to be a conscious fabrication , and the astrologer John Addey has shown how easy it is to ascribe the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac to places chosen at random , in his humorous example of the Cheam Zodiac . |
| 4 | This section outlines some of the main characteristics of the changes in the international economy over the post-war period and starts to draw out some implications for our understanding of the UK 's position in it . |
| 5 | For this passage very accurately and very succinctly encapsulates the characteristics of the Scots of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 6 | Gorbachev 's plans for more radical nuclear weapons cuts were generally received with caution , however , by Western leaders , some of whom reportedly questioned the feasibility of the proposals in the face of the rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Lord Brougham reminded His Majesty of the misdemeanours of the Stewart kings , which had included ‘ thwarting the prejudices and opposing the wishes ’ of the nation ( quoted in Priestley , 1971 : 159 ) . |
| 8 | The association of the beakers with the gods and the spirit world could support a further idea that their purchasers might drink to their chosen deity either in thanks for a favour granted or for one to come . |
| 9 | We should be careful not to exaggerate the suddenness of the change within Whiggery after 1715 ; some of these developments — such as the decline of Whig populism , or the association of the Whigs with the Low Church bishops , did have earlier roots . |
| 10 | All right for some , Nutty thought despondently , thinking of the others in the warehouse feeding the horses , nothing to worry about any more . |
| 11 | The date of these events can be inferred only by the episcopal chronology of the bishops of the eastern Angles . |
| 12 | As we shall show in the later sections , a great deal of the activities of the fans can be understood as symbolic activities in the mode of metonymy . |
| 13 | Luch never actually gave him any news , but hidden in the bower she heard all the gossip of the maids , and Lady Marion 's occasional rages , and learned a great deal of the events in the castle . |
| 14 | She shuddered as the switchback roared overhead , but stood watching as a small train meandered through a series of paths , and laughed at the joyful screams of the children on the dodgems . |
| 15 | Patrician insolence has quite often appeared to express a perception of the activities of the levelling Labour governments which have come and gone since 1945 . |
| 16 | The other weakness is the ending , which has suffered from Hollywood 's perception of the tastes of the American box office . |
| 17 | The other weakness is the ending , which has suffered from Hollywood 's perception of the tastes of the American box office . |
| 18 | Although the article was resubmitted during the same editorship , by the time the referee 's report arrived the editor had changed and the new incumbent had a different perception of the needs of the journal . |
| 19 | Models of this kind , where the construction of meaning dominates — and influences — the perception of the marks on the page , are often called ‘ top-down ’ models . |
| 20 | In a logical net , the parameter values are the settings of the bits in the cells of its RAM chips . |
| 21 | They are tolerant in their bridle adjustment ( as distinct from the sophisticated 110 degree , swept-delta steerables to be found in Chapter Eight ) , and the newcomer is unlikely ever to require to alter the settings of the rings on the bridle legs . |
| 22 | Now at least they are in the same boat , and the balancing of the pronouns in the last four lines declares their equality : I have quoted extensively from that sonnet in order to give the full context for this Our : what they have in common is that they have sinned , each has betrayed the other . |
| 23 | ‘ in particular with the basic proposition that the exercise of the discretion involves the balancing of the requirements of the liquidator or administrator to obtain information on the one hand against the possible oppression to the person sought to be examined on the other . |
| 24 | The static lines which pulled open their parachutes had simply been tied to the metal legs of the seats inside the fuselage . |
| 25 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 26 | Under the editorship of Roszak , and subsequently Rod Prince , Peace News trailed the bulk of the preoccupations for the next half-decade . |
| 27 | It will be noted they provided the bulk of the players for the Canadian side which so impressed against France and New Zealand in the World Cup . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the bulk of the findings in the report suggested a kinship to Dr Beeching . |
| 29 | He argues that while only a few of the Palestinian sites have been linked by archaeology with the Bible , the bulk of the names in the Yemen area are to be found stated in the Bible and that this was where Abraham , the Caravan King , had his home and it was here that the Israelites settled after they had crossed the Red Sea with Moses . |
| 30 | As such it might characterise mainstream political science — the bulk of the contributions to the major political science journals , for example , could fall into this category . |