Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [noun prp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The available armed forces were expected to be fully committed to the defence of Italy in the first two years of a war . |
| 2 | A long paragraph presented the acts of God in the Bible as like a mighty drama . |
| 3 | Traditionally the British had been Champagne 's most lucrative customers — after the drink had been popularised in society by the Marlboroughs and the Prince of Wales in the last half of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Kepler considers the orbit of Mars in the context of differentiating between three competing models of the world system : the Copernican ( in which all the planets — earth included — orbit the sun ) , the Ptolemaic ( in which sun and planets orbit a stationary earth ) , and the alternative geostatic system of Tycho Brahe ( see Fig . |
| 5 | Since those warm springs were the principal reason for the existence of Baden in the earliest days , perhaps they should be dealt with first . |
| 6 | In order to do so I do not feel that it is necessary to ‘ prove ’ the existence of God in the sense of demonstrating with mathematical certainty that He exists . |
| 7 | A single track divides North Uist , from north to south , built in 1845 to provide employment during the terrible potato famine that ravaged Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 8 | The chance to battle it out with the giants of Europe in the new Champions League , the likes of AC MIlan , Barcelona and Marseille , is a dream , even for veterans like Strachan . |
| 9 | But we must hurry north , pausing only to observe that the most dramatic survivor from the early Middle Ages , and perhaps the greatest of all the cities of Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries , was Cordoba , then in its heyday under the caliphate and its first Indian summer . |
| 10 | From government statistics ( Claus Moser ) and social theory ( Ernest Gellner ) to art history ( Ernst Gombrich ) and the Freudian legacy , a few thousand men and women born in the cities of Mitteleuropa in the first quarter of this century quickened the pulse of a smug and sluggish culture . |
| 11 | For example , in the case of Rome in the third century BC , we can calculate that the total amount of silver coinage produced was small in comparison with Rome 's ‘ income ’ at the time , as defined by plunder , tribute and indemnities , and we can thereby see that silver coinage played only a minor role in the economy . |
| 12 | It could be argued , therefore , that the rise of Mercia in the eighth century represented a serious destabilization of the southumbrian situation before the return to a new balance between the Mercians and the West Saxons in the first half of the ninth . |
| 13 | It was an artistic and cultural centre as well as a commercial one and retained its importance until the rise of Moscow in the fifteenth century . |
| 14 | Houses run up in the courts of Birmingham in the 1820s and 1830s cost – ; 60 each to build . |
| 15 | On the domestic front the Archbishop of Milan in the mid-sixteenth-century was St Charles ( San Carlo ) Borromeo , born in Arona Castle on the western shore of Lake Maggiore in 1538 . |
| 16 | CRITICISM of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1987 Crockford 's Preface was not taken personally by Dr Runcie , who comforted some critics during the row which followed , according to a book published today . |
| 17 | History is the arena in which , first through the period of the Old Testament , then by the teaching of Jesus in the New , the way has been prepared for the gradual purifying and refining of man 's religious sense which will lead to a third , future era , in which religious values will be seen to shine in their own light as ‘ necessary truths of reason ’ . |
| 18 | For light is not lacking : ‘ the Gal who commanded light to shine out of ( primeval ) darkness has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ ’ ( 2 Cor. 4:6 ) . |
| 19 | Opposition to the Shah 's regime was disparate — fragments of the old National Front , a survival from the times of Mossadeq in the 1940s and 1950s ; a miscellany of resurgent Islamic and minor left-wing groups ; the pro-Moscow Tudeh Party ; disappointed businessmen who perceived the hand of the Shah 's family behind every deal they failed to clinch ; and smaller traders who resented the Shah 's busying himself with high prices in the bazaar . |
| 20 | ( This was the experience of France in the IIIrd and IVth Republics . ) |
| 21 | With Ostpolitik and acceptance of the division of Germany in the late Sixties the church removed one of the worst bones of contention by leaving the pan-German Evangelical Church . |
| 22 | On land the Company was not really strong enough for such antics , but its naval superiority gave it a place in the third or fourth rank of powers in India , beneath the Emperor at the top and great rulers like the Nawab of Bengal in the second rank . |
| 23 | STEVE Cram launches his new 5,000 metres career on the roads of Aberdeen in the mood to confound the critics who have written him off as a has-been . |
| 24 | The Spirit universalises the presence of Jesus in the hearts of disciples . |
| 25 | In the case of the gal P1 promoter carried by the 144 bp fragment , only one band is observed on the autoradiogram irrespective of the presence of CRP in the polymerase-promoter complex . |
| 26 | The Council fathers decisively rejected Protestant doctrines on central issues such as justification , the presence of Christ in the Eucharist and sacramental efficacy , and promulgated a series of decrees on purgatory , the veneration of relics , images and saints , and indulgences — almost , it seems , as an act of defiance to the reformers who had denied them . |
| 27 | The violent repercussions of the second decree have been examined in the case-study of Roslavl' in the Smolensk guberniia . |
| 28 | One to George II from the pasha of Tripoli in the 1750s had to be sent to the Netherlands to be translated ; and another from the sultan of Morocco to George III in 1779 was still awaiting translation several months after reaching London . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , France 's Minister for Research and Technology urged the two US winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize to honour Dominique Stehelin , a Frenchman who took part in the award-winning cancer research at the University of California in the 1970s . |
| 30 | These include Genet 's prosopograhy of the members of the University of Paris in the Middle Ages ( 1988 ) , the British Academy 's Lexicon of Greek Personal Names ( Matthews , pers comm ) , the image and text archive of greek pottery being created by the Beazley Archive ( Kurtz 1993 ) and the Corpus of Romanesque Stone Sculpture in Britain and Ireland . |