Example sentences of "[prep] [art] triumph of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Fifth Congress the colonial question began to be perceived as an essential factor for the triumph of socialism on a world scale . |
| 2 | Robert Stephenson , when John met him after the week 's delay , was amused at the story of the Triumph of Rhyll . |
| 3 | Miss Caroline Crawford , the authority 's spokesman , said : ‘ We can all sneer at people who are caught out by outrageous offers , but it is often a case of the triumph of hope over experience . |
| 4 | This celebration of the triumph of democracy coincided with a congressional debate on the curbing of civil liberties under the state of emergency declared on Thursday . |
| 5 | The declaration , with its renewed emphasis on the importance of unity and on the obstacles to it , reads like the triumph of hope over experience : ‘ We urge our clergy and faithful not to neglect or undervalue that certain yet imperfect communion we already share . |
| 6 | The ideal female nude is thus seen as a triumph of form and expression ; a realisation of qualities which are believed to be intrinsic to the female body . |
| 7 | CFCs were developed in the 1930s and were hailed as a triumph of science — they were cheap , non-flammable , non-toxic and reacted with very few other substances . |
| 8 | Their limbs entwined , he slowly and gently at first and then with a mounting fierceness made love to her again , his eyes gleaming with the triumph of possession as her pliant body instantly surrendered , both to his sensual touch and the low , husky murmur of his voice . |
| 9 | As evidence for this assertion she will point to the fact that the rise of the novel ( the literary genre of ‘ character ’ par excellence ) in the eighteenth century coincided with the rise of capitalism ; that the triumph of the novel over all other literary genres in the nineteenth century coincided with the triumph of capitalism ; and that the modernist and postmodernist deconstruction of the classic novel in the twentieth century has coincided with the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
| 10 | But now , with the triumph of Countess Maritza and Luxembourg behind her , it seemed unimportant . |
| 11 | The coalition facilitated a realignment from the two-party Liberal-Unionist contest in 1914 to the Labour-Conservative battles of the late 1920s ; only with the triumph of coalition in 1916 did the old politics die , and only with the destruction of coalitionism in 1924 could the new politics be born . |
| 12 | Both imply a market economy but , whereas even before the triumph of capitalism most large estates operated as productive units exist to sell a large proportion of their output , most peasant holdings , being primarily self-sustaining , do not . |
| 13 | Together with the customary songs , choruses , and ‘ symphonies ’ , they introduce somewhat primitive recitative , e.g. Irene 's opening words in The Triumph of Peace : Incidentally Irene was sung by a tenor : Nicholas Lanier . |
| 14 | To believe in the triumph of violence . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , for a number of writers the essential point is not so much that these ideas on unemployment and social welfare were new , as that a broad political consensus developed around them which achieved its apotheosis in the triumph of Keynesianism in 1947 [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ] . |
| 16 | Instances of cruelty and mania , in O'Brian and Forester , are not minimised , but they are subordinate to the drive of a story towards the traditional and expected ending in the triumph of right over wrong , of good over evil . |
| 17 | The forces of good and evil are ranged against each other in a struggle for victory , and the future depends upon the triumph of good . |
| 18 | In a triumph of renunciation of heterosexual closure in marriage , the poem ends with a celebration of the tranquillity and harmony to be found when women choose to live only for each other , in a feminine pastoral paradise , a sapphic idyll … |
| 19 | It is the way they know they have to pass before they come to the triumph of Easter . |
| 20 | In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism . |
| 21 | A newsletter writer of August 1692 complained that it was impossible to distinguish between those who did not come to church because they were attending conventicles and those who did not worship God at all , and he predicted the result would be the downfall of the Church of England followed by the triumph of popery . |