Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the controversy " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of the controversy over the rejection by the Royal Academy of his portrait of T. S. Eliot , Lewis had resumed the kind of fame he had attained before the First World War . |
| 2 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 3 | At the heart of the controversy is a 440-page guidebook , Children Of The Rainbow , which advises teachers how to encourage pupils of five and six to respect homosexuals . |
| 4 | I agree with the Secretary of State that the matters involved are highly technical and that the Hydrotechnica report deals with matters that have been at the heart of the controversy . |
| 5 | Long battles ensued , with an intensification of the controversy when the CNAA approved a BSc sandwich course in Industrial Design ( Technology ) at Napier College , Edinburgh — not one of the Central Institutions . |
| 6 | Again , when the Irishman Scotus Eriugena , one of the two finest minds of the ninth century ( the other was Gottschalk , close student of Augustine 's works and initiator of the controversy on predestination ) , translated from Greek into Latin the Heavenly Hierarchy of Pseudo-Denis ( c .860 ) , he might at first sight have been engaged in something purely academic . |
| 7 | The pictures were going to have a final edit anyway it certainly was not simply a question of the controversy which started late last week . ’ |
| 8 | He considered the focus of the controversy to be the juridical effects of a stipulation made in favour of a third party , which he deconstructed into three questions : can a third party claim directly any such benefit or can it only be claimed through the auspices of a State party ; may the parties to the agreement amend or abolish the stipulation without the consent of the third party ; and need the third party accept the stipulation in order to be vested with the benefit in question ? 120 |
| 9 | We shall conclude with an examination of the controversy over the use of Stonehenge as a site of pilgrimage during the summer solstice . |
| 10 | ‘ We can only presume , ’ wrote Dr Foxley ‘ that this lesser or non-existent discount to be granted in Wales is as a result of the ‘ fiery nature of the controversy ’ over holiday homes in Wales in the past ’ . |
| 11 | 1838 coincided with the culmination of the anti-apprenticeship campaign , 1840 with the first World Anti-Slavery Convention in London and 1848 with the high point of the controversy over whether to maintain the West African naval squadron as the main instrument of slave trade suppression . |
| 12 | The main importance of the controversy in the history of the Church of England was in the opportunity which it gave Andrewes to assert to Rome that ‘ Our appeal is to antiquity — yea even the most extreme antiquity . |
| 13 | 15.9.3 Diminishing importance of the controversy |
| 14 | That was only the beginning of the controversy . |
| 15 | The society was set up in 1910 in the aftermath of the controversy surrounding the disparaging remarks of Sir George Birdwood [ q.v. ] about Indian art . |
| 16 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 17 | One must remember that it was specifically this issue of clerical power over schools which was the nub of the controversy in the 1900–14 period . |
| 18 | At the centre of the controversy was Professor Stephen Salter , now Professor of Engineering Design at Edinburgh University , and the inventor of one of the most promising wave power systems . |
| 19 | He was at the centre of the controversy that led to the Unix Wars and the creation of the Open Software Foundation while on secondment to AT&T Co from Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 20 | The five leading members of the party at the centre of the controversy , Pearnel Charles , Errol Anderson , Karl Samuda , Edmund Bartlett and Douglas Vaz , although stating that they did not want to unseat Seaga , refused to give a public statement of unconditional loyalty to him . |
| 21 | The news came as British Olympic chiefs demanded that confusion over the status of clenbuterol the drug at the centre of the controversy should be quickly cleared up by their international counterparts . |
| 22 | Paula Milne 's novel , on which the play was subsequently based , was written in the wake of the controversies surrounding the Leonard Arthur case and the case of Alexandra , the Down 's child granted an operation by Hammersmith Council against the wishes of her parents . |
| 23 | His investigation of the plans was released ahead of the white paper on energy supplies in the wake of the controversy over British Coal plans to close 31 pits as a result of the dash for gas . |
| 24 | In the event the union of Foix and Béarn in 1290 effectively solved one aspect of the controversy — Roger-Bernard III , count of Foix and vicomté of Béarn , now embodied the claims of both houses to Bigorre . |
| 25 | During the height of the controversy over the 1902 Education Bill , its membership numbered 396 but attendance at annual and special meetings ranged from ‘ small ’ to ‘ fair ’ . |
| 26 | Irvine has presented a detailed analysis of the controversy regarding the role of these two inositol phosphates in regulating calcium entry . |
| 27 | A simple illustration of the controversy over the effects of monetary policy on aggregate demand is provided by the quantity theory of money ( see page 536 ) . |
| 28 | Death duties were increased on estates of over £5,000 and for the first time , and an especial cause of the controversy with the Lords , taxes were levied on land : 20 per cent of the unearned increment on land values , levied on sales of land . |
| 29 | Only Southwest Airlines , sitting squarely in the middle of the controversy , takes no side . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , in view of the controversy which was later to follow when illness brought my own tenure of office to an end , it is perhaps worth rehearsing the true story . |