Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [n mass] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , responsible for the general management of this category of Crown properties — for the felling of timber in the forests for the Royal Navy , for repairs to Crown property , for royal gifts to subjects , or for sale ; for dealing with claims to customary rights in the Forest , for paying the keepers ' wages and for providing hay for the deer in times of scarcity . |
| 2 | The " offer of amends " would be a valuable protection for the media in cases of unintentional defamation , were it not encumbered by what the Faulks Committee described as " expensive rigmarole " — a procedure which requires the swearing of a detailed affidavit about how the confusion arose , which must be served at the same time as the offer of amends . |
| 3 | A guide to art reference books published in 1969 had 2,500 entries , some of which referred to series ; for example , there was a single entry for the series of monographs on individual artists , called Klassiker der Kunst , also published in French as Classiques d'Art , in which there are thirty-eight books . |
| 4 | Tolkien by contrast was pre-eminently aware of his source-texts , like Beowulf , or Snorri 's Edda , or La3amon 's Brut , as the works of individuals like himself , who used old stories for contemporary purposes just as he did . |
| 5 | In a similar way the Desert Fathers , whose ascetical practices frequently seem to pass into the range of farce , are regarded at least with affection and more often with deep admiration , partly of course because of the delightful anecdotery that has collected around them , and is known to us through the works of writers like Helen Waddell . |
| 6 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 7 | After the series of disasters with the female graduate assistants the organisation hired Tom Watt . |
| 8 | After a series of meetings on July 15 both the National Front and the Janata Dal rejected Singh 's resignation offer and it was announced that he would reluctantly stay in office . |
| 9 | After a series of meetings with various parties in Damascus Giandomenico Picco , assistant for special assignments in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General and architect of the exchange plan , announced on Nov. 30 that " important progress " had been made . |
| 10 | It will be a decisive day for the Government as a whole , which is desperate for a Budget coup to lift its fortunes after a series of setbacks on economic policy , pit closures and Maastricht . |
| 11 | He said he had been scared to tell the truth after a series of threats from one of the gang . |
| 12 | Police are warning householders to beware of sneak thieves after a series of burglaries in Newton Aycliffe . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it came after a series of disagreements with the government over the previous 18 months . |
| 14 | He clashed with his superior and was moved to a different section , and after a series of complaints about his behaviour he was sent back to England at the request of the ambassador at the beginning of May 1951 . |
| 15 | The operation , at Milton Keynes , came after a series of complaints from residents and shopkeepers in the city . |
| 16 | Para-military police reinforcements were drafted into Calcutta after the explosion , just four days after a series of bombs in Bombay killed at least 250 people . |
| 17 | Bulgaria faced an energy crisis during February after a series of faults at its Kozloduy nuclear plant , which supplied 40 per cent of the country 's electricity . |
| 18 | Mr Lamont was seen as a prime candidate for the chop after a series of disasters including Britain 's exit from the ERM . |
| 19 | It follows from the birth of the ‘ casual ’ in the 1978–79 football season , after a series of sorties into Europe by fans following teams from Merseyside , Manchester , London , Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 20 | In July 1337 , after a series of negotiations with the wool merchants , the king obtained an agreement under which a select group of wealthy merchants would be empowered to buy up and export 30,000 sacks of wool . |
| 21 | Eventually , after a series of confrontations in which both sides seemed curiously reluctant to come to blows , Mar 's and Argyll 's main armies were left uneasily eyeing each other at Stirling , while Mackintosh , around 22 October , joined up at Kelso in Roxburghshire , on the River Tweed , a mere five miles [ 8 km ] short of the Border , with ‘ General ’ Forster 's English rebels , forming a combined force of around 2100 men , of whom 600 were well-armed cavalry . |
| 22 | Waller , 34 , of Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , snapped after a series of crimes against him , Newcastle Crown Court heard . |
| 23 | Three people have been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice after a series of arrests in dawn raids yesterday |
| 24 | After 1978 , however , the influence of Althusser declined rapidly after a series of books by two Marxist sociologists , Barry Hindess and Paul Hirst , who developed and extended the implications of those critiques already made in France . |
| 25 | Officials asked for money to help the Middlesbrough club survive after a series of fires at their Normanby Road ground . |
| 26 | The Kenyan judiciary had been accused by the opposition of being pro-government after a series of rulings in support of the one-party state . |
| 27 | In the summer of 1990 Moscato and a third Bègles prop , Verges , were sent off after a series of clashes with Agen players . |
| 28 | In contrast the separation of the pair of lines of longitude shown diverging from the pole N in Fig. 3.7 does not vary linearly with the distance s measured from the pole . |
| 29 | Those necessary to establish the attitude of the aircraft in terms of pitch , roll and yaw throughout the reconstructed flight-path . |
| 30 | The loads are constructed and pushed out of the aircraft by men from the army 's Royal Logistic Corps . |