Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [art] [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are insurance subsidiaries set up to insure some or all of the risks of a group of companies . |
| 2 | These developments were greatly facilitated and consolidated by the personal characteristics of a series of kings . |
| 3 | Drucker itemised four characteristics of the nature of decisions . |
| 4 | The absence of all but a handful of examples in the biographical sources of this method of obtaining mevleviyets leads to the inference that someone obtaining a mevleviyet by this route could not expect to get much further in the hierarchy ; and indeed the provision itself , while not prohibiting the practice , does remove one of the principal prerogatives of the holders of mevleviyets . |
| 5 | The papers presented at TEP'92 describe the objectives , content , learning strategies and assessment methods of a number of courses currently being mounted and all concerned with aspects of EP . |
| 6 | Some changed their paper-types , and others were persistent readers of a myriad of papers with individual readerships too small for us to analyse ( the Scotsman , the Glasgow Herald , and regional English papers , for example ) . |
| 7 | While precise indicators of the numbers of laws depend upon more precise definition of what are considered as laws ( there is a variety of different types of order , statute and regulation ) , one crude indicator for the expansion of legislation in the United States is that the Federal Register grew from 2,355 pages in 1936 to 60,221 pages in 1975 ; another indicator for Britain is found in the Index to the Statutes — the index listing legislation for , the period from 1235 to 1935 takes up 788 pages , while that for 1936 to 1982 takes up 978 pages . |
| 8 | They are only suffered in such places in order to appear respectable in the eyes of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers ( AFBD ) . |
| 9 | In a Raman spectrum , the intensity of a band depends on the squares of the derivatives of components of the polarizability tensor , . |
| 10 | This advisory section of the descriptor gives an indication to tutors of the range of contexts within which a module could be offered and the subject matter which would assist in the achievement of the Outcomes . |
| 11 | In other words , the focus of Gironella 's attention is neither historically nor iconographically arbitrary , although in some ways his reworkings of the paintings of others could be seen to be simply an extension of a fairly conventional activity . |
| 12 | Set against this is the felt reality ; the constraining influences of the number of individuals a person has to interact with at any one moment and the problem of time . |
| 13 | Choice of themes and situations is governed by religious , cultural and educational considerations of the country of countries for which the course is planned . |
| 14 | They believe that the world is flat and triangular ; that it is composed of seven distinct habitations … and that each is surrounded by its own peculiar sea ; that one sea is of milk ; another of sugar ; a third of butter ; a fourth of wine ; and so on … [ also that ] the whole of this world is supported on the heads of a number of elephants whose occasional motion is the cause of earthquakes . |
| 15 | Thus , for example , the prison service may wish to pursue the twin goals of the punishment of offenders and at the same time their rehabilitation . |
| 16 | Supporters of the nexus of contracts model of the company go further , seeking to deprive the ‘ problem ’ of weak shareholder control even of its status as a problem , and thereby to legitimate the replacement of control by means of shareholder democracy with control through markets . |
| 17 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 18 | Soma the father pursues Nianakoro the son across the landscape with the help of a stout magic pole borne on the shoulders of a couple of servants . |
| 19 | News of the Polish plan comes hot on the heels of the introduction of restrictions on currency convertability that threaten to wipe out the Slovakian market ; both developments underline the degree of risk that is still attached to operating in the region . |
| 20 | The correlation between a legal obligation on the one hand and a subjective right on the other admits of no exception ; as distinct from what is said to be the situation in municipal law , there are certainly no obligations incumbent on a subject which are not matched by an international subjective right of another subject or subjects , or even … of the totality of the other subjects of the law of nations . |
| 21 | They expect to be net importers of a variety of items — varying from computers to television programming . |
| 22 | Records of their findings now comprise the Library of Visitation Books of the College of Arms , and a number have been published by the Harleian Society . |
| 23 | The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood . |
| 24 | Japanese kites , and there are almost a score here to set beside nearly 90 examples from China , tend to be either square or diamond-shaped and to be emblazoned with fearsome images of the heads of actors from the Kabuki stage . |
| 25 | Ironically , one graduate of the 1980s remarks , in the same publication , that she finds the idea of being called an embroiderer quite amusing because it conjures up images of the edges of tablecloths ’ . |
| 26 | Most patients reacted to injections of a number of substances and he made them up custom made ‘ vaccines ’ of supposed antidotes . |
| 27 | If the great mass of the people are to make a cultural democracy for themselves a prime objective must be the development of political awareness and action so that they can achieve command of their own culture and control of the socio-economic forces which affect it , surmounting the crises of a world of crises . |
| 28 | The outcome of numerous studies into different aspects of the behaviour of groups is a considerable store of useful and practicable knowledge about the working of groups . |
| 29 | In spite of these limitations , various aspects of the behaviour of copolymers , plasticized polymers , and the chain length dependence of T g , can be predicted in a reasonably satisfactory manner . |
| 30 | We may be appalled by what we find , but there is also consolation in discovering even trivial aspects of the lives of parents and ancestors whose histories we identify with our own . |