Example sentences of "controversy over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the still-simmering controversy over a fellow Tory 's ‘ bloody nigger ’ insult , the argument was indefensible . |
| 2 | Chauthala had been forced to resign by the Janata Dal leadership after months of controversy over a state-level by-election in Haryana 's Meham constituency . |
| 3 | In May Devi Lal 's son , Om Prakash Chauthala , had been forced to resign as the Janata Dal Chief Minister of Haryana ( a post he had effectively inherited from his father in December 1989 ) after months of controversy over a state-level by-election [ see p. 37452 ] . |
| 4 | The controversy over the Contagious Diseases Acts , passed in the 1860s to impose compulsory medical examination and registration on working-class women suspected of being prostitutes in designated garrison and naval towns , generated an avalanche of controversy and publications . |
| 5 | The elections were held in the context of continuing controversy over the recent introduction of the community charge ( " poll tax " ) system of local government finance [ see page 37329 ] . |
| 6 | Controversy over the recent securities scandal [ see pp. 38913 ; 38967 ; 39008 ; 39053 ; 39099 ] intensified after three foreign banks implicated in the affair admitted , in evidence before a joint parliamentary committee investigating the scandal [ see p. 39053 ] , that they had contravened Indian banking regulations . |
| 7 | Any controversy over the new legal framework would give ammunition to Mr Meacher 's critics within the party . |
| 8 | Because of Sub-Committee E 's special remit to scrutinize the vires of any Community proposal , any document which shows that there is doubt or controversy over the appropriate legal base will be identified and sifted to E. About a quarter of all documents are sifted to a sub-committee and the remainder , when the sift is endorsed by the full Select Committee at its next meeting , are cleared . |
| 9 | Some insight into the Whig perspective is provided by the controversy over the Kentish petition towards the end of William 's reign . |
| 10 | The same misreading of the evidence is apparent in the controversy over the alleged lack of prudence of the working class , particularly as manifested in the younger age of marriage . |
| 11 | THE National Science Foundation in the US funded a two-to three-year study ‘ to examine the many areas of controversy over the scientific use , development , and application of gene-transplantation research ’ . |
| 12 | The controversy over the continuing influx of Poles seeking cheaper Czechoslovak goods — and the difficulty of fixing an exchange rate between the koruna and the zloty — prevented visa requirements between the two countries from being lifted until July 1991 . |
| 13 | The crashes aroused controversy over the computerised control systems on the newer models — made in Toulouse by a Euro consortium including British Aerospace . |
| 14 | The controversy over the pre-war period revolves around five central questions : the likelihood of renewed rebellion by the peasantry ; the dynamics of working-class protest ; the prospects for the consolidation of the Empire 's middle classes into a formidable social and political force ; the solidity of the tsarist forces of repression ; and the effect of Russia 's entry into the First World War upon socio-political conditions in the Empire . |
| 15 | ANYONE would think from the controversy over the English Shakespeare Company 's production of Macbeth at Darlington Civic Theatre that the company are completely unaware of theatre finance . |
| 16 | The latest disclosures will re-open controversy over the royal couple and Diana 's belief that the friendship between the Prince and Camilla , who have known each other for more than 10 years , has undermined her marriage . |
| 17 | THE ISSUE of awarding banking staff performance-related pay has been thrown into sharp relief by the current controversy over the Royal Bank of Scotland 's ‘ Performance Plus ’ scheme . |
| 18 | There is controversy over the precise location of the true oesophagogastric junction or ‘ cardia ’ in patients with reflux oesophagitis . |
| 19 | He plunged headlong into the controversy over the architectural style for New Delhi , urging the imperial government to adopt the Mogul style for its new capital as a gesture of goodwill towards their Indian subjects . |
| 20 | Officials at Japan 's Ministry of International Trade & Industry now say that they 're tired of quibbling over market share figures with the US , and say they do n't intend to allow the US to establish a new market share goal in upcoming semiconductor talks , which will begin in Hawaii next Tuesday , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ Because there was a controversy over the old 20% figure , which was taken as some form of commitment , we have no intention of referring to any new numbers ’ Koji Matsui , deputy director of the industrial electronics division of the Ministry declared . |
| 21 | The coming of new and dramatic types of treatment , however , only heightened rather than diminished the controversy over the old hospitals . |
| 22 | And there is still a raging controversy over the double flash in 1979 over Antarctic waters which Washington believes was a test explosion of a South African nuclear device . ’ |
| 23 | Controversy over the Scottish National Party 's decision to do a deal with the Government over seats on the EC committee of the regions resurfaced . |
| 24 | Controversy over the Scottish National Party 's decision to do a deal with the Tories over seats on the EC committee of the regions resurfaced . |
| 25 | In September communal rioting had spread through Kerala , Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh after renewed controversy over the disputed site of the Babri mosque at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh [ see p. 39008 ] . |