Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] lectures on " in BNC.

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1 Apart from his lectures at Woolwich , he delivered a course of lectures on the horse at Guy 's Hospital in 1817 .
2 I shall give a course of lectures on it . "
3 The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) .
4 Such societies usually offer a programme of lectures on a range of archaeological subjects , excursions to archaeological sites , and sometimes other activities such as the chance to participate in fieldwork or excavation .
5 He had exhibited work every year since 1847 , and had given about three of a series of lectures on mediaeval architecture to students at the Academy , which he had started the previous year .
6 Given these fears and the imminence of their object , it may seem to be rather worse than fiddling while Rome burns to raise in a series of lectures on law and disarmament that essay-worn jurisprudential topic ‘ is international law really law ? ’ .
7 Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there .
8 The Laboratoire de Conservation de la Pierre , now in its tenth year , has organised a series of lectures on how science can contribute to the restoration of works of art .
9 This book is based on a series of lectures on macrocyclic chemistry delivered by Professor Lehn at the Collège de France some years ago .
10 The lively programme of events also includes microwave cookery demonstrations by celebrities , championship aerobics displays , fashion shows , competitions , plus a series of lectures on natural therapies and much , much more .
11 Having a married sister in Cape Town , he sailed for South Africa in 1914 , where he painted some pictures , gave a series of lectures on modern art , and published a few articles and poems .
12 He returned to private practice with his brother and developed his notions sufficiently to present at the Manchester Technical College in 1887 a series of lectures on the completely new subject of chemical engineering .
13 A group of eminent liberal divines petitioned the trustees to endow a series of lectures on unsettled problems in theology .
14 On his return to the United States , Williams embarked upon a series of lectures on Negro issues , and more specifically , issues concerning the Negro in the Caribbean .
15 The rest of us had a series of lectures on Russian and Latvian etiquette , literature , architecture , religion and recognition of uniforms and fighting vehicles of the Soviet Army .
16 ‘ I went to a series of lectures on the history of art which he gave in Exeter where I was in my final year reading English .
17 My most important task as a new university teacher was to plan and deliver a series of lectures on ‘ Rhetoric ’ .
18 Wilson , himself a soccer fan , was the same , as Crossman discovered when he went to see him in April 1970 about a set of lectures on Cabinet government he was preparing for Harvard :
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