Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of the charter , launched on Monday at the Rockwell nature conservation area off Martindale Road , Darlington , was to inform people of the type of improvements the local authority would work towards . |
| 2 | Dr. Lynne Michelle , of Edinburgh , has highlighted in her studies on the perception of children of the promotion of cigarettes the grave danger , almost the entrapment of a younger generation by irresponsible elements in the industry and , sadly , the example set by other adults , including parents . |
| 3 | Drama school productions are staged with an awareness of the kind of demands the profession will make , and students are naturally anxious to be seen in the final production by people who 're likely to offer them work . |
| 4 | In the context of the transfer of businesses the former approach can amount to forcing the worker to work for someone he or she has not chosen . |
| 5 | By virtue of the transfer of cattle the woman 's biological offspring are ordinarily deemed to be members of the descent group of the husband rather than that of the woman 's father ; payment of the cattle makes the children legitimate ; cohabitation alone does not . |
| 6 | One visionary speaker at the British Association ( science ) meeting in 1984 spoke of the likelihood of rats the size of wolves inheriting the Earth in 50 million years time , when Man — in all probability — is no longer on the scene . |
| 7 | ‘ He it was who stood in the deepest Sorcery Chamber of tara and read from the Book of the Academy of Necromancers the incantation . |
| 8 | Now , having Passed the late afternoon imbibing gently at the Taverna Silenou , and feeling unusually tolerant of the rash of visitors the sabbath always brought to Lindos , he was picking a dawdling path back along one of the town 's winding cobbled alleys , squinting against the strength of the sun . |
| 9 | After Beirut , Sir Patrick held a string of the sort of jobs the FO reserves for high flyers — postings to Washington and Cairo , private secretary to the then permanent under-secretary , Lord Gore-Booth , and then , in the mid-1970s , private secretary ( foreign affairs and defence ) to two prime ministers , Harold Wilson and James Callaghan . |
| 10 | Because of the absence of chemicals the bees survive happily and are used to pollinate the flowers . |
| 11 | Nearing the end of the line of vans the driver was aware to his surprise of a feeling of dread pervading the atmosphere . |
| 12 | In terms of the allocation of resources the Vinerian concepts of trade creation and diversion are respectively welfare enhancing and welfare reducing . |
| 13 | Because of the amount of damages the Branches are hoping for , the case will go to the High Court . |
| 14 | A dial gives you the running total of the amount of gallons the cartridge has deal with , so a new one can be ordered in good time . |
| 15 | At a later stage one might , for some reason , want to prevent the other side using reports disclosed to them voluntarily as part of their case , and if they have been put in the wrong part of the list of documents the right to do so will have been lost . |
| 16 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
| 17 | To enable investigation of a plurality of views the modelling framework will be one which is designed to answer counterfactual or ‘ as if ’ questions rather than one which attempts to predict what the position of the economy will be in a number of years . |
| 18 | We asked principal carers , therefore , which of a list of symptoms the person they cared for suffered from . |