Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] of [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of more importance is an assessment of the spread of particles about the average , to define the dispersion or sorting of the sediment , as represented by the breadth of the frequency curve or the shape of the cumulative frequency distribution . |
| 2 | It may be thought that without some measures of the quality of services provided , either by the yardstick ( if such exists ) of agreed views of what constitutes good practice , and/or through more refined measures of client outcome , the study would still fall short of the kind of conclusions about relative effectiveness that would be sought . |
| 3 | Will my right hon. Friend consult his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster about the attempt being made to steal the emblem of the duchy ? |
| 4 | Despite the agreement on the attributions to Rolle in the manuscripts , his authorship has been questioned , partly because of the lack of certainty about the authority of scribal attributions , partly because of the absence in the texts of that sense of joy springing from an inner knowledge of the reality of redemption which generally characterises his work . |
| 5 | The movements of the scale of production about its position of equilibrium will be of a somewhat similar kind . [ … ] |
| 6 | Standard English should form an important part of the teaching of knowledge about language : its historical , geographical and social distribution and the uses to which it is put ( in different countries , in different areas of society , in print and in the mass media , etc . ) . |
| 7 | However , the Capital Taxes Office is likely to raise the following " standard " question : what discussions took place between the parties at or before the time of the deed of variation about how the assets which went to the spouse under the deed of variation were to be dealt with by the surviving spouse , ie was there some sort of plan or understanding that the property would be given to the children ? |
| 8 | The authors , stress on cognition has the advantage that it leads to an appreciation of the importance of the distribution of knowledge about what goods should represent , rather than merely of the distribution of the goods themselves . |
| 9 | And although this may conceivably be an acceptable answer for an earlier period , it is now useless because of the weight of evidence about the recent past . |
| 10 | This is very evident when we compare the actual words Masefield uses when he describes the moment when Olivia is forced to accept the warnings of the Governor of Jamestown about her husband 's past and to face the destruction of her romantic view of their marriage . |
| 11 | ‘ During the last few weeks , we have , therefore , been talking to the board of the Bank of Edinburgh about a number of options which might reduce the protracted time-scales that affected the proposal . |
| 12 | The decision to maintain the acceptance of a long-standing invitation to go on Mr. Byrne 's show in Dublin on Friday night was prompted by the opportunity that it afforded to speak to the people of the Republic of Ireland about terrorism and the response of a democratic society . |
| 13 | Venus has been excluded because of the paucity of information about impact craters on its surface . |
| 14 | Such objects do not lie beyond our grasp , as the sceptic might suggest ; for we can hope that every member of the set of statements about what would be observed should be conclusively verified , and in such a case there would remain no further possibility that the material object statement should be false . |
| 15 | Doyle realised that there was just the hint of a smell of animal about the man . |
| 16 | Evidence of wide variations in outpatient referral rates is indicative of a lack of consensus about the appropriateness of specialist referral in many situations . |
| 17 | The problems that this can cause , which are often unintentional and the result of a lack of knowledge about modern agriculture , are sufficient to annoy any farmer already unhappy about what he considers to be unwarranted interference in his legitimate farming operations by busybody environmentalists . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 19 | These photographs tell the story of the everyday lives of a group of people about whom very little , if anything , is generally known . |
| 20 | Figure 10 Ten years ago the famous Hungarian neuro-anatomist Janos Szentagothai drew this picture of a section of cortex about 1 mm across . |
| 21 | Erm , and also the reason why Wilson could not actually read until the age of eleven was not due to the emotional er , problems of his father , it was due to a sort of a form of dyslexic er , th there 's a hell of a lot of debate about this , er , all these things just what er , Einstein is er , criticizing . |
| 22 | There was a hell of a lot of smoke about and a great deal of noise . |
| 23 | It is , rather , that the very idea of a body of knowledge about the world , of the sort we have now , the very idea of a natural science , was being forged at the time . |
| 24 | Some operate a ‘ welcome wagon ’ scheme consisting of a pack of information about the locality — half-day closing of shops , local schools , doctors and dentists , bus times , recreational amenities and information about the church . |
| 25 | The employment of a sandwich student has enabled the development of a database of information about Nottingham 's caves and a system for monitoring the progress of 1:10 000 and 1:50 000 geological mapping . |
| 26 | Among the manifestations of these attitudes are the statements of some defendants in rape trials , which may show an indifference towards the wishes of women , or a belief that the wearing of attractive clothes or an invitation to coffee is a sure sign of willingness to engage in sex ; and the attitudes of some police-officers in the early 1980s , influenced by any one of a number of assumptions about the prevalence of false complaints of rape , about the ‘ typical ’ rape as an attack by a stranger , about the presence of injuries or bruises in ‘ genuine ’ rapes , and so forth . |
| 27 | A Sales Budget is prepared based on an analysis of past sales and a forecast of future sales in the light of a number of assumptions about market trends . |
| 28 | In a bureaucracy such as a pollution control agency , the organizing principle is administrative efficiency — ‘ an orientation to the expeditious attainment of the given objectives ’ ( Blau , 1963 : 264 ) — which reaches down to the field officer in the form of a number of imperatives about getting the job done in certain ways that have profound implications for his exercise of discretion . |
| 29 | To do this , I must rely on the truth of a number of facts about the world , and about the optical properties of my eyes . |
| 30 | Child psychiatrist Dr John Pearce , author of a number of books about the role of parents , including the recently published Bad Behaviour , is one expert who tries to tread the middle ground . |