Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much the way in which the law approaches the extraction of the truth , and it is different both from the vivid imprecision of ordinary life and the intimacy of a police interrogation . |
| 2 | Once we have tasted the intimacy of a whole group being with the Father and hearing his voice , there is placed in the believer a hunger for this that will not go away . |
| 3 | It lit up her face with the intimacy of a shared confidence , as if they were old sparring partners . |
| 4 | When the union publishes a special Notice in its magazine warning members about the activities of a promoter , record company or contact agency , this not only informs members , it also puts off other unscrupulous operators . |
| 5 | She first made an impression in an adaptation of J. B. Priestley 's rambling tale about a group of travelling performers , The Good Companions ( 1933 ) , and followed that with Friday the Thirteenth ( 1933 ) , which recounts the activities of a group of characters immediately before the crash of the bus in which they are riding . |
| 6 | WHEN the capital development of a country ’ , warned Maynard Keynes , ‘ becomes the by-product of the activities of a casino , the job is likely to be ill-done . ’ |
| 7 | On Steamdays visitors can enjoy rides in the 1930s steam trains and see the activities of a steam locomotive depot . |
| 8 | A host state may restrict the activities of a financial institution as far as it is justified by the general good . |
| 9 | The issue of child abuse , or child protection as it is often now described ( Parton and Parton , 1989 ) , perhaps more than any other area of child care policy and practice has brought the activities of a variety of health and welfare professionals into considerable public , political and media focus in recent years . |
| 10 | For what we should be doing is taking a bit of the real world and imagining it existing while the rest is blocked off , and the activities of a postman in the real world involve this sort of belief . |
| 11 | Sometimes several goals are combined ; e.g. the pursuit of a neglected interest in sport is linked to a voluntary contribution to the activities of a club . |
| 12 | Conflict : Once bankers have a direct/indirect stake in the activities of a securities affiliate , investment advice to customers will no longer be impartial . |
| 13 | The activities of a fan become intelligible if we can interpret them as being instrumental in establishing him in a particular role , or if such activities can be shown to be acceptable demonstrations of character and worth among his peers . |
| 14 | This was attributed to four main factors : the chairperson had been promoted to another school ; the librarian/coordinator had been promoted to a complex and demanding pastoral role ; the reorganisation of secondary schools had imposed strains to which the activities of a library committee were an unwelcome addition ; and finally , the fact that the project purchases were now completed , with the books already finding their way on to the library shelves , appeared to be seen as an indication that the committee 's work had been completed . |
| 15 | Unfortunately this is the least glamorous of any of the activities of a busy public relations office and it tends to receive the least attention . |
| 16 | Unfortunately many editors feel that this kind of creativity is absent from the activities of a number of PROs . |
| 17 | It is , similarly , often argued that the racism manifested by the central institutions of British society is actually due to the activities of a few individuals — the rotten apples . |
| 18 | The intention of the Loyal Standard was overtly to co-ordinate the activities of a number of seamen 's organisations , established about the north-east coast with almost identical rules , and to administer a superannuation fund on the one hand and payments on shipwreck , sickness and death on the other . |
| 19 | The National Old People 's Welfare Council , now known as Age Concern , coordinates and encourages the activities of a vast number of local groups concerned with old people 's welfare . |
| 20 | Indeed he suggests that despite its problems hierarchy remains the most efficient mechanism for integrating the activities of a large group of people , of making an organization work effectively . |
| 21 | As I said , I think that this issue is of very considerable constitutional importance , because the effect of the judgment is to separate the activities of a Minister acting under his own name from those carried out while acting as a Minister of the Crown . |
| 22 | A judicial inquiry into the activities of a Liberal Party fund raiser in Ontario , Patricia Starr , opened on Sept. 18 , 1989 . |
| 23 | Evidence of Taiwan 's desire to improve relationships with mainland China was also apparent in the government 's less than enthusiastic support for the activities of a propaganda radio ship Goddess of Democracy , sponsored by a French magazine and supported by a Paris-based group of Chinese exiles . |
| 24 | He said that de Klerk had " known all along " about the activities of a " third force " firmly lodged within the police and army , but had made no attempt to stop them . |
| 25 | It is important that planning is carried out by the managers involved in the activities of a business so that they can relate to the plan and feel that the plan is their plan . |
| 26 | The peculiar nature of this journey , that the willed progress is experienced as a divine gift , is a consequence of this theology : In chapter twenty-four Hilton uses the repetitions and cadences of rhetoric to convey this recognition of the activities of a God whose powers are conceived in Trinitarian terms of creating giving and responding in love at the heart of the self : At this point Hilton widens the scope of the metaphor of the journey to Jerusalem — the knowledge of Christ in the soul — by warning that the way from the light of the world to the light of heaven leads through darkness which he describes as " a tymeful space bitwix two daies " ( 24.89v. – 234 ) . |
| 27 | An investigation is being conducted into the activities of a large American laboratory which is alleged to have falsified test results on pesticides . |
| 28 | The opening of new offices may take place as part of a general expansion of the activities of a firm to additional locations ( though usually never so far away that they can not benefit from the goodwill attaching to headquarters ) or involve streamlining administration by establishing different departments in separate offices . |
| 29 | Consideration may need to be given to switching partners or departments to achieve this ; ( 3 ) inevitably , where the activities of a firm are spread over a wide area , problems arise in connection with the basic decision making processwhen , for example , partners ' meetings become more difficult to arrange . |
| 30 | In the area of competition and canvassing there are three general headings under which the courts will examine the existence of reasonableness of a restraint : 4.1 Restricted activities If the employer seeks by contractual restraint to restrict the activities of a former employee by proscribing the types of business in which the employee may become engaged once employment is over then he can only do so if he can establish a close connection betwee the restriction and the work done by the employee prior to leaving . |