Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers none the less were now concerned to save the statue by different means ; and early in the spring of 1989 , Nicholas Ridley announced a change in the rules governing the export of works of art , by which private purchasers , as well as public institutions , could purchase works subject to an export stop . |
| 2 | Jonathan Scott , Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art has produced another of his elegantly written reports on how successful or otherwise Britain has been at retaining its preeminent works of art : the tally , eighteen out of forty-four retained — that is , a public institution or , in the case of the Delander stick barometer , a private citizen , has matched the price at which the item was being exported . |
| 3 | From 1 January 1993 , member states will only inspect imports and exports at their frontiers on a spot-check basis , so it will be more difficult to stop the illegal export of works of art . |
| 4 | Although the V&A 's sculpture department tried to keep the sixteenth-century bronze statue in the country , it seems that it was not felt to be of sufficient merit to meet any of the Waverley criteria governing rules on the export of works of art from Britain . |
| 5 | The Office Fédéral de la Culture , which is the nearest equivalent in Switzerland to a Ministry of Culture or an Arts Council , has just presented a report to the Swiss government , calling for new legislation controlling the import and export of works of art , and encouraging the authorities to sign the 1970 UNESCO convention . |
| 6 | The film industry and the export of works of art , so far primarily the joint responsibility of the OAL and the Department of Trade and Industry , have long been candidates for transfer to an enlarged arts department . |
| 7 | First , the European Commission in Brussels , probably because it is afraid of becoming completely superfluous once a truly free European market has been realised , is devising ways and means to regulate , or rather , deregulate , the import and export of works of art . |
| 8 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 9 | It seems that the country which boasts of having more art that any other European country , and thereby justifies having some of the most restrictive laws in Europe to stop the export of works of art , is incapable of looking after this unparalleled wealth . |
| 10 | This definitively scotches a proposal which the previous Minister for the Arts , Tim Renton , had asked museum directors and the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art to consider ( see The Art Newspaper No.11 , October 1991 , p.1 ) . |
| 11 | The latter provides for the creation of a special federal service that will deal with the export of works of art . |
| 12 | A draft law regulating the export of works of art has already been drawn up and was put before the Supreme Soviet of Russia on 10 September . |
| 13 | Commenting on the draft law , Russia'a new Deputy Minister of Culture , Tatyana Nikitina , points out that the new regulations will allow the export of works of art dating from the beginning of this century . |
| 14 | According to Mrs Nikitina , who is responsible for the national heritage , Russia is keen to take an active part in international efforts to curb the illicit export of works of art . |
| 15 | The most extraordinary of the group was bought by the V & A in 1986 ( after the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art had halted its departure from Britain to a collection in North America ) . |
| 16 | Irradiation of food does not conform to attempts to cut down the number and scale of radiation emitters in order to reduce the risks of contamination of plant workers and local communities . |
| 17 | In 1973 experiments were reported which described the isolation of portions of tissue containing something which combined specifically with morphine and other potent analgesics . |
| 18 | While much of the thinking during drowsiness maybe humdrum , as experiments involving waking people up during this state have shown , there are undoubtedly some unusual characteristics of style of thinking and of dreamlike imagery during drowsiness . |
| 19 | My husband has knitted over 250 of these ( yes , this must be a record for one person ! ) from all sorts of scraps of yarn , on his standard gauge machine . |
| 20 | Statements such as , ‘ I did n't see it previously ’ ; ‘ I 've just noticed something new ’ ; I can see all sorts of things of interest which I had n't seen before' ; ‘ I was n't interested in that before … suddenly it has a very significant part to play ’ ; ‘ the painting is actually changing for me ’ ; ‘ I 'm just discovering it ’ ; ‘ I 've started now to appreciate … ‘ , abounded . |
| 21 | The different sorts of interpretation of teaching quality this sort of framework suggests can be illustrated by looking at explanations for the development and persistence of transmission teaching that have been presented within that framework . |
| 22 | Precisely the same sorts of divisions of opinion plague policy making in less developed countries , though in many the lines of demarcation may lie along racial lines or involve the role of the traditional elites . |
| 23 | ‘ In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground within a wall , wherein are fertile meddowes , pleasant springs , delightful streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the midst thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure , which may be moved from place to place . |
| 24 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge had been reading Purchas 's His Pilgrimage after taking some opium : In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall , wherein are fertile Meddowes , pleasant Springs , delightful Streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure . |
| 25 | my Lord I , I suppose the answer to that is yes , it could be on the facts , it could be that if there was in a free market then they 'd be all sorts of varieties of clause whereby the name and kept the agent funds , erm maybe |
| 26 | erm The response has been for that authority then to groin its bit of beach , and so we end up with a situation today where along the Sussex coast practically the whole of the coast is groined , except for the areas which are backed by high cliffs , erm where we have the sorts of rates of erosion that I mentioned . |
| 27 | Erm at previous County Council and the previous committee , together with the officers , planned extremely thoroughly and er the funding that was provided for this year both internally within the County Council and externally from the government was sufficient to provide the sorts of levels of service that we , we anticipate . |
| 28 | And there are all sorts of methods of sort of cheating the system , if you 're a timber industry in Ghana . |
| 29 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 30 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |