Example sentences of "[conj] of [art] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I looked at the magnificent vehicle I could not help thinking of the historical ‘ Experiment ’ of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , or of the Exhibition excursions of 1851 , when the GW nailed rough boards across their permanent way trucks at Didcot to accommodate their third class passengers ! |
| 2 | While in 1920–1 Eliot admired both Edward Wadsworth 's drawings of industrial landscapes and Picasso 's primitivism , he found himself living the life of Thomson or of the city clerks he had read about in Conan Doyle , Davidson , Conrad , and elsewhere . |
| 3 | The nationality , domicile and residence requirements , with all their unfairnesses and anomalies , could not be the least burdensome way of ensuring the survival of the quota system or of the fishing communities . |
| 4 | Sarah had told Anne that her grandmother 's lodger Josh Adamson had died of a heart attack at the start of the raid , but they said nothing of this to Julia nor of the casualty lists which were posted up containing many names of people they knew . |
| 5 | Views expressed in Woman 's Art Magazine are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Editor nor of the Women Artists Slide Library . |
| 6 | The main social security policy changes in this period were the introduction in 1965 of earnings-related supplements to sickness and unemployment benefits and of a redundancy payments scheme . |
| 7 | This involves an awareness of the activities and requirements of the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) and of the validation processes in higher education ( particularly , until its demise , of the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) ) which control courses of teacher education . |
| 8 | Gorbachev on Jan. 5 decreed that " in order to activate the implementation of land reform " republican and local authorities should make an inventory of " lands which are not being used in a rational manner by collective and state farms " , and of the land holdings of USSR ministries , with a view to making these available leasehold to private farmers and as allotments for town dwellers . |
| 9 | More often than not the principal criterion used in practice for weeding of all types of collections is the subjective one of ‘ the librarian 's own judgement ’ , based upon a knowledge of the users and of the subject literatures covered by the collection . |
| 10 | When that is added to the fact that rural development is now a major part of the Maastricht treaty and of the MacSharry proposals , is not that a very good thing for rural society ? |
| 11 | As an analysis of the nature of the child in the primary years and of the way children learn , the Plowden Report ranks as the most detailed study of the early years of schooling ever produced . |
| 12 | Thousands of embittered clients of various licensed dealers , and of the bucket shops on the Continent on whom were foisted speculative shares bear testimony to this . |
| 13 | They also demonstrate the very considerable importance of scheduling and demographic targeting in establishing distinctions within broad categories : in order to make sense of broad programmatic genres like soap opera or crime series it always seems necessary to identify them with a qualifying time-slot — daytime soap , early evening soap and prime-time soap ; or , in Britain , pre-nine o'clock crime series ( the tradition of Dixon of Dock Green ( 1955–76 ) , Juliet Bravo ( 1980–9 ) and The Bill ( 1988- ) and post-nine o'clock crime ( the subgenres of The Sweeney ( 1974–8 ) and Taggart ( 1985- ) , and of the US imports ) . |
| 14 | The tendency was reinforced by the subsequent efforts of Japanese governments and of the US authorities to incorporate Japan into the framework of the Western camp . |
| 15 | Which seems to be the longest of these Scottish fjords , and of the ribbon lakes ? |
| 16 | She found him uncouth and dirty and he often smelt of abattoirs and of the chicken carcases or sides of beef he had been painting . |
| 17 | In state capitals , the standard of museums and of the performing arts is a source of pride , and helping to raise those standards confers prestige and social cachet . |
| 18 | According to the feedback model , the hypotheses of the controllers about football fans , and of the football fans about the mentality of the controllers , will determine the direction and intensity of the amplification process . |
| 19 | Of course , the historical analogy is not a completely valid one , for history only concerns the interactions within a single species during a few thousand years , in connection with which geological and climatological changes have played only a minor role ( as in the extinction of Carthage and of the Viking settlements in Greenland ) . |
| 20 | The troubles of the law firms and of the finance houses are not unconnected . |
| 21 | There was a description of her fine crinoline gown and of the Grenfell emeralds she had worn . |
| 22 | For simple molecules , some PE bands may show discrete structure due to vibrational excitation of the ion ; this may be interpreted in terms both of the bonding/non-bonding/anti-bonding character of the electron removed and of the vibration frequencies of the ion . |
| 23 | So the eager tourist , arriving at the station , could arm himself with all the necessary guidance and advice to make the most of his visit and of the railway routes connected with his destination . |
| 24 | Tables of lexicographers and of the group memberships of lexicographers are created and maintained by the database administrator . |
| 25 | There are no unanimously agreed LAN standards , but if you want computers from different vendors to talk to one another , the chances are they can be hooked together , thanks to the efforts both of netware vendors and of the hardware manufacturers to make their products more ‘ open ’ . |
| 26 | With rising prices the cost of maintaining a prosperous style of life also rose , and the growth both of the Labour party and of the trade unions perhaps destroyed hopes that charity could put an end to social and political divisions . |
| 27 | But the claims of the user organizations and of the trade unions were of declining standards and cuts in services ‘ by stealth ’ . |
| 28 | Moreover , despite the lack of artefacts , the bath-house at Catterick had been heavily used to judge by the state of the furnace cheeks , which had been rebuilt several times , and of the iron beams supporting the hot-water boilers , one of which had been completely burnt through . |
| 29 | Central to the appraisal of new capital expenditure proposals is the estimation of the size and timing of the cash outflows required to purchase labour and materials and of the cash inflows from invoiced sales of goods . |
| 30 | When he talks of taking the war to the terrorists , I must reassert from the Dispatch Box that the actions of Her Majesty 's Government , and of the security forces on their behalf , will be conducted under the rule of law and that the rule of law will not be thrown away , for that would be a concession to the terrorists . |