Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [n mass] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx described the consciousness of people in a situation of class conflict as ideological , meaning that although they might represent and believe their ideas to be objective and of universal validity , in reality these ideas express and serve class interests . |
| 2 | Faster still was the air-speed record of 1666mph set by Col Mosolov of the USSR in 1962 , the rocket-powered X-15 's speed of 4104mph in the same year , and Jacqueline Cochran 's 1964 women 's air speed record of 1429mph in a Lockhead Starfighter . |
| 3 | Libra Bank , the London-based consortium bank which trades in third world debts , plunged to a pre-tax loss of £174.6m in the first half of 1989 from profits last time of £10.9m . |
| 4 | Applied Biosystems turned in net profits of $900 000m for the six months ended 27 December 1991 , compared to a net loss of £5.4m in the same period in 1990 . |
| 5 | First half profit before tax at Midland Bank was £89m , compared with a loss of £71m in the same period last year . |
| 6 | Saatchi & Saatchi announced a first half profit before tax of £11.1m , compared with a loss of £32m in the same period last year . |
| 7 | Q3 profit of $0.6 compared with a loss of $21.5m in the same period last time and produced a deficit down sharply from $$53.4m to $23.1m . |
| 8 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp returned to profitability in the first quarter of 1993 ended March 29 , reporting net income of $2.4m against a loss of $23.7m in the fourth quarter , on revenues of $69.5m , up 3% . |
| 9 | The loss of people in the country areas is called rural depopulation . |
| 10 | Data for Greater London 's outflows to the rest of Britain , for instance , reveal the even more important role of the owner-occupied sector in 1981 compared to 1971 and also show that in 1981 there was virtually no net migration loss of people in the lower-paid occupations in both manual and non-manual groups ( table 8.5 ) . |
| 11 | Don-E 's Island release ‘ Peace In The World ’ was disqualified from the charts after the hi-tech security system used by chart compilers Gallup picked up an unusually high concentration of sales in the south London area . |
| 12 | The use of e-mail , rationalisation of collection points , concentration of staff in the Inverleith Row premises , and reduction in the frequency of collections are likely to lead to a requirement for fewer staff to be deployed on Messenger duties . |
| 13 | The appraisal of staff in the context of development and motivation is concerned with managing individual perceptions and relating them to organisational needs . |
| 14 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 15 | Anachem made a £2.2m pre-tax profit on turnover of £11.8m in the year to end-September , and had £2.5m of net cash at the end of March . |
| 16 | The company does not have a sparkling financial story to tell — it lost £1.7m pre-tax on turnover of £12.5m in the year to September 30 , and its only profitable period in four years was the nine months to September 1991 , when it did £684,000 pre-tax on sales of £9.6m . |
| 17 | Elson and Robbins had a turnover of £15.5m in the year to 31 December compared to WB 's £3.6m . |
| 18 | His aim is a turnover of £240,000 in the first year . |
| 19 | There is a certain inevitability about high turnover of staff in a school that is closing . |
| 20 | The Scarman Report commented on the turnover of staff in the mail order department in 1976 : ‘ many of the immigrant workers did not stay for very long : the threat of dismissal must have been an anxiety for many in the workforce . |
| 21 | The brewery , which celebrated its 125th anniversary this year , notched up turnover of £25.7m in the six months to September , £3m more than in the same period last year . |
| 22 | Software Publishing Corp warns that a turnover shortfall in the second quarter will yield share earnings between $0.15 and $0.17 , compared with $0.32 , on turnover of $43.4m in the year-ago period : second quarter revenues are expected to come in between $31m and $33m , and it blames continued price competition and soft international demand . |
| 23 | Fine Art had a turnover of £17.2million in the year to January 31 , 1989 .. |
| 24 | According to the region , removing the existing districts would save about £4.4 million a year , which is equivalent to a cut of £62 in the council tax . |
| 25 | They compare with a cut of 14% in the EC 's average farm-gate prices between 1985 and 1991 . |
| 26 | Left untouched for five years , a minimum investment of £100 in the Series A bond is guaranteed to grow to £176.24 ; a compound rate of 12 per cent gross per year . |
| 27 | Left untouched for five years , a minimum investment of £100 in the Series A bond is guaranteed to grow to £176.24 ; a compound rate of 12 per cent gross per year . |
| 28 | Left untouched for five years , a minimum investment of £100 in the Series A bond is guaranteed to grow to £176.24 ; a compound rate of 12 per cent gross per year . |
| 29 | AN INVESTMENT of £20m in the North 's health was approved yesterday . |
| 30 | After a series of share transactions following a failed investment of £305,000 in the ‘ News on Sunday ’ newspaper , Oyston benefited on paper by as much as £1m. from investments by Derbyshire 's pension fund . |