Example sentences of "[art] three [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Delaunay it was the interaction of colours which produced a sense of form and space in a picture , whereas for Léger it meant the simultaneous presence in a painting of the three pictorial elements of line , form and colour , all used in a system of deliberate contrasts . |
| 2 | The ANC and its allies the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) intended that the general strike on Aug. 3-4 and the three following days of nationally co-ordinated protests should be the climax of the protest action which had begun on June 16 [ see p. 38948 ] . |
| 3 | The three upper parts of the harmony may be reduplicated at the octave above , and the bass at the octave below . |
| 4 | Declamation , not coloratura , distinguishes the three upper parts in ‘ O Primavera ’ , the second of a set of pieces on Guarini 's Pastor fido in his Eleventh Book . |
| 5 | The peacekeeping forces of the ECOWAS monitoring group ECOMOG moved onto the offensive on Oct. 1 with the aim of creating a buffer zone between the three warring factions in the capital — namely Charles Taylor 's rebel NPFL , what remained of the former government forces now commanded by Brig. -Gen . |
| 6 | At the Geneva peace conference on Yugoslavia , leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia presented on Dec. 8 maps for the " cantonization " of the republic along ethnic lines . |
| 7 | The conference , involving the three warring factions in Bosnia , is close to breaking up . |
| 8 | The Federal Republic of Germany was constituted in 1949 from the three western zones of occupied Germany ; on Oct. 3 , 1990 , it was joined by the territory of the former German Democratic Republic ( created in 1949 from the Soviet-occupied eastern zone ) and by Berlin ( previously under four-power administration ) . |
| 9 | On the same day a ceremony was held in Berlin at which the three Western generals at the Allied Kommandatura ( the Soviet union having withdrawn from the four-power control commission in 1948 ) relinquished their responsibility for the city , while the four powers held a joint ceremony at the Glienecke Bridge between East and West Berlin . |
| 10 | However , Kohl favoured the retention of a token presence in Germany by the three Western allies for the time being . |
| 11 | Curiously however , the three traditional lecturers with whom I discussed the matter insisted that the plurality made no difference to assessment of students ' work ; in the words of Mr R : |
| 12 | Nowhere are the issues at stake in the dispute between the three traditional schools of thought thrown into clearer relief than in their respective treatments of the revolutionary intelligentsia . |
| 13 | Revisionist research has credited the revolutionary intelligentsia with a somewhat more modest role than does each of the three traditional schools of thought . |
| 14 | They also picked up two of the three extra seats on Castlereagh council , boosting their party strength to five . |
| 15 | It will be impractical to fix a levy that is as fair for the three million owners of normal-speed machines as it is for future owners of half-speed machines . |
| 16 | The messages for local managers are that there is a need to allow time to pass before the linked activities which revolve around the three major innovations of the 1980s ( NCVQ , TVEI extension , TECs ) reveal how much they can contribute to each other in terms of an essentially joint strategy . |
| 17 | In an assessment of the years following reorganisation , Alan Alexander examined each of the three major innovations in turn . |
| 18 | The three major elements of IT are : computers , microelectronics and telecommunication . |
| 19 | Three further versions known in sixteenth-century copies from Germany combine the three major elements of the tale : the Second Flood , the kissing of the arse ( in all cases the male lover 's arse , not the woman 's ) and the retaliatory branding . |
| 20 | By the middle of 1756 Britain 's conflicts with France outside Europe had turned quite unexpectedly into a war in which the three major powers of Europe were allied against Frederick of Prussia and so were preparing to attack George 's Electorate of Hanover . |
| 21 | The bus industry and transport education and training are two of the three major topics on which urgent recommendations are focused in the Sixth Annual Report of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee ( DPTAC ) , published in October 1992 . |
| 22 | Of the three major players in this field — Fidelity , M&G and the Prudential — the Fidelity Cash Fund is perhaps the most flexible . |
| 23 | A quick glance at Table 1 will show that by these measures the three major countries of the EEC , including Britain , have on the whole fared progressively worse through the period of their membership of the EEC . |
| 24 | Chapter 7 discussed the three major changes in economic strategy undertaken in Tanzania from 1967 to 1975 . |
| 25 | None has found the perfect solution , but the debates on the Tomlinson report provide an opportunity to review how to manage the three major areas of service provision , medical education , and research in London . |
| 26 | Very recently ( i.e. since 1984 ) , it is possible that the Education Support Grant ( ESG ) and Grant-related In-service Training ( GRIST ) programmes , herald a new , mixed category which aims to create a balance between two of the three major models of dissemination theory , instrumental and individual . |
| 27 | The three major types of estuaries are : |
| 28 | Bartholomaeus Anglicus , a professor of theology at Paris , discussed in his encyclopaedia De proprietatibus Rerum the three major types of insanity ; frenzy , amentia and stupor , which he associated with excesses of choler , melancholy and phlegm . |
| 29 | Therefore , we now need to examine the explanatory factors which help determine on an inter-country basis each of the three major types of bargaining structure which have been identified . |
| 30 | His North African tale Santal appeared in 1921 , and The Flower Beneath the Foot , the first of the three major novels of his last years , in 1923 . |