Example sentences of "of variations on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A brilliant example of variations on a hornpipe theme is to be found in Cranko 's Pineapple Poll , which has very strong , even coarse elements when danced by the sailors before it is slightly refined by the gallant Captain Belaye . |
| 2 | Picasso 's extensive series of variations on Las Meninas was produced in 1957 , but even if Gironella knew of them when he himself began to work on versions of Velázquez ( which is highly unlikely , as Picasso 's paintings were not exhibited until 1959 ) ; even though their interest in the art of the past at that point in their careers was for both , perhaps , a rejection of abstraction ; and even though both can in some way be defined as exiled from their Spanish roots , as outsiders looking in — — yet the results are widely divergent . |
| 3 | I was quite shocked by the thousands of variations on that theme . ’ |
| 4 | The challenge he sets himself grows from the nature of his materials and their relationship to an evolving form , and the outcome often involves a series of variations on known or familiar objects . |
| 5 | In Thai cookery , none of these ingredients is used alone ; indeed one of its special tricks is to offer a spectrum of variations on the same flavour . |
| 6 | The changes that they underwent are an infinite set of variations on a relatively limited number of themes . |
| 7 | Not much needs to be said about either , except perhaps to record two aspects : in the first film , a critic said Nicholson 's acting consisted more or less of variations on a grin . |
| 8 | In order to disentangle the effect on profit margins of the introduction of fee competition in 1982 from the influence of variations on the workload , some simple statistical regression analysis was conducted . |
| 9 | Each environment and each species throws up its own unique combination of social demands which , in turn , create the spectrum of variations on the theme of social grouping . |
| 10 | Finally , not showing in a gallery but in the Roumanian Cultural Centre , Ion Nicodim who was first promoted in Italy by Giulio Carlo Argan in the late sixties , here brings together a series of variations on the theme of clay as a material of memory . |
| 11 | Deborah Kass , who used to paint splashy waterfalls and rocks , has turned pointedly political of late and at fiction/non-fiction ( from 2 December to 2 January ) she shows walls and walls full of variations on this iconic Warhol image , substituting Barbara Streisand for Mrs Onassis and calling the result ‘ The Jewish Jackie Series ’ . |
| 12 | There are a vast number of variations on this basic theme . |
| 13 | He makes vast series of variations on given sets of conditions . |
| 14 | In effect the international relations literature of the 1960s was a set of variations on the Morgenthau paradigm . |
| 15 | The chairs were designed to complement the table and represent one set of variations on a chair design that I have been experimenting with for years . |
| 16 | We briefly describe a number of variations on this idea below , However , while such techniques can be used effectively when programming in an assembler language , it is much more difficult for a compiler to recognize which constructions in a high-level language call for their use . |
| 17 | But European Renaissance and Baroque music , usually written down , often works out sets of variations on existing tunes or harmonic schemes , or uses formal and stylistic clichés for structural , expressive or dramatic purposes ( in opera recitative and arias , for instance ) . |
| 18 | There are also a number of variations on each approach . |
| 19 | It is even more original and varied in type than the consort music , including not only fantasias , ‘ In nomines ’ , stylized dance-music , arrangements of music from masques and of popular songs , but also miniature genre-pieces , essays in programme music and pure impressionism such as Byrd 's ‘ The Battle ’ and ‘ The Bells ’ , variations on ground basses , and sets of variations on popular tunes as distinct from simple arrangements of them . |
| 20 | A number of variations on this basic order was also proposed by Ranganathan . |
| 21 | The continual repetition of variations on the following lines , |
| 22 | Of these two operas , the one is a remarkable spiral set of variations on a theme , and the other , a sort of whirlpool of thematic reference and counter-reference . |
| 23 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |
| 24 | Either that or we write a couple of variations on the end of this and we say the general access conforms to this but in their case , the other one is pre-booked , the extras and they have a booking schedule . |
| 25 | All sorts of variations on these patterns and mixtures of the techniques are useful in specific situations . |
| 26 | cos you know roughly what close are about and you know how to close , but that , let's imagine for the sake of the discussion , that there 's a hundred different ways of closing , right , and if there 's a hundred different ways of close closing there 's bound to be thousands of variations on each close , you see what I 'm saying to you ? |