Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever mitigating justifications could be cited in favour of overt action on the campus , in much of the 1960s ' action , students were often reducing other students ' right to learn , were therefore abusing their freedoms and were , as such , forfeiting their own rights as students . |
| 2 | The question which serves as a starting-point is why there should be legal obstacles to the recognition of the transsexual 's change . |
| 3 | In situations where sex is not an ‘ essential determinant ’ of a legal relationship , he appears to see no reason for denying recognition of the transsexual 's change . |
| 4 | That Pounds in Wine of the Poor 's Money flew , |
| 5 | It is not because of the poor 's isolation from the modern sector that they remain poor , but because they provide a cheap human resource for that sector . |
| 6 | Miller considered that the cultivation of madder in England would employ labourers , usually idle from the end of harvest until spring , and thus parishes would be eased of the Poor 's Rate , ‘ a consideration worthy of public attention ’ . |
| 7 | Apart from the odd wrangle over samples , the two opponents have enjoyed a fairly benign standoff , and thankfully avoided a revival of the late-Seventies ' punk vs disco debate . |
| 8 | Next door was what the children called ‘ The Beatle Room ’ , a room devoted entirely to psychedelic posters , pictures and other memorabilia of the Sixties ' pop stars . |
| 9 | Did his obstinate refusal to acknowledge the divine plan — and his careless use of the Almighty 's name even on his deathbed — mean that he was now consigned to outer darkness , to some chilly region unheated by patent stoves ? |
| 10 | The resting or cryptic stage of the trypanosome 's lifecycle is actually inside the cells of the epithelium of the choroid plexus . |
| 11 | Since his first meeting with Wagner in 1868 he had known of the latter 's conviction that Schopenhauer was " the only philosopher who had understood the essence of music " . |
| 12 | It is no accident that the most gripping section of his latest novel , The Innocent ( Cape , hbk £12.95 ) , is the part where his hero and heroine dismember the corpse of the latter 's ex-husband . |
| 13 | In the current Middle Eastern situation it 's as well to be reminded , for example , that of the world 's 10 largest companies , seven are car or oil companies , and that one-third of the latter 's output is in the form of petrol . |
| 14 | Apparently Tom DiCillo cut his cinematic teeth working with Jim Jarmusch , and his directorial debut Johnny Suede certainly shows signs of the latter 's influence , as it doodles out a familiarly minimal comedy around a cool fool who learns the limits of his own hip moves . |
| 15 | This , coupled with the decline of the great infectious epidemics which gave homoeopathy its signal successes , eliminated much of the gap between the orthodox and homoeopathic schools and eroded much of the latter 's popularity . |
| 16 | He was an active member of the monthly , quarterly , and yearly meetings of the Society of Friends , of its committee for sufferings , and of the latter 's subcommittee for American affairs . |
| 17 | In this type of use , to is intercepted at the final moment of the movement it denotes , so that the adjective or main verb evokes not only how the person designated as the support of the infinitive was predisposed towards the realization of the latter 's event , but also his feelings at the time of its occurrence . |
| 18 | The reason has to do with the track width on the 1.2MB drive being narrower than on a 360K disk , and the failure of the latter 's drive heads to read from such a narrow track . |
| 19 | The poisonous philosophies of both Santos and Porua were banished by the sight of the latter 's daughter in her grey dress , red book in hand . |
| 20 | On Dec. 24 the Solicitor General , Donatilo — Ballesteros , ordered the dismissal and house arrest of the Attorney General , Rogelio Cruz , on suspicion of the latter 's involvement in authorizing the unfreezing of bank assets amounting to some US$38 million linked to Colombian drug cartels . |
| 21 | Although the USSR supplies the US with 33 per cent of the latter 's titanium , supply scarcities and limitations in manufacturing capability dictated producing the Mach 2.8 Mig-25 out of conventional steels ( although a titanium version was successfully flown and tested ) . |
| 22 | Mercury Communications Ltd has announced that for a monthly subscription of £135 , any customer , whether a subscriber to British Telecommunications Plc or Mercury , can now use two of the latter 's range of Callink services . |
| 23 | He can not sue the manufacturer for breach of the latter 's contract of sale . |
| 24 | The workshop probably has its origins a little later than the saltire/interlaced square workshop already mentioned ; indeed , it could have been a product of the latter 's contact with the later phases of the " Orpheus workshop " in c. 325 . |
| 25 | Sister , Robins , and Dr Jones came out of the latter 's office . |
| 26 | On May 8 , the day of the latter 's appearance before the House , Bush described the allegations against himself as " grossly untrue , factually incorrect , bald-faced lies " . |
| 27 | Absorbed by loving considerations of her tastes , Mitzi did not notice that Elisabeth was not replying , and her attention was drawn to her companion only when the peculiar noise of the latter 's choking was sounding right round the Hall . |
| 28 | About two years before the Government Offices competition , he met Henry H. Hofland , who worked for W. B. Moffatt after the break-up of the latter 's partnership with Scott . |
| 29 | If Bede is to be believed , Oswine proved an attractive ruler who gained the admiration of Aidan , which suggests that Oswiu faced a dangerous rival in this Deiran king whom he eventually out-manoeuvred and slew by treachery the ninth year of the latter 's reign ( HE 111 , 14 ) . |
| 30 | The value placed on these men is most clearly stated in the Treaty of Andelot , where Guntram and Childebert II settled the question of the succession and dealt with various matters which had arisen during the early years of the latter 's reign . |