Example sentences of "the [noun] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This is very much the way in which the law approaches the extraction of the truth , and it is different both from the vivid imprecision of ordinary life and the intimacy of a police interrogation .
2 But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures .
3 Most of the current partnerships in further and higher education ( FHE ) are of this nature , even if the inter-relationships of the parties are complicated , even complex , because the employer contribution usually relates to the financial state of the firm and this may change abruptly .
4 So the rule which confers jurisdiction will also be a rule of recognition , identifying the primary rules through the judgments of the courts and these judgments will become a ‘ source ’ of law …
5 The judgments of the visitors in In re S. ( A Barrister ) [ 1970 ] 1 Q.B .
6 Conflict : Once bankers have a direct/indirect stake in the activities of a securities affiliate , investment advice to customers will no longer be impartial .
7 The autocratic leader tended to give orders , and to interrupt the activities of the boys by giving commands to do something .
8 Only the very old and infirm were excluded from the activities of the hayfields .
9 At least , this was the opinion of Dugdale , writing a hundred years later ; but it should be remembered that he was one of a long line of propagandists for land drainage , and that , while localized deterioration must have taken place , there is also ample evidence of the activities of the courts of sewers and of individual enterprise by secular landlords .
10 Nevertheless , the idea of judicial independence in the sense of politicians not directly interfering with the activities of the courts was not a principle upheld in the Soviet Union .
11 The Control of Pollution ( Amendment ) Act , introduced by Joan Ruddock as a private member 's bill in July 1989 , has not been effective in stopping the activities of the tippers .
12 Since , then , anyone can , at least in principle , be a producer ( since no special natural or other endowment is necessary ) , the market process , which is channelled through the activities of the producers , is competitive .
13 At the same time , despite the popular support for many of the activities of the provisionals north of the border , there is almost no popular support for terrorist activities against the established government in the South .
14 It must be admitted , however , that although there is no doubt in our own minds that preparations of the US Army in Japan are purely precautionary and defensive , seen from the Russian viewpoint , many of the activities of the Americans here may appear extremely aggressive .
15 Considerable physical migration took place — mostly , but not entirely , caused by the activities of the Russians — and some peoples were reduced in numbers almost to vanishing point , while on the other hand at least one new ethno-cultural group was formed .
16 While the ‘ Janet and John ’ type of book used to teach children to read portrays slightly less-stereotyped roles than 20 years ago , there is still a clear distinction between the activities of the males and females in the stories .
17 In his article , McAlpine calls for an inquest into the activities of the youngsters .
18 A further major goods station had been opened in 1876 at La Plaine Saint-Denis to supplement the activities of the others and by 1904 still another was required at Gennevilliers .
19 The activities of the chains , however , meant that only a third of the mornings still published in 1988 were in the same ownership as in 1945 .
20 a Newsletter , which appears three times a year and includes news of the activities of the Friends and of the Library
21 I would like to help with the activities of the Friends of the Ulster Orchestra in the following way(s) :
22 Morrison survived to be , during the next ten years , a determined exponent of events impinging upon British interests in the Far East , particularly in respect of the activities of the Germans and Russians in that area .
23 In other words , to explain or understand crime and deviance we must be at least as much concerned with the activities of the conferers of these labels as with the recipients .
24 The Speaker , Betty Boothroyd , should order an immediate inquiry into the activities of the Whips that night .
25 State publications were to be instructed and private publications " stimulated " to present the activities of the authorities in a favourable light .
26 None of these articles referred to the activities of the Parents ' Rights Group , to the joblessness and homelessness that had caused lesbians and gays to seek support from councils in the first place , to the findings of the Gay Teenage Group survey about the intimidation and isolation of lesbian and gay teenagers in state schools , to the menace of fundamentalism — or to any other feature of our oppression .
27 Still more sinister were the activities of the defeatists , ranged around the Bonnet Rouge newspaper and headed by Malvy , a former Minister of the Interior , and of the downright traitors who earned millions of francs from German sources for their work of demoralisation .
28 In other ways the activities of the councils tend to conflict with regional policy and weaken its effects .
29 In Nepal she watched groups of men and women in dances depicting the activities of the seasons , and also saw young men performing what seemed very like a Morris Dance , with long and short sticks and a drum-and-rattle accompaniment .
30 ( b ) The admissibility of illegally obtained evidence As we discussed in Chapter 2 , one way of controlling the activities of the police and of ensuring that they do not act unlawfully is to prevent the admissibility of evidence which is obtained by illegal means .
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