Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we can directly relate the intellectual ideas of the 1960s about crime and criminals with events in the world , because the proponents themselves acknowledged the connection . |
| 2 | But turn a corner and there the resort is , one of a number which have been built in the Pyrenees since the start of the 1960s at greater altitudes than the old , so as to lengthen what would otherwise be a brief and uneconomic skiing season . |
| 3 | We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream . |
| 4 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
| 5 | The primary schools ' experiments of the 1960s with the initial teaching alphabet ( ITA ) proved this . |
| 6 | The comparative performance of the French economy may be judged more or less favourably , depending on the criteria and the time-frame used , but over the decade of the 1960s as a whole it grew at an annual rate that matched or surpassed the record of most of France 's main trading partners . |
| 7 | The rural sociological literature of the 1960s of the diffusionist school has demonstrated to the point of overkill the problem of the laggard and the small farmer ( Rogers & Shoemaker 1971 ) . |
| 8 | But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent . |
| 9 | Accounts of the 1960s from those who were teenagers then are a vital source of data on youth cultures , as will be the accounts of 1980s teenagers to the students of 2010 . |
| 10 | The service was revived at the beginning of the 1960s by the injection of government funding and was stimulated by honourable mention from two major inquiries . |
| 11 | While the urban areas inhabited by the underclass have seen outbreaks of violence , notably the widespread riots in the second half of the 1960s in the US , with the recent echo in Los Angeles last week , the more surprising thing , nonetheless , is their relative tranquillity . |
| 12 | The mercenary wars of the 1960s in the Congo and Near East were over . |
| 13 | Christine Brooke-Rose 's growing interest in structuralist linguistics is evident in her novels of the 1960s in the use of creative juxtaposition and other devices which depend for their effect on the relations between elements rather than on the elements ‘ as such ’ . |
| 14 | Other popular movements of protest and reform have often been met by violence — for example , the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the US , and on a larger scale the diverse movements in Eastern Europe , as well as in many parts of the Third World , which have been suppressed by military force . |
| 15 | A copy of the winding up order must be sent to the Registrar of Companies immediately , and he or she is required to publish it . |
| 16 | By s. 136 of the Insolvency Act 1986 the official receiver automatically becomes the liquidator of the company upon the granting of the winding up order . |
| 17 | By section 59(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 the event upon which a bank was deemed to have become insolvent for the purpose of compensation becoming payable was the making of the winding up order rather than the presentation of the petition . |
| 18 | Under section 59(1) ( a ) the relevant event in the case of a winding up by the court is the making of the winding up order , not the presentation of the winding up petition . |
| 19 | Under section 59(1) ( a ) the relevant event in the case of a winding up by the court is the making of the winding up order , not the presentation of the winding up petition . |
| 20 | If he was a nonentity , one of the lowest of the low , then he wanted his work to reveal what it was like to be such an unfortunate . |
| 21 | Britain 's growth rate has been one of the lowest of any major Western economy since 1961 , that Britain 's share of investment has been one of the two lowest , that Britain 's share of world trade has been falling while others have had rising shares and that Britain 's rate of inflation has been one of the fastest in the Western world . |
| 22 | In respect of registered land , a transferee will not be concerned with the amount of stamp duty imposed on documents prior to the transfer to him ; the registrar is under a duty to check the sufficiency of the stamping on a document affecting registered land ( Stamp Act 1891 , s17 ) , so that an instrument can not be registered at HM Land Registry unless correctly stamped . |
| 23 | In the middle of the nineteenth century Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) , one of the wisest of men , could do no better than to say that the strength of solids was due to the cohesion between their fine particles and that the subject was a very interesting one . |
| 24 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 25 | Northamptonshire is a county rich with fortified sites from Iron Age hillforts to Saxon ‘ burhs ’ , from Norman castles of earth and timber to the stone built castles of the 12th to 14th century . |
| 26 | Thank you for your letter of the 12th of May . |
| 27 | Er I I 'm most er grateful to my honourable friend for giving yet another example of how the social chapter has exported jobs out of the eleven into Britain . |
| 28 | His employer , Oscar Godolphin , was one of the eleven to whom the flame of Roxborough 's intent had been passed , though of all of them surely none was so perfect a hypocrite as Godolphin , who was both a member of a Society committed to the repression of all magical activity , and the employer ( Godolphin would have said owner ) of a creature summoned by magic in the very year of the tragedy that had brought the Society into being . |
| 29 | Altair , at a distance of 17 light-years , is one of the closest of the bright stars . |
| 30 | The only object of any interest is Epsilon ( 4.7 ) , which , at a distance of 11.4 light-years , is one of the closest of the naked-eye stars . |