Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technique , known as damascening , involved the addition of inlays of threads of silver and gold to bronze blades and hilts , and set off by patches or pools of black enamel ; the designs depicted hunting scenes ( Figure 10 ) . |
| 2 | On the contrary , the majority of studies of birds , for example , show that a wide range of species visits particular fruiting trees . |
| 3 | Since the majority of heads of schools and teachers inherit the school and the class or specialist rooms in which they work with their pupils , they are seldom in the happy position of being able to contribute to the initial planning of buildings , and consequently their interest may well be centred on adaptations or changes that they can realistically effect , although an appreciation of the more fundamental issues of design and planning may concern them too . |
| 4 | The attitudes of authors of stories the young read or hear , whether prejudiced or condescending or exaggeratedly ‘ socially aware ’ , are readily perceived and are influential , even when they are half hidden . |
| 5 | It removed polytechnics and certain other colleges of higher education from LEA control , making them ‘ free-standing statutory corporations ’ , under the direction of boards of governors whose members are initially appointed by the Secretary of State ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 6 | Until 1988 , they were under the control of LEAs ; now they are ‘ free-standing statutory corporations ’ under the direction of boards of governors , half of whose membership consists of people experienced in industry , business , commerce and the professions ; the other half consists of representatives of staff , students and LEAs , together with co-opted members . |
| 7 | The clearest testimony to the level of exchange being carried on between England and the Continent , especially in transactions involving gold , is the existence of sets of balances accompanied by weights . |
| 8 | This expresses the willingness of buyers of bills to hold the existing stock . |
| 9 | She thought of blackened red brick , chalk dust , shoe boxes , muddy hockey boots , the smell of groups of girls in classrooms . |
| 10 | In the case of members of committees who are not entitled to attendance allowance because they are not councillors of the authority , there is , instead of the attendance allowance , a financial loss allowance in respect of any loss of earnings necessarily suffered , or additional expense incurred ( other than travelling or subsistence allowance ) in performing an approved duty . |
| 11 | A corresponding duty is imposed in the case of lettings of offices and shops ( Offices Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 , s16 ) . |
| 12 | A corresponding duty is imposed on him in the case of lettings of offices and shops ( Offices Shops and Railway Premises ( Hoists and Lifts ) Regulations 1968 ( SI No 849 ) ) . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most important commercial change since the invention of incorporation itself has been the rise of groups of companies with interlinking control and ownership . |
| 14 | The progress of groups of students in the higher ( but not the highest ) parts of the class achievement range is often monitored particularly closely by the transmission teacher and used to ‘ steer ’ his or her judgements about the management and development of the lesson for the class as a whole . |
| 15 | The researchers will follow the progress of samples of complaints through the internal channels , and will interview those who deal with them . |
| 16 | Dennis Mitchell , an intelligence officer at GCHQ for 32 years , was compelled to take early retirement because he had argued against the introduction of polygraph tests and the removal of rights of employees to go to industrial tribunals . |
| 17 | In the discussion document , the committee gives its opinion on the extent to which the provision of these reassurances is the responsibility of boards of directors , the extent to which it is the responsibility of external auditors and the extent to which these reassurances can not be provided by either boards of directors or external auditors . |
| 18 | Those hospitals which formerly had been the responsibility of Boards of Guardians and later of the local authorities , together with the development of those hospitals which the local authorities brought about , including maternity hospitals , passed to the State under the National Health Service Act 1946 , and are now managed by selected and not by elected authorities . |
| 19 | The aim of the programme is to develop the skills of parents of babies and young children and build up their self-esteem by : |
| 20 | The presence of fossils of seaweeds from the same deposits suggests that the remains of soft-bodied animals , not just their traces , will be found there in the future . |
| 21 | The tramway was to prove no exception , a fact underlined by the presence of rows of mayors at the opening on 29th September 1885 . |
| 22 | I move that the minutes of meetings of committees and sub-committees in sofar as they require confirmation be confirmed by the council , Except with regard to any matters still under consideration . |
| 23 | Advertising in the colour magazines is so expensive that their shiny pages are usually the preserve of manufacturers of cars , watches , television , expensive perfumes and the like . |
| 24 | An order for the payment of costs of proceedings by one party to another party is always a discretionary order : section 51 of the Act of 1981 . |
| 25 | The basic question is this : is information represented in the brain at the level of individual cells or at the level of groups of cells ? |
| 26 | District health authorities and family health services authorities will need to consider how best to improve the assessment of needs of patients as they plan to implement care in the community . |
| 27 | For example , types of worker resistance which derive from spontaneous , unofficial initiatives on the part of groups of workers often benefit from a degree of tacit legitimacy , in the sense that those in authority may ‘ turn a blind eye ’ to various workshop practices . |
| 28 | The success of this initiative came to be measured in terms other than purely personal achievement on the part of numbers of blacks learning to read and write . |
| 29 | The lower tier would be known as the Board for Local Authority Higher Education , its membership consisting of Christopher Ball as Chairman ; six representatives of local authorities ; six from the DES ; six from institutions , made up of two from the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics , two from the National Association of Teachers of Further and Higher Education , one from the Association of Principals of Colleges , and one from the Standing Conference of Principals and Directors of Colleges and Institutes of Higher Education ; and three others , consisting of one from the Trades Union Congress , one from the Council of National Academic Awards , and one jointly from the Business and Technician Education Councils . |
| 30 | This may have been one reason why the national body was , in the first instance , entitled the Committee for Local Authority Higher education and presumably why its membership includes a representative from the Association of Principals of Colleges , a body broadly representative of those further education establishments other than polytechnics and colleges and institutes of higher education . |