Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Now his father was a mere Tabulator to the Ducas clan , clients of Lord Spinoza — charged with inspecting the activities of even lesser sub-contractors .
2 HABITATS of the red squirrel , otter , bog bush cricket , and a wealth of other rare species and threatened landscapes , will benefit from the activities of over 5,000 environmentally aware tourists this summer .
3 They oversee the activities of both the port and the free zone .
4 The activities of both large transnational and national companies as well as small-farmer settlers on the northern frontiers of settlement have often been disastrous to the long-term productivity of the land , but have gone on unchecked ( Barbira-Scazzocchio 1980 ) .
5 For a large proportion of our members the activities of both County and National are completely irrelevant and all that matters is how good is the programme that is provided at local level .
6 Government was increasingly constrained by the activities of economically powerful groups , both at home and abroad ( notably , in the latter case , the International Monetary Fund ) .
7 This demonstrates not only a worrying return to the homophobia of earlier years , but an increasing desire on the part of central government to control the activities of locally elected government .
8 He later argued ( 1989 ) that public participation via community activity fostered a value-free image which obscured the involvement of state officials in facilitating the activities of institutionally recognised groups .
9 Well , I I was hoping we could , we could avoid discussing the activities of too many District and London Borough Councils for that matter , such as Westminster today , erm , but erm , there are certainly some very fine London Borough Councils .
10 Ending the scandal of ‘ consultancies and all that ’ the outside interests that colour , if not compromise , the activities of too many MPs should , but wo n't be , a General Election issue .
11 they were in one sense still asleep and unable to know about their sexual organs , using the defence of not knowing against an anxiety aroused by the prospect of copulation .
12 The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools .
13 This will be done primarily by evaluating the response of both demand and supply to tax changes in the past .
14 Young points out that this means the victimisation of over 20 per cent of respondents is still unknown and that such a large proportion could easily skew findings from the surveys .
15 Since they are subject to the disciplines of neither the market nor the ballot box they can become ineffectual .
16 The involuntary nature of Keynesian unemployment arises , as we saw earlier , from the inability of either workers or employers directly to exert the downward pressure on the real wage rate that was required by the marginal productivity theory of the demand for labour .
17 There are amusing archaeological records in the nineteenth century of the inability of even trained artists to record what they saw ; Assyrian figure sculptures , for example , were recorded as having unmistakably classical Greek features by an artist in the employ of the archaeologist Sir Henry Layard .
18 And the addition of commercially manufactured ‘ scratching-posts ’ to the indoor furniture rarely seems to solve the problem .
19 Whatever Churchill may have said , most of Labour 's leaders were less ambitious , demanding only the addition of steeply progressive taxation to the existing apparatus of wartime control of industry .
20 It can be varied by the addition of freshly chopped herbs , mustard powder , lemon juice or garlic , or indeed by using a nut oil or a flavoured vinegar .
21 ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’
22 When one Landau level is full , the addition of just one more electron puts the Fermi energy EF , at the bottom of the next level , and the decrease of the Hall voltage should continue with imperceptible disturbance .
23 This is one of the reasons why the addition of quite small amounts of the wrong impurity can ruin an alloy .
24 The afternoon started with some bold blows by Fleming , but he was spectacularly caught by Nicholas , leaping high at mid-off , and the last wickets fell for the addition of only 30 runs in four overs .
25 Commercial taramasalata is often spoiled by the addition of too much bread or too much oil .
26 As mentioned in Chapter 1 , the addition of too much salt ( or sugar ) to the mixture could be dangerously counter-productive .
27 The dangers of osmotic loss of water into the gut lumen from the tissue due to the addition of too many individual glucose molecules to the rehydration solution have already been described in Chapter 1 .
28 the addition of more Eastern European languages
29 Another said the loss of one tender being moved to Bishop Auckland would be balanced by the addition of more state-of-the-art equipment coming to the town .
30 Well I was never on it I was exempt and erm the younger people were , they had the opportunity of not erm being on the shifts
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