Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moon died in 1978 , after an overdose of the prescribed drug he was taking to ease himself out of alcoholism ; Townshend had his own dark periods of excess ; even Entwistle , the quiet , static one , felt inclined to release a solo album entitled Smash Your Head Against The Wall . |
| 2 | The pier was built ; intended to be named after an admiral of the time it was quickly dubbed ‘ the Banjo Pier ’ by the locals and the Banjo Pier it remains . |
| 3 | The national meningitis trust was set up in Stroud after an epidemic of the disease in the mid nineteen eighties . |
| 4 | An illustration , from a not dissimilar field , of this approach in practice is Re Letters Rogatory Issued by the Director of Inspection of Government of India , where a United States Court of Appeals decided , after an analysis of the powers and duties of a tax assessment agency in India , that it was not a ‘ tribunal ’ entitled to the execution in New York of a Letter of Request seeking action under 28 U.S.C. 1782 . |
| 5 | In contrast , after an analysis of the literature on social indicators and the reform of education , Greenbaum et al ( l977 ) conclude not only that can NAEP not help with research hypothesis formation or policy guidelines , but that ‘ the prerequisites of an effective large-scale system of social accounting demonstrates that no such system lies within reach in the field of education ’ . |
| 6 | The evolutionary and thermoregulatory relationship between birds and dinosaurs was seen to be strengthened in 1989 after an examination of the best preserved fossils of a pterosaur 's wings . |
| 7 | We will return to question this assumption after an examination of the programme to create the SEM . |
| 8 | Newcomers this year include Galerie Bruno Meissner from Zurich , while Spink from London will be returning after an absence of a few years . |
| 9 | It had been argued that after assignment the liability of the original lessee became one of suretyship which was discharged following an alteration of the original contract without the consent of the guarantor . |
| 10 | The great tragedy of modern music is that , despite an evolution of the musical language to a state of extreme refinement and complexity , the results are less and less significant from a human point of view . |
| 11 | Anderson met the demands of an expanding workload , chronic understaffing , and excessive travelling on her inspectors by moving the women 's branch towards an approximation of the organization of the men 's branch — though always under her own control . |
| 12 | However , the characteristics of police occupational culture in Easton and the question of informal rules and control will be addressed in later chapters , to allow the focus here to narrow towards an outline of the nature of routine policing and its accomplishment . |
| 13 | Once we have discussed some of the different ways of thinking about law which are raised by the contributions in this section , we will try to place these within a wider framework and so work towards an assessment of the potential role of law and lawyers within the peace movement . |
| 14 | Students learn to work as individuals and in groups , moving towards a fuller understanding of their own skills and personal interests , and towards an awareness of the wider functions of the disciplines which form Art and Design . |
| 15 | And with these words he points towards an icon of the Saviour before which he has lighted a lamp — ‘ to be on the safe side , ’ Peter suggests . |
| 16 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
| 17 | Labour also moved towards more concern for the consumer , towards an acceptance of the need for legal curbs on the power of the unions , and the party 's need to confirm itself as the defence of the law and order sought by working-class citizens . |
| 18 | The outward characteristics of religions have an inner meaning which brings them from their very separate and distinct starting-points towards an appreciation of the Mystery at the heart of religion where paradoxically the distinctions merge . |
| 19 | The assistant behind the counter acknowledged them with a curt nod and his eyes flickered towards an area of the shop hidden from the entrance . |
| 20 | Returning to the central theme of the present chapter , electrical activity can be correlated with behaviour and this helps us towards an understanding of the neural mechanisms and cognitive processes underlying behaviour . |
| 21 | Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment . |
| 22 | X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic techniques continue to provide important clues , leading towards an understanding of the remarkable specificity of enzymatic catalysis . |
| 23 | Many political scientists have tried to shift the focus of political science away from government itself towards an understanding of the social context of politics ( see Coates , 1984 , p. 15 ) . |
| 24 | Much work remains to be done , however , building upon these important first steps towards an understanding of the values and direction of modern contract law . |
| 25 | Towards an understanding of the predictability of discourse and of its educational function . |
| 26 | With the use of smaller , lighter boards and rigs the children are guided in their play with the equipment towards an understanding of the principles of windsurfing . |
| 27 | Sufferers get better in the Fellowships ; treatment centres and counsellors are of value only in so far as they help sufferers towards an understanding of the principles and processes of the Fellowships . |
| 28 | However , progress in a similar way towards an understanding of the mechanics of weathering processes ( e.g. Curtis , 1976 ) requires not only an adequate knowledge of chemistry and of exchange reactions , but also of processes at a different scale . |
| 29 | A wider aim is to contribute towards an understanding of the economic and social organisation of commercial sea fishing in Northern Ireland , its present structure and future prospects . |
| 30 | Describing himself as ‘ very wary of the concept of history ’ , Derrida has rather attempted to shift the problem away from the conceptual analysis of history as an ‘ Idea ’ which , perhaps more than anything else , has proved to be Hegel 's most enduring legacy , towards an analysis of the interstices in the implications of the general system in which it operates . |