Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 2 | Studies assessing the value of various risk factors and scoring systems in patients with acute variceal haemorrhage are important as they may offer a useful mean of selection for entry into clinica trials or they may identify a group of patients with a very high mortality . |
| 3 | From the conference of Berchtesgaden in November 1937 to the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938 , from the increasingly threatening noises over Czechoslovakia in March 1938 to the abdication of Munich in September 1938 , from the last-ditch , desperate attempts to cobble together a tripartite agreement in May 1939 to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact in August 1939 , there was a sense of deathly inevitability compared to which Nizan 's repeated calls for collective security appear as no more than the efforts of a man crying in the wilderness . |
| 4 | Jane Campbell , a member of the Independent Living Support Group in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames says she wants to raise the injustice of the £500 limit in another forum . |
| 5 | Bishop John Fordham in 1384 appointed Lewyn a commissioner of array for the city of Durham , and with several partners he was granted the borough of Durham to farm , and he was also engaged in the export of wool overseas . |
| 6 | The state religion of Rome under Constantine was , in fact , pagan sun worship , and Constantine , all his life , functioned as its chief priest . |
| 7 | Angell shared none of Hobson 's anxieties about the long-term consequences of the export of capital from Europe . |
| 8 | The firm transports livestock to Europe , but because of the drivers ' blockade , a temporary ban has been placed on the export of livestock into France . |
| 9 | In the 1760s improvements were made to Patrington Haven , a small port on the river Humber in the days before much of the land was reclaimed , and this facilitated the export of corn from South Holderness to places like the growing towns of the West Riding . |
| 10 | Export of grain from port bucks national trend |
| 11 | Items considered by the U.K. Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art June 1991-June 1992 |
| 12 | Ministers none the less were now concerned to save the statue by different means ; and early in the spring of 1989 , Nicholas Ridley announced a change in the rules governing the export of works of art , by which private purchasers , as well as public institutions , could purchase works subject to an export stop . |
| 13 | Jonathan Scott , Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art has produced another of his elegantly written reports on how successful or otherwise Britain has been at retaining its preeminent works of art : the tally , eighteen out of forty-four retained — that is , a public institution or , in the case of the Delander stick barometer , a private citizen , has matched the price at which the item was being exported . |
| 14 | From 1 January 1993 , member states will only inspect imports and exports at their frontiers on a spot-check basis , so it will be more difficult to stop the illegal export of works of art . |
| 15 | Although the V&A 's sculpture department tried to keep the sixteenth-century bronze statue in the country , it seems that it was not felt to be of sufficient merit to meet any of the Waverley criteria governing rules on the export of works of art from Britain . |
| 16 | The Office Fédéral de la Culture , which is the nearest equivalent in Switzerland to a Ministry of Culture or an Arts Council , has just presented a report to the Swiss government , calling for new legislation controlling the import and export of works of art , and encouraging the authorities to sign the 1970 UNESCO convention . |
| 17 | The film industry and the export of works of art , so far primarily the joint responsibility of the OAL and the Department of Trade and Industry , have long been candidates for transfer to an enlarged arts department . |
| 18 | First , the European Commission in Brussels , probably because it is afraid of becoming completely superfluous once a truly free European market has been realised , is devising ways and means to regulate , or rather , deregulate , the import and export of works of art . |
| 19 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 20 | It seems that the country which boasts of having more art that any other European country , and thereby justifies having some of the most restrictive laws in Europe to stop the export of works of art , is incapable of looking after this unparalleled wealth . |
| 21 | This definitively scotches a proposal which the previous Minister for the Arts , Tim Renton , had asked museum directors and the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art to consider ( see The Art Newspaper No.11 , October 1991 , p.1 ) . |
| 22 | The latter provides for the creation of a special federal service that will deal with the export of works of art . |
| 23 | A draft law regulating the export of works of art has already been drawn up and was put before the Supreme Soviet of Russia on 10 September . |
| 24 | Commenting on the draft law , Russia'a new Deputy Minister of Culture , Tatyana Nikitina , points out that the new regulations will allow the export of works of art dating from the beginning of this century . |
| 25 | According to Mrs Nikitina , who is responsible for the national heritage , Russia is keen to take an active part in international efforts to curb the illicit export of works of art . |
| 26 | The most extraordinary of the group was bought by the V & A in 1986 ( after the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art had halted its departure from Britain to a collection in North America ) . |
| 27 | ( Although , as the free export of arms to France had been permitted , the restrictions were more nominal than real . ) |
| 28 | Dr Fisher has clearly demonstrated that the export of manufactures to Portugal was closely bound to their subsequent re-export from Lisbon to Brazil : " The business that English merchants drove to the English colonies in this period was in fact complemented by substantial indirect trades to the Iberian empires in America . " |
| 29 | The export of wood by merchants from Ragusa and other Dalmatian cities to the Arabs in Egypt , North Africa , Spain and Sicily contributed to the deforestation of the immediate hinterland . |
| 30 | Demolition of redundant sheds and railway lines and the subsequent asphalting of the quay apron of the Harbour Berths for the export of barley in vessels up to 20,000 D.W.C. was completed in April . |