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

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1 The constellation of behaviours : pointing , vocalising and checking may be closely tied to the acquistion of language .
2 Instead it looked to our medieval buildings , our castles and churches , and to the wilds of Westmorland .
3 Are you off to the wilds of Illinois ? ’
4 The frentic merger activity among the nation 's accountants ( or not , as the case may be ) has spread to the wilds of Yorkshire where the tiny firm of Rawlinsons is linking with the equally tiny Milne Booth .
5 However , it is not suggested , pace Fuller , that the internal morality of law is inherent in the most efficient methods of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules , although there is more strength than has been generally granted in the view that government can only be compatible with the dignity of man if Fuller 's eight requirements for making law are satisfied ( Nicholson , 1973–4 ) .
6 If the epitomist added the two letters to his summary of the history of Jason , his epitome must be dated after 124 B.C. The only possible alternative is the assumption that a later interpolator added the two letters to the epitome of Jason .
7 This definition was used by Cohen to explain the response to youth in the 1950s and 1960s but it can be similarly applied to moral crises in the more distant past — one may refer by way of example , to the nexus of fears generated by the French Revolution , which significantly shaped the contours of ‘ Victorian ’ sexuality , or the anxieties which produced the legislative restructuring of the 1880s and 1900s , or the fears generated by the cold war in the 1950s .
8 Thus , if X , Y and Z trustees direct A Ltd , the shares of which are owned by the trust , to pay dividends to B ( the beneficiary ) direct , or the agent of B , and the trustees make an appropriate return to the Revenue then they are not required to take any further steps with regard to the assessment of B to income tax .
9 Central to recognition of oneself by oneself is a move in work organizations to the assessment of performance on a continuous basis of individuals , groups or businesses against agreed performance criteria .
10 With the growth of international lending in both domestic and foreign currencies most banks have increased their staff numbers and resources devoted to the assessment of country risk , although it has to be recognised that such a subject can never be reduced to an exact science .
11 Accordingly , other provisions of the Act relating to the assessment of benefit , charging orders burdens of proof and enforcement are also applicable .
12 The multidisciplinary approach to the assessment of referrals to these community teams for the elderly is not associated with misdiagnosis of psychiatric disorder .
13 In particular , when it comes to the assessment of efficacy , there is often no single physicochemical parameter that is adequate to predict clinical performance .
14 With regard to the assessment of fitness for interview , a key issue is the need for any standardised approach to incorporate a record of the reasons for particular decisions .
15 Commitment to the assessment of pupils is the requirement of the 1988 Education Reform Act which most directly touches teachers .
16 Bowel scintigraphy using Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been applied to the assessment of disease extent and activity in Crohn 's disease .
17 The Department of Education and Science use the most transparent and crude approach to the assessment of deprivation .
18 Overall , whilst this variation undoubtedly includes examples of good assessment practice , there is also evidence that the general level of social services assessment of older people is restricted to the assessment of need for specific services , often requested by a carer , a general practitioner , or other third party , frequently undertaken by untrained ancillary staff ( Means , 1981 ; Black et al. , 1983 ; Bowl , 1986 ) .
19 Although not everyone will agree that the condition of , for instance , educational buildings can be adequately judged without an educational view , the main point which the Commission was making was that information was the key to the assessment of quality in education .
20 Both Surveys contain a good deal of information relevant to the assessment of living standards including expenditure data ( from the FES ) , indicators of health and social participation ( from the GHS ) and data on the possession of assets ( from both Surveys ) .
21 They are particularly suited to the assessment of Outcomes concerned with analysis , synthesis and evaluation .
22 Moreover , it has been claimed ( e.g. by Burton-Roberts forthcoming ) that whereas the phenomenon in [ 7 ] is restricted to the juxtaposition of NPs , the phenomenon of loose apposition extends to the juxtaposition of other categories .
23 Indeed , Burton-Roberts suggests that loose apposition extends to the juxtaposition of sentences .
24 Good books are now easy to find and reasonably priced — look for The RSPB Book of British Birds ( Macmillan ) , the Country Life Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe ( Collins ) , The Shell Guide to the Birds of Britain ( Michael Joseph ) and , above all , The Complete Book of British Birds ( RSPB/AA )
25 Good books are now easy to find and reasonably priced — look for The RSPB Book of British Birds ( Macmillan ) , the Country Life Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe ( Collins ) , The Shell Guide to the Birds of Britain ( Michael Joseph ) and , above all , The Complete Book of British Birds ( RSPB/AA )
26 ‘ My readers will easily imagine , ’ he wrote in his Handbook to the Birds of Australia , ‘ with what pleasure I descended the ship 's side and sallied forth in a little ‘ dingy ’ to procure specimens . ’
27 Altogether , during the outward voyage and the return passage around Cape Horn , Gould , as he described in his introduction to the Birds of Australia , ‘ was enabled to obtain nearly forty species of petrel , being the finest collection of Procellaridae ever brought together ’ , as well as examining and preserving numerous other species that came by chance to hand .
28 In an extract from the introduction to the Birds of Australia , Gould describes the fate that befell these two men who lived and died at the mercy of the violent and contrary Australian climate :
29 Eventually Gould was to take Swainson 's point , and in 1865 published a Handbook to the Birds of Australia in two more manageable royal octavo volumes , with no illustrations and a revised text .
30 G. M. Henry , in his classic A Guide to the Birds of Ceylon , puts forward this argument to explain why the birds that have developed as separate species and subspecies are found in the southern , mountainous half of the island .
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