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

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1 The kettle-out-of-tin-can-makers of Accra , the barefoot engineers of Bombay , and the hawkers of everything-under-the sun of Jakarta were showing flexibility and perhaps even salvation for the Third World poor .
2 She knew it instinctively in spite of the curtness of his words .
3 " It is stated to this Meeting that the Lint Miln is keep 'd in very bad order , and that it is insufficient to manufacture the Lint of the Parish independent of the Lint of the whole Island .
4 The support of the lexeme of apple can therefore be discovered simply by confronting our experience with the notion itself .
5 And Sarrance is the setting in which her group of competing story-tellers gather , after they have been driven out of the spa of Cauterets , up in the mountains , by bad weather .
6 Railways are a type of transport that fall easily under central control , and whose construction may even intensify political centralism , because of the rationality of disposing lines so as to converge at a central point .
7 But because of the evidence neither can we explain it away : there is the beginning of the rationality of faith .
8 The notion of ‘ rational choice ’ introduces us to another , more sophisticated conception of the rationality of racism , and one which does not require this kind of double standard .
9 Lakatos explicitly stated that the ‘ central problem in philosophy of science is … the problem of stating universal conditions under which a theory is scientific ’ , a problem which is ‘ closely linked with the problem of the rationality of science ’ and whose solution ‘ ought to give us guidance as to when the acceptance of a scientific theory is rational or not ’ .
10 Finally , there is also the question of the policing of the offences defined by the Act .
11 In pollution control work , however , there is none of the sacredness of the policing of the traditional code ( Lemert , 1972 ; Manning , 1977 ) , and it is more difficult to dramatize the threat of pollution than to portray the symbolic assaults on the community from criminals , addicts , vandals , and other sinister figures on the fringes of the moral order ( Manning , 1980 ) , notwithstanding the missionary zeal of some proponents of regulatory reform in the USA .
12 In the second instance public criticism of the policing of the urban disorders and riots of 1981/82 , coupled with mounting evidence of systematic discrimination against the black community , created a situation in which the practices of the ‘ copper on the beat ’ came under close scrutiny both from within the force itself and from various watchdog bodies .
13 But given the lengthiness of the dispute , the demands of other policework , and the regularity of ‘ trouble ’ , the ‘ permanent ’ mobile reserve , the SPG , became a routine feature of the policing of Grunwick , and especially the confrontational aspects .
14 Do not retrace your steps on leaving , but carry on past the observatory tower , completed by Anselmo Lurago and a reminder of the prominence of the Jesuits in the sciences .
15 But there is a symbolic importance of the prominence of Mr. Flynn in Fianna Fáil .
16 The use of sponsors ' logos should not be at the expense of the prominence of the HCIMA logo ;
17 The durability of the Royal Scotsman over five long seasons of operation , with the top tour price now only a short step away from £3,000 was proven by 1989 , but even as this book was being prepared for press , there were changes in the wind which may prove to be a sterner test of the depth of the elitist train-tour market .
18 Shackleton , Ries , and Coward ( 1982 ) made estimates of the depth of the main Variscan decollement in southwestern England based on cleavage attitudes and shortening , and concluded that a thin-skinned model was appropriate and that the granites are rootless .
19 In time a limit may be reached , not because of the depth of the pit but because it becomes too wide and approaches land that must not be disturbed .
20 Pinned to the wall was a huge contoured map , with alongside it , in graph layout , a profile of the depth of the ocean floor .
21 She had hopes of an East India merchant taking it off her for £13,000 , and the shock of it falling through brought her to her senses , and to a realization of the depth of the hole she had dug for herself .
22 There is no space to tell you of the depth of fellowship I am experiencing , of the great joy I have in teaching such folk , of all I am learning from these believers who have suffered so much , of the hardening opposition by the Orthodox Church , of the great work being done by the Baptists among Bulgarian orphans and of the plans for an orphanage , school and seminary .
23 On the other side of the energy account book is the surface energy , 2 G.l , which is needed to form the new surfaces and clearly this increases only as the first power of the depth of the crack .
24 It 's almost a confession — though that is perhaps not the right word — of the depth of feeling .
25 These observations , though few , have provided critical evidence of the depth of the causative fault ( 14–15 kilometres ) , while evidence from the main shock showed the fault to be a strike-slip fault .
26 The cuts follow a drop in sales and are a clear sign of the depth of the recession .
27 He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless .
28 For example , think of the depth of difference between Britain and Iran .
29 We must remember , even so , that this was the golden age 's own assessment of its own golden youth , and the repeated alarms about pistol gangs gives a further indication of the depth of the fears surrounding working-class youth at this time .
30 A hint of the depth of feeling in Stockport appeared in the Stockport Advertiser on 4th June 1856 , when tenders were invited for the building of a new grammar school in Shaw Heath .
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