Example sentences of "works of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Meeting consider that the sum appropriated for the Steam Boat last year would be best disposed of by carrying on works of utility to the Island … " |
| 2 | The consequence is that the nonsensical at the bottom disappears as utterly as the sense in works of art at the top . |
| 3 | In the flyer produced by Oxford University Press , Peter Fusco , Curator of European Sculpture and Works of Art at the J. Paul Getty Museum , writes that the catalogue is ‘ a work which every art library and student of sculpture will need to own ’ . |
| 4 | The Basque government will also endow a new foundation that will be set up in Bilbao with the equivalent of £27 million ( $47.25 million ) , which is to be used to buy works of art for the new museum . |
| 5 | There is little twentieth-century sculpture in National Trust gardens but a new initiative started in 1986 , the Foundation for Art , commissions and acquires works of art for the Trust . |
| 6 | Why has the Minister deliberately blocked the money promised by his predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) , who promised in May 1990 that the Government would make money available for works of art for the opening of that new building ? |
| 7 | Many of the greatest treasures in National Trust houses would have been sold abroad long ago if it had not been for the ‘ in lieu ’ system , which was established in 1956 and which enabled private owners to give works of art to the nation in lieu of capital taxes . |
| 8 | The Whitechapel Art Gallery showed his work in 1986 and one of his compositions was included in Charles Saatchi 's gift of nine works of art to the Tate Gallery where it was exhibited too briefly before Christmas . |
| 9 | Private treaty sales such as secured the Holbein would be encouraged by the government , as would the acceptance of significant objects in lieu of tax , whereby inheritance tax or death duties are offset by gifts of works of art to the nation . |
| 10 | If you can liken works of art to the prisoners in Fidelio , such precious prisoners are now emerging into a Romanian sunlight after years of political imprisonment in attics , cellars or under floorboards . |
| 11 | Two months ago the Musée des Beaux-Arts inaugurated the first phase of its renovation scheme with the opening of thirty-one new rooms devoted to painting and works of art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 12 | The Roman marmorarii ( marble-cutters , sculptors , mosaic workers ) next to the calcarii ( the lime-burners ) were the worst enemies of ancient Roman monuments , destroying them for materials , but the fund of material was plentiful and out of their pillaging emerged some of the great works of art of the thirteenth century . |
| 13 | Directly after the war a special bureau the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit was set up under the aegis of the Ministry of Finance and charged with the recovery of illegally removed works of art under the German occupation and their subsequent return to their rightful owners . |
| 14 | Crucially , it seems likely that the Indian budget next March will abolish exchange controls on the rupee and there are also moves to lessen the swingeing import taxes on works of art into the country which has currently restricted much purchasing in London sales to NRI 's non resident Indians or to collectors who keep their works of art outside the country . |
| 15 | Evaluating the evidence , it demonstrated substantial storage by Capricorn of works of art on the premises in London . |
| 16 | As an owner will have been interested in keeping the value low so as not to pay a high export premium , the State will be ideally placed to acquire valuable works of art on the cheap . |
| 17 | The agreement , which was drawn up in fairly obscure terms , proposed that the now-sovereign states of the former USSR should return to each other works of art on the basis of whose territory they were created on , the nationality of the artist , or just on the principle of ‘ I want it , it 's mine ’ . |
| 18 | From the 1 April the harmonised EC licence system for exporting works of art beyond the EC enters into operation . |
| 19 | Crucially , it seems likely that the Indian budget next March will abolish exchange controls on the rupee and there are also moves to lessen the swingeing import taxes on works of art into the country which has currently restricted much purchasing in London sales to NRI 's non resident Indians or to collectors who keep their works of art outside the country . |
| 20 | Exports from the EC , on the other hand , would be exempt , which , the UK maintains , in the long run will leach works of art from the EC countries . |
| 21 | Sviridenko 's colleagues claim that his death was the result of his attempts to investigate a lucrative clandestine operation involving works of art from the so-called Zagorsk Archive , a collection of art treasures held as war booty stored in the Pivnaya Bashnya ( Brewer 's Tower ) of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Sergiyevyy Posad ( formerly Zagorsk ) . |
| 22 | Sotheby 's has also agreed to extend its current loan of $1.5 million , secured against $3 million worth of works of art from the Society 's collection , past the due date of November 1993 to avoid ‘ precipitating a foreclosure or [ consequent ] sale ’ according to Mr Ross . |
| 23 | There also appears to have been a decline in the output of feminist writings on art , but Abrams will be releasing American Beauties : women in Art and Literature edited by Charles Sullivan ( £25 , $29.95 ) , which includes paintings , sculptures , drawings and other works of art from the National Museum of American Art , part of the Smithsonian Institution . |
| 24 | Having identified the academic curriculum with competitive examinations and the status-seeking of the middle classes , Searle excludes all works of art from the classroom except the pupils ' own creations and those which reflect their lives . |
| 25 | In early 1991 , Barnes trustees cited those same urgent financial needs when they petitioned the Orphans Court for permission to amend the indenture 's ban on selling works of art from the collection . |
| 26 | Christie 's sale of the modern paintings , drawings and works of art from the William A. McCarty-Cooper Collection , ( primarily bequeathed to their late owner by his adoptive father and former lover , Douglas Cooper ) on the evening of 11 May was a remarkably unexciting , business-like and fitful affair . |
| 27 | The art of Benin first became known to the West in 1897 when a British military expedition confiscated thousands of works of art from the royal palace and exiled the king , Ovonrramwen . |
| 28 | The museum agreed that sales held within India would help to combat smuggling and the drain on works of art from the country . |
| 29 | As jewels and goldsmiths ' work from the Thurn und Taxis family go under the hammer this month at Sotheby 's Geneva , other , even more historically evocative works of art from the collection are on show in the Belgian Archives Géneral to celebrate nearly 500 years of the world 's oldest postal service , founded by the Thurn und Taxis , which began with a link between the imperial residence of the Habsburgs in Innsbruck and the court of Margaret of York in Malines , Belgium . |
| 30 | My passion is for its numerous Romanesque churches , in most cases humbly proportioned but elevated into unique works of art by the richness of their exquisitely-sculpted decoration ; to go to Poitou/Saintonge and not look at any of its churches would be like going to an African game reserve and ignoring the animals . |