Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government also proposed to introduce debt-waiver on loans of up to Rs10,000 for small farmers and allocation of up to 50 per cent of available resources for investment in the agricultural sector and rural development--one of the National Front 's election promises . |
| 2 | The lower two-thirds of his body was encased in a sleeping bag . |
| 3 | Rick Baker must get a brief mention for his Oscar-winning work on that darkest of tragi-comedies , An American Werewolf in London ( 1981 ) , also John Landis 's masterpiece to date . |
| 4 | Suilven , that finest of all Sutherland mountains , is described as : ‘ One sandstone chord that holds up time in space . ’ |
| 5 | The average wage of women workers is two-thirds that of men . |
| 6 | These findings are in line with those of an earlier study for England and Wales which showed that the mean number of days professionals stayed in hospital was about two-thirds that of unskilled workers who also had higher admission rates ( see Table 3.11 ) . |
| 7 | Thus systemic and schematic knowledge develop concurrently , each supportive of the other . |
| 8 | There is little right of reply on radio and television and even where it exists it is not particularly likely to be heard by the audience of the original programme . |
| 9 | Ade had raced Yevgeniev a number of times before that , in Paris in 1985 and in the European Indoor of 1984 , and had never beaten him , and I do n't think he would have been ahead of the Russian this time either . |
| 10 | The other team in question — the main one , anyway -is that of the French , whose new philosophies and related experiments in fiction have often helped sustain the initiatives of modernism since the Second World War . |
| 11 | Least respectable of all was moneylending . |
| 12 | Fifty eight of two hundred and forty eight . |
| 13 | But equally , the first thing I remember was my number in the infant school , when I was number fifty five , and er there were fifty eight of us in the class , and one lady kept order . |
| 14 | All the green of Undersea seemed to have fused in that clearest of emeralds ; it was as different from the drifting atmosphere as , in Ruth 's own world , water from air . |
| 15 | Funny , is n't it , that neither of Country at all ? ’ |
| 16 | Dreams of being chased , or of flying are also more frequent than one might expect , given that neither of these events happens very frequently in real life . |
| 17 | But pitfalls remain ; for example , a putative brachiopod-like shell from the lower Cambrian of Irkutsk could be a percussion fracture formed when the drill core was broken open , a telling illustration of the difficulties sometimes incurred in interpreting problematic fossils . |
| 18 | b , e , Anabarites compositus from the Lower Cambrian of northern Siberia showing steinkern of tube ( b ; x50 ) and detail of porous blade-like extensions ( e , x200 ) that arise in three rows along the interior wall of the tube . |
| 19 | ( Specimen kindly made available by V.V. Missarzhevksy. ) c , Deltaclavus graneus , a series of articulated sclerites from the Lower Cambrian of Hubei , China , x90 . |
| 20 | d , Anabarites trymatus from the Lower Cambrian of south Australia , steinkern showing triradial symmetry of tube ; magnification , 150x. f , Carinachites spinatus , an early ? conulariid ( Cnidaria ) from the Lower Cambrian of Shaanxi , China ; magnification , 36x . |
| 21 | d , Anabarites trymatus from the Lower Cambrian of south Australia , steinkern showing triradial symmetry of tube ; magnification , 150x. f , Carinachites spinatus , an early ? conulariid ( Cnidaria ) from the Lower Cambrian of Shaanxi , China ; magnification , 36x . |
| 22 | For example , the Magistrates ' Association produce suggestions for these many road traffic cases you 've spoken about , which list about fifty odd of the common road traffic offences and make suggestions as to the penalties that might be adopted throughout England and Wales . |
| 23 | In June 1986 he unveiled a five year development programme for the occupied territories , proposing to spend $1,200 million , which depended upon funding from Jordan 's Western friends , particularly the United States and the European Community , and was focused on the development of the rural and commercial sectors , the two areas deemed least supportive of the PLO . |
| 24 | You are permitted to spend only a certain maximum proportion of your points on each each of these categories . |
| 25 | As that wisest of analysts , Carl Jung , said , ‘ Every mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother , and every woman extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter . ’ |
| 26 | It is perhaps ironic that today the Holstein of North America is rapidly overwhelming the dual-purpose Friesian of Europe , whatever its name . |
| 27 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 28 | Once this was done he set about his task , quite happy to be in no other company that that of the two greys . |
| 29 | It all came back to that greatest of Italian national defects , which is less an attitude of xenophobia than a reflection of its people 's belief that Italy is God 's country and Italians God 's chosen . |
| 30 | He understood the depth of the compliment : the landlord had compared him favourably with that greatest of heroes , a local boy made good ( so long , of course , as he makes good far away ) . |