Example sentences of "[adj] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve patients took NSAIDs regularly : the proportion with healed ulcers at two weeks ( four of 12 ) , four weeks ( seven of 12 ) , and eight weeks ( 10 of 12 ) did not differ significantly from the proportion of intermittent NSAID takers with healed ulcers at two ( 42 of 102 ; p=0.76 v regular intake ) , four ( 67 of 102 ; p=0.75 ) , and eight ( 93 of 102 ; p=0.33 ) weeks . |
| 2 | Pursuant to section 67 of this Act the Secretary of State laid before Parliament and subsequently issued Code C , the ‘ Code of Practice for the Detention , Treatment and Questioning of Persons by Police Officers . ’ |
| 3 | Six months to get Hoomey jumping Bones … watching him , Nutty saw the very rawest of raw beginners , sitting pop-eyed with excitement on a pony quiet enough to put your great-grandmother on . |
| 4 | Over 1,600 of 2,205 samples of cows ' milk had pesticide residues , including " widespread and excessive " quantities of DDT and HCH ( also known as BHC ) . |
| 5 | Polypterus are one of the most primitive of all fish . |
| 6 | Legal systems may vary enormously in the types of civil claim they will entertain and in the conduct of the proceedings by which claims are adjudicated , but all but the most primitive of legal systems will know the idea of giving notice to the other party of the making of a claim or of the initiation of a significant step in the resulting proceedings . |
| 7 | The most primitive of these first threads is the umbilical cord which binds mother to child . |
| 8 | Dentine is universal in vertebrates and is thought to be the most primitive of vertebrate hard tissues . |
| 9 | There is no evidence from all this of cerebral ‘ rubicons ’ that correspond to the different stages of language acquisition , but one can not avoid the impression that the linguistic skills acquired by the growing child are orchestrated by a physiological score ; and one moreover that has its own peculiar , species-specific crescendos . |
| 10 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 11 | There is a minimum charge for this of one week 's rent , and single accommodation only is available . |
| 12 | Surely this of all concepts , and especially in the context of the homoerotic , must not be essentialized . |
| 13 | A less than shattering experience simply wo n't pass muster in this of all Shostakovich symphonies . |
| 14 | The bridge though sturdy was not very wide , and one did not desire , on this of all days , an accident in which innocent children might come to harm . |
| 15 | The American ambassador sent his CIA station chief to ask Walters what he was really doing in Morocco at this of all time Walters insisted that his visit had nothing to do with the Shah . |
| 16 | That there traitor , Mrs Elswick , had to pick this of all days to come and visit . |
| 17 | And I 'd also like to come back on this of closed schools in that if we look only at chronological age , which puts a limit on ‘ O ’ levels , we are shutting doors , because many students — and I see this in the sixth form — are not ready for these examinations at the prescribed age . |
| 18 | er of others that may benefit from this but only if and we er you find this of particular benefit , er to yourself . |
| 19 | The Old Testament contains memorable diatribes in the Book of Job , including a similarly optimistic assurance of its brevity : ‘ Knowest thou not this of old , … |
| 20 | I I knew of the existence of this of this report went to the enquiry on this Tuesday by mistake , but I two |
| 21 | All right tell me er complete the sentence of this of this particular hit song that Elvis er had and it 's difficult all right . |
| 22 | Erm yes you you you 'll know from my evidence that I have certain reservations about the detailed wording of this of this particular criteria . |
| 23 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 24 | Okay you , I mean is any of this of any use to you ? |
| 25 | This of confining you thus may perhaps be one of the worst . |
| 26 | Even adding the eight writs , his reign is the least well-represented of any between those of Æthelstan and Edward the Confessor , and seven of the documents we have are fairly definitely later forgeries , while nearly half the rest are suspect . |
| 27 | They are chained separately only to keep them clear of each other . |
| 28 | ‘ Th'want to keep clear of such as he . |
| 29 | The Profitboss steers clear of such indulgence , for in the end everyone pays dearly for the privilege of the few . |
| 30 | Check clear of other aircraft and that prop-wash wo n't damage anything behind us . ’ |