Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skull , which has a unique heterodont dentition , does not exhibit any of the specializations of the major dinosaurian clades ( Ornithischia , Sauropodomorpha , Theropoda ) . |
| 2 | The shaman 's journey to the land of the spirits is one manifestation of the animist religion of the Siberian native peoples . |
| 3 | However the presence of very large fundamental and odd harmonic components in the output makes the isolation of the small even harmonics a very daunting task . |
| 4 | It is more than an atlas : it is a superbly illustrated synopsis of the characteristics of the major tropical diseases , their infective agents , their ecology , their life cycles and their vectors … probably the best value for money for anyone interested in obtaining an illustrated guide to tropical medicine and medical parasitology . " |
| 5 | By briefly reconsidering the major industrial disputes covered by Geary 's final two periods , it will be shown how it is more advisable to explain the characteristics of the key industrial confrontations of the period in terms of the specific audiences influencing police behaviour . |
| 6 | If the spectral reflectance characteristics of the different land-cover types in the area covered by an image are known , it is possible to identify each pixel in the image in terms of one or other of these classes . |
| 7 | By the beginning of the new century some of this new ideology , with its taboos on unmanly vices was certainly for export to the working class and we see the emergence of mass youth movements such as the Scouts , and the transference to the grammar schools of many of the key characteristics of the old public schools . |
| 8 | The jewellery and antique shops of the famous winding alleyways called the Lanes continue to serve discriminating tastes . |
| 9 | I 'm not usually stuck for words , ’ she went on , thinking of the successful extempore speeches she had made in court when her clients had led her into all sorts of impossible positions . |
| 10 | This study focuses on an area of research which has received little attention in the past , but which is now at the forefront of the thinking of the relevant military planners . |
| 11 | She shuddered , thinking of the new puckered scars he already bore , criss-crossing with the traces of older wounds . |
| 12 | Such " controlled " independence fitted the general pattern of thinking of the victorious European powers about the post-war Middle East . |
| 13 | Rachel prickled , thinking of the hard blue eyes , the uncompromising mouth and the cut of that black Savile Row suit , the effortless way he wore an invisible but formidable air of power . |
| 14 | He had planned for it ; it had been expected ; it was just another episode of the unreal bureaucratic adventures in which he seemed to picture himself . |
| 15 | When E is at a minimum , the output is the settings of the other visible switches . |
| 16 | The BM is designed to accept as input a setting of some of its visible switches , and provide as output settings of the remaining visible switches . |
| 17 | " Two policemen — Irish policemen too — dead and killed on the same day as the first sitting of the new Irish parliamentarians . |
| 18 | Damory and Audley , the husbands of the other two co-heiresses , were vulnerable to Despenser 's expansionism and in the early months of 1321 they and the other marchers turned to Lancaster for help . |
| 19 | We do so without embarrassment , since the mainstream theories are still flourishing and occupy the bulk of the current International Relations literature . |
| 20 | Several hours later , to the west of Kuwait , the bulk of the allied armoured forces — the US VII Corps and the British 1st Armoured Division — outflanked the main enemy defence line and drove directly into Iraq before wheeling north-east to engage the Republican Guard divisions being held in reserve in northern Kuwait . |
| 21 | Despite Lenin 's theory of national self-determination , the new Soviet Union still embraced the great bulk of the old imperial domains , including minorities like the Georgians and the Ukrainians who had been civilized for centuries before the denizens of what was to become Muscovy . |
| 22 | Suburban commuters , who increasingly formed the bulk of the middle-aged middle classes , were often rather hazy about ‘ the games ethic ’ and confined the ideal of amateurism to rugby , cricket , or athletics . |
| 23 | But the reasoning of the leading scientific intellects of the age had nothing like so much effect as an obscure little Japanese fishing boat named the Lucky Dragon which was 85 miles from Bikini Atoll when Dr Teller 's H-bomb went off . |
| 24 | ( Smith 1982 : 5 ) This shift in official church policy has made possible a greater integration of religious and secular values and also the move from legitimisation of the existing social structures towards the promotion of greater equality . |
| 25 | Yet , despite the rapid growth of these more recent subjects , history retains its traditional importance in higher education , since its social , cultural , economic and political concerns provide us with an interdisciplinary approach to problems that includes the perspectives and many of the methods of the various social sciences , yet also seeks to establish a broader , overall assessment of the issues it examines . |
| 26 | Thus while patients with incomplete lesions retain some control of sphincter function , which can be enhanced by training , those with complete lesions have no control , are at the mercy of often unpredictable reflex defecation , and are best treated by transection of the dorsal sacral roots followed by manual evacuation or spinal stimulation , or both . |
| 27 | Then , as M. Dupin stresses more than once in his book , all types of genuine Gruyère cheese should be cut into little pieces for cooking , never on any account grated , a procedure which causes it to form sticky masses rather than the long creamy threads which constitute one of its essential characteristics — a characteristic considered especially important when it comes to the soupe au fromage of the eastern French provinces , that same soup which , transmogrified into the onion soup of the Paris all-night bistros , has now found its way into packets labelled la soupe au fromage instantanée . |
| 28 | But the day-to-day administration of the south-western French possessions of the English crown was in the hands of knightly-seneschals or lawyer-seneschals , aided and abetted by a Gascon council , by their own lieutenants , and ( after 1279 ) by sub-seneschals in the major subdivisions of the duchy . |
| 29 | The administration of the sponsored depository arrangements is handled by Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York . |
| 30 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |