Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nó0honshugi was a combination of physiocratic theories , support for the traditional values of village society and structure , and a belief in the spiritual values of rural life . |
| 32 | Our sixty-four arrests included a few for the traditional crimes of burglary ( but now at chemist 's shops ) , forgery ( but of NHS prescriptions , not bank notes ) , as well as the new offences of unlawful possession of amphetamine or LSD . |
| 33 | Streamline Graded Readers cater for the earliest levels of language learning . |
| 34 | If ever German society was to collapse , argued a writer in 1855 , it would be because the middle classes had begun to pursue appearance and luxury ‘ without seeking to counterbalance it with the simple and hard-working ( competent ) sense of the bourgeois [ Buergersinn ] , with respect for the spiritual forces of life , with the effort to identify science , ideas and talent with the progressive development of the Third Estate ’ . |
| 35 | They were invited to recommend likely candidates for the newly-created posts of Drama Organiser to various counties who would oversee all adult dramatic activity including youth work . |
| 36 | Tempting as it is , it is positively wrong to speak of the genes for the six enzymes of pathway 2 being selected ‘ as a group ’ . |
| 37 | WHEN THE GODS WERE ASKED TO NAME AN AUSPICIOUS DAY FOR the sheep to go south to Aula for the six months of winter , they had said the twenty-second of Kārtik , November the sixth . |
| 38 | ( Graves 's book , presumably , was too opaque for the self-appointed custodians of thought who objected to Michele Roberts . |
| 39 | Our new argument for the political virtues of conventionalism uses these distinctions to show why the line this theory draws between cases decided by law and cases calling for judicial legislation strikes the right balance between predictability and flexibility . |
| 40 | Because one or more non-ethanolic components of the beverages are responsible for the release of gastric acid and gastrin it is possible that they may be partly responsible for the detrimental effects of alcohol abuse . |
| 41 | C3 , C4 and C5 — For the complete areas of study but not for individual elements |
| 42 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 43 | This excess was not significant and was insufficient to account for the increased rates of leukaemia in the area . |
| 44 | Baseline values were comparable between groups for the urinary excretions of urea ( p=0.3785 ) and sodium ( p=0.8454 ) , for glycated haemoglobin concentration ( p=0.7299 ) , and for weight ( p=0.8524 ) . |
| 45 | Watch for the early signs of stress in yourself and those around you . |
| 46 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 47 | Plate tectonic movements and internal melting , gravitational segregation responsible for the distinctive differences of rock type , and contrasting local characteristics all played their part . |
| 48 | He succeeded in winning Stansfield 's confidence and in stamping his personal authority on all areas of the new department , including Simon 's , by intercepting correspondence and seizing responsibility for the smallest details of policy . |
| 49 | This version had provision for the hot gases of combustion to be passed round and over a layer of slurry spread upon a drying floor . |
| 50 | The other , which seems to be an obsession for the Prime Minister , was his odd crusade to get a fair deal for the oppressed users of motorway service stations . |
| 51 | Freeing the study of politics from its ‘ structural overtones ’ , as Almond put it , not only meant searching for the familiar functions of government in unfamiliar social structures ( such as administration by age sets ) . |
| 52 | Above , we see that there is in fact a significant right field advantage for the verbal tasks , trigram and word recognition and also a significant lack of right field advantage for the spatial tasks of dot location and counting . |
| 53 | It would have remained so to this day — but for the unforseen results of subsidence . |
| 54 | Might the roots of this crisis lie , not among the victims of poverty who are now being blamed , but in the political priorities which devote our wealth to the destruction of life , and leave nothing over with which to care for the economic casualties of Thatcherism and Majorism ? |
| 55 | The timing of the introduction of the care programme approach coincided with the initial dates for the major reforms of health and social care brought about by the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 . |
| 56 | It is very clear from the findings of the Survey that little or no change has occurred in the patterns of demand for the major categories of material studied on earlier occasions : the overwhelming majority of items requested are still modern publications , and the demand for foreign-language publications ( and , indeed , for publications in particular foreign languages ) has remained constant . |
| 57 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 58 | Heat treatment , self-help on the patient 's part , and rehabilitation of the affected muscles by massage and exercise were the tenets of her faith — and I had to admit that a great deal of what she practised depended on scorn for the accepted methods of treatment with splints , braces , and corsets which only assisted the patients in coping with unhealed limbs , not in any actual sense curing them . |
| 59 | As for the mocking accusations of pretentiousness . |
| 60 | Fifteen years was quite adequate for the necessary stages of component research , reduction of options , testing of prototypes , laying down of a production line , through to full-scale manufacture . |