Example sentences of "of [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would lead us to begin with the logical and data transfer operations of 2.3 and 2.4 . |
| 2 | Professional interventions , far from being a source of help and support , are often another cause of upset and trouble . |
| 3 | But it meant that an important part of Belinda 's work was to be on the alert for this kind of upset and do everything she could to minimise its effect . |
| 4 | The Department of Health 's rules for Community Health Council Membership state that ‘ appointing bodies should not appoint people over the age of 70 unless there is a special reason : for example , an appointment by an organisation concerned mainly with elderly people . ’ |
| 5 | Colin Montgomerie finished one ahead of Olazabal after a last round of 70 and thinks he has benefited much from his four weeks in the United States . |
| 6 | The study found that the intelligence of most people remains constant until the age of 70 and concluded that ‘ for most people life satisfaction does not decline markedly with age , and the ability to function and adapt does not seem related to age . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm a widow of 70 and for the past eight years there 's been a very persistent man in my life . |
| 8 | Sir David Nicholson has attained the age of 70 and will retire from the Board at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting . |
| 9 | The winner was Jackie Harrington ( Adare ) , former close champion who had a two over par total of 143 with rounds of 70 and 73 . |
| 10 | Nick Tomlinson , of Mold , the new Flintshire county champion , after rounds of 70 and 71 gave him a winning two-round total of 141 at Padeswood and Buckley . |
| 11 | The 1987 General Household Survey found that 22% of people aged 60–69 , and 13% of those of 70 or older , were participating in voluntary work . |
| 12 | Caching of food , on the other hand , does occur , and records of 70 or 80 prey individuals being stored in one place have been described for different predator species ( Quick , 1951 ; Parovshchikov , 1963 ; Chesemore , 1975 ; MacDonald , 1976 ) . |
| 13 | Police in the Co Armagh area have been on a state of alert since a massive IRA bomb devastated the centre of nearby Lurgan in March last year . |
| 14 | The 12,000 American troops in Panama remained on the highest state of alert and largely confined to their bases . |
| 15 | The natural physiological mechanisms put us in a state of alert and prepare us for what is called the fight-or-flight response . |
| 16 | Half these benefices , however , were filled by their lay patrons , and of the rest most devolved , in consequence of alert and vigorous episcopal action , upon the diocesan bishop rather than upon the pope . |
| 17 | On July 18 the Kuwaiti Army was placed on a state of alert and the recently elected National Council [ see p. 37549 ] held an emergency session in camera to study the Iraqi charges . |
| 18 | Thanks to an over rate of 11.2 and the time lost to the weather being made up at the end , that fourth day became the longest in Test history , not finishing until 7.40 . |
| 19 | Because of the considerable government control over ownership of farms a proven degree of technical and management ability had to be demonstrated before young farmers could become farmers in their own right . |
| 20 | Scientific analysis , the assembly of technical and investment ‘ packages ’ and the acquiescence of the target population in the measures ordained are the result . |
| 21 | We looked in some detail at some aspects of protection which included certain kinds of technical and formal performance , the indirect handling of painful subjects and projection , the latter including some aspects of the teacher 's most flexible strategy , teacher-in-role . |
| 22 | In common with many other Latin American countries , it was the weakness of technical and administrative institutions in charge of peasant agriculture that was partly to blame for the failure of a rural development policy . |
| 23 | The system needs to be complemented by parallel courses of technical and vocational education , of demanding character , leading to respected national qualifications . |
| 24 | Political independence is meaningless without some degree of technical and economic independence . |
| 25 | Bukharin argued that just as there is a period of political disintegration , so too will there be a period of technical and productive collapse . |
| 26 | Its appraisal must be made by reference to the market position and the economic and financial power of the parties ; to alternatives available to suppliers and users ; to access to suppliers or markets ; to the structure of the markets affected , to take account of international competition ; to consider legal and factual barriers to entry ; and the interests of consumers and the development of technical and economic progress ( provided that the latter is to the consumers ' advantage and does not form an obstacle to competition ) . |
| 27 | Feeding your fish is probably the most important aspect of the hobby , but one which in terms of technical and specific advice seems to me a very grey area indeed , not helped particularly by product-leaflets/literature or indeed product labels as designed by the fish food manufacturers . |
| 28 | This trend was strengthened in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the establishment of more stringent educational requirements and by the expansion of technical and specialist administrative departments . |
| 29 | To ensure that this objective is maintained , it is essential that the highest levels of technical and ethical standards are set and monitored by the professional bodies . |
| 30 | This came in January 1991 , with the arrival on the scene of licensed engineer Bob Eatwell , who admits that if he had known of the multitude of technical and administrative problems that he faced , would have walked out of the Rochester workshop , into sanity ! |