Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The corporation was self-elected and of the weakest kind . |
2 | Initially they had a duty to promote only the welfare of the blind but from 1951 they had power to promote the welfare of the deaf and of the general classes of the physically handicapped . |
3 | This is true whether the loss is small and relatively trivial or if total and of the greatest importance , such as losing through death someone we are deeply attached to . |
4 | He ranged far wide of any possible Treasury brief or of the broadest interpretation of his Exchequer responsibilities . |
5 | Yet movement is the very essence of being human and of the human condition which policing sets out to nullify . |
6 | I got involved with agencies who specialise in placing children who were difficult to place , be it handicapped , black or of the wrong age , and that led to my doing a lot of work taking photographs for a magazine published by the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering and various publicity and public relations work for the Catholic Children 's Society . |
7 | ‘ Clearly , ’ he said to himself , ‘ Each T on this ball is regular and of the same dimensions as each and every other T. Clearly also , each and every pentagon is regular and the same size as each and every other pentagon . ’ |
8 | In the wake of the Seebohm Report ( 1968 ) there was extended debate both of potential definitions of specialist and generic and of the specific interpretations which were intended by the Report . |
9 | Strategic information is very high-grade and of the highest utility to the business historian ; it is usually manageable in quantity and readily accessible in hard-copy form . |
10 | These duties — often referred to as the ‘ taxes on knowledge ’ — were designed to limit the growth , circulation and distribution of the press in general and of the radical press in particular . |
11 | I mean , not just a Euro-Communist or of the pinkish persuasion . |
12 | It is imperative that the services provided are cost efficient and of the highest quality . |
13 | He is not new to the museum world , as he is on the visiting committees of the Metropolitan and of the Freer Art gallery , and he is also a collector , of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art , and of Chinese archaic jades and bronzes . |
14 | Captain Kennedy was dead and of the 65 P&O men on board — a fifth of the total complement — 54 had also been killed . |
15 | So , a little reminder about how the good things in life — even the ones you buy — can be green and fun and of the highest quality . |
16 | With an agreeable mixture of personal and scientific detail , Robertson tells us about the early Australian work on radio emission from the Sun , the planets and the mysterious radio ‘ stars ’ ( point sources ) and explains how the 21-cm line from interstellar hydrogen was used to map the spiral arms of our Galaxy ; he also describes the development of the solar radio spectrograph by Paul Wild and of the high resolution ‘ cross ’ antennae by Bernard Mills and Wilbur Christiansen . |