Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telling speeches in support of abolition were made from the Conservative benches by Sir Edward Boyle and Henry Brooke , the former Home Secretary who had become persuaded by the arguments against capital punishment once free of the cares of office . |
| 2 | The moment of the break is not transcendent but it is a breaking free of the determinations of ideology — a moment in which the presuppositions that determine ideology are transformed by a critical response to them . |
| 3 | She wrote : ’ … essential , right now are groupings of women quite free of the practices of party politics dominated by the fascism inherent in their structures and phallocratic ideology . |
| 4 | Stanford University Hospital is the Hippocratic show-piece of America , whose government-sponsored research surges forward free of the confines of budget . |
| 5 | To watch him then was such a mingled joy of yearning and pity that sometimes , frightened of her waking thoughts but more afraid of the nightmares of sleep , she would carry her night-light into his bedroom and crouch by the cot for an hour or more , her eyes fixed on his sleeping face , her restlessness soothed by his peace . |
| 6 | In my own teaching , in my own responsibilities , I think I have to make two gestures simultaneously : to train people , to teach them , to give them a content , to be a good pedagogue , to train teachers , to give them a profession ; and at the same time to make them as conscious as possible of the problems of professionalization . |
| 7 | At present , the further education authorities take as much advantage as possible of the economies of scale through the regional councils . |
| 8 | The required user attributes of the software management system are that it is efficient in operation and supportive of the needs of software producers . |
| 9 | For the purpose of this guide these terms will be used as they are in themselves descriptive of the types of valuation report we may be asked to prepare , although naturally our clients will not use this terminology . |
| 10 | Roland felt briefly guilty of the oppressions of mankind . |
| 11 | Some children who are able to read and have learned to read effortlessly are unaware of the rewards of reading and so do not read voluntarily . |
| 12 | Neither the writers of that period nor their audience were unaware of the rewards of madness as a subject . |
| 13 | In many instances social workers picked up practical points such as those mentioned above , and dealt with them immediately : arrangements were hastily made to provide counselling for those young people who were unaware of the dangers of AIDS and the importance of using contraceptives . |
| 14 | Politicians are reluctant to popularise or enforce measures against which many campaigned prior to Independence and ‘ the majority of farmers remain unaware of the causes of erosion and unconvinced of the need for or value of conservation measures ’ ( ibid. : 28 ) . |
| 15 | Ms Smillie said organisers of training courses often complained that hotels were inflexible towards meal times , unaware of the needs of training and rarely offered the standards of presentation and technology required . |
| 16 | Nor was he unaware of the rays of force emanating from the presence behind his back of the fateful being now committed to his charge . |
| 17 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 18 | Today its cattle , found on about half of all Danish farms and reduced in recent years from more than 3 million to 2.5 million , are more typical of the plains of mainland northern Europe : they are large-framed , short-horned pied lowlands and Baltic reds . |
| 19 | They had no direct experience of the Second Republic or the Civil War and so were less fearful of the consequences of change . |
| 20 | It was not that Mr Grey 's enthusiasm for selling books had waned , rather that he was convinced of the advantages of diversification . |
| 21 | For one who was convinced of the merits of control , both control of self and regulation of one 's environment , she was discovering something beyond her range of command ; her children . |
| 22 | I got a shock : I had little dreamt that English children could be so completely ignorant of the rules of hygiene , and that they would regard the floors and carpets as suitable places upon which to relieve themselves . |
| 23 | Such a survival is very important , for while we may be largely ignorant of the details of land travel , the role of ships in transporting men and goods across the waters to England is known to be great . |
| 24 | A few months on in their friendship Nigel began to be sick of the hints of affection dropped by Eleanor . |
| 25 | The most elaborate of the charters of incorporation was that granted to Hull in 1440 . |
| 26 | John Pople , like the rest of the quantum community , is conscious of the shortcomings of quantum mechanics and he thinks that exact solutions to the Schrödinger equation for many-electron systems are unlikely to appear for many decades . |
| 27 | Conscious of the dangers of marketing hype , the media-smart director remains sceptical , especially about being pigeon-holed as a purely ‘ gay ’ film-maker . |
| 28 | This second volume contains , besides several ingenious smaller pieces , written on particular occasions , The Unhappy Father , a tragedy , with three acts of a second play , written at the request of a friend , in about a fortnight , and some letters of this extraordinary young woman , which have a solidity in them far beyond what could be expected from one of her years , and so destitute of the advantages of education … |
| 29 | When her mind 's eye tired of the ghosts of memory , her gaze skipped above her bed to the ethereal mobiles whose charm was always changing . |
| 30 | Even if ‘ tax credits ’ were paid to the mother this would fall far short of the advantages of Family Allowance and would be completely unacceptable to women . |