Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last two releases in the Kings Quest series received a fairly mixed reception , and since the heady days when Sierra WERE GRAPHIC ADVENTURES there have been some very strong releases from the likes of Lucasfilms ( Loom , Secret of Monkey Island I and II , Indiana Jones ) , Westwood ( Legend of Kyrandia ) , and even some of the Role Playing Games from Origin ( Ultima VII and Ultima Underworlds ) and Sir Tech ( Crusaders of the Dark Savant ) . |
| 2 | And there were strange parallels in the patterns of their childhood . |
| 3 | There are also conflicting accounts of the terms of the audit . |
| 4 | Whereas the peasants continued to be edified through oral accounts of the lives of the Saints and of holy pilgrims , and occasionally learnt to read the alphabet through the Psalter , the upper classes had paid lip-service to the state religion whilst immersing themselves in rationalist Western thought . |
| 5 | Will the Prime Minister therefore tell us what specific proposals he has made for supporting economic projects in the republics of the former Soviet Union , particularly in the distribution industries , which are obviously of basic importance to economic growth and to the development of markets ? |
| 6 | The interest is , however , taken into account when determining liability at rates in excess of the basic rate ; also when calculating total income for the purposes of the special allowance for the elderly ( see below ) . |
| 7 | He launched a strong defence of the achievements of the past 13 years of Conservative rule and warned voters not to ‘ fall in Labour 's trap ’ and ‘ sleepwalk ’ into the election . |
| 8 | Other Latin American presidents have been able to bring in economic change without the encumbrances of democratic politics . |
| 9 | It is in this sense that Marx distinguished , initially in his ‘ Contribution to a Critique of Hegel 's Philosophy of Right ’ ( 1844 ) , between ‘ a partial , merely political revolution which leaves the pillars of the building standing ’ , and a social revolution ; thereby changing the whole concept of revolution , as Max Adler ( 1928 ) later argued , ‘ from the merely political idea of the transformation of the state , into the social concept of an economic change in the bases of society ’ . |
| 10 | There is a clear excess over expectation of cyanogenic forms in the areas of high and very high mollusc density and of acyanogenic forms in the areas of very low mollusc density . |
| 11 | This is a very attractive Queen Anne building , situated in a quiet private lane on the outskirts of the pretty village of Pulborough . |
| 12 | There was a strong sweet earthy smell from the slopes of soil around its edges . |
| 13 | Many commented that the concentration on child abuse skewed their professional response to the needs of children and families more generally : Finally , one study ( McGloin and Turnbull , 1986 ; 1987a ; 1987b ) has focused on the much more restricted issue of the effects of parental participation at child abuse review case conferences . |
| 14 | His is not an isolated story — to this day many people report hearing or seeing a strange presence on the slopes of the mountain . |
| 15 | Thousands of residents were warned to stay indoors , and others reported suffering sore throats from the effects of the gas . |
| 16 | Anyone who remembers the soggy paper , fuzzy grey photographs and provincial texts of the publications produced by the Eastern bloc museums in the past , will rejoice at this series , with their beautiful colour illustrations of every object , intelligent individual commentaries , full bibliographies , and introductory essays on the histories of the respective institutions . |
| 17 | He had a pleasant apartment on the outskirts of Moscow with his young wife and baby daughter , and hoped to achieve a small dacha . |
| 18 | A third flexible sigmoidoscopy was performed one month after cessation of all therapy when the disease has been considered in stable remission with no symptoms of recurrence . |
| 19 | The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London . |
| 20 | For geographers — who span the conventional ( and now archaic ) dichotomy between the natural and the environmental sciences — all of these aspects need to be woven together to anticipate the likely spatial patterns of the effects of massive change , the redistributions in trade , health and wealth which they will bring about and the ‘ knock on ’ effects these consequences themselves will have on society and the environment . |
| 21 | Standing in shallow water amongst the tall reeds on the banks of the river , Mark counted eight herons , all motionless , their necks inclined upwards at precisely the same angle , as if in silent prayer . |
| 22 | McDunn stands talking to some heavily brassed uniformed cops on the steps of the front door . |
| 23 | I think it 's a very complex situation and we as adults need to show our children that we can we can hold onto some sort of measured response within the complexities of what they and we are coming across . |
| 24 | Virgilio Avila Vivas replaced Alejandro Izaguirre Angeli as Minister of the Interior , an appointment seen as a move to build up political support for the efforts of the security forces to deal with increasing protests against the government 's economic policies [ but see below for his replacement ; for November 1991 protests , see p. 35571 ] . |
| 25 | One line of evidence is the fact that severe ‘ inner city ’ deprivation is no longer to be found just in older urban areas but also in the outer council-housing estates on the edges of cities which were built to house inner city residents displaced by renewal programmes ( CES Ltd , 1985 ) . |
| 26 | The specific function of the agents of transnational political practices is to create and sustain the organizational forms within which this penetration takes place and to connect them organically with those domestic practices that can be incorporated and mobilized in the interests of the global capitalist system . |
| 27 | His belief in the importance of getting the right products into the hands of older consumers led to the establishment in 1987 of a specialised consumer group known as the ‘ Thousand Elders ’ . |
| 28 | But while they are determined to make hay while the sun shines , farmers are still watching the monetary horizons for the clouds of revaluation and are ready to scamper for figurative shelter if the rains of realignment fall . |
| 29 | Fothergill Gudgin , Kitson and Monk ( 1986 ) write : ‘ The industrial city in Britain is the product of nineteenth-century capitalism … ’ , but ‘ all this has changed … there has been a complete turnaround in the fortunes of the industrial city : in the late twentieth century the city is the principal location of deindustrialization ’ . |
| 30 | Rover is now owned by British Aerospace and its current output is a complete turnaround from the cars of a decade ago . |