Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is entirely right about the merits of competition . |
| 2 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 3 | We have also been grateful for the messages of sympathy from people who did not know Paul but were moved by the manner of his death . |
| 4 | This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights . |
| 5 | Norman Tebbit , his blood pressure returned to near normal after the frustrations of debate , was exercising his somewhat malign charm over a group of columnists . |
| 6 | While you will not want to overstate the coercive nature of a witness summons or subpoena you must be clear about the consequences of non-attendance . |
| 7 | Mr Leigh-Pemberton , however , sounded a stark warning to the Cabinet not to take risks with inflation : ‘ We have to be very clear about the objectives of policy . |
| 8 | The Daimler is entirely adequate for the needs of Mirror Group Newspapers ' current chairman , Ernie Burrington , says Ted . |
| 9 | However , precisely because they can make such fine distinctions at the lexical level , they may well prove unstable for the purposes of recognition . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Stanford University Hospital is the Hippocratic show-piece of America , whose government-sponsored research surges forward free of the confines of budget . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The symbolic reproduces this imaginary in discrete , regulated entities — small , discontinuous , easily consumable like the bits of information on a computer screen , like the items in the supermarket , like the small , framed and mirrored segments of the glass-skinned skyscrapers that offer us gleaming reflections of our lives from moment to moment in the high-income , high-tech regions of the American urban environment . |
| 16 | For , plainly , such a procedure and the acknowledgement of either authoritative text or persons involve the existence of rules of a type different from the rules of obligation or duty which ex hypothesi are all that the group has . |
| 17 | This approach to marketing is called the ‘ marketing concept ’ and its perspective is radically different from the approaches of production , product and sales-orientated organizations . |
| 18 | In what way was the economic environment which fostered search in Britain different from the preconditions of headhunting in the USA ? |
| 19 | The effect of the load is probably somewhat different from the variations of pressure set up by breaking waves , which may dislodge jointed blocks . |
| 20 | It is possible that the question you are asking is different from the sorts of discussion you have encountered in what you have read on the subject . |
| 21 | The continuation of inequality is still clear in the fields of income , housing , wealth , and employment but most of all in the protestant — loyalist alliance 's embargo on the minority ever holding political office . |
| 22 | It was conceded that their removal by the mother was wrongful within the terms of article 3 and accordingly the court had to consider the terms of article 12 which provides : |
| 23 | Linear , realistic plot is inseparable from the forces of law and order to him , and so he seizes every opportunity to cut across the plot-sequence with digressions , ‘ Cowgirl Interludes ’ , commentaries and even a recipe . |
| 24 | Whilst the famous photographs of the Cottingley fairies , taken in 1917 , have been admitted not to be genuine , it is equally clear from the researches of author Joe Cooper that at least one of the girls concerned , Frances Griffiths , did see fairies in Cottingley Glen , as did Geoffrey Hodson . |
| 25 | It is clear from the terms of Form 2 of Schedule 1 that a requirement for the receipt is that it should be signed by the superior or his agent . |
| 26 | Wharton 's autobiography ranks high in the annals of psychopathology . |
| 27 | Our sexual condition can help us to recognize how guarded we are , or how self-seeking , manipulative , or fearful we are , instead of being trusting , selfless , kindly , reverent and free in the bonds of love . |
| 28 | If some anthropologists , such as Geertz , are interested in the webs of significance humans spin for themselves , while others , such as Sahlins , are more focused on the processes of how those webs are spun , both groups reveal the central role of the interpreter in shaping the material to be represented and in organising the structures in which the representations occur . |
| 29 | Those who are interested in the affairs of Church and State will observe that , at two of the three crossroads of Ramsey 's life , it was the State authority which secured the result . |
| 30 | Neither Charles Booth nor Seebohm Rowntree were sociologists ; they were just wealthy men with strong social consciences who were interested in the problems of poverty and were able enough to carry out quite sophisticated studies of this phenomenon in London and York at the end of the nineteenth century . |