Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideological terms in which the affected groups perceive of the environmental crisis are not politically sophisticated — in fact they have very little political content at all . |
| 2 | The first two , on 4 and 5 December , were ad hoc groups consisting of the Prime Minister , Heseltine , Leon Brittan , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , John MacGregor , Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Sir Geoffrey Howe , Foreign Secretary and Sir Patrick Mayhew , Solicitor-General . |
| 3 | I would like readers to know of the excellent efforts you have made to stimulate community action in Wales . |
| 4 | Peter Hunter , secretary of the NALGO Pro-Life Group , at a recent meeting of NALGO supporters told of the disgraceful waste of union resources which are used to prop up the national Abortion Campaign , to which NALGO is affiliated . |
| 5 | The European Council took " a most serious view of accusations against Libyan nationals " in connection with the 1988 and 1989 Lockerbie and UTI airliner bombings [ see p. 38692 ] and noted and fully endorsed " the demands made of the Libyan authorities by the governments of France , the UK and the United States on Nov. 27 " [ see p. 38599 ] . |
| 6 | ‘ Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time . ’ |
| 7 | This last phrase — ‘ no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time ’ — my father would repeat with a laugh and shake his head admiringly . |
| 8 | He then made a full written confession and was then shown the notes made of the earlier oral admissions ( which he refused to sign ; the police however failed to record the refusal in the pocket book though it was recorded in the custody record . ) |
| 9 | How the House is televised is important ; far more important is how the House is broadcast — the use the broadcasters make of the clean feed they are given . |
| 10 | At Pipewell in Northamptonshire , earthworks remain of the pre-existing hamlet , mixed up with earthworks of the Cistercian abbey buildings . |
| 11 | In these circumstances to talk of the inner city may be to accept a vocabulary which we might prefer not to endorse but it might also use the only language in which we can be heard . |
| 12 | Matthew and Luke in their Gospels speak of the Holy Spirit for Christians only in the Mission Charge which anticipates their future role as ambassadors of Christ . |
| 13 | The accelerators consist of the low-end Freedom 1000 and the flagship Freedom 3000 and can integrate with Sparcstation 2s and 10s under Solaris . |
| 14 | As most ancient law-codes consisted of the casuistic type , it may be that the apodictic was a peculiarly Israelite form , in which case the Decalogue ( the Ten Commandments ) was unique to Israel . |
| 15 | Finally , Wirksworth Quarry has another new addition from the Suzi Sammutt/Geoff Hornby team — The Evolution of Micadia E1 5b is the slim pillar 30 feet left of the Crinoid Cruise . |
| 16 | Several companies spoke of the special value of headhunters when moving strategically into new business and/or geographical areas . |
| 17 | Re-reading them today one is reminded of what nonsense these individuals make of the bitter squabbles between Snow and F. R. Leavis nearly a century later . |
| 18 | The greatest criticism which reviewers made of the early drafts of the book was that it lacked cohesiveness . |
| 19 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |
| 20 | It was not necessary , however , to travel to one of these fashionable watering places to partake of the health-giving beverage , and ‘ taking the waters ’ at a local spring or spa ( spaw to many Northeners ) became very popular during the last century . |
| 21 | Even in Clare 's own country , the railway has been absorbed into the landscape , and one can enjoy the consequent pleasure of trundling through Rutland in a stopping-train on a fine summer morning : the barley fields shaking in the wind , the slow sedgy streams with their willows shading meditative cattle , the elegant limestone spires across the meadows , the early Victorian stations built of the sheep-grey Ketton stone and still unaltered , the warm brown roofs of the villages half buried in the trees , and the summer light flashing everywhere . |
| 22 | On Christmas Day in 1806 , three boats comprising of the entire fishing fleet of Stotfield , a fishing village near Lossiemouth in Scotland , prepared to put to sea for a day 's fishing . |
| 23 | Elsewhere the stations consisted of the usual combination of waiting-room , baggage room , office , and telegraph-operator 's room . |
| 24 | Essex , one of the new universities born of the last years of Macmillan 's rule , was occupied . |
| 25 | There would also be economic implications to reform of the mental-health system . |
| 26 | Patients with rheumatoid arthritis undergoing any major surgical procedure should be assessed by having radiographs taken of the cervical spine in flexion and extension . |
| 27 | Rather ironically , given the ‘ note of condescension , almost of contempt , [ which ] characterises Dicey 's exposition of continental constitutions ’ , almost all studies undertaken of the French system of droit administratif have cast doubt on the superiority of the British approach and have concluded that the French system provides greater protections than our own . |
| 28 | There they used the water power to drive large hammers and grinding wheels made of the local Millstone Grit . |
| 29 | Thirdly , material similarity , a relation referring to the degree to which two strings consist of the same characters . |
| 30 | STAMINA is not the least of the qualities demanded of the professional cricketer . |