Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been taken as a child from a wild jungle world of carnivores , flesh-sucking plants , and hunter-warriors who had lost most of the arts of civilization save for those of cunning , combat and survival . |
| 2 | It was important that this strategy did not succeed and it was also important that the tactics of intimidation seen in 1979 did not win through in 1982 . |
| 3 | It is important that the characteristics of division used in this process should be mutually exclusive in order to avoid cross-classification ( documents on one and the same subject being classified at different places in the scheme ) . |
| 4 | The distinguishing of mental events by content is of course open to error , including error owed to memory and the sorts of error established by psychological research into introspection or direct awareness . |
| 5 | Having considered the various modes of experience ( including science and practice ) and the different sorts of knowledge involved in concrete human activity , we may now address Oakeshott 's argument about the emergence of Rationalism in politics . |
| 6 | She 'd already got herself into all sorts of trouble listening to other people 's opinions , and she was n't going to make that mistake again . |
| 7 | In recent years , Christians from the two traditions have cast aside centuries of hostility to lobby on political issues . |
| 8 | Although many teachers opposed the apartheid regime , their only training has been in the rigid and authoritarian methods of education used in black South African schools , with no freedom or initiative allowed to the teacher . |
| 9 | There are , however , several other methods of reproduction practised by various protozoans on occasions . |
| 10 | Remember — the methods of communication employed at all BDDA Congresses , Council meetings , Conferences , and Church Services is the language of the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 11 | The British and American critics for whom the label is commonly used , however , can be distinguished by a common rejection of established modes of criticism and scholarship ( Empson and Leavis are sometimes included among them ) , and in the case of the Americans by the fact that they proposed alternative methods of criticism supported by well-developed literary theories . |
| 12 | AGE CONCERN Scotland yesterday called for a public debate on methods of restraint applied to frail elderly people cared for in residential homes or by relatives . |
| 13 | The methods of research adopted in this project combine those characteristics of social anthropology and history : they include the micro-level study of two contrasting estates , archival research , the detailed investigation of the records kept in estate offices , a series of informal interviews with former European planters and their wives now living in the UK , and discussions and interviews with informants associated at all levels with the industry in Sri Lanka . |
| 14 | Other methods of dating based on similar principles of measuring the balance between decaying and stable isotopes are being developed , arid these may well become as important as radiocarbon dating . |
| 15 | Modern methods of butchery militate against this ; drenching freshly slaughtered carcases in water means that they spoil more quickly , and weight-loss achieved as the meat hangs means less profit . |
| 16 | A provoked loss of self-control could fall within this new doctrine — as , indeed , could losses of self-control stemming from non-human sources such as a natural disaster or financial ruin . |
| 17 | However , we feel that the clinical indicators of malignancy emphasised in this study may encourage clinicians to be more aggressive , even when faced with negative endoscopic biopsy specimens . |
| 18 | It was Noolan , attracted by the waves of interest emanating from all sides of the room . |
| 19 | But how do we get some feel for spans of time stretching into millions of years ? |
| 20 | None of the full-board Halls of Residence caters for special diets of any type . |
| 21 | The specks of dust consisting of heavier particles flung off by the Sun aggregate into larger lumps ( a process which can be duplicated in a laboratory ) . |
| 22 | For us two the war meant , as for so many others , a break in physical contact : but if , as Simone Weil said , ‘ every separation is a link ’ , such a break is not a breaking off , but a period in which , at least in my case , that ties of friendship continued in another form . |
| 23 | We ca n't have Secretaries of State behaving in this way and talking about respected professionals in such disparaging terms |
| 24 | The judges of the royal courts and such major officers of state as the Lord Treasurer , the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Keeper , the Lord Admiral , and the Secretaries of State held by royal pleasure or during good behaviour throughout the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries . |
| 25 | We have been talking about electrons but obviously exactly similar considerations of indistinguishability apply to all kinds of identical particles in the quantum world . |
| 26 | ( e ) Triclinic — no planes of symmetry Similar considerations of symmetry apply in other systems ; for example , nematic liquid crystals and aligned short fibre composites have symmetry , smectic A liquid crystals have , while in copolymers and certain fibre composites examples of hexagonal symmetry may be found and translational symmetry may also be present , which is not found in petrology . |
| 27 | It is perhaps unreasonable to expect Continental evidence to represent accurately the styles of dress worn in early Anglo-Saxon England . |
| 28 | The invention of printing in the fifteenth century steadily did away with the need for handwritten books , and it is interesting to note that from that time onwards various styles of calligraphy developed for different purposes . |
| 29 | Concern for the worsening conflict was expressed when the Commonwealth heads of government met in 1965 . |
| 30 | Under the Treaty of Rome , it takes only a majority of EC members to launch a constitutional conference that obliges heads of government to talk about central powers that some would call non-negotiable . |