Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two contrasting images of the financial and living standards of older people may be identified . |
| 2 | The Church Commissioners also handle the stipends of the diocesan and suffragan bishops , as well as stipends for the deans/provosts and two residentiary canons at all but two of the cathedrals . |
| 3 | Conservative Michael Fallon hit back saying his own Darlington constituency was far from being an unemployment blackspot and pointing to four pages of jobs carried in yesterday 's copies of The Northern as evidence of available vacancies . |
| 4 | Yoshida declared himself to be a liberal opposed equally to the excesses of the left and right . |
| 5 | A circular to shareholders was also posted with LASMO 's Report and Accounts containing proposals to be put to meetings of the Ordinary and Preference Shareholders on 25th May 1993 for the creation of 10 million cumulative dollar preference shares of US$25 each ( Dollar Preference Shares ) in the Company . |
| 6 | This is strengthened by the fact that the methylation patterns of the UHF-1 and oligo I sequences were relatively similar , although not identical . |
| 7 | The methodology is qualitative ( unstructured interviews , analyses of the academic and specialist literature ) , as is appropriate for an essentially exploratory study ; yet the comparative approach provides both analytical depth and explanatory edge . |
| 8 | The type of digestion is in fact very similar to that described for category 3 ( Fig. 3.19 ) : on microtines the salient angles are completely denuded of enamel ( Fig. 3.19 A , B ) , and corners of the occlusal and root angles are rounded ( Fig. 3.19 C-E ) , and the dentine has early stages of digestion , all similar in nature but more extreme than category 3 digestion ( compare Fig. 3.18 and 3.19 ) . |
| 9 | The Gulbenkian Foundation was exploring training for the performing arts , and by the middle of the decade the CNAA found itself confronting the complex range of elements of the creative and performing arts in its existing courses , and expressions of interest by institutions proposing specialist courses — notably in drama and in dance and movement . |
| 10 | Around 12 million Africans were captured and transported to work the cotton fields and tobacco and sugar plantations of the Caribbean and North America . |
| 11 | The book is based on the year that Mackay spent in London in 1887–1888 and describes events of that Jubilee Year , especially as they touched on the lives of the socialist and anarchist German exiles there . |
| 12 | We have not yet examined the implications of the structural or cost implications of this proposal in detail , but it is hoped to have preliminary drawings and outline cost estimates available prior to any Board Meeting called to discuss this issue . |
| 13 | The implications of the Keynesian and monetarist views for monetary policy , and the evidence supporting them , are examined in subsequent chapters . |
| 14 | The launch of a new GRID shoe this spring , a lightweight racer/trainer , is the main addition to the range , but there are also upgraded versions of the Courageous and Jazz 3000 . |
| 15 | In a move reportedly designed to persuade the Soviet Union to abandon its rail-mounted mobile intercontinental missile system , the SS-24 , Bush said that the USA had given up plans to develop mobile versions of the MX and Midgetman missiles and that a programme to build the short-range attack missile ( SRAM ) had also been cancelled . |
| 16 | The responsibilities of the regional and area committees increased in line with the numbers of refugee children needing care . |
| 17 | Absent were the great distance runners of East Africa and the sprinters of the Caribbean and West Africa . |
| 18 | Thus it was at London , Bristol , Liverpool , Hull and Glasgow in the last years of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century that a " lagged response " to the great increase in trade was concentrated . |
| 19 | Drop-out levels at this level improved after the early years of the 1980s but repetition rates have increased from about 6 per cent in 1975 to almost 11 per cent in 1985 and 1988 . |
| 20 | While the ANS had been highly successful in pioneering studies of the ultraviolet and X-ray sky , the new satellite would turn to the longer wavelengths of the infrared . |
| 21 | At home many Americans feared a return to the depression conditions of the 1930s as war production slowed down . |
| 22 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 23 | They range also from what can be seen , simply , as the ‘ translation ’ of ‘ ideology ’ into directly sensuous material , to what is better seen , in terms of the physical and material processes of art work , as production of a distinct and general kind . |
| 24 | In fact , the only territory on the northern shores of the Mediterranean where malaria is actively transmitted today is in the Chukhurova plain of Turkey . |
| 25 | Maastricht has presented us — with clear requirements as to content and time — with the following tasks : First : the creation by stages of the economic and currency union on the basis of clear and objective criteria . |
| 26 | All members of the obstetric and midwifery staff should speak the same language and use the same method of classification — something that can be achieved only by regular meetings on cardiotocography . |
| 27 | Members of the national and specialist press attended the launch of Head 's new Anatom System tennis shoe , which took place at the Roehampton Club during April . |
| 28 | A heavy police presence , including mounted policemen , had been drafted in to control the protesters , members of the National and Local Government Officers ' Association . |
| 29 | In Britain most of the newspapers of the left and centre were critical . |
| 30 | The Royal yacht Britannia , reviewed ships of the Royal and Merchant Navies from freight ferries to battle cruisers |