Example sentences of "of [adj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Respectable workers were rewarded with the vote , and in 1868 the Royal Commission on Trade Unions recommended the extension of legal protection for trade unions , which was achieved in the Trade Union Act of 1871 which for the first time gave legal protection to Trade Union funds and the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1875 which legalized peaceful picketing . |
| 2 | The traditional " straight " view of the homosexual relationship as a kind of cheap imitation of that which typifies male-female interaction , while true of some couples , is much less generally applicable than is popularly thought . |
| 3 | At this stage it is sufficient to note his readiness to refer to the weakness and failings of his own religion which is a human construct and an expression of that which underlines all religions . |
| 4 | The only kind of music he liked was sung music and of that he liked all sorts — opera , lieder , folk , country , rock , jazz , soul , the blues . |
| 5 | The temple was at the centre of the city of Knossos , geographically and economically , of that there seems little doubt . |
| 6 | After a week of that I decided one night to leave in the morning . |
| 7 | And it was indeed hope , education and reformation that dominated the sphere of juvenile justice in these years , most solidly embodied in the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 which consolidated these developments in the treatment of young offenders . |
| 8 | He served Rome well but because of this he received hostile opposition from some Jews , especially the Pharisees . |
| 9 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 10 | The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout . |
| 11 | Today it was Sarah Parker , a girl of nineteen who lives next door to the church . |
| 12 | Between 1986 and 1991 , 18 ( 18% ) patients out of a total of 100 who underwent restorative proctocolectomy were aged 50 years or over ( median 55 years , range 50 to 66 years ) . |
| 13 | In the close season of 1924 he signed outside-right John Williams from Rotherham at a ‘ dirt cheap ’ price of under £2,000 . |
| 14 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 15 | He was sitting down then all of sudden he had this bottle of scotch and he told bring some whisky down . |
| 16 | At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell : |
| 17 | First of all we wanted that product to be totally open , and I 'll qualify in a minute or two a little bit more what I mean by totally open . |
| 18 | It is a compulsive stop for cars and coaches , the large parking places on the roadside often being taxed to capacity , but despite the inevitable crowds , Eilean Donan should be on the itinerary of all who pass this way . |
| 19 | It should be the collective role of the local authority social services departments to have oversight of all who need domiciliary care . |
| 20 | First of all he contrasts representative democracy with what he calls enlightened despotism which is really something like places guardianship . |
| 21 | Oh , er first of all I enjoyed that record of Adam Faith 's . |
| 22 | Erm look I 'll put June on from Mansfield first of all I wanted thirty seconds worth of famous dogs cos we had er why Nottinghamshire 's dogs are too dumpy earlier on did n't we ? . |
| 23 | First of all you want three things . |
| 24 | By the end of 1981 we had 310 collections and reckoned to have covered about three-quarters of the region . |
| 25 | In the summer of 1981 I investigated this pattern of variation by surveying seven towns scattered throughout Britain : Bristol , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne and Sheffield . |
| 26 | This study was to examine whether ‘ fit ’ patients over the age of 50 who require elective surgery for ulcerative colitis are suitable candidates for restorative proctocolectomy , providing that they are continent berore operation and that the anal sphincter is preserved in its entirety without stripping of the mucosa or endoanal anastomosis . |
| 27 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 28 | In another way , however , it can be seen as responsibly encouraging readers to challenge for themselves cultural codes and established patterns of thought , including some of those which make contemporary history so intractable . |
| 29 | The first class consists of those which handle real numbers . |
| 30 | Those management approaches which are presented in in-service education occasionally fall into the category of those which describe organized anarchy . |