Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [coord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results show an initial period of maintained growth and then an oscillatory decline , presumably due to water stress . |
| 2 | It offered opportunities for the reception and use of the precepts of economic liberalism and thus a break from intellectually old-fashioned mercantilist conceptions of public policy . |
| 3 | Inside the palace the Empress Taitu , Menelik 's wife , once a woman of outstanding beauty but now an obese hulk , schemed and intrigued to retain power . |
| 4 | He was running what was mostly a sixties disco with a sprinkling of classic rock and only a few recent standards . |
| 5 | Politicians and party activists not only face the normal cut and thrust of political life but also a deadly threat to their lives . |
| 6 | It is nevertheless chaotic , as is seen when one considers the duration of each interval or equivalently the number of oscillations within it . |
| 7 | But it comprised , rather , a history of the West in which fascism was itself merely a symptom , and included not only the history of European imperialism but also the defeats of the European colonial powers by Japan in World War II , the subsequent French ( and American ) defeat in South-East Asia , the war in Algeria , as well as the many other colonial wars of national liberation . |
| 8 | So far I have left open the question of whether Maastricht is likely to prove to have been the high-water mark of European Federalism or merely a bench-mark against which to test future movement towards a Federalist state . |
| 9 | ‘ How about a bit of jugged hare or perhaps a nice plump breast of chicken , ’ she said , knowing full well that such delicacies were beyond the reach of the poor worker . |
| 10 | In this treatment the vessel would have been wrapped in a zinc foil , placed in a solution of weak acid and then an electric current applied . |
| 11 | I was writing a lot of tunes around my studies of that culture and then the Gulf War broke out and so there was more stuff to influence me . ’ |
| 12 | Er and I think we would all er acknowledge er the the precise difficulties of that wording and perhaps a , an amendment may need to be considered on the second line following the list of districts . |
| 13 | There was never any prospect of that happening and now the commitment has been downgraded to one whereby work will have started on all the sites by that date . |
| 14 | The Bank is in any event concerned that disclosure of the particulars of any of this information would compromise not only the proper conduct of that investigation but also the effectiveness of the Bank 's supervision . |
| 15 | Thus the coastline receives not only the products of marine erosion but also the waste derived from subaerial erosion . |
| 16 | There was n't really any trace of another vehicle and neither the cops nor the Fire Officer had mentioned anything . |
| 17 | Thus there was no House of Commons scrutiny of public expenditure and virtually no understanding of how the decisions had been reached . |
| 18 | He tried to distance the party from the question of public ownership but then the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , acknowledged the possibility of private Scottish companies operating under a Labour government . |
| 19 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 20 | I know how context influences the effects of alcohol and realise this was a highly artificial situation , but it was still difficult to ignore the terrible predictability of the road to drunkenness : its fixed stages — a brief and seductive period of social effervescence and then the rapid departure of self-consciousness and the ugly appearance of righteousness . |
| 21 | The Templeton series on district general managers confirmed the importance of this issue but also the lack of progress . |
| 22 | The German blitz was resumed in the early months of this year and then a fresh terror , the " flying bombs " , was directed against London in the summer . |
| 23 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ It is time the slaughter of the innocents of Warrington really provoked the people of this Republic and particularly the Government into more than the by now ritual condemnation of such awful acts . ’ |
| 25 | Julia compared the food of the two parties and decided unhappily that she liked both the dish-of-herbs meal of this evening and also the elaborate deliciousness of avocado mousse , sole and boeuf en croûte of the previous day . |
| 26 | English was the most far-flung language in 1880 ; not only in new nations , but in British colonies where it was the language of official life and therefore a language of record and social advancement for the native . |
| 27 | All this area is beginning to show the fruits of assiduous restoration and gradually the whole Čertovka waterway and Kampa Island will be restored . |
| 28 | A few hundred years of Imperial rule and already a coterie surrounded the throne which , by its very nature , endangered the survival of the Imperium . |
| 29 | The Conservatives returned to their panacea of imperial protectionism and even the Liberals , the historic party of free trade , began to question the dogma , influenced by Lloyd George 's experience in running the war economy and Keynes 's argument that deficit budgeting behind temporary import restrictions was the key to triggering a domestic economic revival . |
| 30 | The Throwbag Holster from Suzy is a carrying device for the Green Slime 's Rescue Throwbag , other line of similar size or even a camera , flares at sea or other item of equipment . |