Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference , organised by the World Bank and European Investment Bank and successor to one held in Barcelona in 1989 , aimed to draw up a programme of technical assistance to protect the Mediterranean from pollution . |
| 2 | VIBRANT strains of aboriginal sound created a musical background for the premiere of Spirit Catchers , choreographed by Diversions ' artistic director Roy Campbell-Moore . |
| 3 | Households of professional status had a mean non-asset income of 252% of that of households of unskilled manual status but the percentage rose to 369 when the annuitized value of assets was added and to 382 when the value of employer welfare benefits in kind was further added . |
| 4 | Under the title ‘ Tender is the North ’ suggestive of saunas and birch twigs London is hosting a festival of Scandinavian culture encompassing the visual arts , music , literature and drama . |
| 5 | In the meantime , I would argue , the logic of activity-based product-costing has a vital part to play in ensuring proper corporate resource allocation . |
| 6 | However , in Hopkins ' case the aim of reforming intervention remained the overt regulation of working-class behaviour , especially of working-class women . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) Enjoyment of the advantages of monetary union presupposes a stable monetary value for the economy of the GDR , while currency stability must be maintained in the FRG . |
| 8 | These results support the prediction that the unpredictable component of monetary growth exerts a significant influence on real output . |
| 9 | Notice that this test is equivalent to testing whether the anticipated component of monetary growth has an additional effect on unemployment over and above the effect of the . |
| 10 | The notion of regional planning received a great fillip from Unwin 's proposals for London prepared between 1929 and 1933 . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , negative planning controls and the positive inducements of regional policy leave the basic initiative about locational decisions with the company . |
| 12 | The previous chapters have established that human geography is fragmented and lacks a core , like several other contemporary social science disciplines , and that some human geographers are promoting the recreation of a form of regional geography to provide a needed integrating core . |
| 13 | The idea of progressive evolution formed a natural foundation for the belief that European civilization was the high point of human achievement , destined to spread its values around the world by conversion or conquest . |
| 14 | 167 ) says that the Corinthians despised craftsmen less than did other Greeks ( note the negative formulation ) and a recent survey of Corinthian territory confirms the exceptional variety of goods manufactured there . |
| 15 | The latest Treasury review of economic progress provided an optimistic picture , with shop sales on an upward trend and overall activity apparently slightly stronger than current official forecasts |
| 16 | British fascism was born of the failure of economic conservatism to check the rapid decline of Britain in the inter-war years . |
| 17 | The Department of Economic Development produces an annual report giving details of existing licences . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it will be argued below that the nature and form of economic reconstruction had a powerful , long-term influence on British economic performance . |
| 19 | Much of it has been in the nature of self-examination : not least because the achievement of a high rate of economic growth became the central aim of political endeavour . |
| 20 | Rostow 's Stages of Economic Growth identified a key role for external concessionary finance , i.e. to increase the rate of investment without reducing the level of domestic consumption . |
| 21 | Until the early seventies this relationship , known as ‘ energy coefficient ’ was regarded as a ‘ lock step ’ relationship — a certain level of economic growth required a certain amount of fuel consumption — but recent history has disproved this . |
| 22 | Having refurbished two bits of year-old evidence to support the new Libyan thesis , he now weighed in with a two-year-old intelligence report about a meeting in Tripoli before the bombing — in mid-November 1988 — at which the Libyans were said to have taken over responsibility for the attack from the PFLP — GC after Jibril 's West German cell was broken up . |
| 23 | I suggest that the discrepancy between the climate modelling results which indicate seasonal temperature extremes , and the increasing body of geological information documenting a temperate climate , may be explained by the fact that the palaeogeography used in the models does not take into account the existence of these lakes and rivers , which would have had a major influence on the regional climate . |
| 24 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 25 | In the essay with Watt he writes : ‘ The intrinsic nature of oral communication has a considerable effect upon both the content and transmission of the cultural repertoire ( 1968 , p. 29 ) . |
| 26 | This on the contrary is the work of political genius requiring the ripest wisdom and the freshest vigour , and it is done with an elegance and a style that will compel and will receive an instinctive respect throughout the civilized world . |
| 27 | The major inhibiting factor , referred to elsewhere in this text , is the lack of political will to reform the general framework of financial management , and to define more clearly the scope of programme objectives . |
| 28 | They claimed to be victims of political persecution following the military crackdown on student protesters . |
| 29 | With the elimination of political opposition comes a virtual elimination of cultural alternatives . |
| 30 | Although the Peace Tax Campaign has so far eschewed the use of extra-constitutional forms of dissent , confining itself for the most part to orthodox expressions of protest such as parliamentary lobbying and legal action in the courts , the failure of conventional forms of political protest to influence the prevailing defence strategy/taxation policy could have important implications regarding the future choice of tactics to be used . |