Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of reasons for this and Malina is aware of how such phenomena as poverty , crowded home conditions and poor diet can affect physical performances . |
| 2 | The approval by the parliamentary Finance Committee on Sept. 20 of US$6.5 million of investments for industrial and infrastructure development in the occupied territories ( including the Golan Heights ) prompted protests by the opposition United Workers ' Party ( Mapam ) . |
| 3 | Commander of the Derry Brigade in 1971 , Director of Operations in 1977 and Chief of Staff from 1978 to 1982 , he is regarded as the Sinn Fein leader with most influence over IRA activities . |
| 4 | But the point to notice is that a key part of humanist thought , from the early Greeks down to the twentieth century , is the attempt to justify man 's knowledge by his reason alone , denying the necessity of faith in general and God 's revelation in particular . |
| 5 | He attributes the failure of the courts to the intractable nature of land disputes , rather than the structure of conflicts in general or faults in the system of justice . |
| 6 | Do you find that erm the likes of yourself and your workmates do you have a lot of kind of views in common and things , do you think that you 're maybe kind of the same political persuasions or whatever ? |
| 7 | Young children need a lot of experience of touching and counting , with an adult to listen and help if necessary . |
| 8 | Such a mechanism is thought to account for the entry of calcium into lacrimal or mast cells following cell perfusion with InsP 3 . |
| 9 | The price paid for the acquisition , including a fruit plant near Valencia and a bottling plant in Barcelona , appears high since the businesses being acquired had sales of £29.6m in 1988 and trading profits of £2.2m , implying a p/e on conventional terms of almost 30 . |
| 10 | This is essential to prepare our children for an ever-changing world and to retrain employees whose traditional role within a company will change with the advent of computers in general and micros in particular . |
| 11 | The picture quality is n't as good as the digital alternative , but the Relate 2000 costs significantly less : it will retail at the appealingly low price of £399 for one or £749 for a pair . |
| 12 | The volumes of savings by personal and business customers with us is now tremendous . ’ |
| 13 | In the 1970s , Henderson argued , Britain was clearly not in the front rank , even as a European power , with its declining economy and lack of investment in managerial and engineering resources . |
| 14 | The so-called ‘ comprador bourgeoisie ’ , groups that orient themselves to the interests of foreigners in general and TNCs in particular , play a central role in these analyses of the triple alliance . |
| 15 | Singing was her first love , though , and she returned to the Gael-Linn studio earlier this year to record a new album of songs in Irish and English — with the help of a host of fine musicians including brother Michéal and producer Donal Lunny . |
| 16 | When Paris approved a nuclear plant near the town of Golfech in 1981 and Golfech refused , the socialist — ( read Paris ) — dominated regional council overturned the refusal . |
| 17 | However , in his central theology and sense of the nature of religion in general and Catholicism in particular , he remained extraordinarily faithful to the papacy of Pius XII during which he had been trained and ordained . |
| 18 | Since the early 1960s Mr Briggs has cleared 450 acres of bracken by a variety of methods including aerial and knapsack spraying , and said : ‘ The problems of over-grazing by sheep are well known . |
| 19 | The discharge process from distant hospitals also increases problems of liaison with rehabilitative and community services . |
| 20 | In 1990 alone , such exercises included BP 's plans to cut 1150 jobs at their headquarters , Boots ' to shed 500 supervisory and management jobs , the loss of 900 management support jobs at BHS , BT 's plans to reduce eleven layers of management to six and BP 's cut from eleven layers to five . |
| 21 | leaves , fresh or dried , oil ; antiseptic ad astringent , for sore throats , to treat skin troubles , ulcerated mouth , of help with quinsy and tonsillitis , as a soothing and calming drink |
| 22 | They are well aware that the status of the military bases leased by the United States on Greek territory has been a bone of contention in Greek-American and Greek-NATO relations in the 1980s . |
| 23 | It would consider in particular whether changes were needed in the conduct of police investigations ; the role of the prosecutor in supervising the gathering of evidence ; the role of experts in criminal proceedings , and the relationship between forensic science services and the police ; the access of defendants to legal and expert advice ; the powers of the courts in directing proceedings ; the role of the Court of Appeal in considering new evidence on appeal ; and arrangements for investigating allegations of miscarriages of justice when appeal rights had been exhausted . |
| 24 | Sucker top growth is often called briar in the case of roses , after the name by which the wild rose was known , and following the old practice of using rooted briar stems dug out of hedgerows for budding and grafting — at one time this was one of the chief occupations of gypsies , who would ‘ hawk ’ them by the bundle around less reputable nurseries . |
| 25 | Such a view ignores the combined impact of adversarial divorce courts , lack of support for separating couples going through loss and change , lack of awareness of different roles and responsibilities of step-parents , lack of recognition of step-families in legal or welfare systems , and the negative image of step-families , all of which have contributed to the difficulties of remarriage and a rising re-divorce rate . |
| 26 | The lower parts of the walls were generally panelled or veneered with slabs of marble in white and colours . |
| 27 | As the cholera epidemic claims an increasing number of lives in Central and South America , a number of church and development organisations are struggling to teach people how to cope with the disease , which can be cured if the right steps are taken . |
| 28 | After his marriage it was rumoured he had been involved in a gambling scandal , but his father-in-law stood by him and it was largely through him that de Burgh was created a marquess in the peerage of Ireland in 1825 and Baron Somerhill in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1826 . |
| 29 | Shaikh Rashid , born in 1914 , became ruler of Dubai in 1958 and Vice-President of the UAE on its formation in 1971 as a federation of six of the seven Trucial States [ see p. 25010 ] . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher found it more possible to assert her own right-wing views as against those of moderates like Prior or Walker , with a strong thrust towards monetarism emerging in the party 's The Right Approach to the Economy . |