Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was possible , therefore , to divide the items issued to readers into groups on the basis of their type of binding , and to calculate the proportion of each group which required repair . |
| 2 | Thereafter , she became a statutory tenant under section 2(1) ( a ) , and giving the words of that subsection their natural meaning , it would appear that she was by the Act to remain a statutory tenant so long as she continued in occupation of the dwelling-house . |
| 3 | During all of that time my greatest ally and adviser in moulding the laws passing through the Parliament has been Nigel G M B's Director of Health , Safety and the Environment . |
| 4 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 5 | To John Baxter this was rather ‘ solemn mock-Soviet montage ’ but others have more rightly seen it as a very effective expression of that energy which ordinary people had in abundance but which the America of 1934 so tragically left untapped . |
| 6 | Typical tundra forms a thin , semi-complete vegetation covering in which grasses or low shrubs up to about 50 cm tall are dominant ; spaces within it are caused by bare rock outcrops , and characteristic patches of mobile soil which all plants find difficulty in colonizing . |
| 7 | His Bach-Busoni is strong , no nonsense stuff , and he commands the sort of tonal palette which this music really needs . |
| 8 | But the Czech crisis of September 1938 , which took Europe to the brink of war , did produce the kind of public response which popular frontists were looking for to transform the political situation . |
| 9 | It can be seen that the Woodward analysis of jobbing production corresponds to the description given in paragraph 3 above , but by giving each of the main types of jobbing production its own title , the Woodward analysis provides for a more accurate representation of the range of options . |
| 10 | Instead , they are questions about the sort of social vision which social psychology should express . |
| 11 | This was made explicit in terms of the sense of British identity which protestant loyalists experience : ‘ This implies in particular , in respect of Northern protestants , that the civil and religious liberties that they uphold and enjoy will be fully protected and their sense of Britishness accommodated ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 22–3 ) . |
| 12 | One month after completion of this treatment their C-urea breath test was repeated to assess the H pylori state . |
| 13 | By Spring of this year our beloved M twenty five will already have been widened to four lanes from the M three to the M forty and in November the Department of Transport 's plans for the three lane link roads between the section between the M four and M forty were displayed locally in Uxbridge and places like that . |
| 14 | It seemed unlikely that the undertaker had troubled sufficiently about those who survived him to take such precautions , but no one could speak with confidence of what had passed through the mind of this man whose deepest preoccupations seemed to be represented by a few scored lines in a medical book and a little bundle of poems . |
| 15 | Since the first edition of this book my Own views have inclined more and more towards major transgressions and regressions as the main cause of organic evolution and extinction . |
| 16 | Until the thirtieth of this month her newest canvases can be seen at Holly Solomon . |
| 17 | The introduction of abstract concepts into Social Studies and sometimes into Science syllabuses at a very early stage presupposes a level of cognitive development which Piagetian research would suggest to be beyond the average capacity of Swiss children . |
| 18 | While acknowledging the danger of ideas casting reality in their own image and serving the cause of suppression , one needs to be wary , it seems to me , of being too readily persuaded by the heady vision of individual freedom which these tendencies invoke . |
| 19 | All the contributions to the theory of Roman imperialism which modern scholars have ascribed to Panaetius are of course pure products of the imagination . |
| 20 | Moreover , the condition of non-natural user , though similar to unreasonable user in nuisance , normally involves some degree of exceptional risk which unreasonable user does not . |
| 21 | By some freak of natural injustice my five tickets won me no fewer than three prizes ; not bad for a stake of 50p . |
| 22 | There are various kinds of chromosomal DNA whose exact base sequence may well be largely irrelevant to their function — for example , because they are not translated into protein . |
| 23 | Traditional dialectologists presented their data on maps — or , in the case of the Survey of English dialects , more accessibly in four volumes of Basic Material which listed informant responses . |
| 24 | Heath 's revived corporatism in the early 1970s crumpled with the miners ' strikes and the OPEC price explosion , while the Labour government of the late 1970s was able only to breathe intermittent life into a system of corporate direction which powerful producer-groups and multinational companies in the so-called ‘ meso-economy ’ were both undermining . |
| 25 | In any case , as anthropologists have learned more and more about different societies , they have found ever-greater difficulty in putting into any one list of stages the variety of forms of human society which modern research has revealed . |
| 26 | God is banished and the spiritual dimension to life , if there is one , is simply an aspect of human personality which human beings create for themselves . |
| 27 | It forms the basis for contempt on the part of the young and strong for the old and weak , and the increasing fear of human mortality which old age seems to represent so vividly . |
| 28 | Again , quite usefully , such classifications will throw into relief the difficulty in television of generalizing across national systems in the absence of the kind of international standard which classical Hollywood cinema has provided for the understanding of cinema . |
| 29 | Another romantic element is introduced intermittently through the attachment of the aristocratic Alison Westwater and humble Jaikie Galt , a rugby player of international repute whose lighthearted approach to Evallonian politics deepens as he listens to Alison 's analysis of the situation . |
| 30 | A distrust of social revolutions was not absent from their considerations , any more than a distrust of traditional religion whose sacred texts committed it to discontinuous change ( ‘ creation ’ ) and interference with the regularity of nature ( ‘ miracles ’ ) . |