Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the newly planted local church experiences of the joy of unity among its own members , it should also look for with other churches . |
| 2 | Aylwin , however , stated that he did not wish to accept such an offer , nor did he feel that it was justified , given that he had agreed to be elected for a four-year period and that to alter the term of office ( by amending the Constitution ) " would be to change the rules of play of our democratic co-existence " . |
| 3 | What do you feel about working in the more modern style of play after your classical work with Stratford ? |
| 4 | The railway none the less became the symbol of progress without which national aspirations had no hope of achievement . |
| 5 | Her heart was full of benevolence to our own species , and most sensitively alive to suffering animals , and might in truth be called as a member of the society to which she belonged , the Animals ’ Friend . ’ |
| 6 | The divisions by branches and by enterprises , within the enterprise , and by strata , form a grid or matrix of differentiation within which social collectivities may be formed , collectivities whose political pertinence is not given in advance , but is always constructed in historically specific ways . |
| 7 | Any further attempt to violate the principle of statehood by the new Northern-led leadership , it could be presumed , is unlikely to succeed — indeed , in certain circumstances could result in a reduction of support for their Northern campaigns . |
| 8 | President Mengistu Haile Mariam , in a nationally broadcast speech in Addis Ababa on March 5 , put forward proposals for far-reaching economic liberalization , accompanied by political changes to broaden the basis of support for his beleaguered regime . |
| 9 | Carolyn Pride , Virginia Pitman and Anne Bolton have remained pillars of support to their emotional friend . |
| 10 | Partly because the trauma that attended the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi altered voting patterns , the loss of support by his centrist Congress Party to its rivals on the right and left was less marked than most observers anticipated . |
| 11 | Somehow , after calls for the resignation of the general secretary had been rejected because of support from his old shipmates on the north east coast , the union managed to take out a loan and to survive . |
| 12 | Having noted this , the figures for Anderson 's turn-length are worth examining as evidence of change in his conversational behaviour . |
| 13 | Self-defence of this kind may be no more than a threat , as in the case of the inflated toad , standing high on its legs when confronted by a grass snake ( above ) , or the frilled lizard ( right ) which erects a huge umbrella of skin around its gaping jaws . |
| 14 | Except a long metal trunk on the floor which removed a couple of inches of skin from my right shin as I scraped round it . |
| 15 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 16 | As a Times leader put it : ‘ A man of genius in his own field , he must be counted among those who have deserved well of his kind and his name will be remembered in honour . ’ |
| 17 | He was dark-haired with a few strands of hair on his upper lip . |
| 18 | The postholder is required to provide a high level of expertise in his/her current specialism to senior management and the other Divisions while retaining a detailed knowledge of all other areas of the Department 's enforcement/advisory provisions . |
| 19 | They had time for their economic activities and were free to choose the form of payment for their other work . |
| 20 | There is evidence of a growing interest in payment systems in a variety of quarters , e.g. amongst economists there is renewed interest in the link between productivity and the way labour is paid ; management theorists are paying more attention to new forms of payment within their overall interest in making in making firms more responsive ; and amongst managers and government officials there has been considerable interest expressed in performance-related pay , merit-pay and profit-sharing . |
| 21 | She had achieved much , and given them all an injection of hope with her sparkling personality , keen interest in their concerns and positive reactions to even the most difficult situation . |
| 22 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 23 | On the 5th of March , however , he jauntily indicated to his favourite daughter a fresh advertisement in Saunder 's New's-Letter announcing that Mr Bullock had reduced — had clearly been obliged to reduce , the Colonel interpreted — the price of admission into his immobile spectacle to a mere ten pence . |
| 24 | This part can then be positioned within another space by defining its six degrees of freedom for its rigid body motion ( three of translation and three of rotation ) . |
| 25 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 26 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 27 | Indeed , there was such a degree of integration between the two that even modern Spain retains a powerful element of Orientalism within its cultural makeup . |
| 28 | Kubrick , who was personally in charge of special photographic effects as well as of the film overall ( similarly Hyams was , unusually , director of photography on his own movie ) , deliberately chose old-fashioned in-camera techniques where they would work . |
| 29 | Hungarian and Romanian restaurants will open up , giving extra variety to the range of cuisine on our high streets . |
| 30 | Spain and Portugal wanted the unified EC market of 1993 to retain measures of protection for their domestic producers ( in the Canaries and the Madeiras respectively ) from the cheaper Latin American product . |