Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere in my abdomen was a sac of warm caring , a bladder of emotional nutrition , distended with the urge to burst and engender another 's heart . |
| 2 | It is their good fortune to have the luxury of comment without the responsibility of action that enables them to appear more in tune with public feeling than the ideologists of either side of the political spectrum . |
| 3 | He was the Napoleon of Central Europe , though without Napoleon 's greed and vindictiveness . |
| 4 | A return to the formal table manners of Victorian times may be the best way to stop us all eating in a hurry . |
| 5 | The introduction comments : ‘ We have witnessed a great change in manners : the substitution of words without blows for blows with or without words ; an approximation in the manners of different classes ; a decline in the spirit of lawlessness . ’ |
| 6 | The manners of some people ! ’ commented Sybil as they made their way to their cars . |
| 7 | Most journalists agree that the telephone manners of some PR departments leave a good deal to be desired . |
| 8 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 9 | A group not given βblockers included the remaining 2688 patients , none of whom at any time received a β blocker of any sort , including atenolol . |
| 10 | In its ‘ strong ’ form , this emergent cosmology of biographical medicine places the patient and his biography at the centre of ‘ the medical gaze ’ and relegates hospital medicine to a purely technical role ; in its weaker form , the two cosmologies are different , but equal . |
| 11 | Most important of all , he can have no rights at all against his home state — such matters are ‘ domestic ’ and normally entirely outside the purview of international law , a singularly important limitation in the area of human rights where the master criminal is the victim 's own government . |
| 12 | The second sentence is perfectly unexceptionable apart from the fact that it appears to be in flat contradiction of the first : involuntary unemployment is a ‘ theoretical construct ’ — surely theoretical constructs fall within the purview of economic theory ! — which was developed to explain the very real and painful phenomenon of large-scale unemployment . |
| 13 | The detection and correction of errors is an extremely difficult task in such circumstances , beyond the purview of this thesis . |
| 14 | Ceylon Tamils , many of whose ancestors had lived in Sri Lanka for perhaps one thousand years , lived mostly in the Northern and Eastern Provinces , outside the purview of this book . |
| 15 | Improved sanitation , infection and vector control , betterment of nutrition , vaccinations , and maternal and child health programmes have been under the purview of local health authorities in the ministries of health . |
| 16 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 17 | The latter is the purview of another axis in which elected Field Chairs are the most significant individuals . |
| 18 | The earliest essays in English service-music were on similar lines to early Lutheran ones : truncation of the Mass , and drastic simplification of plainsong as in the Cranmerian Booke of Common praier noted ( 1550 ) of John Marbeck ( c. 1510–85 ) . |
| 19 | TL dates of three burnt flints have been measured at the British Museum , and these straddle a mean of 190.000 years BP , but there is a large variation about this mean because of the inhomogeneity of the radiation environment in the cave outlined above . |
| 20 | The result of using the mean of each triple instead of the median is shown in columns 4 and 5 of figure 9.7 . |
| 21 | Figure 1 shows the production of lactate from 5 mM glucose over a three hour period ( mean of four experiments ) . |
| 22 | There were thirty tumours from patients that had their diagnosis delayed by a mean of four months . |
| 23 | Members of the sample had consulted their general practitioners a mean of 7.0 times ( range 4–15 ) . |
| 24 | This is just a weighted mean of two values , the weights having been computed previously . |
| 25 | Each data point in Figs 4 to 9 represent the mean of two experiments and the results from the ascending and descending colon in corresponding patients are joined by lines in Figs 4 to 6 . |
| 26 | A mean of two percent of patients were returned to theatre across the northern region after T U R P and this ranged from zero to seven point five percent . |
| 27 | Blood pressure is the mean of two measurements made at 5-min intervals with a random zero sphygmomanometer on subjects in the sitting position at rest . |
| 28 | The mean of two measurements was used for further analysis . |
| 29 | A mean of two point four percent of patients received a blood transfusion of greater than two units across the region and again this ranged from zero to six point six percent across the region . |
| 30 | Sunshine amounted to 73.9 hours , a mean of 2.4 hours per day , only 79pc of the average , giving the dullest October at Bidston since 1976 . |