Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think you also were hitting the rawest of nerves within the church , and maybe within Archbishop McQuaid himself , by suggesting there may be homosexuality among priests and even implying that people could get pleasure from sex ? |
| 2 | Poulantzas goes on to say that it is ignorance of these writers , and the provincialism of the French intellectual arena , ‘ which allows these most hackneyed of ideas to be presented as something new . ’ |
| 3 | A rapid review such as this of theories of knowledge and the curriculum can not hope to do justice to the various concepts and models , and risks inducing a kind of conceptual vertigo . |
| 4 | They used a thermal imaging camera which gives a picture like this of bodies on the ground . |
| 5 | Thereafter Hooley steered clear of companies for some time , concentrating on land deals . |
| 6 | They were clear of Customs by 14.30 with twenty miles to go to Ramsgate . |
| 7 | Life is all compromise , so a first consideration when siting the launch pad is to ensure that the DZ ( drop zone ) is clear of hazards like forests , cliffs and rivers likely to cause much grief to the fauna . |
| 8 | Her strong legs were capable of taking her clear of pursers on the level or going uphill . |
| 9 | In 1962 , the Federal courts ordered the University of Mississippi , one of the most segregated of states in the deep south , to enrol its first black students , James Meredith . |
| 10 | More crashing of feet through bush , then the snuffling of cocaine — sniff , sniff . |
| 11 | It certainly was n't meanness — he was the most generous of men with his money , his time and his affections . |
| 12 | What sort of machine can run the largest and most demanding of spreadsheets without a hiccup and yet still be a reasonable price ? |
| 13 | Even a normal 2000 calories-worth of meals in a day would need to be supplemented by fourteen cakes at 500 calories each , or around twenty bars of chocolate , to add 2 lb ( 1 kg ) of fat in one day . |
| 14 | They solved it by getting you to leave the bottom half of the Spectrum case attached to the PCB , hardly the neatest of ways around the problem . |
| 15 | Almost half of women aged 65 + ( 45 per cent ) live alone compared with 17 per cent of males . |
| 16 | These results agree with those recently presented of tests that examined bronchial lavage fluid , in which half of patients with sarcoidosis were positive for M tuberculosis DNA . |
| 17 | However , although the acid secretory rates in the human duodenal ulcer population are nearly double those in non-ulcer subjects , less than half of patients with duodenal ulcer have acid secretion above the upper limit of normal . |
| 18 | Almost half of patients with hypertension in Europe are being treated inadequately , according to a report from the WHO. 39,000 men and women from eight countries — Hungary , Slovenia , Italy , Romania , Israel , Germany , Switzerland , and Spain — were randomly examined . |
| 19 | Thus , government data for England show that almost half of households in England where the head is over 65 lack at least one basic amenity — a figure that is nine times greater than the figure for the whole population . |
| 20 | If you sell all or part of your business when you retire , you may not have to pay tax on the first £150,000 of capital gain with a further exemption allowed of one-half of gains between £150,000 and £600,000 . |
| 21 | Whoever looked out northward from the massive protective shell of Trazior might suspect that some giant world-spider , nourished on venom , had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes , and depositing multi-millions of hatchlings in each domain . |
| 22 | You are free of feelings of guilt , worry , anxiety , embarrassment , envy or jealousy . |
| 23 | Christ 's church is to be a place free of feelings of social status . |
| 24 | The effect of time-zone changes , free of problems from the flight itself , can be removed by experiments in isolation chambers . |
| 25 | Notably free of movies on white heterosexual themes , the programme includes Danny Thompson 's Public Enemy/Private Friends , a good-natured if thin Brixton-set comedy about three ranting rap-type youths desperately trying to find their lost ticket to a Public Enemy concert ; Cheryl Farthing 's Rosebud , an effective but slightly posey awakening-of-lesbian-desires item with an appealing cast and silly fantasy touches , and Mark Nash 's Between Two Worlds , about a gay florist in psychoanalysis . |
| 26 | In principle , therefore , the World Bank 's demand that all imports ( except for some excluded on grounds of health or safety ) should be free of controls by June 1991 seemed a step in the right direction . |
| 27 | The towns and cities that particularly grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were those which were relatively free of controls by medieval guilds . |
| 28 | But your ground , I imagine you 've kept it fairly cre , free of weeds for quite a |
| 29 | Thick blood films of 28 patients remained free of parasites until day 28 of follow-up ; in the other 2 patients symptomless parasitaemia of 15 and 50/L was detected on day 28 . |
| 30 | Twenty-nine months after acquiring HIV-1 infection , he remains free of symptoms on zidovudine and has 494/L ( 34.2% ) CD4 lymphocytes . |