Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are free of feelings of guilt , worry , anxiety , embarrassment , envy or jealousy . |
| 2 | Christ 's church is to be a place free of feelings of social status . |
| 3 | With these preoccupations , the Left 's vision of socialism has often been negative in form : socialism is a society without the private ownership of the means of production because private ownership is a key feature of capitalism ; socialism is a society free of private profit , because of the centrality of private profit to a capitalist way of motivating economic life ; socialism is a society free of inequalities of class , because capitalism systematically produces just those inequalities ; socialism is a society without politics of a class kind because this is the normal form taken by politics under capitalism . |
| 4 | Those retained were judged to be free of accusations of corruption , although questions were immediately asked about Ricardo Fiuza , the Social Action Minister who , in violation of the electoral law prohibiting donations to individuals , had admitted receiving US$100,000 from the Brazilian Banking Federation to finance his 1990 re-election campaign to the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 5 | The Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov , a member of the Secretariat from 1990 onwards , placed most of his emphasis upon central control and discipline ; he was openly dismissive of ideas of ‘ people 's capitalism ’ and ‘ nonparty glasnost' ’ and in 1991 attacked what he described as the ‘ anti-democratic liquidationist movement ’ that was taking advantage of the weakness and indecision of the party leadership . |
| 6 | Mr David Gee , director designate of Friends of the Earth , said the bill had already been weakened by giving big concessions to industry , especially over freedom of information to the public and scope and timetable of the new controls over pollution . |
| 7 | Madame Giry was not afraid of ghosts , and she was not afraid of directors of Opera Houses . |
| 8 | — ( 1 ) Where , at the beginning of the transitional period , there is no students ' association established for the students of the college , the college council shall , as soon as is practicable after that date ( after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of students of the college ) , make a scheme for the establishment of a students ' association for students of the college . |
| 9 | A question might arise as to whether spectators can be given directions under sections 12 or 14 , or be guilty of offences of failing to comply with such conditions . |
| 10 | Two senior police officers were sentenced to prison terms of more than 110 years each after being found guilty of charges of murder , criminal association and the forging of documents in connection with an undercover operation in the 1980s against the Basque separatist group ETA . |
| 11 | On 11 June 1992 the husband was arrested at the wife 's house and on 12 June Judge Woodford , finding him guilty of breaches of the injunctions of 12 September 1991 and 12 May 1992 , sentenced him to eight months ' imprisonment for contempt of court . |
| 12 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 13 | — The most prestigious of associations of independent schools , and also the largest , including around two hundred schools , with some 153,000 pupils in total , 83% of whom are boys ( many of the HMC schools admit girls only in the sixth form ) . |
| 14 | It is easy to be tolerant of members of other races if one is confident of one 's own standing in society ; much harder if one is competing against immigrants for a council house and a low-paid job . |
| 15 | I share the view expressed by the hon. Member for Birmingham , Selly Oak ( Mr. Beaumont-Dark ) : it does not matter whether those involved in fraud , the rip-off of investors of the misuse of pension funds belong to any political party , or to no political party . |
| 16 | He suggested that Aeneas left Dido in obedience to his fate but he was not thereby relieved of feelings of shame or unhappiness — he felt " a worm " . |
| 17 | There is some reason to doubt that all the discrepancies can be eliminated by taking account of the short-term/long-term distinction : Lantz 's ( 1973 ) demonstration of superior latent inhibition with spaced trials came from a procedure in which the first conditioning trial followed the last trial of pre-exposure ; James ' ( 1971 ) demonstration of perfect retention used , in training , the interstimulus intervals typical of studies of short-term habituation . |
| 18 | This scene in America is typical of meetings of MG enthusiasts determined not to let the marque die . |
| 19 | Such profiles are characteristic of shorelines of emergence rather than of shorelines of submergence , a fact which led Johnson ( 1919 ) to class offshore bars as features typical of shorelines of emergence . |
| 20 | Our ability to measure qualitatively these differences and similarities between assemblages and to synthesise the results into such taxonomic units as phases or traditions is in no way a test of the validity of the proposition that measured differences are indicative of degrees of ethnic affinity . |
| 21 | Anything , anything would make death tolerable , she thought , anything that could admit something of the grand somewhere , and not this small cramped sitting room , this domestic duplicity , this pouring of cups of tea , these harshly unaltered faces . |
| 22 | The explosion of the term ‘ regionalism ’ in this way should lead one to be suspicious of usages of it which slide from one focus of attention to another , eliding explanations in the meanwhile . |
| 23 | This reinforced both a legalistic approach , conscious of conflicts of interest , and pessimism about the results of welfare-orientated admissions to care . |
| 24 | Certainly , if there was a degree of hostility to the Danes in London the anniversary of Ælfheah 's death on 19 April would have been a time when feelings ran particularly high , for Cnut 's England was clearly conscious of anniversaries of recent events , as awareness of the dates of the battle of Assandun in 1016 and the death of Edmund Ironside indicates . |
| 25 | Its intensity , however , is directly related to the degree of active student involvement in the planning and leading of acts of worship . |
| 26 | so erm you 'll find that there 's a predominant of suggestions of slide lectures here if you hate doing them there 's no reason on earth why you should ! |
| 27 | Yet , a number of democratic constitutions today contain more than a mere organisation chart of functions and powers ; they contain Bills of Rights , which may also include a charter of social and economic rights , something characteristic of constitutions of the twentieth century , although generally honoured more in the breach than in the observance . |
| 28 | Such profiles are characteristic of shorelines of emergence rather than of shorelines of submergence , a fact which led Johnson ( 1919 ) to class offshore bars as features typical of shorelines of emergence . |
| 29 | The gentry used to bet heavily on fights and grew tired of members of the crowd influencing the outcome by tripping up contestants . |
| 30 | DAVE BASSETT has been found innocent of allegations of obscene behaviour at Chelsea last month . |