Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The risks of such a procedure would be far too high . |
| 2 | Wordsworth regarded the Cumberland of his childhood as possessing some of the Rousseauesque characteristics of such a society : |
| 3 | In the first session all those gathered were asked to identify a ‘ John the Baptist ’ in their own life ( i.e. someone who had helped Prepare the Way of the Lord for them ) and also to describe the characteristics of such a person . |
| 4 | Learning about the cultural , marketing and distribution characteristics of such a diverse market as the EC is likely to involve considerable use of the resources and effort of companies , consequently this process is likely to take a long time . |
| 5 | Recognising the constraints , it is still important for institutions involved in training personnel who will have an educational role in rural areas to emphasise the potential which the rural environment has in educational terms and to understand the social and cultural characteristics of such an environment . |
| 6 | ‘ SURE of foot , hard of hide , strong in constitution , frugal in diet , a first-rate weight carrier , indifferent to heat and cold , he combines the best of the most homely characteristics of both the noble houses from which he is descended . ’ |
| 7 | The operating characteristics of both the individual components and the circuit itself — voltages , currents and operating frequencies etc . |
| 8 | The characteristics of both the phonemes and of the things in the natural world that are selected for specific purposes are arbitrary in themselves but they become meaningful when contrasted with others to form a set . |
| 9 | Using Newton 's typology , the New Urban Left councillor showed some of the characteristics of both the policy advocates and the policy spokesman . |
| 10 | A war is about to break out between rival radio stations , battling for the ears of half a million listeners . |
| 11 | The target — the ears of half a million potential listeners . |
| 12 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 13 | This is termed ego-strengthening in hypnosis and several sessions of such a therapy can be very useful in helping the patient to overcome emotional , mental or even , possibly , spiritual problems . |
| 14 | Indicators of such a commitment would be : |
| 15 | A former Russian ambassador in London complained in 1803 that it had " more people than the offices of all the secretaries of state in Europe combined " . |
| 16 | Among the items which therefore never saw light of day was one in which I suggested that there were individual candidates of all the parties in different parts of the country whom one might be tempted to vote for on purely personal grounds . |
| 17 | Jess was n't going to be left with the eyes of all the dead Jarmans ( if that 's who they were ) looking down on her from their elaborate gold-framed portraits . |
| 18 | With a glimmer of self-preservation I began to reason that to be a martyr to an unwanted marriage was one thing , whereas to look like a fool in the eyes of all the world was another . |
| 19 | This is true , to a lesser extent , of all forms of imaginative writing , but poetry is the most obviously governed by convention and genre , and in the eyes of both the Russian Formalists and of non-literary readers the most likely to display linguistic deformation . |
| 20 | Next , fro(5) , squaring and adding , we have unc and since only the uth , vth columns and rows have changed , we deduce that the sum of the squares of all the off-diagonal elements of B is less than that of A since we have replaced the two elements Auv of A by zeros in B. Thus unc Having evaluated B , we repeat the procedure to find C ; we select the element Bpq of largest modulus and find unc from ( see 4 ) ) unc we then proceed as before to construct unc and |
| 21 | I obtained the names and addresses of all the next-of-kin . |
| 22 | Any withdrawals or xerox applications on books and magazines that might worry us , and we 'll have a straight printout of the names and addresses of all the applicants . |
| 23 | The human has the illusion that the file is a single , orderly array , only because the computer is careful to keep records ‘ pointing ’ to the addresses of all the fragments dotted around . |
| 24 | This logical identifier has to uniquely identify the record , and its actual address can also be obtained by looking up a table containing the addresses of all the identifiers . |
| 25 | But when allowance was made for the influences of all the other planets on Mercury then there was a residual precession unaccounted for of 43′ per century , as shown for 200 centuries in Figure 7.1 . |
| 26 | A unique reference tool it shows clearly the shapes and styles of all the items included and illustrates the terms used to describe them . |
| 27 | These were still everywhere small numbers , especially if they are compared with the very much bigger ones in the other great ministries of all the major states . |
| 28 | Currently , the Commission is developing its proposals for development and cohesion , and it would have been very nice to have seen this work unfolding within the context of an informed and radical debate , pushed forward by the socialist parties of all the member states . |
| 29 | The strengths of such a definition are as follows . |
| 30 | They had hosted a cocktail party at Kensington palace , for example , for the heads of all the major national clubs and associations with large memberships ; these habitually adopt a charity to support each year . |