Example sentences of "[subord] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that all participants in the planning process will require information , although of different types , and the amount required by each level will depend on the type of planning management . |
| 2 | It is intended to be a contribution to the history of style rather than of individual artists . |
| 3 | The report of the Review Body on Civil Justice said the Council ‘ should enable the judiciary to plan for the allocation of High Court caseloads and judge power in the light of needs and resources of that court as a whole rather than of individual Divisions . |
| 4 | If there is even a vague or sketchy ordering , it will be an ordering of groups of equally similar worlds rather than of individual worlds . |
| 5 | In Italy its champions were more nervous of its social-revolutionary implications than of papal thunderbolts , but nevertheless confident enough . |
| 6 | Van Dijk raises the question as to whether the denials of prejudice should be treated as expressions of impression-management rather than of genuine attitudes . |
| 7 | High adventure drew from Dickson McCunn a latent heroism : Thomas Carlyle Craw had buried his sense and courage far more deeply but they are at least glimpsed at the end of an adventure story which interprets the concept of honour in terms of individual rather than of chivalric motives . |
| 8 | The intellectual drive which had propelled the Section 's plans for demand management up to senior politicians had fallen off , and full employment policy was coming to consist more of vague intentions than of concrete measures to assure the fulfilment of the promise already made to the public . |
| 9 | Less is known of sign language grammar universals than of lexical similarities . |
| 10 | It follows , as some studies have revealed , that improvements in the environmental conditions that represent life hazards have a more favourable impact on survival chances of infants and children of the uneducated than of educated mothers , who are better able to neutralize the effects of adverse circumstances . |
| 11 | He is much fonder of his criminal characters than of law-abiding citizens like Eugene Malou 's stolid elder son , Edgar — ‘ a big effeminate chap and perpetually earnest ’ . |
| 12 | Interrogatories and document requests are staples of international commercial litigation , no less than of other suits , yet a rule of exclusivity would subordinate the court 's supervision of even the most routine of these pre-trial proceedings to the actions or , equally , to the inactions of foreign judicial authorities . |
| 13 | Not only were there more of them than of other groups living in poverty or on the margins of poverty ; more had no assets or virtually no assets , and fewer possessed substantial amounts of assets … |
| 14 | The signing was unorthodox , many of the gestures modified and difficult to read ; there was no fingerspelling at all other than of first letters of names . |
| 15 | It can be argued , to the contrary , that the more the courts are opened up to arguments based about the interests of the public or of significant sections of it rather than of particular individuals , the more likely are the judges to be drawn into political battles which ought to be resolved in the political arena and not in courts . |
| 16 | Extent is the number of people who will have the pleasures or pains , and it will be invoked when we are thinking in terms of some average effect on persons affected rather than of named individuals . |
| 17 | The pre-unification figures show that the ‘ German miracle ’ was a feature more of the 1950s and 1960s than of later years . |
| 18 | Tasks ( a ) and ( b ) are relatively straightforward : for them , examples from other societies may be less useful , more in the nature of ‘ tips and wrinkles ’ than of deeper insights . |
| 19 | It was alleged that these were the graves of victims of the occupying Soviet forces after the Second World War rather than of Nazi victims . |
| 20 | Indeed , successful labour organisation could have been more firmly based on unions which each combined many skills within a single industry , rather than of related functions in a wide range of businesses . |
| 21 | It is true to say that the only overweight animals are those cared for by humans who take more notice of the time on the clock than of natural feelings of hunger . |
| 22 | Further , if it is true that later eighteenth-century urban workers had a " standard " five-day week , albeit of sixty hours , then the factory was to make a very significant difference by insisting on six . |
| 23 | But if you take the , the servicing sections overall , what we should be able to say is that look okay we 're gon na have a delayed kick in of improved productiv because it , productivity cos of new systems that are helping us , whether it moves us from two point six to two point seven to two point eight is arguable , and we wo n't know that for sure until we get there , but we should n't have is deterioration . |
| 24 | cos of English exams , I bet it , it wo n't |
| 25 | Definite seasonal variations occur , because of various factors , with the temperature of the water as the main influence , and this sets off a chain ( ecological succession ) of natural events , which can be learned only by experience . |
| 26 | Not all of those who want to apply can do so because of various regulations and procedures . |
| 27 | Yeah I think they had their own little meetings in various pubs or whatever after our meetings , and certainly the management in one of the quarries seemed to have a lot of information about what went on in our lodge meetings because of various members of this clique , I think we were all fairly sure that they would be returning to work , it was just when that was the crunch . |
| 28 | But that 's not there because of various actions by the European Community . |
| 29 | Agazadeh raised in his Sept. 16 speech the possibility that Iran would respond by increasing output , rather than continue to lose revenue because of low prices . |
| 30 | A wrong choice could ruin the turbine because of high winds or not produce enough energy because of low winds . |