Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [coord] material " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the vision of the military critic writing ex post , the uncertain temper of the men of Britain 's Eighth Army after years of consistent defeat becomes obliterated behind the imposing shapes of tactical and material considerations . |
| 2 | Neither will the drain of cultural and material resources down the valleys to Cardiff , Newport and Swansea . |
| 3 | Van de Vall ( 1970 ) showed that among Dutch unionists the most prevalent motive for taking up membership was to secure individual ‘ conflict insurance ’ ( i.e. the provision of legal and material assistance in possible disputes with the employer and protection against arbitrary management decisions ) . |
| 4 | And all of these strategies of course were through exchanges to maximize the lineage 's accumulation of symbolic and material capital . |
| 5 | This means that students can take full advantage of the Faculty 's wide range of academic and material resources . |
| 6 | The consequences for the old are sad : on a practical level , when income is restricted , all kinds of practical and material benefits may also be denied to old people . |
| 7 | Future negotiations would deal with specific topics including " the cessation of all outside interference in terms of personal or material support in the present conflict " ; the grouping of heavy weaponry under international control ; and the establishment of refugee and relief centres for citizens of Bosnia-Hercegovina expelled from their homes , pending their return . |
| 8 | Jupiter is the planet of increase , which is worth considering not in terms of financial and material improvements but in the expansion of your awareness and self-understanding — an expansion which will lead to better things in the future . |
| 9 | Like King Arthur of the Britons , Charles the Great , Caroli Magni , changed from being a historical person into a legendary ideal — the great ruler who set the world aright , and encouraged men and women to live by a fusion of spiritual and material principles . |
| 10 | The extra time and support that are necessary ( a ) to perform jobs that are pressing at the limits of personal and material resources , and ( b ) to invest in learning how to do them better , or to assemble additional resources , so that the time taken to perform them is reduced , are not available . |
| 11 | The tenacity , ingenuity and resourcefulness of the women involved in these Groups ' activities was remarkable for the sheer depth of social and material capacities which it uncovered . |
| 12 | The football stadiums , the Bank Holiday , the Co-ops which boomed from the 1880s , the New Unionism and the socialist revival , the music hall , the seaside excursion , even the fish-and-chip shop , should all be added to this already impressive list of cultural and material innovations in this period . |
| 13 | But when he speaks of ‘ causes ’ he means , he says , either ‘ efficient causes ’ ( which produce , or bring effects and appearances about ) or , in the case of what he calls ‘ entire causes ’ ( the combination of causes and their effects ) , a combination of efficient and material causes . |
| 14 | But the dialogue purists envisaged between women of different classes was still the traditional bond of philanthropy , which linked the middle-class ‘ donor ’ to her working-class recipient through notions of moral and material charity . |
| 15 | Father Reynard may be a fierce preacher but he is a source of spiritual and material comforts to his parishioners . ’ |
| 16 | He was never recognised officially , principally because of the painful sincerity of songs that portray the lowest depths of spiritual and material Russia . |