Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggests that the police are most likely to interpret an event as rape where it shares some of the characteristics of familiar and conspicuously criminal activity . |
| 2 | It is an association of two or more legal persons , in the same way as a company , but the association itself has no legal personality and outsiders deal directly with the members . |
| 3 | Throughout the Ottoman world , centuries of arbitrary and frequently oppressive rule reinforced age-old peasant tendencies towards looking to the clan as the mainstay of life and regarding everybody outside with suspicion and hostility . |
| 4 | This has been done in America , but only at practices with a patient-list of 50,000 or more . |
| 5 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
| 6 | The 1932 Conference reflected a radical reaction to the defeat of 1931 and particularly to bankers , who were held responsible for the financial collapse in Britain and throughout the Western world . |
| 7 | There may be some truth in the claim that there are problems in seeking to postulate ‘ a transcendental ideal of which the historical actualities are a succession of mundane and therefore imperfect , compromised manifestations ’ , and that the term religion is not something ‘ that can be formulated and externalized into an observable pattern theoretically abstractible from the persons who live it ’ . |
| 8 | It will be remembered for contemporary art 's declining audience , with many exhibitions attracting very little interest , and for the closure of noted and less established galleries . |
| 9 | So realism suggests a limit on the number of candidates , and if in some Irish constituencies there are a dozen or even a score the reason is that they include candidates of small or perhaps minuscule parties besides more or less cranky independents : the two major parties are not responsible . |
| 10 | In a host of well illustrated books and in the displays erected in the great museums , the fossil record was used to support a theory in which evolution worked through a series of progressive episodes , each sending out waves of new and more highly organized creatures to displace their now-stagnant predecessors . |
| 11 | Let's see if he does , he comes Chapel now , to bowl to him and he hoicks that away on that leg side , that 's the area you 're gon na try and hit it , that 's four runs , anywhere near it , so making intentions plain , he 's going for that leg side boundary , that was a real power shot , hit with a spin , this is exactly the way he played at Hove , he got away with it there , he moves on to twelve , I think there 's going to be a field change as a result of that and quite rightly so . |
| 12 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 13 | Some old plants which would otherwise have remained profitable as a result of faster or more effective working would have become unprofitable as a result of these productivity gains not being achieved . |
| 14 | Perhaps partly as a result of this and perhaps partly as a result of the government 's view that regional aid should be more immediately directed towards assisting business skills and enterprise within smaller companies , a further major review of regional policy was published in 1988 ( DTI , 1988 ) . |
| 15 | Held : A person who negligently starts a fire is liable for injuries suffered by a fireman while attempting to put out the fire , regardless of whether the particular injuries suffered by the fireman were reasonably foreseeable or whether the injuries were suffered as the result of exceptional or merely ordinary risks undertaken by the fireman . |
| 16 | With few exceptions , labor violence was the result of isolated and usually unplanned acts on a picket line , or occurred on a prohibited parade or demonstration protesting employer obduracy or police brutality . |
| 17 | But in fact it is not necessarily the case that if each person votes , or decides , according to what he or she perceives as his or her personal interest or wishes , the outcome is the good of all or even of the majority . |
| 18 | Having started on a shoestring , the paper built itself a circulation of 40,000 and also got itself , with the sixth issue in February 1964 , its big Australian obscenity charge . |
| 19 | Use your mirrors , on narrow or winding roads or where there is a lot of oncoming traffic , drivers of large or slow moving vehicles should be prepared to pull in and slow down to stop as soon as there is suitable opportunity , well , before you take off or turn left or turn right , or slow down or stop , use your mirrors , you should always look behind even if they 're none , a motor cycle should always look behind either , then give the appropriate signal if necessary , remember the routine |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , areas to the west of London were encountering severe shortages of skilled and even unskilled labour by the mid-1980s , a time of real and substantial unemployment in the older industrialized regions . |
| 21 | Since 1947 the only records in the county files of sizable winter flocks were of 45 in Seaford Bay on 25 February 1956 , and 30 off Langney Point on 17 January 1965 ; the other records are nearly all of single birds or small parties of five or so . |
| 22 | Humberside County Council offer a Travel Subsidy Scheme for parties of 10 or more attending one of the festival concerts . |
| 23 | Some two hours after landing they moved out of the perimeter in parties of 20 or so , with Michael Burn lopping in the van followed by Donald Roy with the strongly armed assault parties . |
| 24 | School parties of 20 or more Upper Balcony @ 50p per seat . |
| 25 | Discounts are given to all parties of 15 or more paying visitors . |
| 26 | Reduced rates are available to school or other parties of twenty or more paying persons . |
| 27 | They have formed successive alliances with the two main parties of left and right , using their position to maintain continuity . |
| 28 | 10% discount for parties of ten or more on advance bookings for Main House shows — unless otherwise stated . |
| 29 | Looking back to the period between the two world wars and even to that of 1939–45 , any newcomer to the scene would have foreseen nothing other than a future of amicable and mutually beneficial co-operation . |
| 30 | Buddy Holly comes somewhere between the subjects of those and more parasitic biographies . |