Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence of vitamin D 3 receptors in normala nd malignant colorectal tissue , together with the increased colonic absorption of calcium after small bowel resection , had previously suggested that the colon could be a target organ for 1,25 ( OH ) 2 D 3 . |
| 2 | Remembering the bloody tide of revolution in France , paid informers and Government agents lured leading revolutionaries into a trap at Bonnymuir that was to end in transportation for life to the antipodes … |
| 3 | To avoid this problem and to allow the greatest freedom of competition between financial institutions , the alternative is to use monetary base control with no statutory cash ratio . |
| 4 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 5 | The rules defining the nature of their liability to third parties are contained in ss9 and 12 of the Partnership Act as follows : s9 Every partner in a firm is liable jointly with the other partners … for all debts and obligations of the firm incurred while he is a partner ; and after his death his estate is also severally liable in a due course of administration for such debts and obligations , so far as they remain unsatisfied , but subject … to the prior payment of his separate debts . |
| 6 | On the Vistula delta the Mennonites bred black and white Friesian cattle just as their ancestors in Holland had done , and grew sugar-beet , tomatoes , rye , and a resilient variety of wheat on the rich alluvial soil . |
| 7 | That is , the aggregate level of welfare in society is given by a welfare function whose arguments are the cardinal utility of income functions . |
| 8 | This division is intended only to simplify the analysis and should not be taken to imply that the aggregate level of unemployment in a country can readily be divided into completely separate and distinguishable categories . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , it did seek to address the problems identified during the FAOR analysis , albeit at a lower level of attainment in the initial stages . |
| 10 | The official attitude to the press reflected a lower level of concern about broadcasting . |
| 11 | The assistant 's task is to deputize , where necessary , for the account executive ; to run meetings covering minor points of detail ( often follow-up action for major meetings ) , to attend to detail within the agency ; and , in general , to provide a lower level of contact between the client and the agency — on a par with your own assistants or subordinates . |
| 12 | For example , in Brazil , peripheral capitalist development is responsible not only for a lower level of participation of women in agriculture but also a lower level of integration of women in urban development . |
| 13 | Given that we need to ensure that we should have as a priority the conservation of resources and energy efficiency , whatever the amount of reserves of oil and gas , what progress has been made by the Department and the Treasury in discussions with the European Community on the value added tax harmonisation talks with a view to the introduction of a lower level of VAT for environmentally friendly technologies which conserve resources ? |
| 14 | Having admitted that the lower duty on unleaded petrol has helped to promote its use , has the Minister had any discussions with the Treasury about introducing such a lower level of duty for the cleaner diesel fuels which are now available , especially as BP is one of the pioneers in that respect ? |
| 15 | The precise outcome of these changes will not be known for a little while , but regrettably it will almost certainly result in a lower financial provision for IT and many other areas in the longer term , and quite probably a significant lower level of commitment to new grants in all areas in the current academic session , since the sharpest adjustment needs to be made for 1991/92 . |
| 16 | For example , in Brazil , peripheral capitalist development is responsible not only for a lower level of participation of women in agriculture but also a lower level of integration of women in urban development . |
| 17 | The spectacle of young people deferring to others and flagrantly performing small selfless acts of charity in the local area leaves a very bad taste in the mouth and gives an entirely distorted view of the standards which obtain at this school . |
| 18 | Board uses the smooth downhill part of wave in latter part of turn . |
| 19 | Brunel ( q.v. ) , though famous for his great works of stone and iron , was also one of the greatest exponents of engineering with timber , and he built many road and rail bridges , particularly in the West Country , using timber beams which could be replaced , when need be , without closing the roads or tracks for long periods . |
| 20 | Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor . |
| 21 | Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French . |
| 22 | There is thus a broad spatial division of labour within which control functions are concentrated in London , scientific and technical functions concentrated in the south and east , and production , while it occurs throughout the country , is a higher proportion of economic activity in the regions of the north and west . |
| 23 | Marxism 's main flaw is its insistence on economics and the economic category of class as the one fundamental explanatory factor . |
| 24 | Accidental change of gear in a driving career |
| 25 | As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone . |
| 26 | Brush each strip of pastry with a little melted butter and then sandwich together in threes . |
| 27 | About an hour later I woke up and there was a hell of a smell of gas and I was still there , and my friend came and said , ‘ There 's an awful smell of gas in this flat , you 'll kill yourself one of these days . ’ |
| 28 | The point that my hon. Friend is about to come to is that the advertising directed at young people creates a climate of social acceptability in which children will then not complain about the awful smell of smoke from the other side of a physical barrier — |
| 29 | In response to each of these challenges , interests theories try to support the growth of an advanced division of labour by protecting persons within relations of interdependence without at the same time destroying those relations by imposing unbearable liabilities in the event of mishap . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory redistributes losses arising within complex relations of economic interdependence , whilst avoiding destruction of this advanced division of labour by excessive liabilities . |