Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prosecution alleged that the men had been responsible of 222 acts of terrorism which it then reduced to 193 . |
| 2 | My new project led me into unexplored realms of psychology which I might otherwise have ignored . |
| 3 | Rose and Peters argue that there are three broad groups of actors who have traditionally been in favour of higher spending , at least since 1945 : the producers of public goods and services , including leading politicians ; the consumers of public spending , including voters and welfare recipients ; and the suppliers of public goods and services — public officials and professionals dependent upon the state for their income . |
| 4 | Conservative governments since 1979 have brought in eight Acts of Parliament which have steadily constrained union power . |
| 5 | For instance , if workers and their leaders regard an all-out strike as a measure of last resort , they may wish first to test management 's resolve with less drastic action such as an overtime ban , or with subtle forms of non-cooperation which affect output and quality . |
| 6 | Analysis isolates possible patterns of error which indicate underlying causes . |
| 7 | Behind the specific accounts of meaning we offer in this book lies the general theory of Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1974 ) . |
| 8 | There are even the odd cases of women who refuse to get out of bed until their husbands have brought up their morning paper horoscopes ! |
| 9 | And what the other bit of information you got any odd snippets of information you 've got written down there . |
| 10 | Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing . |
| 11 | In the monasteries , especially , we can find many interesting cases of specific forms of organization which , while governed by manifest religious rather than secular rules ( and in that sense relatively displaced from the integration of such an organization in the direct social organization as a whole ) , functioned in practice as cultural organizations , of great significance , in learning , in literature , in dramatic writing and in the visual arts . |
| 12 | It follows that is not an objective number generated by considerations of overall balance in the labour market : its value turns critically on the political preferences of governments which are supposed to be in a position to define for themselves what unemployment rate will correspond to full employment and to be capable of action to achieve their newly defined objective . |
| 13 | Through a complex set of such exchanges the economic activities of people who are widely dispersed and who are entirely unaware of each other 's existence can be coordinated . |
| 14 | He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks . |
| 15 | The advanced course in information retrieval covers some 70 hours of study which includes a considerable part devoted to online information retrieval . |
| 16 | COMEDY is set to be one of the strong suits of Meridian which takes over the TVS area and its 5.2 million viewers . |
| 17 | One of the unwritten rules of non-Muslims who work or travel in Muslim countries is that you do n't eat or drink in front of your fasting friends . |
| 18 | Every living organism is thus constrained as a result of selection to live in what John Bowlby terms its ‘ environment of evolutionary adaptedness ’ , using stable strategies of exploitation which are the best available to it . |
| 19 | While we have examined Oakeshott as a conservative thinker therefore we must be careful to distinguish him from the religious conservatism of Burke and from the mainstream forms of conservatism which Huntington identified in the aristocratic and situational theories as ideological defences of the ancien régime or of established institutions . |
| 20 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 21 | These tombs and enclosures belonged to and were used by specific groups of people who were also fully utilising the local countryside , partly for the new pursuits of crop-growing and animal husbandry , but also continuing the earlier hunting , fishing and gathering activities . |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman has specific cases of hardship which he wishes to raise , there is a straightforward means of doing so . |
| 23 | It 's the elder statesmen of tennis who reckon Tim Henman is Britain 's young pretender . |
| 24 | Rawsthorne points out that Lawrence is more about sexuality than specific acts of sex which account for only two or three sections of the 600-page novel . |
| 25 | ‘ prohibits not only overt discrimination by reason of nationality but also all covert forms of discrimination which , by the application of other criteria of differentiation , lead in fact to the same result … |
| 26 | There are also other possible groups of characteristics which are strikingly absent among real species — for example , there are very few large birds with short wings and short straight beaks . |
| 27 | What about the eight packets of crisps you 've had ? |
| 28 | But these estimates were , of course , based on the short-term , very non-strategic demands of investors who wanted to be assured of a good return on their money if they bought shares in the industry . |
| 29 | But it is very lately that the truly magnificent taste in gardening has flourished in these northern parts of Europe , for although in King Charles the Second 's reign there was great spirit amongst the nobility and gentry of England for planting and gardening , which spirit was greatly heighten 'd in King William 's reign , during which time most of the large gardens of England were laid out and planted , yet we find the taste at that time extended little farther than to small pieces of box-wood , finish 'd parterres and clipp 'd greens , all of which are now generally banished out of the gardens of the most polite persons of this age , who justly prefer the more extended rural designs of gardens which approach the nearest to nature . |
| 30 | And I 'll remember , as well , those strange fragments of memory I had when we arrived , because they certainly were n't anything from my memory . |