Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can one communicate the importance of culture , the painstaking values of scholarship and of science in a society dominated by the superficial values of consumerism ? |
| 2 | He had , after all , defended these lush romances of giants and magicians and genii as ways of reaching truths that were not accessible from any other track . |
| 3 | As we have shown , it remained a separate establishment following the reorganization of public sector higher education in Wales and it is now widely recognized as a national institution offering full-time and part-time courses for professional performers of Music and Drama , together with honours BEd . |
| 4 | They really mattered in a society remote from our own where the prestige of many professions , including the polite ranks of clergy and the armed services , catered to the motivations only of duty , vocation , or ambition . |
| 5 | When it comes to the more subtle realms of responses and sensitivities to homoeopathic remedies , even small strain variations could so change the sensitivity of the species under study that one strain might respond well to a particular remedy while a second , apparently similar strain may not respond at all . |
| 6 | The newly elected president of the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo ) , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , on Dec. 23 declared 1991 a year of struggle and warned that the government 's reforms were replacing " naked racism and exploitation with subtle forms of racism and exploitation " . |
| 7 | Government influence , ranging from direct bribery to more subtle forms of patronage and manipulation , it has been argued , played the key role in shaping the outcome of elections , with the result that , at least under Anne , the ministry of the day never lost a General Election . |
| 8 | There were delays of months while specifications and tenders for new power stations were cleared by the headquarters engineers , but Hacking insisted that there must be close technical control of design from the centre , claiming variously that the limited technical skills of divisions or the requirements of standardisation made centralisation necessary , or ( quite implausibly ) that anything else was illegal under the 1947 Act . |
| 9 | The regular patterns of sound change discovered by Grimm for German were now investigated and specified more closely , methods of reconstructing earlier unwritten forms of words and constructing models of linguistic ‘ family trees ’ were established , other models of evolutionary change ( like Schmidt 's ‘ wave-theory ’ ) were suggested and the use of analogy — especially grammatical analogy — were developed ; for philology was nothing if not comparative . |
| 10 | Yet , to a greater extent than other mobilizers , say , Joseph Chamberlain or Lloyd George , she has operated within the established political institutions of Parliament and party . |
| 11 | But this does not amount to dependence on the political wishes of governments or ministers as such . |
| 12 | For a time after his departure , the Abbey Mill site was run by William Rice and Co , and towards the end of its working life was running eight pairs of stones and producing its own electricity , using a water turbine and two of the remaining waterwheels . |
| 13 | He searched desperately for Tony 's father among the confusing patterns of lights and shadow shifting and flickering down there on the prom . |
| 14 | The competition rules apply to all cases where the agreement , conduct or practices produce an effect on the normal patterns of trade or have a ‘ repercussion ’ on the competitive structure of a market thereby affecting trade between member states . |
| 15 | Wide reading , and as great an experience as possible of the best imaginative literature , are essential to the full development of an ear for language , and to a full knowledge of the range of possible patterns of thought and feeling made accessible by the power and range of language . |
| 16 | I have already quoted the Kingman Report 's description of ‘ the range of possible patterns of thought and feeling made accessible by the power and range of language ’ . |
| 17 | Ladner relates young black women 's subjectivities to the multiple , often conflicting forms of poverty and discrimination in the world they grow up in . |
| 18 | The lower level of wives ' earnings is accounted for , in one sense , by women 's lower hours of work and lower rates of pay per hour . |
| 19 | On each side the inhabited coastal strip rises steeply from the water 's edge ; rises to the two volcanic peaks of Pachamama and Pachatata . |
| 20 | Studies were made on eight cases of FAP and eight control cases , seven with SCRC and one with multiple colonic ademonas . |
| 21 | Children have been subjected to tests and investigations by doctors , psychologists and teachers with the aim of pinpointing the nature of the problem and in the hope that this might lead to specific programmes of teaching and intervention . |
| 22 | Gloning , Gloning , Haub and Quatember ( 1969 ) compared matched groups of right and non-right handed patients on a number of verbal tests . |
| 23 | Some of those active in both the Church and the Party , who hold the combined ideologies of evangelicalism and unionism as being inseparable , are quite pragmatic . |
| 24 | Melanie covered the counter with toys for her and she ran her suede gloves over the painted surfaces of wood and tin , crying out at intervals : ‘ Golly ! |
| 25 | For many years the arguments for access to information have emphasised on the one hand the private values of privacy and autonomy and on the other hand the public values of democratic involvement in decision making . |
| 26 | Judgements of students are often made on the basis of the subjective values of teachers or ward staff , that is , on what is believed to be good practice . |
| 27 | These could include internal technical meetings of partners and directors . |
| 28 | The understanding of specific forms of subjectivity and specific processes of identification has always been mysteriously lacking or sadly disappointing ( or depressingly familiar ) in television theory . |
| 29 | After about a mile they turned seaward and the Jaguar lurched and bounced down a narrow track between high , untended hedges of bramble and elderberry . |
| 30 | Spines are common among the lower forms of life and are clearly the most successful of all armoured devices . |