Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he made his way back to the van , the thought did occur to him that it might be prudent to stay clear of the likes of Terry Littlejohn . |
| 2 | The body lay diagonally across the path , as he had said , not quite flat on its face and breast , rather on the right shoulder , but with the right arm flung clear behind , and the left groping wide beside him , clear of the folds of the coarse hooded cloak he wore . |
| 3 | The survey follows last week 's publication by CLEAR of the results of a national survey of lead in the dust of school playgrounds and the pavement outside . |
| 4 | The men march with their warders and when they are clear of the confines of the fences for those few steps they are hemmed in by the soldiers and the dogs . |
| 5 | This is not a tenable interpretation of rule 12.12 of the Rules of 1986 , given the clear language of paragraph ( 1 ) of the rule and given also that by their nature proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986 can not be expected to be addressed by Ord. 11 , r. 1 . |
| 6 | Raleigh , sung by a bass , is shown as dignified , even pompous , slightly resentful of the aspirations of younger courtiers such as Mountjoy and the Earl of Essex . |
| 7 | Senior officers were generally resentful of the attempts of politicians to interfere in military affairs and in the organization of the Empire , which was almost a military fiefdom . |
| 8 | Many of the largest TNCs have assets and annual sales far in excess of the GNP of about half of the countries of the world . |
| 9 | Redbridge and Waltham Forest had accepted that there would be no major increase in revenue to fund the development of new services before closure and would plan on the basis that half of the sites of two hospitals could be sold to finance the new services . |
| 10 | The fact that half of the members of the Bundestag are selected from party lists , rather than being elected , only reinforces the power of the parties , weakens accountability and is open to the usual favouritist pressures . |
| 11 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 12 | One spin-off is that many feminist psychologists still identify themselves as lesbians ; half of the members of the Association of Women in Psychology , for example , are lesbians ( Basow 1986 ) . |
| 13 | It is a stance which dismisses the needs of over half of the members of the community and sanctions major crimes such as rape , assault , actual or grievous bodily harm and murder . |
| 14 | The system involved workers electing half of the members of supervisory boards , with the shareholders electing the rest and appointing a ‘ neutral ’ chair . |
| 15 | Half of the women of the court were here — which fact , Alexei thought , should not have surprised him . |
| 16 | Those at the bottom rarely moved up , and nearly half of the sons of the upper-middle class stayed there . |
| 17 | Yes except you did n't , except parliament did n't see half of the effects of it Thatcher |
| 18 | When papers are destroyed deliberately , however , as they are in half of the cases of those claiming asylum at the ports , apparently to conceal the identification of the claimants and where they come from , that must adversely affect their credibility — unless they have a convincing explanation . |
| 19 | For example , in the election of February 1974 , the Liberals with over half of the votes of the Conservative and Labour Parties only secured 14 seats instead of the 122 to which they were proportionately " entitled " , and in the 1983 election the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured 26 per cent of the vote but only 23 seats whereas the Labour Party with only 2.2 per cent more of the vote won 209 seats . |
| 20 | Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock . |
| 21 | The Governor suspected that John 's banking affairs would be in a similar mess and a check showed that under his Chairmanship and by his influence , more than half of the assets of the Bank of New South Wales had been loaned to a small group of businessmen . |
| 22 | British equities account for more than half of the assets of British funds ; foreign equities are a further 20% . |
| 23 | Whitley found that ‘ one-half of the directors of the largest industrial companies were former public schoolboys with one-sixth coming from Eton alone ’ ( Scott , 1982 , p. 173 ) . |
| 24 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |
| 25 | And to Return , free of the shackles of human physical embodiment . |
| 26 | Intelligence was to be scrubbed free of the impurities of independent action . |
| 27 | Telling speeches in support of abolition were made from the Conservative benches by Sir Edward Boyle and Henry Brooke , the former Home Secretary who had become persuaded by the arguments against capital punishment once free of the cares of office . |
| 28 | The moment of the break is not transcendent but it is a breaking free of the determinations of ideology — a moment in which the presuppositions that determine ideology are transformed by a critical response to them . |
| 29 | Although free of the horrors of Bosnia it 's difficult to imagine what nightmares the refugees endure in the security of their makeshift British accommodation . |
| 30 | She wrote : ’ … essential , right now are groupings of women quite free of the practices of party politics dominated by the fascism inherent in their structures and phallocratic ideology . |