Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might even be possible for Members of Parliament to walk down the street and assess the approximate value of property in one street compared with property in another . |
| 2 | Had this been successful it would have been possible for managers of education and training at every level within a locality to identify major employment issues , to assess likely large-scale change in employment patterns and to identify educational links which might have to be developed or changed . |
| 3 | It in many instances it is n't specific about levels of traffic reduction which are significant . |
| 4 | If Chatterton chooses to flog , with the agreement of the committee , priceless port from the cellar , so long as the money is laundered through the entertainment account it allows him to be subsidised for a jaunt to Monte Carlo and no doubt Fishbane for nights of bliss with ladies from a call-girl agency . ’ |
| 5 | It was normal for pairs of waggon doors to face each other on opposite side walls of the barn ( Plate 2 ) , but in some barns the threshing floor could be approached only from one side , there being a blank wall opposite . |
| 6 | True , she had had a pleasant bed-sitting room , and Mrs White had cooked for her and always been welcoming , but on some cold summer evenings , sitting in her Lloyd Loom armchair by a gas fire , turned low for reasons of economy , Agnes had experienced some bleakness . |
| 7 | This rule seemed to be modelled on the proportionality requirement in self-defence , and was criticized as quite unsuitable for cases of provocation , where loss of self-control intervenes between the provocation and the retaliation . |
| 8 | We feel guilty about sins of commission and sins of omission — when we have done something we should n't or when we have not done something we should . |
| 9 | Subsequent analysis showed that in all cases there had been significant changes in the proportions with high dependency over the decade between the censuses after age and sex standardisation ( χ 2 =18.0 , df=1 , p<0.0001 ) , and these changes were significantly different between types of care ( χ 2 =61.2 , df=6 , p<0.0001 ) ( table V ) . |
| 10 | It should be emphasised that although these statistics are interesting for purposes of comparison , they should be treated with caution because of the differences in the methods of compilation . |
| 11 | The design staff and manual workers at Lucas jointly felt that there was something seriously wrong about forms of technology which could make product systems as complex as Concorde while in the same society old people were dying of hypothermia . |
| 12 | The intragranular pores probably formed in response to the flushing of the rocks by freshwater during phases of exposure ( Fig. 6 ; Clark 1980a ) . |
| 13 | You are free of feelings of guilt , worry , anxiety , embarrassment , envy or jealousy . |
| 14 | With these preoccupations , the Left 's vision of socialism has often been negative in form : socialism is a society without the private ownership of the means of production because private ownership is a key feature of capitalism ; socialism is a society free of private profit , because of the centrality of private profit to a capitalist way of motivating economic life ; socialism is a society free of inequalities of class , because capitalism systematically produces just those inequalities ; socialism is a society without politics of a class kind because this is the normal form taken by politics under capitalism . |
| 15 | Those retained were judged to be free of accusations of corruption , although questions were immediately asked about Ricardo Fiuza , the Social Action Minister who , in violation of the electoral law prohibiting donations to individuals , had admitted receiving US$100,000 from the Brazilian Banking Federation to finance his 1990 re-election campaign to the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 16 | Madame Giry was not afraid of ghosts , and she was not afraid of directors of Opera Houses . |
| 17 | Outside the boutiques were still aglow with heaps of motley flung about the feet of the disdainful assistants . |
| 18 | The borders are a soft fusion of pink and blue with grey and purple foliage , and in a climate that explores most permutations of grey , she adds light with splashes of primrose |
| 19 | This statement needs treating with care , as it was written after 1016 , by an annalist rather free with allegations of treachery , who was aware of Eadric 's defection to Cnut in 1015 . |
| 20 | The research addresses the issue of why fertility is still high under conditions of population pressure on resources in as area of Kano State in Northern Nigeria , where densities are in excess of 250 per square mile , soil fertility is poor , and rainfall levels are falling . |
| 21 | She pushed open the door and saw a small counter before her arrayed with pieces of leather and a variety of lasts . |
| 22 | So um I suppose in that way some of these forms of abuse , particularly when they they use the they use the gestures , they use the language of affection um they 're perhaps rather different from forms of abuse which are er er most obviously violent . |
| 23 | In this population , bowel function and transit time are different in women of childbearing age ( 25–49 ) and older women , with a greater tendency to constipation in the first . |
| 24 | The identity of each years show lies with the selector , in this way it is intended that each exhibition will be significantly different in terms of art practise , medium and ways of thinking . |
| 25 | For 28% of the applicants ( 26 people ) the courses were different in terms of content and/or level . |
| 26 | By contrast , Exercise 2 is a chromatic scale , similar in concept to Exercise 1 in that it 's also a continuous loop , but in reality quite different in terms of feel and effect . |
| 27 | Generally speaking , rechunking is done for two main reasons : ( a ) the source text is divided into chunks ( whether sections , paragraphs , sentences , or clauses ) that are either too long or too short in terms of target-language average chunking of similar material ; or ( b ) the nature of the target audience is different in terms of level of specialization , age , etc . |
| 28 | " While each school will be different in terms of decision-making on computer and financial matters and different committees will exist , the mechanisms for acquiring a microcomputer and justifying its acquisition in educational terms , will be similar in all schools . |
| 29 | Therefore , if a reviewer starts going on about something other than the game s/he is obviously telling you that the game has not really got anything different in terms of game play to offer . |
| 30 | How risky in terms of money/reputation is the job you do for the company ? |